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Additional legal terms and guidelines for XML API.

XML API

XML API​

This Documentation forms an integral part of the Indeed Partner Developer Agreement agreed between you and Indeed. By accessing the Indeed API, building the integration or Application or otherwise using the Indeed API, you agree that: (i) you are granted the license to build the Integration in accordance with the Indeed Partner Developer Agreement and (ii) you accept the Documentation terms and guidelines and (iii) you agree to follow the guidelines contained herein and (iv) you agree not to use the Indeed API for any other purpose or in any other manner than described herein. The Integration is subject to Indeed ld Verification as described in the Indeed Partner Developer Agreement.

XML API Guidelines​

  • You must provide a comprehensive list of all jobs for all your clients via the XML.

  • You should not include content from any other products that are not your ATS product.

    • You should only include content from paid clients; and

    • You agree Indeed does not allow content from clients that are using a free-trial period.

    • Indeed will not accept any job listing from ATSs that are in Beta.

  • Indeed requires that you provide accurate metadata in the appropriate XML fields to separate out staffing/recruiting content.

  • API integrations are intended to be near real-time. When you create, update, and expire jobs, ensure you send changes immediately when the changes go live on your clients’ career sites. If a job changes on the client’s website and Indeed doesn’t receive an update within 15 minutes, it may result in lowered visibility for that job.

  • All your job data in the XML must match the job data on the individual clients’ career sites.

  • The job URL you transmit via the XML must link to a landing page that includes a job description that matches the information transmitted to the XML.

  • Your clients cannot use a different ATS on their company website. For example, if Indeed receives a job listing from an ATS partner and discovers one of their clients, Company X, is using a different ATS on companyx.com, then Company X cannot be included in the ATS’s job data.

  • You are required to provide the email address for each client (this data is subject to our Privacy Policy).

  • You agree that test jobs are not allowed on Indeed.

    • Except in the course of your test phase during onboarding; however these jobs may not be provided in production data.

  • All your job postings are held to Indeed policies and guidelines.

  • You must only submit jobs for which your software is the source of truth, not on behalf of other job boards or applicant tracking systems.

  • You must submit all publicly available jobs of all your clients to Indeed, regardless of whether your clients have opted out of publishing jobs on Indeed.

  • If your clients opt out of publishing jobs on Indeed, you shall clearly identify to Indeed the clients that opted out of publishing jobs on Indeed. You shall inform your clients that you will send their jobs to Indeed, even if they have opted out of publishing jobs on Indeed, and that while Indeed will receive their jobs, these will not be visible on Indeed.

  • You shall provide your clients with a clear opt-out mechanism of jobs submission onto Indeed and 1) will inform your client that they won’t be allowed to send their jobs to Indeed via any other sources and 2) will inform Indeed of all clients that have fully opted out of having their jobs shared with Indeed.

  • If your clients are required to include certain information (such as the job type, responsibilities and salary) in their Job Listings under the applicable laws, you shall ensure that your ATS allows your clients to do so in its job posting function and provides the information to Indeed via the XML. You shall inform your clients that they need to promptly inform Indeed of any change in their Job Listings by updating the Job Listings on your ATS or otherwise taking such methods as designated by Indeed. If Indeed deems it necessary to conduct an investigation to confirm the accuracy and legality of the Job Listings, you shall cooperate on the investigation and submit such materials as Indeed determines necessary.

  • Indeed may reformat some text fields, such as the job title or description, to improve compatibility. The most common examples of these changes are:

    • Removing HTML or what appears to be HTML

    • Converting some full-width symbols to half-width

    • Removing some symbols, such as the characters on Unicode/Character reference/2000-2FFF

    • Removing trailing or leading asterisks

    • Removing double spaces

  • Indeed may not display salary or other pay data provided in XML salary fields if the data is not entered in the correct numerical format.

  • You further agree job postings that do not meet Indeed standards may be subject to review and require additional information from the hiring company. Job postings that prove misleading, compromise the Job Seeker experience or those which we are not convinced represent a “real” job may be removed from search results altogether. Please note: Indeed may reject or remove any job listing and may disable any Company's account, for any or no reason. We cannot give every reason why a job listing or a company may be removed, and we always retain the right to remove any job listing, organic or sponsored, if we feel it is in our interest or our users’ interest.

You agree to inform your clients that the use of Indeed Integration is at all times governed by Indeed’s terms of service (https://www.indeed.com/legal), Indeed’s cookie policy (https://hrtechprivacy.com/brands/indeed#Cookies) and privacy policy (https://hrtechprivacy.com/brands/indeed#privacypolicy), and link to those should be provided to your clients (“Indeed Integration Information'').

To the extent you agree to the additional API terms and guidelines for Indeed Apply and, unless you are based in Japan, the following additional API terms and guidelines for Disposition Sync as these integrations are included in the Indeed Apply API:

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