Terms of use

1. Our service

Puthiya Velai is an online job board that connects job seekers and employers across the 38 districts of Tamil Nadu. We are not an employer, a recruitment agency or a placement consultant. We do not promise that you will get a job or find a candidate, and we are not a party to any job offer or employment contract between a job seeker and an employer.

2. Accounts

• You must be at least 18 years old to create an account.
• Give true and current details. One account per email address; an email is either a job-seeker account or an employer account, not both.
• You sign in with a code sent to your email, so keep your email account secure. You are responsible for what is done through your account.

3. Free for job seekers

Searching jobs, creating a profile, uploading resumes, applying, saving jobs and receiving job alerts are free. Puthiya Velai never charges job seekers for a job, an interview or an application.

4. Never pay for a job

A genuine employer does not ask for a registration fee, training fee, deposit, uniform charge or “processing” fee, and never asks for your bank PIN, OTP or card details. If anyone asks you for money in the name of a job listed here, do not pay, and tell us through the contact page. We will investigate and remove the job and the employer if the report is true.

Official application fees for government recruitment are paid only on the recruiting body’s own official website, never to an individual.

5. Employer obligations

If you post jobs on Puthiya Velai, you agree that:

• every job is a real, current vacancy that you are authorised to fill;
• the job title, salary, location, company name and contact details are accurate and not misleading;
• you will not charge candidates any fee, deposit or commission, directly or through anyone else;
• you will follow applicable labour and employment laws and will not discriminate unlawfully;
• you will use applicants’ details only to recruit for the job they applied to, keep them confidential, and not sell, share or use them for marketing;
• the company details and KYC documents you submit are genuine and belong to you or your company.

6. Review and moderation

Our team reviews new employers and jobs before they go live and may check them again later. We may correct formatting or obvious mistakes, ask for more information or documents, and refuse, pause, expire or remove any job or account that breaks these terms or that we reasonably believe is fake or harmful. When we remove a job or suspend an account because these terms were broken, no refund is due for the affected plan.

7. Paid plans and GST invoices

• Job seekers never pay. Employers can post jobs and use extra features under the plans shown on the employer page.
• Plan prices are in Indian rupees. GST (currently 18%) is added and shown before you pay.
• Payments are made online through Razorpay (UPI, cards, net banking), or by an offline method that our team approves. A plan starts when the payment is confirmed and lasts for the validity shown on the plan.
• Job posts, banners and resume downloads that are not used before the plan ends lapse; they are not carried forward or refunded.
• We issue a GST tax invoice for every paid plan. Enter your GSTIN and legal name before paying if you want to claim input tax credit; we cannot change the buyer details on an invoice once it has been issued.
• We may change plan prices or features for future purchases. A plan you have already bought keeps its terms until it ends.

8. Refunds

Plan fees are not refundable once the plan has started, except when:

• you were charged more than once for the same order;
• the money left your account but the plan was not activated; or
• we are unable to provide the plan you paid for.

Ask for a refund within 7 days of the payment through the contact page, with the payment reference. Approved refunds go back to the original payment method, normally within 7 to 10 working days.

9. Prohibited content and conduct

You must not use Puthiya Velai to post or do any of the following:

• fake jobs, jobs that ask candidates for money, multi-level marketing, pyramid or money-chain schemes, or “work from home” offers that need an upfront payment;
• adult, obscene, hateful, threatening or defamatory content, or content that promotes illegal activity;
• content that copies someone else’s work, trademark or identity, or pretends to be another person or company;
• collecting contact details or resumes in bulk, scraping the site, or sending spam;
• uploading viruses or harmful code, or trying to get around security or access limits.

10. Your content

You keep ownership of what you post: your profile and resume, or your company details and jobs. You allow us to store, display and send it as needed to run the service (for example, showing a job to job seekers or sending your resume to the employer you apply to). The Puthiya Velai name, logo and site design belong to us.

11. Disclaimer and limitation of liability

We check employers and jobs, but we cannot verify every detail. The site is provided “as is”. Before accepting a job or hiring someone, make your own checks.

To the extent the law allows, Puthiya Velai is not liable for any indirect or consequential loss, lost income or lost opportunity, or for anything done or promised by an employer or a job seeker. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim. Nothing in these terms limits rights you have under Indian consumer protection law that cannot be excluded.

12. Closing your account

You can stop using Puthiya Velai at any time. Job seekers can delete their account from My account → Profile; employers can ask us through the contact page. We may suspend or close accounts that break these terms.

13. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The date at the top shows the latest version, and important changes will be announced on the site or by email. If you keep using Puthiya Velai after a change, the new terms apply.

14. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of India. Courts in Tamil Nadu have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them or from your use of Puthiya Velai.

15. Contact

Questions about these terms, or a complaint: contact page.