Terms of use

These terms of use (the “Terms”) govern access to and use of the Take Your Skills service, published by Fleck One (see the legal notice), which lets users gather in one place and showcase the professional recommendations they receive or write.

Take Your Skills also offers an optional workplace personality test, described in article 7, and the Leaving Pack, a group leaving gift with an optional whip-round, described in article 8.

By creating an account on the platform, you fully accept these Terms and our privacy policy. If you do not accept them, you must not use the service.

To create an account, you need a valid email address, which is verified with a six-digit code sent to you by email. You are responsible for keeping your login details confidential and for any action taken from your account.

You can add several email addresses (personal and work) to your account. Your primary email address is used for all communications from the platform. You can delete your account at any time in your settings.

When you use Take Your Skills, you agree not to:

• publish content that is unlawful, defamatory, abusive, racist or sexist, or that infringes other people’s rights;
• impersonate anyone else or create fake accounts;
• recommend someone without their implicit agreement (in other words, recommendations must be truthful and prompted by a professional context);
• scrape or automate the service, or attempt to get around its technical measures;
• deliberately harm the reputation of any person or organisation;
• use the service for unauthorised commercial purposes (bulk sending, spam, sales prospecting).

Any content that is reported may be moderated and removed without notice. Accounts in breach may be suspended or deleted.

The recommendations you write remain your intellectual property. You grant Fleck One a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to host, reproduce, distribute and display that content as part of the service, for as long as the recommendation is published.

You warrant that your contributions are original and truthful and do not infringe anyone else’s rights. You can change the visibility of your recommendations (public or private), or delete them, at any time from your dashboard.

Take Your Skills uses an artificial intelligence model (provided by OpenAI) to summarise your public recommendations into a professional portrait shown on your profile. This summary is generated automatically and may be imprecise in places, and Fleck One makes no commitment as to its accuracy. You can regenerate your portrait at any time (within the monthly limit) or restore an earlier version.

When your personality test result is shown on your profile, it may be used to add nuance to the wording of this portrait. It is never the source of the portrait: only your public recommendations are. If you make your result private or delete it, your portrait is regenerated without it.

Description. The workplace personality test is an optional, free questionnaire based on situations from working life. It produces a result that describes work preferences as an archetype, a four-letter code and a position, expressed as a percentage, on each of several dimensions.

Visibility. When you finish the test, your result is shown on your profile, and the results page immediately asks whether you want to keep it visible or make it private. While it is shown, your result is visible to anyone who views your profile, including people without an account, and may be picked up by search engines. It also appears in the PDF version of your profile, in the activity feed of the people you are connected with on Take Your Skills and in those people’s “In your network” list. You can make it private (“Make private”) or delete it (“Delete my result”) at any time from the “…” menu on your profile or your results page. Deleting it erases your test sittings, your feedback on the portrait and the displayed result, but does not delete your account.

What the result means. The result is based solely on your own answers at a given point in time. It is for guidance only. It is not a diagnosis, a medical or psychological assessment, or a measure of your skills or of your suitability for a job. The questionnaire has not been scientifically validated. It is no substitute for the recommendations written by the people who have worked with you.

Prohibited uses. No user or visitor may:

• use another person’s result to make a decision about them, or as grounds for one, in particular in relation to recruitment, appraisal, pay, promotion or the ending of a contract;
• collect that result by automated means;
• use it in a discriminatory way.

Take Your Skills does not offer any way to search for, filter or rank people by their result, and makes no decisions on that basis.

Intellectual property and trade marks. The questionnaire situations, the names and descriptions of the archetypes and the explanatory texts are written by Take Your Skills and belong to Fleck One. Any reproduction without permission is prohibited. The test draws on the sixteen-type typology that grew out of the work of Carl Gustav Jung. Take Your Skills is not affiliated with The Myers-Briggs Company, which owns the MBTI trade mark, and uses its own questionnaire.

Leaving Pack. A user (the “organiser”) can create a Leaving Pack for someone who is leaving their team and share its link with their colleagues. Each colleague writes a recommendation, which the person leaving discovers on the day it is handed over. These recommendations are subject to articles 4 and 5.

Whip-round. The organiser can turn on an optional whip-round: participants suggest gift ideas and vote for the ones they prefer. The money is not collected by Take Your Skills but on an online collection site chosen by the organiser, who adds its link to the Leaving Pack.

Links to third-party collection sites. Take Your Skills only displays this link. Fleck One does not receive, hold or transfer any money, and is not a party to the relationship between the organiser, the participants and the collection site, whose terms govern contributions. Fleck One is not responsible for the content or operation of that site, or for how the money collected is used.

The organiser undertakes to add only the link to a collection they have opened themselves for this gift. Fleck One may refuse or remove any link that appears misleading or dangerous.

Take Your Skills does its best to keep the service available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. However, Fleck One cannot guarantee that the service will run without interruption, and may suspend access temporarily for maintenance, because of technical incidents or in the event of force majeure. No compensation will be due as a result.

The service is provided “as is”. Fleck One is not liable for any indirect loss arising from use of the service, in particular loss of data, loss of professional opportunities, or damage to reputation caused by content published by other users. In any event, Fleck One’s liability is limited to the amount you have actually paid over the previous 12 months (the service is currently free).

Fleck One may amend these Terms at any time. Registered users will be notified of substantial changes by email. The version that applies is the one in force on the date of your most recent activity on the service.

You can close your account at any time from the Settings tab of your profile. What happens when your account is deleted is explained in our privacy policy (in particular, the recommendations you have written for other people are anonymised).

Fleck One may terminate your access for a material breach of these Terms, after giving you formal notice that has gone unheeded for 7 days (except in an emergency, or for a serious breach that justifies immediate suspension).

These Terms are governed by French law. Any dispute that cannot be settled amicably will be referred to the competent French courts.

These Terms were originally written in French. This English version is provided for convenience. If the two versions differ, the French version prevails. This does not affect any mandatory protections you have under the law of your country of residence.