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1290 TALENT NETWORK™
PARTICIPATION & CANDIDATE REPRESENTATION TERMS
Version 1.2
Document ID TNC-TALENT-TERMS-2026-08-18-001
Entity 1290 World LLC, acting through 1290 World Connections and publicly known as Twelve Ninety 
Connections ("TNC")
Relationship 1290 Talent Network™
Portal 1290 Talent Network™ Portal
Candidate Recruiting 
Cost $0
Effective Date Upon valid acceptance after TNC designates this exact version for controlled external use.
CORE RELATIONSHIP RULE
TNC recruiting representation is employer-funded. A Talent Participant does not pay TNC for ordinary recruiting 
consideration. Baseline Talent participation does not authorize identifiable submission, Client disclosure, direct Client
contact, professional-reference contact, recording, public use, or any paid Talent Signature service.
This document is part of the TNC Ecosystem Standard Protocol and must be presented with the exact incorporated versions
identified in the acceptance receipt.
1. PURPOSE AND SCOPE
These Terms govern baseline participation in the portal-based 1290 Talent Network™ and TNC's employer-funded
recruiting relationship with the individual identified through the authenticated Talent account (the "Talent 
Participant").
The TNC Ecosystem Standard Protocol governs universal account, privacy, communications, electronic-records, 
Experience, Public & Commercial, security, recording, and accessibility subjects. These Terms govern the Talent 
Network relationship. Opportunity-specific authorization, Talent Signature, professional references, and other 
consequential actions require their separate Talent Network instruments and receipts.
These Terms are not a Client Protected Search agreement, an employment contract, a promise of work, a Career 
Services agreement, a Talent Signature agreement, or a guarantee of screening, submission, interview, offer, 
placement, compensation, Start Date, retention, or continued employment.
2. ELIGIBILITY, IDENTITY, AND ACCOUNT AUTHORITY
The Talent Network is intended for persons who are at least 18 years old or the age of legal majority where they 
live. A minor may participate only through a separately approved process that satisfies applicable law and any 
required parent or guardian authorization.
The Talent Participant must provide accurate identity, contact, location, work-authorization, experience, and 
relationship information; protect account credentials; and use only the participant's own authorized account. TNC 
may require identity, profile, device, organization, or other verification appropriate to the requested action.
TNC uses one verified global identity and separate Network relationship chapters. A Talent relationship does not 
create a Client, Partner, Services, or World Connections relationship or grant access to another Network's 
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TNC may limit or decline participation where identity, age, authority, jurisdiction, safety, privacy, registration, or 
other required controls are incomplete or unsupported.
3. EMPLOYER-FUNDED RECRUITING; NO PAID PRIORITY
TNC recruiting representation is employer-funded. The Talent Participant's recruiting cost is $0.
TNC will not require payment for ordinary recruiting consideration, including relationship intake, profile or résumé 
review for TNC opportunities, opportunity alignment, role-specific screening, candidate presentation, interview 
coordination or preparation, offer coordination, or placement consideration.
A Client may owe TNC recruiting fees under a separate Client Network agreement. The Talent Participant is not 
responsible for those Client fees.
Purchasing, declining, pausing, completing, or cancelling Talent Signature or any separate paid service does not 
purchase recruiting priority, qualification, submission, Client access, interview, placement, or an employment 
outcome and does not change the Talent Participant's recruiting cost from $0.
4. NATURE OF THE RELATIONSHIP AND LIMITED REPRESENTATION
The baseline Talent relationship is nonexclusive. The Talent Participant may search independently, apply directly, 
communicate with other recruiters, and pursue other lawful opportunities.
For an authorized opportunity, TNC may act as a limited recruiting representative to communicate the Talent 
Participant's authorized interest and selected information. TNC may not accept or reject an offer for the participant,
bind the participant to employment, alter material participant facts without approval, provide legal or immigration 
advice, or act as the participant's agent for unrelated purposes.
The Talent Participant must disclose any prior application, direct Client contact, prior submission, recruiter 
representation, employment relationship, conflict, restriction, or other fact that may create duplicate representation,
source, ownership, or process issues for a Client or role. TNC may pause disclosure or submission until the issue 
is resolved.
The Talent Participant will not knowingly authorize multiple recruiters to submit the participant to the same Client 
and substantially the same role at the same time. This rule does not restrict the participant's broader job search; it 
protects accurate source, consent, and Client process records.
5. BASELINE TALENT RELATIONSHIP SUPPORT
Subject to capacity, suitability, available opportunities, lawful purpose, required permissions, and the Talent 
Participant's cooperation, TNC may provide:
 relationship intake, profile review, and evidence clarification;
 résumé and experience review for TNC opportunities;
 opportunity alignment, matching, and role-specific guidance;
 screening and verification questions;
 communication, follow-up, interview coordination, and interview preparation;
 candidate-facing use of an approved TNC Snapshot™ or candidate brief;
 offer and Start Date coordination; and
 continuing relationship support within the TNC and 1290 Network.
Baseline Talent support is relationship- and opportunity-specific. It is not unlimited career consulting, open-ended 
document development, job-search outsourcing, or a substitute for separately authorized Career Services or 
Talent Signature deliverables.
The precise support provided depends on the active or developing Client search, the participant's evidence and 
preferences, Client requirements, market conditions, capacity, and applicable permissions.
6. CANDIDATE INFORMATION IS NOT OPEN INVENTORY
TNC does not treat a Talent Participant, résumé, profile, or candidate record as open inventory available for 
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Before a valid opportunity-specific or anonymous-market-profile authorization exists, TNC may store, organize, 
evaluate, redact, and prepare participant information internally for the authorized Talent relationship, but may not 
make an identifiable Client submission.
A privacy-first candidate profile may use an anonymous candidate ID, materially redacted résumé or TNC 
Snapshot™, watermark, general region, verified capabilities and results, candidate-approved compensation target,
availability, and match summary. It must omit the participant's name, direct contact information, exact employer 
identifiers, and other information reasonably likely to identify the participant unless the applicable authorization 
permits disclosure.
External use of even a redacted candidate profile requires a valid anonymous-market-profile or opportunity-specific
authorization and remains subject to the TNC Privacy Notice, Public & Commercial Participation Terms, 
confidentiality classifications, and withdrawal controls.
7. OPPORTUNITY-SPECIFIC AUTHORIZATION
Baseline Talent participation, a résumé upload, a profile, a referral, a prior application, a social-media connection, 
Open-to-Work status, prior database possession, silence, or portal access does not authorize identifiable 
submission to a Client.
Before an identifiable candidate presentation, TNC must obtain a valid opportunity-specific authorization unless the
Talent Participant directly applied to the named Client through a process that provides legally sufficient 
authorization for the exact disclosure and TNC confirms the scope in a retrievable record.
The authorization must identify, as applicable:
 the named Client or approved confidential-Client status;
 the role, location, work arrangement, and opportunity ID;
 the résumé, profile, TNC Snapshot™, work sample, and other material versions;
 the identity-disclosure level and approved audience;
 the compensation, availability, location, travel, schedule, and work-authorization information approved for 
disclosure;
 the direct-communication, professional-reference, recording/transcription, media, and public-use permissions;
 any limitations, conditions, expiration, review date, amendment, withdrawal, or revocation; and
 the exact source, version, timestamp, integrity reference, and receipt ID.
A material change to the Client, affiliate, role, purpose, résumé version, disclosure level, or authorized materials 
requires a new or amended authorization before the expanded action occurs.
A confidential opportunity may initially omit the Client's identity. A confidential description does not authorize 
hidden submission. Before identifiable submission or direct Client communication, the Talent Participant must 
receive the legally and contractually required information for the applicable stage and affirmatively authorize the 
action.
8. FORMAL ALIGNMENT GATE AND DIRECT CLIENT COMMUNICATION
Direct Candidate-to-Client communication may begin only after TNC confirms the formal alignment gate for the 
specific opportunity.
The default direct-communication method is a job-specific Shared Opportunity Room or Secure Conversation. 
Terrance Sullivan must remain included in the shared conversation, interview coordination, material role or 
compensation discussion, and offer-stage communications unless TNC approves a specific written exception.
The Talent Participant may decline direct Client contact or withdraw from the opportunity. Direct communication 
authority does not authorize use of participant information for unrelated roles, unrelated marketing, public display, 
enrichment, or indefinite retention.
The Talent Participant and Client may not use direct communication to bypass required TNC consent, source, 
confidentiality, Protected Search, candidate-protection, or process records.
9. TALENT PARTICIPANT RESPONSIBILITIES
The Talent Participant will:
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 identify material résumé, employment, credential, education, compensation, availability, location, travel, workauthorization, conflict, restriction, prior-application, or prior-submission issues;
 avoid fabricating, exaggerating, plagiarizing, or materially omitting facts;
 review participant-facing materials and identify factual corrections;
 promptly report changes affecting an opportunity or authorization;
 communicate respectfully and within a commercially reasonable time;
 protect account credentials and Client/search confidentiality;
 attend confirmed interviews or provide prompt notice when unable; and
 comply with lawful Client procedures after the required disclosure and authorization stage.
TNC may rely on participant-provided information but does not independently warrant its accuracy. TNC may 
pause or end a relationship or opportunity for incomplete or conflicting information, material misrepresentation, 
consent or confidentiality problems, abuse, nonresponsiveness, legal or safety concerns, Client direction, capacity,
market conditions, or another legitimate business reason.
10. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY, ACCOMMODATION, AND HUMAN REVIEW
TNC will not knowingly discriminate in recruiting or referral decisions on a basis prohibited by applicable law and 
will not knowingly honor a Client request that unlawfully restricts or classifies candidates by a protected 
characteristic.
TNC may refuse or stop work involving unlawful, discriminatory, retaliatory, deceptive, or unsafe criteria or 
conduct. The Talent Participant must not request or encourage unlawful discrimination or misrepresentation.
A Talent Participant may request a reasonable accommodation or alternative method for a TNC-controlled intake, 
communication, assessment-support, document, or portal process. TNC will address the request as required by 
applicable law. Client-controlled accommodations and employment procedures remain the Client's responsibility.
Technology-assisted tools may support extraction, organization, matching, missing-information review, questions, 
drafting, and quality control. TNC retains human review responsibility for TNC-controlled consequential decisions 
and will not represent a technology output as an independently verified fact without appropriate review.
11. RÉSUMÉS, PROFILES, TNC SNAPSHOTS™, AND MATERIALS
The Talent Participant retains ownership of participant-created source materials, subject to third-party rights. The 
participant grants TNC a limited, nonexclusive license to store, organize, summarize, format, redact, watermark, 
and use authorized materials for the Talent relationship and authorized recruiting purposes.
A TNC Snapshot™, candidate brief, or other TNC-formatted deliverable may combine participant-provided 
information, source-derived information, TNC analysis, and TNC formatting. TNC retains its proprietary templates, 
methodology, layout, marks, workflows, and internal systems. The participant may review participant-facing facts 
and request reasonable corrections.
TNC will not knowingly fabricate or materially alter participant credentials, employment history, education, dates, 
responsibilities, achievements, compensation, or results.
Baseline recruiting does not automatically provide downloadable or unrestricted copies of internal or Client-facing 
TNC materials. Downloadable approved Snapshots and expanded professional deliverables require an applicable 
Talent Signature or other separate written scope.
12. COMMUNICATIONS AND RECORDS
The Talent Participant may communicate through approved email, telephone, SMS, Talent Portal, Secure 
Conversations, Shared Opportunity Rooms, booking, video, or other authorized channels.
Relationship and transactional communications necessary to operate an active Talent relationship or opportunity 
are governed by the TNC Standard Protocol. Promotional communication consent, preferences, quiet hours, 
STOP, unsubscribe, suppression, and legally required opt-out rights remain channel-, purpose-, and jurisdictionspecific.
A résumé, profile, referral, prior application, social connection, portal account, or silence does not create unlimited 
communication consent.
TNC may preserve recruiting communications and activity records for operational, contractual, source-attribution, 
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13. PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES; BACKGROUND AND CONSUMER-REPORT BOUNDARY
TNC may coordinate candidate-provided professional references only when the Talent Participant authorizes the 
specific reference activity and identifies the permitted reference contacts, purpose, and disclosure scope.
Ordinary professional-reference coordination is not a criminal, credit, driving, medical, drug, fingerprint, education, 
formal employment-verification, or consumer-report service. Any background check, consumer report, drug test, 
credential verification, or similar Client-controlled process requires the notices, authorizations, providers, and 
procedures applicable to that separate activity.
Reference information may be incomplete, subjective, or inaccurate. Final Client investigation and employment 
decisions remain the Client's responsibility.
14. CLIENT DECISIONS AND EMPLOYMENT RESPONSIBILITY
The Client controls selection, interviews, assessments, employment applications, compensation, classification, 
accommodations, background and drug testing, credential verification, work authorization, Form I-9, E-Verify, 
payroll, benefits, policies, workplace safety, supervision, discipline, and termination.
TNC may support communication, screening, and process coordination but does not bind the Client or Talent 
Participant to an offer or employment relationship and does not make the Client's final employment decision.
The Talent Participant is responsible for reviewing an offer, employment terms, restrictive covenants, relocation, 
benefits, tax, immigration, licensing, and other personal consequences and may seek independent professional 
advice.
15. TALENT SIGNATURE AND CAREER SERVICES SEPARATION
The optional 1290 Talent Signature Package™ is a separate paid Talent Network instrument available only 
through a separately accepted Talent Signature Package Agreement and Service Authorization.
Talent Signature may include selected résumé, professional-networking profile, TNC Snapshot™, interview, offer, 
narrative, professional-brand, or career-strategy enhancements. It is not required for recruiting consideration, does 
not purchase priority or placement, does not guarantee submission or an employment outcome, and does not 
change the participant's recruiting cost from $0.
Standalone Career Services are separate paid, non-recruiting professional services governed through the 1290 
Services Network™ Portal and a separate Service Agreement or Service Authorization. A Talent relationship does 
not automatically activate Career Services, and a Career Services purchase does not create recruiting priority, 
representation, or placement rights.
16. PRIVACY, SECURITY, EXPERIENCE, AND PUBLIC/COMMERCIAL BOUNDARIES
The TNC Privacy Notice and Security & Acceptable Use Terms govern universal privacy and security subjects. 
Talent-specific access remains limited by Network, opportunity, relationship, purpose, role, Client, candidate 
consent, disclosure state, and authorization.
TNC Experience Participation supports authorized relationship continuity, personalization, organization, analysis, 
recommendations, quality, accessibility, security, research, and improvement. It does not authorize identifiable 
Client submission, unrestricted use of Candidate Data, or a solely automated final employment decision.
TNC Public & Commercial Participation may support aggregate or de-identified recruiting activity, public 
opportunities, candidate-community content, TNC market materials, and separately approved stories or media. It 
does not authorize public use of the Talent Participant's identity, résumé, compensation, application, submission, 
interview, offer, placement, references, image, voice, quote, or personal story without the applicable Talent, 
opportunity-specific, recording, media, publicity, and confidentiality authorization.
The Talent Participant should avoid submitting unnecessary sensitive personal information and should use 
designated secure channels when restricted information is necessary and authorized.
17. CONFIDENTIALITY AND PROTECTED ACTIVITY
Each party will protect nonpublic business, search, candidate, Client, compensation, technical, security, and 
relationship information using reasonable care and use it only for the authorized purpose.1290 WORLD LLC | TWELVE NINETY CONNECTIONS
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The Talent Participant will not disclose a confidential Client identity, role, compensation structure, search strategy, 
candidate information, portal content, agreement term, or process information except as authorized, to a 
professional adviser who is obligated to preserve confidentiality, or as legally required.
Nothing in these Terms prohibits a person from reporting suspected unlawful conduct, filing or participating in a 
government proceeding, communicating with a regulator or law-enforcement agency, discussing wages or working 
conditions where protected by law, seeking legal advice, requesting accommodation, opposing discrimination, or 
exercising a nonwaivable right. No advance notice to TNC is required where law protects the communication.
18. DURATION, WITHDRAWAL, SUSPENSION, AND RECORD RETENTION
These Terms remain in effect while the Talent relationship or surviving obligations remain active. Each opportunity 
authorization has its own scope, duration, expiration, and withdrawal record.
The Talent Participant may request withdrawal from a specific opportunity, narrow an authorization, suppress 
future recruiting communications, or close the Talent relationship through a verified portal or written request. 
Withdrawal is prospective after TNC can reasonably process it and does not invalidate a disclosure or action 
lawfully completed under the prior authorization.
TNC may preserve records required for legal, contractual, source-attribution, Client-process, audit, dispute, 
security, retention, backup, fraud-prevention, quality, or relationship-history purposes. Withdrawal does not require 
deletion of records TNC is required or permitted to retain.
TNC may restrict, suspend, or close access for security risk, unlawful use, impersonation, harassment, 
discriminatory conduct, unauthorized disclosure, material misrepresentation, breach, unsupported jurisdiction, 
prolonged inactivity, or another legitimate business reason. Closure does not create a candidate fee or erase 
surviving confidentiality, source, authorization, or recordkeeping obligations.
19. ELECTRONIC RECORDS, RECEIPTS, AND TALENT PORTAL ACTIVATION
Electronic acceptance is governed by the TNC Electronic Records & Signature Consent. A valid acceptance record
must preserve the authenticated actor, Talent account, exact Standard Protocol and Talent Terms versions, intent, 
decision, timestamp, access, integrity reference, reproducible copy, and receipt ID.
Baseline Talent Portal activation requires:
1. presentation and valid acceptance of the current TNC Ecosystem Standard Protocol;
2. secure authentication;
3. completed Talent Questions;
4. identity and profile validation appropriate to the relationship;
5. presentation and valid acceptance of these Terms; and
6. creation of a truthful Talent Network activation and agreement receipt.
Portal access does not itself authorize identifiable submission, Client disclosure, direct Client communication, 
reference contact, recording, Talent Signature, payment, placement, or a canonical CRM record. Each 
consequential state requires its own source and receipt.
20. GOVERNING LAW, DISPUTES, GENERAL TERMS, AND ORDER OF PRECEDENCE
Kansas law governs these Terms, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Exclusive venue lies in the state or 
federal courts serving Sedgwick County, Kansas, except to the extent mandatory law provides a nonwaivable right 
or venue.
Before filing a non-emergency action, the parties should attempt a good-faith written escalation and reasonable 
conference within ten business days when practicable. This process does not prevent urgent relief, a government 
filing, or exercise of a right that cannot lawfully be delayed.
A signed amendment or TNC-approved written exception controls the specific matter; then the opportunity-specific 
Candidate Authorization for its stated disclosure and participation subjects; then a separate recording, reference, 
media, or public-use authorization for its stated subject; then Talent Signature for its paid deliverable subjects; then
these Terms; then the TNC Standard Protocol; then public summaries or help content.
Material changes must be versioned and presented for reacceptance when required by law, contract, risk, or TNC 
policy. Prior accepted versions and receipts remain preserved.1290 WORLD LLC | TWELVE NINETY CONNECTIONS
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If a provision is unenforceable, it will be reformed to the minimum lawful extent where permitted, and the remainder
remains effective. Failure to enforce a provision once is not a waiver. The Talent Participant may not assign these 
Terms or an authorization without TNC's written approval. TNC may assign the relationship to a successor that 
assumes the applicable obligations. Provisions concerning confidentiality, data and records, intellectual property, 
prior valid disclosures, disputes, and other obligations that by their nature survive will survive closure or 
termination.
The disclaimers, responsibility-for-misuse, and other universal account provisions in the TNC Account & Platform 
Terms apply to the extent relevant and lawful. Nothing in these Terms waives a right or duty that cannot lawfully be
waived or shifted.
21. ACCEPTANCE RECORD
By validly accepting this exact version, the Talent Participant confirms that the participant reviewed these Terms, 
understands that ordinary TNC recruiting consideration costs the participant $0, understands that opportunityspecific authorization is required before identifiable submission, and agrees to the stated Talent Network 
relationship rules.
Talent Participant legal name ____________________________________________
Preferred name ____________________________________________
Talent account ID ____________________________________________
Acceptance decision ☐ ☐ Accept Decline
Acceptance date/time ____________________________________________
TNC Standard Protocol receipt ID ____________________________________________
Talent Network Terms receipt ID ____________________________________________
Integrity / hash reference ____________________________________________
TNC CONTACT
Terrance Sullivan
Founder | Twelve Ninety Connections
Independent Recruiting Network
Office: (316) 832-7700 ext. 1290
Direct: (702) 670-1290
Email: tsullivan@1290worldconnections.com
Website: https://1290worldconnections.com