Terms of Service

Version: 2026-07-30 · Effective from: 15 August 2026 · What changed

Operator: African Wood Inc. (United States & Kenya), together with African Wood Limited (United Kingdom & Wales) and Dhamana Technologies Limited.

Service: the Digital Competency Exchange at placement.amakobe.com — a marketplace connecting internationally educated health professionals with licensed healthcare employers in the United States and Canada.

These terms apply to everyone who uses the platform. Additional obligations specific to your role are in the End-User Agreement.

1. No Fee Is Ever Charged to a Candidate

We charge candidates nothing. Not to register, not to be verified, not to be introduced to an employer, and not to be placed. There is no fee that becomes payable later, no deduction from future wages, and no cost recoverable from you by any means.

The cost of recruitment is borne by the hiring employer. This reflects the TruMerit Health Care Code for Ethical International Recruitment Practices, the ILO Fair Recruitment Initiative, and the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel.

If any person asks you for payment in connection with this platform, they are not acting for us. Report it through the portal.

2. Your Documents Remain Yours

You keep custody of the documents you upload. You may download them at any time, without limit and without charge, and you may withdraw any of them from the platform. We never hold a document as security, and we never condition your access to it on anything.

Withdrawing a document may reopen a verification item and take your profile off the marketplace until you replace it. That is a consequence of the document being gone, not a penalty.

3. Verification

Publication to the marketplace requires passing a five-phase audit covering identity, academic record, professional credentials, clinical experience, and occupational health. We verify what you supply; we do not warrant it, and verification is not a guarantee of employment, of visa issuance, or of licensure by any board or regulator.

We may decline to publish, or may withdraw a published profile, where a document cannot be authenticated or where information proves to be false.

4. Employers

An employer must sign the fair-recruitment attestation before it may unlock a portfolio, approach a candidate, or post a requisition. Employers pay a fixed fee to unlock a candidate's portfolio and a negotiated placement fee on a successful placement. Portfolio fees paid are credited in full against the placement fee for that candidate.

Employers may not recover any recruitment cost from a worker, may not retain a worker's personal documents, and may not charge for repatriation, training, or release from contract.

5. Introductions Require Consent

Purchasing a portfolio does not entitle an employer to contact a candidate. An introduction happens only where the candidate accepts a request. A candidate may decline any request, for any reason or none, with no effect on their profile or standing.

6. Contractual Protections

Every placement contract presented through the platform carries:

attorney of their own choosing before signing. A candidate may shorten this period only by their own recorded waiver. Neither we nor any employer may request such a waiver.

without penalty and without giving a reason.

• 30 days in which the candidate may have the contract reviewed by an
• 7 days after signing in which the candidate may rescind the contract

7. Immigration Counsel

An employer may retain an immigration law firm through the platform to handle a visa or work permit. Where it does:

words on your own screen before you can release anything to it. It is not the attorney of your own choosing under section 6, and it is not a substitute for one.

time. Nobody can release them on your behalf — not the employer, not the firm, not us — and you may withdraw any release at any moment, for any reason or none. Withdrawal takes effect immediately.

firm needs a marriage certificate, a child's birth certificate, or a relative's passport, you send it to the firm directly. We record only that it was asked for and that you say you sent it.

and we never see that payment. What we charge the employer is a separate fee for coordinating the case, and it buys nothing from the firm and nothing from you.

insurance. An employer may instead bring its own firm, which carries no such badge, and your screen says which of the two you are dealing with.

• The firm acts for the employer, not for you. You are told this in plain
• You release documents to the firm yourself, one document type at a
• Documents about your family never pass through the platform. Where the
• We take no share of any legal fee. The firm bills the employer directly
• A firm on our panel has been checked by us for admission, standing and

Nothing in this section makes us a provider of legal services. We do not give immigration advice, we do not review a petition, and no document held here is an attorney's work product.

8. Accounts

You must give accurate information, keep your credentials secure, and not share your account. Administrator accounts require multi-factor authentication. You must be old enough to work lawfully in your jurisdiction and to enter a contract.

We may suspend an account for a breach of these terms, for suspected fraud, or where required by law. Where we suspend a candidate's account, their right to retrieve their documents survives the suspension.

9. Acceptable Use

Do not upload documents that are not yours or that you know to be false; misrepresent your qualifications, licences, or experience; scrape, resell, or redistribute candidate data; attempt to reach records you are not entitled to; or use the platform to charge a worker a recruitment fee.

10. Intellectual Property

The platform, its software, and its design are ours. Content you upload remains yours; you grant us the licence needed to verify it, to prepare the portfolio an employer receives, and to operate the service.

11. Availability and Liability

We provide the platform with reasonable skill and care but do not warrant uninterrupted availability. We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for the decisions of employers, regulators, licensing boards, or immigration authorities, or for loss arising from information you gave us that was inaccurate.

Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

12. Governing Law

For candidates and users in Kenya, and for users in the United States and Canada, these terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States, and the courts of Delaware have jurisdiction. For users in the United Kingdom, these terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction.

This does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory consumer or worker protection laws of the country in which you live.

13. Changes

We will give notice in the portal before a material change takes effect. Continuing to use the platform after that date means the revised terms apply.

14. Contact

African Wood Inc., 274 Liborio Dr., Middletown, Delaware 19709, United States | P O Box 1229-50200, Bungoma, Kenya. Contact an administrator through the portal.