TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE OF SITE
Please read these Terms and Conditions carefully before using this Site.
Last updated on March 23, 2009
This
web site (this "Site") is provided by Jan's Travel & Cruise Centre
("Agency"), conditional on your acceptance of the terms and conditions
of use set forth below (the "Terms and Conditions"). By accessing,
using, and/or downloading messages, information, data, text, software
or images, or other materials from this Site (the "Materials"), and by
sending messages, information, data, text, software or images, or other
materials to the Site ("Content"), you agree on your own behalf and on
behalf of any entity on whose behalf you may act to accept and abide by
these Terms and Conditions for each use and each visit of this Site. If
you do not agree to abide by these Terms and Conditions, you should not
use this Site or download or use Materials from it. These Terms and
Conditions apply exclusively to your access to and use of this Site and
do not alter the terms or conditions of any other agreement you may
have with Agency. In case of inconsistency between these Terms and
Conditions and any other agreement you may have with Agency, the other
agreement shall prevail, but only to the extent of the inconsistency.
1. Changes to Terms and Conditions
Agency
has the right, in its sole discretion, to add to, remove, modify or
otherwise change any part of these Terms and Conditions, including the
Privacy Policy, in whole or in part, at any time. Changes will be
effective when notice of such change is posted at this Site. Please
check these Terms and Conditions frequently for updates by checking the
date of "Last Update" at the top of this document. If any change is not
acceptable to you, you must discontinue your use of this Site
immediately. Your continued use of this Site or downloading or use of
Materials from it after any such changes are posted will constitute
acceptance of those changes.
2. Changes to this Site
Agency
may terminate, change, suspend or discontinue any aspect of this Site,
including (i) changing the availability of any features, at any time
without notice or liability; (ii) changing any fees or charges for use
of the Site, including instituting new or increased fees or charges for
the use of the Site or any other Site-related services (the "Services")
or any features thereof; (iii) removing, adding, modifying or otherwise
changing any Materials on or from this Site; or (iv) imposing limits on
certain features and Services or restricting your access to parts or
all of this Site without notice or liability for any reason whatsoever.
Agency reserves the right but not the duty, in its sole discretion, to
correct any errors or omissions in any portion of this Site at any time
without notice.
3. Permitted and Prohibited Uses
The
Site may be used only for lawful purposes by individuals seeking travel
and related information. You agree to use the Site only to send Content
and receive Materials that are proper and related to purpose of the
Site.
Subject
to these Terms and Conditions, Agency grants you a non-exclusive,
non-transferable, limited right to access, use and view this Site and
the Materials thereon, solely for your own personal or internal company
use, provided, however, that you may not, nor may you allow others to,
directly or indirectly: (i) remove, from any copy of the Materials
downloaded, the copyright or other proprietary notices contained in the
Materials; (ii) sell, reproduce, modify or attempt to modify the
Materials in any way or reproduce or publicly display, perform, or
distribute or otherwise use them for any public or commercial purpose,
including without limitation use of the Materials on any other web
site; (iii) transfer the Materials to any other person without the
written consent of Agency; (iv) print or copy any of the HTML or other
computer programs that are accessible at this Site; (v) use this Site
in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair this
Site; (vi) interfere with the security of, or otherwise abuse, this
Site or any services, system resources, accounts, servers or networks
connected to or accessible through this Site or affiliated or linked
sites; (vii) disrupt or interfere with any other person's use or
enjoyment of this Site or affiliated or linked sites; (viii) upload,
post or otherwise transmit on this Site any Content that would
negatively affect the functioning of the Site, including without
limitation computer viruses, Trojan horses, worms or other harmful,
disruptive or destructive files or computer programs or that imposes an
unreasonable or disproportionately large load on this Site's
infrastructure; (ix) use any robot, spider or other automatic program
or device, or manual process to monitor, copy, summarize, or otherwise
extract information from this Site or the Materials in whole or in
part; (x) use or attempt to use another's account, password, service,
system or other information without prior written authorization from
Agency; (xi) create or use a false identity on this Site; (xii) attempt
to obtain unauthorized access to this Site or portions of this Site
that are restricted from general access; (xiii) transmit on, to or from
this Site spam, chain letters, junk mail or any other type of
unsolicited mass e-mail; (xiv) harvest or otherwise collect information
about others, except for the sole stated purposes provided by this
Site, including e-mail addresses, without their consent; or (xv)
register an e-mail address that you do not own or for which you do not
have the express permission of the owner to register.
If
the Site provides you with the capability to post certain Content to
the Site, you may only do so for the lawful, stated purposes of this
Site. You agree, that in posting Content, you will not, nor will you
allow others to, directly or indirectly: (i) post any incomplete, false
or inaccurate information; (ii) post any franchise, pyramid scheme,
"club membership", distributorship or sales representative agency
arrangement or other business opportunity which requires an up front or
periodic payment, requires recruitment of other members,
sub-distributors or sub-agents; (iii) delete or revise any material
posted by any other person or entity; (iv) post or transmit any Content
that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory,
libelous, vulgar, obscene, or tortious or materials which infringe or
violate any third party's copyright, trademark, trade secrets, privacy
or other proprietary or property right or that could constitute a
criminal offence, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any
applicable law; (v) impersonate any person or entity.
In
addition, you agree that you are solely responsible for actions and
communications undertaken or transmitted in the course of your usage of
this Site, and that you will comply with all laws that apply or may
apply to your use of or activities on this Site or in respect of the
Content and Materials. Agency will investigate occurrences which may
involve such violations and may involve, and to the extent permitted by
law, co-operate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users
who are involved in such violations.
Agency
reserves the right at all times to disclose any Content provided by you
as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or governmental request, or
to edit, refuse to post or remove any Content, in whole or in part,
that in Agency' sole discretion is objectionable or in violation of
these Terms and Conditions.
4. Registration and Password
Where
the Site provides you with the capability to do log in, you are
responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your registration
information and password. You shall be responsible for all uses of your
registration, whether or not authorized by you. You agree to
immediately notify Agency of any unauthorized use of your registration
or password.
5. Proprietary Rights
Limited License and Copyright.
This Site, including all Materials, is protected by Canadian and
worldwide copyright laws and treaty provisions. You agree to comply
with all copyright laws worldwide in your use of this Site and to
prevent any unauthorized copying of the Materials. Except as expressly
provided herein, Agency does not grant any express or implied right or
license to you under any intellectual property right, including under
any patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, or confidential
information, of Agency.
Trademarks.
The Services names, company names and logos used on this Site may be
trademarks, including registered trademarks of Agency. Such Services
names, company names and logos of Agency may not be copied, imitated or
used, in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of Agency.
Other services and company names mentioned on this Site may be the
trademarks of their respective owners.
Reservation of Rights.
Agency' Services, methods and processes may be covered by one or more
patents or other statutory intellectual property rights, and are
subject to trade secret and other proprietary rights. Agency reserves
all such rights.
Software. Any
software, including calculator software, as well any files, images
generated by such software, code and data accompanying such software
(the "Software"), used or accessible through this Site is the
copyrighted work of Agency or its licensors. Unless provided for
elsewhere, you are licensed to use the Software on a non-exclusive
basis for the purposes expressly stated on this Site. Except as
permitted by law, you may not use the Software for any other purpose or
attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of
the Software comprising or in any way making up a part of the Site.
6. Links and Third Party Content
Certain
links on this Site may take you to other web sites. Agency provides
these links only as a convenience. These linked sites are not
necessarily under the control of Agency. If you use these sites, you
will leave this Site. If you decide to visit any linked site, you do so
at your own risk and it is your responsibility to take all protective
measures to guard against viruses and other destructive elements.
Agency
is not responsible for the contents of any such linked page or any
other page not under its control. Agency makes no representation or
warranty regarding, and does not endorse, any linked web sites, the
information appearing thereon or any of the products or services
described. Links do not imply that Agency sponsors, endorses, is
affiliated or associated with, or is legally authorized to use any
trademark, trade name, logo or copyright symbol displayed in or
accessible through the links, or that any linked site is authorized to
use any trademark, trade name, logo or copyright symbol of Agency.
7. Linking Agreement
Agency
welcomes links to its Internet web home page. If you want to link to
this Site, you may do so, provided you agree to the link conditions
(the "Link Conditions") described below. By establishing a link to this
Site, you will be deemed to have agreed to these Link Conditions:
(a)
If you link to this Site, Agency grants you a limited, non-exclusive,
non-transferable, royalty-free license to use the Agency trademark and
Internet icons, if available, (the "Licensed Marks") solely for the
purpose of serving as a link from your web site to this Site. Except
for the limited license to use the Licensed Marks granted in this
paragraph, you may not use any of Agency' trademarks or service marks
(the "Marks") for any reason without Agency' prior written permission.
(b)
You acknowledge that all rights to the Marks, the content appearing on
the Agency Website pages (the "Web Pages") and the "look and feel" of
the Web Pages belong to Agency or third parties. You will not at any
time directly or indirectly contest or infringe these rights.
(c) If you link to this Site, your web site:
- may not create frames around any part of this Site or use other techniques that alter the visual presentation of this Site.
- may not imply that Agency is endorsing you or your products or services
- may not imply an affiliation between your company and Agency without the prior written consent of Agency;
- may not misrepresent your relationship with Agency or present false or misleading impressions about Agency' Services; and
- may not contain materials that may be interpreted as distasteful or offensive and should be appropriate for all age groups;
(d) Agency shall have no responsibility or liability for any content appearing on your web site;
(e)
Agency may at any time, in its sole discretion, immediately terminate
your license to use the Licensed Marks and your right to link to this
Site, with or without cause. If Agency exercises this right, you will
immediately remove all links to this Site and cease using the Licensed
Marks;
Agency
may amend these Link Conditions at any time. You agree to abide by
these Link Conditions and other legal terms and conditions on this
Site, as amended from time to time.
8. Agreement to Privacy Policy
You agree to abide by Agency's Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference into these Terms and Conditions.
9. Disclaimers
You
acknowledge that any use of or reliance on this Site or any Materials
shall be at your sole risk. Agency makes no representation or warranty
of any kind regarding the Site and/or the Materials, including with
respect to the information provided by third party legal and other
consultants, all of which are provided on an "AS IS" basis. AGENCY
EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS,
INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF
MERCHANTABILITY, MERCHANTABLE QUALITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT AND FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND THOSE ARISING BY STATUTE OR OTHERWISE IN LAW
OR FROM A COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. AGENCY DOES NOT WARRANT
THAT THIS SITE WILL CONTINUE TO OPERATE, OPERATE WITHOUT INTERRUPTIONS
OR THAT IT WILL BE ERROR-FREE.
Not
limiting the generality of the foregoing, the information provided on
this Site is for general informational purposes only. Information
provided on the Site with a byline, identification of publication
source, or any other sort of third-party identifier, is provided by
third parties on an "As Is" basis, and Agency does not review it.
Agency and its third party consultants do not warrant or guarantee the
truth, accuracy or completeness of this information. No lawyer-client,
advisory, fiduciary or other relationship is created by accessing or
otherwise using this Site.
Because
user authentication on the Internet is difficult, Agency cannot and
does not confirm that each user is who they claim to be. Because we do
not and cannot be involved in user-to-user dealings or control the
behaviour of participants on this Site, in the event that you have a
dispute with one or more users, you release Agency (and our agents and
employees) from all claims, demands and damages of every kind and
nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and
undisclosed, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes.
Agency
is under no legal obligation to, and generally does not, control the
Content provided by other users which is made available through the
Site. By its very nature, other people's information may be offensive,
harmful or inaccurate, and in some cases will be mislabelled or
deceptively labelled. Agency does not guarantee, and makes no
representations or warranties as to the truthfulness, accuracy,
reliability, currency, veracity or completeness of the Materials or
about the results to be obtained using the Materials. The use of the
Site and the Material is at your own risk. Changes are periodically
made to the Site and may be made at any time.
This
Site contains materials, data, information provided, posted or offered
by third parties, including third party provided content,
advertisements and user content. You agree that Agency shall have no
liability whatsoever for any such third party material, data or
information. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you
acknowledge that:
Travel destinations.
Although most travel, including travel to international destinations,
is completed without incident, travel to certain destinations may
involve greater risk than others. Agency urges passengers to review
travel prohibitions, warnings, announcements and advisories issued by
the Foreign Affairs Canada & Consular Affairs Canada prior to
booking travel to international destinations. Information on conditions
in various countries and the level of risk associated with travel to
particular international destinations can be found at www.fac-aec.gc.ca, www.voyage.gc.ca, www.tc.gc.ca, www.catsa-acsta.gc.ca, www.cta-otc.gc.ca, www.hc-sc.gc.ca, and www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca.
Visa requirements. It
is your responsibility to obtain the required entry documents for each
destination you’re visiting before departing for your vacation. When
travelling outside of Canada it is highly recommended that you possess a Canadian Passport due to heightened worldwide security.
Agency shall not be responsible for any travel decisions, for whatever reason made, made by you after consulting the Site.
10. Limitation of Liability
YOU
AGREE THAT AGENCY AND ANY THIRD PARTY MENTIONED ON THIS SITE WILL NOT
BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING
WITHOUT LIMITATION INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR OTHER
DAMAGES (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGES FOR HARM TO BUSINESS,
LOSS OF INFORMATION OR PROGRAMS OR DATA, LOSS OF PROFIT, LOSS OF
SAVINGS, LOSS OF REVENUE), ARISING FROM OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE
OF OR ACCESS TO, OR THE INABILITY TO USE OR ACCESS, THIS SITE, THE
MATERIALS, ANY CONTENT PROVIDED OR ANY LINKED WEBSITE OF A THIRD PARTY,
EVEN IF AGENCY, OR SUCH A THIRD PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE OR LOSS. In any event, you agree that
Agency's aggregate liability for damages shall be limited to $100.
The
limitations of liability and disclaimers in these Terms and Conditions
apply regardless of the form of action, whether in contract, warranty,
civil liability, delict, quasi-delict, strict liability, negligence, or
other tort and shall survive a fundamental breach or breaches, or the
failure of the essential purpose of contract or the failure of an
exclusive remedy.
11. Indemnity
You
agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless each of Agency, its
affiliates, and each of their officers, directors, employees and
agents, including all third parties mentioned at the Site, from and
against any and all claims, actions or demands, including without
limitation reasonable legal and accounting fees, alleging or resulting
from your use of the Site and the Materials or your breach of these
Terms and Conditions.
12. Choice of law
This Site is controlled, operated and administered by Agency from its offices within Canada.
Agency makes no representation or warranty that materials at this Site
are appropriate or available for use at any locations outside Canada. If you access this Site from outside Canada,
you are responsible for compliance with all local law. You may not
export any of the Materials accessible through this Site in violation
of applicable export laws and regulations. These Terms and Conditions
shall be interpreted, construed and governed by the laws in force in
the Province of BC, without reference to its conflict of laws
principles, except where prohibited by mandatory provisions of the laws
applicable in your jurisdiction. Except in respect of any matter
relating to the enforcement of intellectual property rights and
protection of confidential information, the parties agree that any
dispute arising out of or related to these Terms and Conditions shall
be commenced and settled by arbitration in Comox, BC pursuant to
Section 13 below. Each party hereby agrees to submit to the
jurisdiction of the courts of BC and to waive any objections based upon
venue in any such action, suit or proceeding. The United Nations
Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not
apply to these Terms and Conditions.
13. Arbitration
Any
and all disputes arising out of these Terms and Conditions, its
performance, breach, enforcement, existence or validity, including any
failure of the parties to reach agreement with respect to matters
provided for in these Terms and Conditions and all matters of dispute
relating to the rights and obligations of the parties, which cannot be
amicably resolved, even if only one of the parties declares that there
is a difference, will be referred to and finally settled by private and
confidential binding arbitration before a single arbitrator held in the
location specified in Section 12 above in English, and governed by
arbitration legislation in force from time to time in the Province of
BC. The arbitrator shall be a person who is legally trained and who has
experience in the information technology field in Canada and is independent of either party.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, each party may pursue the protection intellectual
property rights and confidential information through injunctive or
other equitable relief through the courts.
14. General
(i)
Except as expressly provided in additional terms of use for areas of
the Site, a particular legal notice, or an additional Agreement, these
Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement between Agency and
you with respect to the subject matter hereof; (ii) Any cause of action
you may have with respect to your use of this Site or which is the
subject of these Terms and Conditions must be commenced within two (2)
years after the claim or cause of action arises; (iii) If for any
reason a court of competent jurisdiction finds any provision of these
Terms and Conditions or portion thereof to be unenforceable, that
provision shall be enforced to the maximum extent permissible so as to
effect the intent of these Terms and Conditions, and the remainder of
these Terms and Conditions shall continue in full force and effect;
(iv) The relationship of the parties is solely that of independent
contractors and neither party shall have any authority to act for or
bind the other party; (v) The waiver of any breach or default hereunder
shall not constitute the waiver of any other or subsequent breach or
default; (vi) No changes to these Terms and Conditions shall be made
except by a revised posting on this page.
15. Additional Terms of Use.
Certain
areas of this Site may be subject to additional terms of use. By using
such areas, or any part thereof, you agree to be bound by the
additional terms of use applicable to such areas.