TERMS OF USE

TERMS OF USE

Our Website Terms

Our Website Terms

TERMS OF USE

TERMS OF USE

Our Website Terms

Our Website Terms

Terms and Conditions of Website Use

Please read these Terms and Conditions of Use (“Terms”, “Terms of Use”) carefully before using the www.hosttheworld.ca website operated by Host The World (“Us”, “We”, or “Our”).

Ruling Language: The official language of Host the World is English. These Terms may be available in other language than English. In the event of any inconsistency, the English version is the original language and any translation into other language shall be deemed as reference for information purposes only. In case of conflict, the English version shall prevail and will therefore be binding version for both parties.

LAST UPDATED: February 20, 2024

Introduction

1.1 These terms and conditions shall govern:

(a) your use of the Host the World Website;

(b) our supply of products and services; and

(c) our contact with you.

1.2 By using our Website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use our Website.

1.3 If you register with our Website or make a purchase on our Website, we will ask you to expressly agree to these terms and conditions.

1.4 You must be at least nineteen (19) years of age to use our Website for booking of services.

1.5 Our Website uses cookies; by using our Website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our Privacy and Cookies Policy.

1.6 Unless otherwise specified, the materials on our Website are presented solely for the purpose of promoting Host The World products.

1.7 We have made available various services, tools and functionality on this Website for your use. The information set out by us on these pages tells you how you can use these services, tools and functionality to find out about and book our products (as well as those provided by our selected partners), view content provided by us, interact with us and submit and share views with other customers. Your use of this Website in these ways is subject to these Terms and Conditions.

Copyright notice

2.1 Copyright © 2024 Host The World

2.2 Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions:

(a) We, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our Website and the material on our Website; and

(b) all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our Website and the material on our Website are reserved.

Licence to use Website

3.1 You may:

(a) view pages from our Website in a Web browser for your own personal, non-commercial use only;

(b) to obtain information on, check the suitability and availability of our products and services;

(c) for purposes legitimately connected with purchasing our products and services;

(d) stream audio and video files from our Website;

(e) use our Website to book and/or to pay for travel services

(f) to access or retrieve your travel information and/or booking data, manage your preferences or to get into contact with us about your bookings or travel arrangements; and

(g) submit and share your views, reviews and comments on our products and services; subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.

3.2 Except as expressly permitted by Section 3.1 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our Website or save any such material to your computer.

3.3 You may only use our Website for booking a travel service, making a payment for such a service, respond to this Website with questions, comments, suggestions, enquiries or feedback with respect to the content of this Website, and you must not use our Website for any other purposes.

3.4 Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our Website.

3.5 Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:

(a) republish material from our Website (including republication on another Website);

(b) sell, rent or sub-license material from our Website;

(c) show any material from our Website in public;

(d) exploit material from our Website for a commercial purpose; or

(e) redistribute material from our Website.

3.6 Notwithstanding Section 3.5, you may redistribute our newsletter in print and electronic form to any person.

3.7 We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our Website, or indeed our whole Website, at our discretion; you must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on our Website.

Acceptable use

4.1 You must not:

(a) use our Website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the Website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the Website;

(b) use our Website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;

(c) use our Website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software;

(d) conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our Website without our express written consent;

(e) access or otherwise interact with our Website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;

(f) violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our Website; or

(g) use data collected from our Website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing);

(h) make any unauthorized, false or fraudulent reservation on this Website

(i) use this Website in any way that interferes with or affects the performance of the Website or our systems or which interferes in any way with other users use of the Website;

(j) gain, or attempt to gain, any unauthorized access to our Website, our other systems and/or to the personal data, information or booking data of other users and customers;

4.2 You must not use data collected from our Website to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities.

4.3 You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our Website, or in relation to our Website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.

Products and Services

5.1 The advertising of products and services on our Website constitutes an “invitation to treat” rather than a contractual offer.

5.2 We may periodically change the products and services available on our Website, and we do not undertake to continue to supply any particular product or type of product or service.

5.3 Prices stated on our Website may be stated incorrectly.

5.4 Normally, when you purchase our services on this Website your agreement is with Host The World and if not we will make it clear to you that Host The World is acting as an agent for another service provider.

Limited Warranties

6.1 We do not warrant or represent:

(a) the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our Website;

(b) that the material on the Website is up to date; or

(c) that the Website or any service on the Website will remain available.

6.2 To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 7.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our Website and the use of our Website.

Limitations and exclusions of liability

7.1 Nothing in these terms and conditions will:

(a) limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;

(b) limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

(c) limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or

(d) exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

7.2 The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 7 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions:

(a) are subject to Section 7.1; and

(b) govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions.

7.3 To the extent that our Website and the information and services on our Website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.

7.4 We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control.

7.5 We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.

7.6 We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software.

7.7 We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage.

7.8 You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with our Website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).

Breaches of these Terms and Conditions

8.1 Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may:

(a) send you one or more formal warnings;

(b) temporarily suspend your access to our Website;

(c) permanently prohibit you from accessing our Website;

(d) block computers using your IP address from accessing our Website;

(e) contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our Website;

(f) commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or

(g) suspend or delete your account on our Website.

8.2 Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our Website or a part of our Website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account).

Third party Websites

9.1 Our Website includes hyperlinks to other Websites owned and operated by third parties; such hyperlinks are not recommendations.

9.2 We have no control over third party Websites and their contents, and subject to Section 9.1 we accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. your access to such Websites through links provided on this Website is governed by the terms of use and policies of those sites, not this Website.

Trade marks

10.1 Our logos and our other registered and unregistered trademarks are trademarks belonging to us; we give no permission for the use of these trademarks, and such use may constitute an infringement of our rights.

10.2 The third party registered and unregistered trademarks or service marks on our Website are the property of their respective owners and, unless stated otherwise in these terms and conditions, we do not endorse and are not affiliated with any of the holders of any such rights and as such we cannot grant any licence to exercise such rights.

Variation

11.1 We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time.

11.2 The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our Website from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the Website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions.

11.3 If you have given your express agreement to these terms and conditions, we will ask for your express agreement to any revision of these terms and conditions; and if you do not give your express agreement to the revised terms and conditions within such period as we may specify, we will disable or delete your account on the Website, and you must stop using the Website.

Assignment

12.1 You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

12.2 You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

Severability

13.1 If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect.

13.2 If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it Were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

Third party rights

14.1 A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.

14.2 The exercise of the parties’ rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party.

Entire agreement

15.1 Subject to Section 7.1, these terms and conditions, together with our Privacy Policy, shall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use of our Website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us in relation to your use of our Website.

Law and jurisdiction

16.1 These Term and any rights, duties and obligations as between you and Host The World shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the Province of British Columbia and shall be within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of the Province of British Columbia.

16.2 Any litigation involving the parties to these Terms shall be brought solely within the Province of British Columbia and shall be within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of the Province of British Columbia.

16.3 This website is owned, operated and controlled by Host The World in Canada. Host The World websites with foreign domain-endings of our subsidiaries are also operated here even though foreign domains may be registered in foreign countries.