HRMSmartTrip.ca Terms and Conditions

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IMPORTANT! Your use of this website is subject to your agreement on the terms below.

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE
ASSUMPTION OF RISK, WAIVER OF CLAIMS AND INDEMNITY AGREEMENT
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Description of HRMSmartTrip.ca

HRMSmartTrip.ca is an online system that provides a method whereby individuals interested in carpooling and/or finding or providing parking spaces may voluntarily contact each other via an online bulletin board. The online carpool and parking space matching system provides a virtual bulletin board available to the general public that allows you as an individual to find and accept carpooling and parking arrangements at your own discretion.

This online system is being offered by Halifax Regional Municipality as a courtesy.

Voluntary Nature of System & Assumption of Risk

Users of HRMSmartTrip.ca are advised that the use of this system is voluntary and entirely at the discretion of participants. No background checks of parking space providers or users, drivers or participants, driver record checks or insurance checks are undertaken by The Halifax Regional Municipality. In addition, The Halifax Regional Municipality does not make any assurances or certifications regarding the condition, suitability or safety of the vehicles being used by participants in the carpooling system, the reliability or driving ability of participants or drivers, or whether those participants and drivers are insured. The Halifax Regional Municipality does not make any assurances or certifications regarding the safety, suitability, condition or location of the parking spaces offered for use, the reliability of the provider or the reliability of the users. The Halifax Regional Municipality recommends that participants exercise caution when selecting a potential carpool partner or using or letting out a parking space.

By participating in the system, you are agreeing that you are entirely responsible for your own safety while using the carpooling and parking space management system.

The Halifax Regional Municipality assumes no responsibility for the accuracy, currency or reliability of the content of sites external to HRMSmartTrip.ca. Links to external sites do not imply official approval of the content of the sites or the organizations hosting them by The Halifax Regional Municipality.

Extension of this Agreement to RideShark Corporation

You hereby also agree to extend this ASSUMPTION OF RISK, WAIVER OF CLAIMS AND INDEMNITY AGREEMENT to RideShark Corporation, developers of HRMSmartTrip.ca and service providers for HRMSmartTrip.ca. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless RideShark Corp, from any and all liability for personal injury, death, property damages and any other loss, and resulting claims or actions, arising from your participation in or involvement in the HRMSmartTrip.ca. program. Therefore this disclaimer applies to both Halifax Regional Municipality, as the hosting organization and RideShark Corporation as the developers of HRMSmartTrip.ca.

Participants’ Responsibility for Insurance

It is the responsibility of individuals participating in a carpool matching system to notify their insurance provider of their intent to carry non-family passengers and to ensure that they have adequate coverage to protect both themselves and their passengers. It is the responsibility of the individual accepting a ride in a carpool to ensure that the driver of the vehicle has an acceptable driving record, is licensed accordingly and has adequate insurance to protect both driver and passengers.

It is the responsibility of individuals participating in the parking management system to verify with their insurance provider if any additional insurance coverage will be required either for the owner of the property or the user. The Halifax Regional Municipality is in no way responsible for verifying or certifying the insurance status of individuals using the parking management system.

The Halifax Regional Municipality is in no way responsible for verifying or certifying the reliability, driving ability or insurance status of drivers and participants using the system.

Waiver of Claims & Indemnification

The Halifax Regional Municipality takes no responsibility for any personal injuries, deaths, property damages, financial losses or other damages or losses that may result from the use of HRMSmartTrip.ca.

By participating in the HRMSmartTrip.ca system, you hereby agree to waive any and all claims that you have or may have in the future against The Halifax Regional Municipality and to release them from any and all liability for loss, damage, expense or injury including death that you, your next of kin or a third party may suffer as a result of your participation in or involvement in the HRMSmartTrip.ca program.

You hereby also agree to indemnify and hold harmless The Halifax Regional Municipality from any and all liability for personal injury, death, property damages and any other loss, and resulting claims or actions, arising from your participation in or involvement in the HRMSmartTrip.ca. program.

Protection of Privacy Statement

The Halifax Regional Municipality will not sell, lease, or disclose personal information to private businesses, organizations, or individuals, unless required to do so by applicable law. : Personal information is being collected from the System by The Halifax Regional Municipality for the purposes of matching participants with compatible carpool partners and parking providers and users only.

DEFAULT Corporation, the licensor and supplier of this Website), "Hfx". In addition, Hfx does not make any assurances or certifications regarding the condition, suitability or safety of the vehicles being used by participants in the carpooling system, the reliability or driving ability of participants or drivers, or whether those participants and drivers are insured. Hfx recommends that participants exercise caution when selecting a potential carpool partner.

By participating in the system, you are agreeing that you are entirely responsible for your own safety while using the carpooling system and will take reasonable precautions in all interactions with other users of the service.

Insurance Coverage
It is the responsibility of individuals participating in a carpool matching system to notify their insurance provider of their intent to carry non-family passengers and to ensure that they have adequate coverage to protect both themselves and their passengers. It is the responsibility of the individual accepting a ride in a carpool to ensure that the driver of the vehicle has an acceptable driving record, is licensed accordingly and has adequate insurance to protect both driver and passengers.

Privacy
Certain information about your use of the Website and personal information that you supply to Hfx are subject to our Privacy Policy. We may use this information to contact you in relation to a rideshare you are or have been involved in or to assist your employer, the police or other government authorities where we believe it is reasonably necessary to protect your safety or the safety of other people you have been ridesharing with where these rideshares have been organized directly or indirectly through the Website. For more information, please review our full Privacy Statement.

Reliance Upon Information and Password
To be a registered user of the Website ('Registered User') you must complete the registration process by providing us with current, complete and accurate information as prompted by the registration form ('Registration Data'). You agree to maintain and update this Registration Data as required to keep it current, complete and accurate. When you register you will be provided with a user ID and password. You must ensure that your password is kept secure and confidential and that it is not revealed to any person. You are entirely responsible for any and all activities that occur under or through the use of your password. You agree that Hfx can reasonably rely upon any use of your password, including for our disclosure of information relating to your Registration Data. You should notify Hfx immediately if you become aware of any unauthorized use of your password or if you believe your password is no longer secret and we will cease relying on that password. You release Hfx, its officials, officers, employees and agents from any claim and won't make any claim against Hfx in respect of or arising from any reliance by Hfx upon any use of your password, including Hfx disclosing personal information relating to your Registration Data. You agree to indemnify and hold Hfx, its officers and employees harmless from any claims, actions, costs (including legal costs), or losses by Hfx or any third party due to or arising out of reliance by Hfx or any third party upon any acts carried out, requests made or information provided through the use of your password.

Registered User Conduct
You agree that:
  1. you will not use your access to the Website, or any rideshare organized directly or indirectly through the Website, for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by the Terms of Use;
  2. you will use your access to the Website solely to arrange rideshares for your own purpose and will not use the Website for any other purpose including arranging rideshares on behalf of any other person;
  3. you will not use the Website to directly or indirectly:
    1. defame, abuse, harass, stalk or threaten others;
    2. collect information about others, including email addresses, without their consent;
    3. create a false identity;
    4. transmit or upload any material that contains harmful or deleterious computer programs (including, without limitation, viruses, trojan horses, worms, time bombs or cancelbots);
    5. transmit or upload any computer programs or other material in breach of any intellectual property laws, rights of privacy or any other applicable laws;
    6. interfere with or disrupt networks connected to the Website or violate the regulations, policies or procedures of such networks;
    7. attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Website, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to the Website, through password mining or any other means; and
    8. interfere with another member's use and enjoyment of the Website.
  4. you will comply with all relevant laws and regulations and are solely responsible for all acts or omissions that occur under your or through the use of your password.

Provision of Services
We may modify, suspend or discontinue any or all of the contents of the Website from time to time in our absolute discretion.

Termination
We may terminate your access to the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately, for any reason whatsoever. If you wish to terminate your status as a Registered User of the Website your only recourse is to discontinue your use of the Website and notify us that you have terminated your membership. Upon termination, your right to use the Website immediately ceases.

Communications from Hfx
You agree that Hfx may send email, newsletters and other forms of communications (whether or not in electronic form) to you from time to time.

Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability
You understand and agree that you use SmartRideHalifax and related services at your own risk. Hfx’s service is provided on an "as is" basis and “as available” basis without representations or warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of title, non-infringement, or implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, other than those warranties which are incapable of exclusion under law. Hfx does not warrant that your use of the service will be secure, uninterrupted, always available, error-free or will meet your requirements, or that any defects in the services will be corrected. Hfx disclaims liability for, and no warranty is made with respect to, the connectivity and availability of the services.

You hereby acknowledge and agree that under no circumstances will Hfx, its officers, directors, employees, agents and third party content providers or licensors be liable to you or any third party for any loss whatsoever caused by your use or reliance on information obtained through the content distributed by Hfx as well as any direct, indirect, incidental, special, punitive or consequential damages or injury arising out of the use or inability to use the Hfx service or out of the breach of any warranty, or caused by any failure of performance, error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, computer virus, communication line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to and/or alteration of the SmartRideHalifax website, no matter whether such claims are based in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability or any other cause of action, and regardless of whether Hfx has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL Hfx BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, WHETHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, GENERAL, SPECIAL, COMPENSATORY, CONSEQUENTIAL, AND/OR INCIDENTAL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE CONDUCT OF YOU OR ANYONE ELSE IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF THE SERVICE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, BODILY INJURY, EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, AND/OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES RESULTING FROM COMMUNICATIONS OR MEETINGS WITH OTHER REGISTERED USERS OF THE SERVICES. THIS INCLUDES ANY CLAIMS, LOSSES OR DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE CONDUCT OF USERS WHO HAVE REGISTERED UNDER FALSE PRETENSES OR WHO ATTEMPT TO DEFRAUD OR HARM YOU.

Indemnification
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Hfx, its officials, officers, employees and its agents from any claims, actions, costs (including legal costs), or losses by any third party due to or arising out of (a) your use of or inability to use the SmartRideHalifax Website or Hfx service, (b) any user postings made by you, (c) your violation of any terms of this Agreement or your violation of any rights of a third party, or (d) your violation of any applicable laws, rules or regulations. You further agree to indemnify and hold harmless Hfx, its officers, directors and employees, from any and all liability for personal injury, death, property damages and any other loss, and resulting claims (including legal costs) or actions, arising from your participation in or involvement in the SmartRideHalifax program.

Copyright and Limited Reproduction Notices
The contents of the Website are the copyright of Hfx and its licensees. No part of the Website may be distributed or copied for any commercial purpose and you are not permitted to incorporate the material or any part of it in any other work or publication (whether in hard copy, electronic or any other form). No part of the Website may be resold, published, copied, reproduced, transmitted or stored (including in any other website or other electronic form) except that you may print, or download to your hard drive, extracts from the Website only for your own use.

Amendment
Hfx reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify, alter or otherwise update these Terms of Use at any time. Such modifications shall be effective immediately upon posting. We will notify you of any changes by updating the "Last Updated" notice next to the link to these terms and conditions on the Website. By using this Website after we have posted notice of such modifications, alterations or updates you agree to be bound by such revised terms. These terms and conditions were last updated on April 6, 2012.

Linking
The contents of the Website may include links to third party materials ('linked sites'). Hfx is not and will not be responsible for the contents of any linked site or liable for any direct or indirect loss or damage suffered by you from accessing, using, relying on or trading with third parties. These links are provided to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply our endorsement of the site or any association with their operators. We reserve the right to prohibit links to the Website and you agree to remove or cease any link upon our request. You may not frame any part of the Website material by including advertising or other revenue generating material.

Advertisers
Any dealings with any advertiser appearing on the Website are solely between you and the advertiser or other third party. We are not responsible or liable for any part of any such dealings or promotions.

Law
These Terms of Use are governed by and will be construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada.

Severability
If any portion of these Terms of Use are deemed to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.

Contact
If you have any questions or concerns in relation to the Website or these Terms of Use, wish to report unauthorized use of your password or wish to terminate your registration please contact us at Admin@SmartRideHalifax.ca.