Terms of Service
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) apply to your access to and use of the websites, mobile applications and other online products and services that link to these Terms (collectively, the “Services”) provided by CheckingIn Software Ltd. (collectively, “CheckingIn,” “we” or “us”) located at 300-303 West Pender Street Vancouver BC.
By installing our application (the “App”) or creating an account or otherwise accessing or using our Services, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not access or use our Services.
We may supply different or additional terms in relation to some of our Services, and those different or additional terms become part of your agreement with us if you use those Services. If there is a conflict between these Terms and the additional terms, the additional terms will control for that conflict, unless the additional terms state otherwise.
We may make changes to these Terms from time to time. If we make changes, we will provide you with notice of such changes, such as by providing a notice through our Services. Unless we say otherwise in our notice, the amended Terms will be effective immediately, and your continued use of our Services after we provide such notice will confirm your acceptance of the changes. If you do not agree to the amended Terms, you must stop using our Services.
If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us at hello@checkingin.co. If you have questions about our Services, please contact us at hello@checkingin.co.
1. Privacy
For information about how we collect, use, share and otherwise process information about you, please see our privacy policy .
2. Eligibility
Our App and Services are available to everyone to use responsibly. We may remove or suspend individuals at our discretion and you may be prohibited from using our App or Services if have been previously removed or suspended.
3. User Accounts and Account Security
You may need to register for an account to access some or all of our Services or the features in the App. If you register for an account, you must provide accurate account information and promptly update this information if it changes. You also must maintain the security of your account, and you may not share your log-in credentials with anyone.
4. User Consent
Our Services are generally personal to you in nature however in the future we may allow you and other users to create, post, use, share and store content, including your sentiments, words, energy levels, as well as share comments, videos, messages, photos or other preferences you create or express and this extends to materials you share with us or other users when using our Services (collectively, “User Content”).
We may use certain User Content in a non-personally identifiable manner for limited purposes as set out in our privacy policy. When you share your User Content, you will be using third party applications external to us such as text or social networking applications to distribute your User Content and these third party applications will have their own term and conditions governing how they use your User Content. Depending on your account settings and the options you select, when you post or otherwise share User Content on or through our Services, you understand that some or all of your User Content and any associated information (such as your username or profile photo) may be visible to others.
You may not create, post, store or share any User Content that violates these Terms or for which you do not have all the rights necessary to grant us the license described above. You represent and warrant that your User Content, and our use of such content as permitted by these Terms, will not violate any rights of or cause injury to any person or entity. Although we have no obligation to screen, edit or monitor User Content, we may delete or remove User Content at any time and for any reason with or without notice.
5. Prohibited Conduct and Content
You will not violate any applicable law, contract, intellectual property right or other third-party right or commit a tort, and you are solely responsible for your conduct while using our Services. In the course of using our App or Services you will not:
- Engage in any harassing, threatening, intimidating, predatory or stalking conduct;
- Impersonate or post on behalf of any person or entity without their authorization or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity;
- Sell, resell or commercially use our Services;
- Copy, reproduce, distribute, publicly perform or publicly display all or portions of our Services, except as expressly permitted by us or our licensors;
- Modify our Services, remove any proprietary rights notices or markings, or otherwise make any derivative works based upon our Services;
- Use our Services other than for their intended purpose and in any manner that could interfere with, disrupt, negatively affect or inhibit other users from fully enjoying our Services or that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the functioning of our Services in any manner;
- Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any aspect of our Services or do anything that might discover source code or bypass or circumvent measures employed to prevent or limit access to any part of our Services;
- Use any data mining, robots or similar data gathering or extraction methods designed to scrape or extract data from our Services;
- Develop or use any applications that interact with our Services without our prior written consent;
- Send, distribute or post spam, unsolicited or bulk commercial electronic communications, chain letters, or pyramid schemes;
- Bypass or ignore instructions contained in our robots.txt file or work around any technical limitation in our Services; or
- Use our Services for any illegal or unauthorized purpose, or engage in, encourage or promote any activity that violates these Terms.
You may also post or otherwise share only User Content that you have all necessary rights to disclose. You may not create, post, store or share any User Content that:
- Is unlawful, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, indecent, lewd, suggestive, harassing, threatening, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory or fraudulent;
- Would constitute, encourage or provide instructions for a criminal offense, violate the rights of any party or otherwise create liability or violate any local, state, national or international law;
- May infringe any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other intellectual or proprietary right of any party;
- Contains or depicts any statements, remarks or claims that do not reflect your actual views and experiences;
- Impersonates, or misrepresents your affiliation with, any person or entity;
- Contains any unsolicited promotions, political campaigning, advertising or solicitations;
- Contains any private or personal information of a third party without such third party’s consent;
- Contains any viruses, corrupted data or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files or content; or
- In our sole judgment, is objectionable, restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying our Services, or may expose CheckingIn or others to any harm or liability of any type.
Failure by us to enforce this Section 5 in some instances does not constitute a waiver of our right to enforce it in other instances. In addition, this Section 5 does not create any private right of action on the part of any third party or any reasonable expectation that the Services will not contain any content that is prohibited by such rules.
6. Ownership; Limited License
The Services and our web sites and applications, including the text, graphics, algorithms, images, photographs, videos, illustrations and other content contained therein, are owned by CheckingIn or our licensors and are protected under both Canadian and foreign laws. Except as explicitly stated in these Terms or in additional terms between you and CheckingIn, all rights in and to the Services are reserved by us or our licensors. Subject to your compliance with these Terms, you are hereby granted a limited, nonexclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use our Services for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any use of the Services other than as specifically authorized herein, without our prior written permission, is strictly prohibited, will terminate the license granted herein and will violate our intellectual property rights.
7. Trademarks
“CheckingIn,” and our logos, our product or service names, our slogans and the look and feel of the Services are the exclusive property and are trademarks of CheckingIn and may not be copied, imitated or used, in whole or in part, without our prior written permission. All other trademarks, registered trademarks, product names and company names or logos mentioned on the Services are the property of their respective owners. Reference to any products, services, processes or other information by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, supplier or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation by us.
8. Feedback
Separate and apart from User Content, you may voluntarily post, submit or otherwise communicate to us any questions, comments, suggestions, ideas, reviews, ratings, original or creative materials or other information about CheckingIn or our Services (collectively, “Feedback”). You understand that we may use such Feedback for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, without acknowledgment or compensation to you. You understand that CheckingIn may treat Feedback as nonconfidential.
9. Repeat Infringer Policy; Copyright Complaints
In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other applicable law, CheckingIn has adopted a policy of terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the accounts of users who repeatedly infringe the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that anything on our Services infringes any copyright that you own or control, you may notify our designated agent as follows:
Designated Agent: Copyright Agent
Address: #300 – 303 West Pender Street, Vancouver BC V6B 1T3
10. Third-Party Content
We may provide information about third-party products, services, activities or events, or we may allow third parties to make their content and information available on or through the Services (collectively, “Third-Party Content”). We provide Third-Party Content as a service to those interested in such content. Your dealings or correspondence with third parties and your use of or interaction with any Third-Party Content are solely between you and the third party. CheckingIn does not control or endorse, and makes no representations or warranties regarding, any Third-Party Content, and your access to and use of such Third-Party Content is at your own risk.
11. Transfer and Processing Data
In order for us to provide our Services, you agree that we may process, transfer and store information about you in Canada and other countries, where you may not have the same rights and protections as you do under local law.
12. Indemnification
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you will indemnify, defend and hold harmless CheckingIn and our subsidiaries and affiliates, and each of our respective past, present and future officers, directors, agents, partners and employees (individually and collectively including CheckingIn, the “CheckingIn Parties”) from and against any losses, liabilities, claims, demands, damages, expenses or costs (“Claims”) arising out of or related to your access to or use of the Services or your violation of these Terms. You agree to promptly notify the CheckingIn Parties of any third-party Claims, cooperate with the CheckingIn Parties in defending such Claims and pay all fees, costs and expenses associated with defending such Claims (including, but not limited to, attorneys’ fees). You also agree that, at their sole option, the CheckingIn Parties will have control of the defense or settlement of any third-party Claims. This indemnity is in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other indemnities set forth in a written agreement between you and any CheckingIn Parties.
13. Disclaimers
Your use of our Services is at your sole risk. Except as otherwise provided in a writing by us, our Services and any content therein are provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. In addition, CheckingIn does not represent or warrant that our Services are accurate, complete, reliable, current or free of errors, bugs or defects. While CheckingIn attempts to make your use of our Services safe, we cannot and do not represent or warrant that our Services or servers are free of viruses or other harmful components.
The content and materials made available through the Services are provided solely for informational purposes and are not intended to provide specific therapeutic, counselling or medical advice and you should not rely upon the content and materials as such.
14. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the CheckingIn Parties will not be liable to you under any theory of liability—whether based in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, warranty, or otherwise—for any indirect, consequential, incidental or special damages or lost profits, even if some of the CheckingIn Parties have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
The total liability of the CheckingIn Parties for any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms or our Services, regardless of the form of the action, is limited to the greater of CAD$50.00 or the amount paid by you to use our Services.
The limitations set forth in this Section 14 will not limit or exclude liability for the gross negligence, fraud or intentional misconduct of the CheckingIn Parties or for any other matters in which liability cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. Additionally, some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitations or exclusions may not apply to you.
15. Governing Law and Venue
Any dispute arising from these Terms and your use of the Services will be governed by and construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the Province of British Columbia and the applicable laws of Canada, without regard to conflict of law rules or principles that would cause the application of the laws of any other jurisdiction. Any dispute between the parties will be resolved in the City of Vancouver before the courts of the Province of British Columbia.
16. Modifying and Terminating our Services
We reserve the right to modify our Services or to suspend or stop providing all or portions of our Services at any time. You also have the right to stop using our Services at any time. We are not responsible for any loss or harm related to your inability to access or use our Services.
17. Severability
If any provision or part of a provision of these Terms is unlawful, void or unenforceable, that provision or part of the provision is deemed severable from these Terms and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
18. Miscellaneous
The failure of CheckingIn to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. The section titles in these Terms are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. Except as otherwise provided herein, these Terms are intended solely for the benefit of the parties and are not intended to confer third-party beneficiary rights upon any other person or entity. You agree that communications and transactions between us may be conducted electronically.