Terms of Service

By using Booktime.me services you agree to the following terms and conditions.

Last updated: 17 May 2018

Definitions:

Booktime.me services or Booktime.me system — is a system that allows system users to get various business functionalities that help them to run their business.

Service provider or user — Company or person that provides services, rents tools, equipment, space etc. and uses the Booktime.me system to accept and treat bookings online, send promotions, sell products and do other related things that helps them run their service business.

Client(s) or service buyer(s) — Clients can be any type of person that books an appointment or buys a product online with a service provider that has a user account with the Booktime.me system. This can for example be patient, student, or client.

User account — When person or company signs up with the Booktime.me system, they get a user account with the Booktime.me system. This account can be used to register service providers, services, products for sale, make promotions and do other business related things.

If you use the Booktime.me system or related sites, you agree to that you will not:

— violate any laws, third party rights or our policies;
— use our sites and tools if you are not able to form legally binding contracts, are under the age of 18;
— fail to deliver services ordered from you, unless the buyer gets a refund or can get similar or same service at a different time and date agreed by both parties;
— interfere with other users' listings;
— post false, inaccurate, misleading, defamatory, libelous content (including personal information) or use the service and site for link building purposes;
— take any action that may undermine feedback and/or ratings systems;
— distribute or post spam, unsolicited, or bulk electronic communications, chain letters, or pyramid schemes;
— distribute viruses or any other technologies that may harm any visitors of the site;
— harvest or otherwise collect information about users, including email addresses, credit cards without their consent.



Acceptable use policy and abuse

Booktime.me is a solution for service performers, and others that need to accept bookings for appointments, sell related services and products and make promotions to get more bookings. As such the Booktime.me service is ONLY intended for such usage and other unrelated usage is forbidden.

Booktime.me system should NOT be used for:

— Sending spam
— Unsollicited email or SMS
— Importing client list that users do NOT own and/or have NOT been gathered legally

The Booktime.me booking pages should NOT be used to:

— create back links to other pages;
— as advertisement for stuff unrelated to services provided by the user;
— to collect fees from users without the intention of providing the service.

Users should treat all client data with respect and appropriate privacy.

Users of the Booktime.me system can use intake forms to get additional information from clients. Please take care NOT to use the intake form to accept delicate personal or financial information. This information is not stored encrypted on servers like on rest encrypted data and should it happen that there is a break in into Booktime.me servers, this information could be exposed.

Please report to us problems, policy violations and offensive content. Booktime.me wants to ensure that images and information used does not infringe the copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights of third parties. Please notify our support with the name of associated page if you are the owner of copyright material used on our sites. We will take necessary action if necessary.

We reserve the right to cancel unconfirmed accounts or accounts that have been inactive for more than 8 weeks with no login from account owner and do not have a valid paid subscription. We reserve rights to modify or discontinue user accounts, that are affecting our system with unusual load, or usage that does not comply with our usage policy.

We reserve the rights to limit, suspend, or terminate our service and user accounts, prohibit access to any content, sites, services, or tools. We also reserve rights to remove hosted content, and take technical and legal steps to keep users off the sites if we think that they are creating problems or possible legal liabilities, infringing the intellectual property rights of third parties, or acting inconsistently with the spirit of our policies.

We reserve the rights in the case of high volume of bookings to suspend the relevant system momentarily to try to equalize the server load. This can result in some of your users getting a message to try to book again in a few minutes. High load can for example be considered 50 people trying to process a booking with a user account in same 30 seconds.

We take no responsibility on the functioning of our booking widgets when inserted on external sites or in other external solutions. We cannot control if it will work or if it will stop working even if it was working before.

Children and minors under 18 years old are NOT allowed to create system accounts with us. If we find out that such accounts have been created they will be deleted. If parents find out that their children have created accounts with us, please send us relevant information with proof about the account creator so it can be deleted.

Client purchase protection

Booktime.me does not offer any purchase guarantees concerning client's payments for appointment bookings or service purchases or other product purchases from service providers. Booktime.me offers service providers a way to sell their services, and buyers, clients, patients a method to book these services. Service providers can use our tools to offer their clients to pay for services online. Buyers and service providers share the responsibility for making sure purchases and service orders facilitated by Booktime.me are in good spirit, rewarding and hassle-free.

We encourage buyers to work with sellers before opening a complaint with Booktime.me. We take no responsibility for wrongful service orders, services provided by service providers or services not provided by service providers even if they are purchased and paid for.

It is strongly recommended that buyers inform themselves about the service provider before booking with them and before paying online and for the service providers to make sure buyers are for real.

Fees

Booktime.me offers a free limited period version of the system. If a service provider upgrades the service from the limited version provided by Booktime.me, relevant fee schedule will apply. You can find the pricing table on our main site. You will be informed of fees before upgrading services to paid services. Commercial companies that register more than one system in Free version must pay fees according to basic package or higher per each registered system.

All purchases made in the system are final, and are not refunded.

IMPORTANT: When free system is upgraded to paid system, it is no longer possible to downgrade it back to free system. Users can still upgrade or downgrade between paid subscriptions.

Content and Data

When you upload and register content into our system, you grant us a nonexclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right to publish this content on your booking website with Booktime.me, on Booktime.me site and on other partner sites such as but not limited to; our directories, other directories and Facebook sites and pages where clients can make bookings with you.

We have no interest in owning your material and this chapter is not intended to give us any such rights but only to make sure we have the rights to make your material appear on our sites, your booking sites with us, and in related directories that allow clients to make bookings with you and use our services. If you cancel your system with us, your material will be deleted from all our databases. Search engines, external sites and WayBack engines, may however still show your material for unknown time after you stop using our services, and how long they display it is not in our hands.

Account, Password and Security

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the password and access to your account. You are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password or account.

Booktime.me cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this policy.

Limitation of Liability

Booktime.me is not responsible for yours or other users' content, actions, or inactions. You acknowledge that our sites are venues to allow anyone to offer their services and for others to make reservations. We are not involved in the actual transaction between buyers and sellers (service providers). While we may help facilitate the resolution of disputes we have no control over and do not guarantee the quality, safety, or legality of advertised services, the truth or accuracy of user's content or listings, the ability of sellers to provide services, the ability of buyers to pay for services.

We cannot guarantee continuous or secure access to our sites, services, or tools, and operation of our sites, services, or tools may be interfered with by numerous factors outside of our control. Accordingly, to the extent legally permitted, we exclude all implied warranties, terms and conditions. We are not liable for any loss of money, goodwill or reputation, or any special, indirect or consequential damages arising, directly or indirectly, out of your use of or your inability to use our sites, services, and tools.

Booktime.me may offer you to work with external partners that offer services that can enhance or help you with your business. If you choose to work with Booktime.me partners, please be informed of their own terms and conditions and privacy policies. Booktime.me takes no responsibility of any incidents that may happen in their systems that may lead to data leak or content distribution. Booktime.me is also not responsible if they stop providing their services, or if their service goes down or has any security breach.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of warranties or exclusion of damages, so such disclaimers and exclusions may not apply to you.
Regardless of the previous paragraphs, if we are found to be liable, our liability to you or to any third party is limited to the greater of (a) the total fees you paid to us in the 12 months prior to the action giving rise to the liability, or (b) 110USD.

Service provider’s Terms & Conditions and Privacy policy

You understand that as a service provider with a user account at the Booktime.me system you are required to supply your own terms and conditions and privacy policy for your own clients. You should also consider publishing your cancellation policy.

Things you should consider including are for example:

For Terms & Conditions
— Who is allowed to book your service, is there age limit
— How you expect payment to be performed
— What happens if client does not show up, is there refund or not
— What client can expect from your service
— What client can not expect from your service
— Where are you based
— Is client expected to show up earlier than planned service time
— What is your policy concerning product sales, returns, exchanges etc.
— If minors book services or buy products, how do you handle these cases

For Privacy Policy
— How do you handle client’s data
— How long do you store the data
— Why do you store it
— Do you allow anyone else to access it
— What kind of access are others allowed to client’s data
• For ads
• For some analysing
• Etc.
— Inform them, they can request deletion, update and access to all personal data you keep about them
— How will you be treating deletion and update requests
— What are you doing to protect their data
— What kind of communication can the client expect to come to him because he is registered with you. Will you use promotion system or only general notifications concerning appointment, will he be asked for feedback concerning your services. You can make changes on feedback and notification deliveries up as needed inside the Booktime.me system
— What systems are you using to store their data, here you should for example mention Booktime.me system, with link to our Privacy policy
— Who are the personal data protection authorities to contact in your country, if the client has concerns about his data
— How and how quickly will you inform users in case there is break in into your system

IMPORTANT. There may be other things that are necessary to include in your Terms & Condition and Privacy policy. Please get a proper legal opinion what is the right thing for you to include. The above bullet points are just suggestions and can not be considered legal advice.

Support access

In case service providers contact Booktime.me support or buy set-up assistance package, they grant access for support agents to their admin interface in their Booktime.me system.

Access and Interference

Information on the sites is updated on a real-time basis and is proprietary and/or is licensed to Booktime.me by our users or third parties.

You agree that you will not take any action that imposes or may impose (in our sole discretion) an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure; interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the sites, services, or tools, or any activities conducted on or with the sites, services, or tools.


No relationship

No agency, partnership, joint venture, employee-employer, or franchiser-franchisee relationship is intended or created by this Agreement.

GDPR
European privacy regulations

With regard to the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”), we must disclose what personal data we collect and process about you, and for what purposes. In this Privacy Policy, you find all such information that we are obliged to inform you.

The Regulation in its entirety in your language, may be accessed by following this link:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2016.119.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ:L:2016:119:TOC


Indemnity

You will indemnify and hold us (and our officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, and employees) harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your breach of this Agreement, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.

If you as a service provider have a dispute with one or more clients, or if you as a client have dispute with one or more service providers you release us (and our officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, and employees) from claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes.


Changes

This policy may be changed from time to time. Changes take effect when we post them on the Booktime.me site. There will be notification about changes in the Booktime.me notification system in the top menu of the Booktime.me system. When using the Booktime.me sites or services you are subject to any posted policies or rules applicable to services you use through the sites.