Caren Driver Guide – Terms of Use

What’s in these terms?

These terms tell you the rules for using our website www.caren.io  and our mobile application.

  • Who we are and how to contact us
  • There are other terms that may apply to you
  • We may make changes to these terms
  • We may make changes to our site and our App
  • We may suspend or withdraw our site and our App
  • You must keep your account details safe
  • How you may use material on our site
  • Do not rely on information on our site
  • We are not responsible for websites we link to
  • User-generated content is not approved by us
  • When we are responsible for loss or damage suffered by you
  • Rules about uploading content to our site
  • We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them
  • Rules about linking to our site
  • Which country’s laws apply to any disputes?
  • Our trade mark is registered

Who we are and how to contact us

www.driverguide.io is a site operated by Origo ehf (“We”). We are registered in Iceland under company number 530292-2079  and have our registered office at Borgartún 27, 105 Reykjavík, Iceland. Our VAT number is 32790.

To contact us, please email info@driverguide.io.

There are other terms that may apply to you

These terms of use refer to the following additional terms, which also apply to your use of our site and app:

  • Our Privacy Policy, which sets out the terms on which we process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using our site or app, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
  • Our Cookie Policy, which sets out information about the cookies on our site and app.

We may make changes to these terms

We may need to change these terms to reflect changes in law or best practice or to deal with additional features which we introduce.

We will give you notice of any change by notifying you of a change when you next start the App.

These terms were most recently updated in August 2017.

We may make changes to our site and our App

We may update and change our site and our App from time to time to reflect changes to our products, our users’ needs and our business priorities.

We may suspend or withdraw our site and our App

We do not guarantee that our site and our App, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site and our App for business and operational reasons. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any suspension or withdrawal.

We may terminate or suspend your account

We may terminate or suspend your account immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation if you are in breach with these terms.

Upon termination, your right to use your account will immediately cease. If you wish to terminate your account, you may simply discontine using the account.

You must keep your account details safe

If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential. You must not disclose it to any third party.

We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.

If you know or suspect that anyone other than you knows your user identification code or password, you must promptly notify us at info@driverguide.io

How you may use material on our site and our App

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site and our App, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site and our App for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others to content posted on our site and on our App.

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site and on our App must always be acknowledged.

You must not use any part of the content on our site or on our App for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site or of our App in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site and our App will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

Do not rely on information on this site and on the App

The content on our site and on our App is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, ths includes but is not limited to turn by turn navigation and routing instructed by our services. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site or on our App.

Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information on our site and our App, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that the content on our site or our App is accurate, complete or up to date.

We are not responsible for websites we link to

Where our site or our App contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites or information you may obtain from them.

We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources.

User-generated content is not approved by us

Our site and our App may include information and materials uploaded by other users of the site. This information and these materials have not been verified or approved by us. The views expressed by other users on our site or our App do not represent our views or values.

If you wish to complain about information and materials uploaded by other users please contact us on info@driverguide.io .

Our responsibility for loss or damage suffered by you

We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

Please note that we only provide our site and our App for private use. You agree not to use our site or our App for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

If our site or our App is not working because of an event outside our control then we will contact you as soon as possible to let you know and we will take steps to minimise the effect of the non-performance. Provided we do this we will not be liable for non-performance caused by the event.

Uploading content to our site

Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to upload content to our site or our App, or to make contact with other users of our site or our App, you must comply with the content standards set out in these terms.

You warrant that any such contribution does comply with these terms, and you will be liable to us and indemnify us for any breach of that warranty. This means you will be responsible for any loss or damage we suffer as a result of your breach of warranty.

Any content you upload to our site or our App will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. You retain all of your ownership rights in your content, but you are required to grant us a limited licence to use, store and copy that content and to distribute and make it available to third parties.

We also have the right to disclose your identity to any third party who is claiming that any content posted or uploaded by you to our site or our App constitutes a violation of their intellectual property rights, or of their right to privacy.

We have the right to remove any posting you make on our site or our App if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with these terms.

You are solely responsible for securing and backing up your content.

We are not responsible for viruses and you must not introduce them

We do not guarantee that our site or our App will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our site or our App. You should use your own virus protection software.

You must not misuse our site or our App by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site or our App, the server on which our site or our App is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site or our App. You must not attack our site or our App via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.

We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site and our App will cease immediately.

Rules about linking to our site

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it.

You must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.

You must not establish a link to our site in any website that is not owned by you.

Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page.

We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

If you wish to link to or make any use of content on our site other than that set out above, please contact info@driverguide.io

Which country’s laws apply to any disputes?

Please note that these terms of use, their subject matter and their formation, are governed by Icelandic law. You and we both agree that the courts of Iceland will have exclusive jurisdiction.

Our trade mark is registered

Driver Guide is a registered trade mark in Iceland owned by Origo ehf. You are not permitted to use it without our approval.