License, platform use and monitoring
The platform allows you to create certain compatibility between an application, service or product created by you ("Your Application") and the Bookingcabs.com service. You may use the Bookingcabs.com API and the Bookingcabs.com API materials in connection with your applications, products or services that are registered with us to make available certain various features and functionality of the Bookingcabs.com services via Bookingcabs.com API.
Your use of the Bookingcabs.com API, Bookingcabs.com API Materials, and Bookingcabs.com Data may be subject to certain limitations on access, Bookingcabs.com Data requests, and use as set forth in these API Terms, on the Bookingcabs.com Developer Portal, or as otherwise provided to you. If we believe that you have attempted to exceed or circumvent these limitations, your ability to use the Bookingcabs.com API, Bookingcabs.com API Materials, and Bookingcabs.com Data may be temporarily or permanently blocked. We may monitor your use of the Bookingcabs.com API, Bookingcabs.com API Materials, and Bookingcabs.com Data to improve the Bookingcabs.com API or Bookingcabs.com Services and to ensure compliance with these API Terms.
Subject to these Platform Terms, you are hereby granted a limited, nonexclusive, non-sublicensable, nonassignable (except as authorized herein), freely revocable license to access and use the Platform and Service (and any supporting documentation provided by Bookingcabs.com) solely for the purpose of developing Your Application to use the Platform and Service and display and transmit the information provided therefrom ("Bookingcabs.com Content") to end users. All rights not expressly granted to you herein are reserved by Bookingcabs.com.
You agree that Bookingcabs.com may collect certain use data and information related to your use of the Bookingcabs.com API, Bookingcabs.com API Materials, and Bookingcabs.com Data in connection with your Services ("Usage Data"), and that Bookingcabs.com may use such Usage Data for any business purpose, internal or external, including, without limitation, providing enhancements to the Bookingcabs.com API, Bookingcabs.com API Materials, or Bookingcabs.com Services, providing developer of user support, or otherwise.
You may include advertisements in your Services near your visual implementation of the Bookingcabs.com API (e.g., banner ads above or below), but you must ensure clear separation between Bookingcabs.com content and any advertisements. Your advertisements should not be displayed in any manner that suggests approval or endorsement by Bookingcabs.com.
In general, we reserve the sole right to determine whether your use of the Bookingcabs.com API, Bookingcabs.com API Materials, or Bookingcabs.com Data is acceptable, and to revoke Bookingcabs.com API access for any Service that we determine is not providing added benefit to Bookingcabs.com users and/or is not in the best interests of Bookingcabs.com or our users.
The following are some, but not all, restrictions applicable to the use of the Bookingcabs.com API, Bookingcabs.com API Materials, and Bookingcabs.com Data. You agree that:
You will:
- at all times comply with these Platform Terms as well as Bookingcabs.com Policies and all other terms governing your use of the Platform and Service;
- implement and observe standards of privacy and confidentiality for the collection, use and sharing of any data related to any user of the Service that are at least as stringent and user-favourable as the standards set forth in the Bookingcabs.com Privacy Policy;
- adopt and publish a privacy policy that is easily accessible to users, complies with applicable laws, and that clearly and concisely discloses how you collect, use, store, disclose, and destroy data collected from users. You will only collect user personal information that is necessary for the functionality of Your Application and only as expressly described in your privacy policy;
- notify Bookingcabs.com immediately if you receive any complaint based on your use of the Platform or Service;
- provide any information and/or other materials related to Your Application requested by Bookingcabs.com from time to time to verify your compliance with these Platform Terms;
- in your application, display and promote the ability to use the Platform, without limitation, by linking to the Bookingcabs.com application, and incorporating Bookingcabs.com branding pursuant to the Bookingcabs.com trademark guidelines.
You will not:
- use the Platform or Service in any manner that is competitive to Bookingcabs.com or the Service, including in connection with any application, website or other product or service that also includes, features, endorses, or otherwise supports in any way a third party that provides services competitive to Bookingcabs.com products and services, in our sole discretion;
- modify, adapt, translate, decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, reverse assemble, analyse or otherwise examine, prepare derivative works of, modify, or attempt to derive source code from the Platform or Service, or attempt to do any of the foregoing;
- obtain access to the Platform or Service without all necessary authorization;
- include any viruses, worms, Trojan horses or any other harmful code that could, in Bookingcabs.com sole discretion, affect the Platform or the Service;
- copy, distribute, reproduce, sell, resell, lend, lease, rent, use, allow access to, or otherwise commercialize or monetize the Platform, Service or Bookingcabs.com Content;
- aggregate the Bookingcabs.com Content (including metadata) to create databases, or any other compilations of Platform content or Bookingcabs.com Content, or use the Bookingcabs.com Content to populate any other sites, applications or services other than Your Application;
- suggest or imply any endorsement or approval of Your Application or any advertising or third party content contained in Your Application by Bookingcabs.com;
- interfere or attempt to interfere in any manner with the proper functioning of the Platform or Service;
- circumvent any territorial filtering imposed by Bookingcabs.com;
- use the Platform or Service for any illegal or unauthorized purpose, including the violation or misappropriation any third party's privacy or publicity rights, intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights;
- collect, cache or store Bookingcabs.com passwords of Bookingcabs.com Users using Your Application or any other Bookingcabs.com Content, except for local caching of metadata for up to 24 hours;
- access or use or attempt to access or use any data or content from any Bookingcabs.com User that you do not have proper authorization to access or use;
- send messages to or communicate with a Bookingcabs.com User unless such User expressly consents to such communication;
- request, collect, solicit or otherwise obtain access to usernames, passwords or other authentication credentials from any Bookingcabs.com Users , or to proxy authentication credentials for any Bookingcabs.com Users for the purposes of automating logins to the Platform without adding material additional features or functionality;
- remove, obscure, or alter any notice of patent, copyright, trademark or other proprietary right appearing in the Platform, whether of Bookingcabs.com or any other third party;
- access any undocumented feature of the Platform or Service, or use any documented feature of the Platform or Service other than for its intended purpose;
- impose or purport to impose any obligation on any person, or grant or purport to grant any right, power or authority to yourself or any other person, that would be inconsistent with these Platform Terms, and you agree that any such obligation, right, power or authority purportedly imposed or granted shall be null and void;
- attempt to conceal your identity or Your Application's identity when requesting authorization to use the Platform or Service or use any Credentials other than your own or use any Credentials after your authorization has been revoked by Bookingcabs.com;
- use the Platform in a manner that adversely impacts the stability of Bookingcabs.com servers or the Service or adversely impacts the behaviour of other applications using the Platform or Service, in Bookingcabs.com sole determination;
- use the Platform for the purpose of collecting personally identifiable information of any Bookingcabs.com User without such Bookingcabs.com User's permission;
- use the Platform or Service in such a way that knowingly harms, misuses, or brings into disrepute Bookingcabs.com or Bookingcabs.com brands, trademarks, logos or names;
- distribute any application online through one or more website(s) that is/are in any way similar to the Platform or Service or use the Bookingcabs.com trademarks, or words confusingly similar or describing Bookingcabs.com products or services, as the registered URL for your website(s), except as expressly approved in writing by Bookingcabs.com; and
- use an unreasonable amount of bandwidth, storage or processing power as determined by Bookingcabs.com in its sole discretion, or use the Platform or Service in a manner that exceeds the quota limitations set forth herein;
- do any of the following: (i) facilitate and/or promote illegal activity, including, without limitation, any activity that is fraudulent, such as engaging in phishing or otherwise obtaining financial or other personal information in a misleading manner or for misleading purposes, (ii) depict sexually explicit images, (iii) promote violence and/or discrimination, (iv) incorporate any materials, or encourage or endorse users to post or upload any materials, that infringe or assist others to infringe on any intellectual property right, (v) engage in the endorsement of political positions, political candidates or religious causes, (vi) engage in the sale or advertisement of pornography, tobacco, firearms or personal hygiene products (but excluding soaps, shampoos, perfumes, lotions and toothpastes), (vii) engage in spamming or other advertising or marketing activities that violate any applicable laws, regulations or generally-accepted advertising industry guidelines, and (viii) engage in any activity that is malicious or harmful to any person or entity, including an activity that may be libellous or defamatory, or discriminatory based on race, colour, sex, religion, nationality, ethnic or national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, age or any other protected class pursuant to laws of England and Wales;
- as determined by Bookingcabs.com in its sole discretion, reasonably be capable of misleading a user into believing that he or she is interacting directly with the Platform or Service when interacting with Your Application;
- use the Platform or Service to investigate, track or surveil Bookingcabs.com Users, or to obtain information on Bookingcabs.com Users, information on Bookingcabs.com Users, in a manner that would require valid legal process.
In addition to, and without limitation of, the restrictions above, if you are granted access to the Request, all trips and/or delivery authorization scope(s), the following additional restrictions apply to your use of the Bookingcabs.com API, Bookingcabs.com API Materials, and Bookingcabs.com Data:
- You may not, and may not encourage or allow any third party to interfere with, hinder, limit, or modify any notices or authorization or consent requests provided by Bookingcabs.com.
- You may not initiate or cancel a request for transportation without the consent of the end user associated with the trip.
- You may not, and may not encourage or allow any third party to interfere with, hinder, limit, or modify the booking amount or any associated fees.
- You may not modify or misrepresent a user’s pickup location or destination in any way.
- You may not use the Bookingcabs.com API or Bookingcabs.com API Materials in any way that would grant someone other than you or the applicable user the right to see any data related to that user’s trip (including, without limitation, any pick-up or drop-off locations, or any trip routes) without obtaining the prior express consent of that user.
- You must not use any data obtained from Bookingcabs.com in connection with these scopes for any advertising or marketing purposes.
- You must destroy any data obtained from Bookingcabs.com in connection with these scopes within thirty (30) minutes of receipt.
- You may only send push-notifications, SMS messages, or any other notification or message to a user when such user is on a trip, if (a) you initiated the trip through your integration of the Bookingcabs.com API, (b) the message is transactional (i.e., non-marketing purposes only), and (c) you have obtained the prior consent of that user.
- You will conspicuously display the following language in any integration of the Bookingcabs.com API that provides for collection of an individual’s phone number, and email address next to the fields where the individual’s phone number and email address are collected: "I agree that Bookingcabs.com or their transportation provider may contact me at this phone number and/or email address regarding my request for services."
- You may not use the Bookingcabs.com API, Bookingcabs.com API Materials, and Bookingcabs.com Data for any advertising, retargeting or marketing purposes.
- You may not share with any third party any information or data that could reasonably be used to derive any information about the identity of any of your end users who have attempted to authenticate (or successfully authenticated) access to Bookingcabs.com services.