Terms and Conditions

Welcome to Tourism Knowledge Center Online ("Website") being managed by the Rajah Travel Corporation.

In this Website, you can search various information pertaining to insights, data and statistics, publications and other materials related to travel and tourism in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Availing the services of this Website requires that you have read, understood and agreed to our Terms and Conditions of Use. If you do not agree with these Terms and Conditions, you may not use this Website.

Members and Partners of the Tourism Knowledge Center must strictly comply and abide by the Terms and Conditions in the use of this Website.

USAGE

Users of this Website must be at least eighteen (18) years of age and have legal capacity to understand, absorb, comply, and follow these Terms and Conditions.

All users must provide accurate personal information and document that we need (please visit our Privacy Policy page).

While public access is allowed to view information and documents stored and available in the Tourism Knowledge Center, users must properly acknowledge the Center and author/s of relevant documents in the use of said materials for research, study, and other purpose. In the same manner, Members accessing and downloading materials from this Website must properly cite and acknowledge the source in accordance with the Intellectual Property Law and Data Privacy Act.

Rajah Travel Corporation reserves the right to limit or deny you or anyone access to this Website for any violation of these Terms and Conditions and for reasons that we deem prejudicial to this Website or to our other users.

You may only use this Website to search for information and materials relevant to your specific needs. However, you agree not to use this Website to make any false, fraudulent or speculative statements, opinions, views and judgements on any issue or concern. You further agree not to use this Website for any purpose that is unlawful, illegal or forbidden by these Terms and Conditions, the laws of the Republic of the Philippines, or the laws of the country where you are accessing this Website.

Nothing contained in these Terms and Conditions shall be deemed to constitute either party as the agent or representative of the other party, or both parties as joint venture parties or partners for any purpose. You may not assign, delegate or transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms and Conditions. However, you agree that we can assign our rights and obligations under these Terms and Conditions without such assignment being considered as a change to these Terms and Conditions and without need of prior notice to you.

PROHIBITED ACTS

The contents, infrastructure and web design of this Website are the property of Rajah Travel Corporation, and are protected by intellectual property laws and as proprietary information. You agree not to reproduce, transmit, display, publish or sell these information or services without prior consent or approval from the owner of the material or Rajah Travel Corporation.

You are bound not to post or transmit through this website any material or content that violates or infringes in any way the rights of others, or solicits, encourages or promotes the use of illegal substances or activities, or materials that are unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, derogatory, invasive of privacy rights, vulgar, obscene, bigoted or hateful, profane, scandalous, pornographic, indecent, objectionable or otherwise violates any applicable law.

You may not engage in any activity on this Website that restricts or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying this Website such as by "hacking," "cracking," "spoofing," defacing any portions of this website, or imposing an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure, or creating a deep-link to any portion of this Website.

You may not post or transmit through this website advertising or commercial solicitations; promotional materials; software or other materials that contain viruses, worms, time bombs, Trojan horses, or other harmful or disruptive components; political campaign materials; chain letters; mass mailings, or spam mail.

You are not allowed to use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other manual or automatic device or process to retrieve, index, "data mine", or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of this website or its contents. You may not harvest or collect information about visitors of this Website without their express written consent.

In addition, you are bound not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell or trade travel information generated by this Website.

Rajah Travel Corporation reserves the right to file civil and criminal charges and seek damages to the fullest extent permitted by law from any person who commits any of the foregoing prohibited acts.

TRADEMARKS AND COPYRIGHT

The trademarks, logos, and service marks displayed on this website are the property of Rajah Travel Corporation. You are not permitted to use these items without the prior written consent of Rajah Travel Corporation. You may, however, use these trademarks, logos and service marks in printing any materials downloaded from this Website. All trademarks, logos, and service marks of Rajah Travel Corporation must appear on all printed copies of downloaded materials made through this Website.

The copyright for texts, photographs, web design, software and other contents of this Website are the property of Rajah Travel Corporation and its Members, or owned by entities that authorized Rajah Travel Corporation to make the copyrighted materials available on this Website. Rajah Travel Corporation strictly prohibits the redistribution or copying of the contents of this Website, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from Rajah Travel Corporation. Rajah Travel Corporation authorizes you to display on your computer, download, or print the pages from this website provided:

The copyright notice appears on all printouts;
The material will not be altered in any way;
The content is used for personal non-commercial use only; and
You do not redistribute or copy the information to any other media.

If you are aware of any copyright or trademark infringement of materials owned by Rajah Travel Corporation, please let us know by e-mail at research@rajahtravel.com.

REVIEWS AND POSTINGS

You may submit reviews, comments, testimonials, ratings or photographs that will be posted on this Website. However, you warrant that you are the copyright owner, or authorized by the owner, of the materials that you post and that no privacy or any other right is violated. You likewise authorize Rajah Travel Corporation to, free from royalty, use, store, reproduce, publish or translate the materials you posted and that we can attribute them in your name. You own the intellectual property rights over the materials you posted, subject to the rights granted to Rajah Travel Corporation as described herein. You may remove the materials you posted but the rights granted to Rajah Travel Corporation shall remain.

We reserve the right to remove from this Website the posted material for any reason and without need of notice to you. We shall, at our discretion, remove posted materials that we deem to be infringing, libelous, obscene, threatening or defamatory and materials for solicitation of funds, advertising, political campaign and the like.

You shall be solely liable for any damages resulting from any violation of the foregoing restrictions, or any other harm resulting from your posting of content to this Website.

If you believe any material posted on this Website infringes an intellectual property right, please notify us by e-mail at research@rajahtravel.com. Please include the following in your notification:

A description of the material that you claim is infringing on the said intellectual property; and
Your name and contact number or email address where you can be contacted.

DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY

THIS WEBSITE AND ALL CONTENT, MATERIALS, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. RAJAH TRAVEL CORPORATION MAKES NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE FUNCTIONALITY OR USEFULNESS OF THIS WEBSITE OR ANY CONTENT. RAJAH TRAVEL CORPORATION DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. RAJAH TRAVEL CORPORATION DISCLAIMS LIABILITY FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE OR OTHER DAMAGES, OR LOST PROFITS, THAT MAY RESULT, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, FROM YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR ANY CONTENT, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY DAMAGE TO COMPUTER SYSTEMS, HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE, LOSS OF DATA, OR ANY OTHER PERFORMANCE FAILURES, OR ANY ERRORS, BUGS, VIRUSES OR OTHER DEFECTS THAT RESULT FROM OR ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR ANY CONTENT. RAJAH TRAVEL CORPORATION MAKES NO WARRANTY THAT, (I) THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR FREE, (II) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICE WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, (III) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, CONTENT, INFORMATION, OR OTHER MATERIALS PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE WEBSITE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS, (IV) ANY ERRORS IN THE SOFTWARE WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THIS WEBSITE, ITS CONTENT, AND THE SERVER ON WHICH THE WEBSITE AND CONTENT ARE AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. ANY MATERIAL (INCLUDING CONTENT) DOWNLOADED OR OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN RISK AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY MATERIAL. INFORMATION CREATED BY THIRD PARTIES THAT YOU MAY ACCESS ON THIS WEBSITE OR THROUGH LINKS IS NOT ADOPTED OR ENDORSED BY RAJAH TRAVEL CORPORATION AND REMAINS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE THIRD PARTY

LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY

If despite the disclaimer stated above and restrictions on liability as stated elsewhere in these Terms and Conditions, Rajah Travel Corporation is found liable for any loss/damage/injury/death, such liability is limited to, whichever is lower, either the service fee paid to it in connection with the subject transaction, or the equivalent fee in local currency.

INDEMNIFICATION

By agreeing with these Terms and Conditions, you also agree to defend and indemnify Rajah Travel Corporation, as well as the officers and employees of Rajah Travel Corporation, for any of your acts constituting breach of any provision of these Terms and Conditions, other agreements incorporated herein, or any applicable laws.

EXTERNAL LINKS

This website contains links to other websites which are provided for convenience only. Our inclusion of hyperlinks to such external websites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such websites or any association with their operators. Rajah Travel Corporation has not reviewed the external websites and do not control them. Thus, we are not responsible for their contents or the privacy or other practices of such external websites. You should refer to the separate terms of use, privacy policies, and other rules posted on the external websites before you use them.

You agree not to create a link from any website, including any website controlled by you, to this Website.

GOVERNING LAW

Rajah Travel Corporation operates this Website from the Republic of the Philippines. If you use this Website from outside of the Philippines, you are responsible for compliance with the applicable laws of the country, federal or state laws, or local laws where you are accessing this Website. Rajah Travel Corporation makes no representation that the products and services referenced herein are appropriate, or available, worldwide and in fact certain products and services may not be available worldwide.

The laws of the Republic of the Philippines shall govern the interpretation and enforcement of these Terms and Conditions. Any legal action arising from the use of this Website shall be exclusively commenced in the courts of City of Makati, Philippines, within two years (2 years) from the time the cause of action accrued.

WARRANTIES

Rajah Travel Corporation is not responsible if the information that is made available on this Website is not accurate or complete. Any reliance upon the material on this website shall be at your own risk. You agree that it is your responsibility to monitor any changes to the material and the information contained on this website.

No warranty is also made on the following:

That the information, content or materials in this Website are error-free, updated, true and accurate;
That we will answer any question or notification submitted to us; and
Any matter relating to the performance of products and services offered in this Website.

Furthermore, Rajah Travel Corporation does not warrant the accuracy of reviews and ratings made by other Websites and you are advised to make your own independent evaluation.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Rajah Travel Corporation may disseminate information and materials in this Website through social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. You agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions in accessing this Website through social media sites.

SEPARABILITY

If any part of these Terms and Conditions is found to be invalid, the remaining parts shall remain valid and subsisting.

The captions or headings provided under these Terms and Conditions are strictly for your convenience and are not intended to limit the scope of the prohibitions provided under such caption or heading.

MODIFICATION OR TERMINATION

Rajah Travel Corporation reserves the right to change these Terms and Conditions from time to time, in whole or in part, without notice to you. You should check back often so you are aware of your current rights and responsibilities. Your continued use of this Website after changes to the Terms and Conditions have been published constitutes your binding acceptance of the updated Terms and Conditions. If at any time these Terms and Conditions are not acceptable to you, you should immediately cease all use of this Website.

CONTACT US

Should you have any question regarding these Terms and Conditions, you can contact us through the details indicated below. We shall endeavor to promptly respond to your questions. However, Rajah Travel Corporation does not warrant that we shall respond to all of your questions and this shall not give rise to any liability.

*Tel. No: (63 2) 8894-0886

*Fax No: (63 2) 8817-7903

*Email: research@rajahtravel.com