Accessibility, Terms & Conditions Of Use

WEBSITE ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT
We are committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone and applying the relevant accessibility standards.

We welcome your feedback on the accessibility of our website. Please let us know if you encounter accessibility barriers on our site and we will address them as soon as possible.

Remember, email is not guaranteed to be delivered so please follow-up on the phone if you do not receive a reply within 2 working days as this means we have not seen your message.

Accessibility Contact:
Andrew Boundy. VRB Internet Solutions Ltd. (Canada)
Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm EST
Phone: 905-329-5155
E-mail: sales@vrb.ca
Postal address: 509 Glendale Avenue East, Suite #204, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, L0S 1J0. Canada

We encourage you to go into the store, but please do not mail your jewelry to anyone listed on this system unless you have the prior permission/agreement of the recipient.

Neither the owners of this system or any participating store are responsible for any jewelry you send anywhere in the mail, carrier or any other way. This site is intended for you to personally call into or contact any store on our system to make arrangements to repair your jewelry.

All website services provided to you by VRB Internet Solutions Ltd. (hereinafter "VRB") are governed by the terms and conditions that follow. In this agreement, "we", "us" and "our" refer to VRB and "you", "your", "user" and "users" refer to the user of this system. "The website", "system", "application" or "websites" refers to any website designed and maintained by VRB or any website residing at a domain owned by VRB. The use whether paid or otherwise by you of any website created, owned or operated by VRB indicates your acceptance of, and your agreement to be bound by, this agreement. These terms and conditions supersede any and all previous representations, understandings or agreements between you, your agents, employees and/or assigns, etc. and VRB, its agents, employees, assigns, etc.

Use Of System

The information on the Site is provided for the general purpose of finding and communicating with jewelry stores who offer jewelry repair services. VRB does not warrant this information for any particular or specific purpose, express or implied.

Users posting messages or content on this system agree to do so without the use of obscenities or material considered offensive or knowingly false. Any communication, posting, addition, modification or otherwise entered by you on this system may be deleted by site administrators at any time and for any reason without notice. No communications shall be added in any way to this system other than that within the subject of jewelry repair.

VRB is NOT a jewelry store or qualified jeweler. Any and all information provided with respect to any particular repair on the System is provided at the sole discretion of the individual jewelry store. VRB makes no guarantees with respect to any and all information provided on this website and all information is subject to independent verification by any interested party. VRB assumes no risk, responsibility or liability in the case that such information is relied upon by any party to its detriment.

Any and all information provided, including the availability of any particular repair or service for any purpose, is subject to change at any time, without notice and at the sole discretion of the individual jewelry store.

If any content and/or material supplied by and/or belonging to any third party is added to the Website, it shall be your responsibility to advise the third party of all relevant terms and conditions of this agreement. VRB shall in no way be responsible for the content and/or material added to the Website by any party, by any means (authorized or unauthorized) and you agree to release, indemnify, defend and hold VRB harmless from any and all forms of claims, demands or suits for any damages, including (but not limited to) any claims or damages for infringement of any copyright or other intellectual property rights held by third parties in any content and/or material of the Website, that may arise out of the inclusion of any content and/or material on the Website.

You agree to not harvest or otherwise collect and publish information from the system without express written consent from VRB including but not limited to email addresses, contact details, property information, images or otherwise. Publication in any form, whether electronic or otherwise, of any VRB system data without such express written consent is strictly prohibited.

If your posting to the system contains links to any other website, whether related to the Website or not, you acknowledge that VRB has no control over, nor responsibility for checking, such websites; these links are included at your own risk. Any links to other websites or listings of any third-party information, including information on products and/or services, warranties, guarantees, etc., shall in no way be attributed to VRB or construed as being endorsed or supported by VRB, any of its agents, employees, assigns, etc. VRB is not responsible for the content of, or opinions expressed in, such websites.

In exchange for any free use of this system, all users/members and third parties agree to hold VRB, its agents, employees and assigns harmless against any and all damages, claims and/or injury of any kind that may arise from the use of this system or reliance on any information provided herein.

General Terms And Conditions Of Use

You shall not knowingly or unknowingly submit to any VRB website or resource for publication any material, which violates or infringes any copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property rights or privacy rights of any person or entity, any libelous or scandalous material or any material, which contains anything obscene or pornographic. You must have the rights to distribute any property or listing information submitted to any VRB websites or resources. We may refuse to publish any of the above noted material and not be held liable for breach of contract for doing so. You agree to indemnify, defend and hold us harmless for any alleged or actual infringement of any copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property rights or privacy rights of any person or entity.

All coding, scripting and/or programming, domain names, logos, publications, databases, data and other intellectual property provided by VRB to members shall be owned exclusively by VRB and VRB shall be the exclusive owner of all copyright and other intellectual property rights in these items.

VRB agrees to host the websites on a server of its own choice, on a month-to-month basis. VRB makes no warranty to you that you will receive continual and uninterrupted service during the term of this agreement. The service, or any part thereof, may from time to time be modified without any advance notice to you. You agree that VRB shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any damage or loss occasioned by any modification to the service.

YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:

(a) YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK, THAT THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED ON AN AS-IS AND AS AVAILABLE BASIS AND THAT VRB MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES THAT DO NOT APPEAR HEREIN INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE WARRANTY THAT THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE;

(b) VRB SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER THIRD PARTY FOR ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICE; and,

(c) YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY AND HOLD VRB, ITS AGENTS, EMPLOYEES, ASSIGNS, ETC. HARMLESS FROM ANY CLAIM OR DEMAND, INCLUDING LEGAL FEES, MADE BY ANY THIRD PARTY DUE TO OR ARISING OUT OF THE CONTENT OF THE WEBSITE, THE USE OF THE E-MAIL SERVICE, THE VIOLATION OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT OR THE VIOLATION OF ANY THIRD PARTY RIGHTS.

PRIVACY POLICY

The privacy of our users is important to us. We know you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy ('Privacy Policy'). By visiting this website you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy and agree, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

SITE OWNERSHIP, OPERATION AND PRODUCTION

This website is owned and operated by VRB [and its subsidiaries and affiliate corporations, their successors and assigns] (collectively referred to as 'VRB').

INFORMATION GATHERED

We do not collect information that personally identifies individuals except when individuals knowingly provide such specific information on a voluntary basis. When you register information on the site, that information is collected and maintained solely by us. We will not disclose any personal information (name, address, contact numbers, email) to outside parties unless the user was advised otherwise at the point and time of collection. Wherever and whenever personal information is collected on this site, we make an effort to include a link to this Privacy Policy on that page. You can choose not to provide certain information, however, such choice may restrict your ability to take advantage of many of our features.

You should also be aware that information is collected by web search engines such as Google and other providers of indexes from our websites in order to promote these pages on the Internet. When such search engines collect data which you have provided and approved for publishing, VRB has no way of removing this data from their system. Removing your posting or listing from our system does not guarantee the removal from any other website. Any information you find on web sites other than those controlled by VRB are the responsibility of that website company.

INFORMATION USAGE

We advise that we will be performing statistical analysis of user behavior and characteristics, in order to measure interest in and use of the various sections of our site so as to improve design and navigation and to gather marketing information. In addition, we also use the information that you provide to communicate with you. We offer free electronic and other information to users on a voluntary subscription basis. Users may remove themselves from any mailing list by following the instructions contained in every communication provided.

USE BY CHILDREN

If you are under eighteen (18) be sure to obtain your parents’ or guardians’ permission before you send any information about yourself (name, address, email address, etc.) to us or anyone else over the internet. We encourage parents to get involved with their children’s online use and to be aware of the activities in which they are participating.

EXTERNAL LINKS

Be aware that this website may have links that take you to other sites that may collect personally identifiable information about you. We hope that all third parties involved adhere to our policies regarding the privacy of our users. However, this Privacy Policy does not cover third party data collection practices and we do not assume any responsibility for the actions of third parties.

COOKIES

Users should be aware that certain non-personal information and data may be automatically collected through this site through the operation of what are called 'cookies'. 'Cookies' are small files that identify an individual computer’s browser entering a website. They allow the site to track that browser’s movement through the site over several sessions. Through cookies, a website can recognize repeat users, facilitate the user’s access to and use of the site, and allow a site to track usage behaviour that will allow content improvement. We use cookies only for the above-mentioned purposes and will not use them to identify users or to track other usage.

If you do not want a cookie placed on your computer as a result of using this website, you may disable cookies altogether by modifying the Preferences section of your web browser. Note that it is possible that some aspects of this website may be unavailable to you if you choose this option.

If you have no problem accepting cookies, but wish to be informed of their appearance, you may turn on a warning prompt by modifying the cookie warning section also located in the Preferences section of your web browser.

BUSINESS TRANSFERS

Customer information is considered a business asset and therefore, in the event that all or substantially all of VRB assets are acquired, customer information will, of course, be one of the transferred assets.

PROTECTION OF SITE AND OTHERS

We release personal information when we believe releases are appropriate to comply with law or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our websites, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk protection.

SITE SECURITY

We have security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuses, and alteration of your user data under our control. In all cases, the information is retained in secured facilities and protected from unauthorized access. Only authorized employees who have a need to know your information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy have access to the information you choose to provide to us. While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse, or alteration of the data will not occur, we make every effort to prevent such unfortunate occurrences.

CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY AND TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE

These Policies and Terms were revised and posted on VRB websites July 15th 2019. We reserve the right to modify or amend these Policies and Terms at any time and for any reason. Please check these Policies and Terms periodically for changes. Your continued use of this site following the posting of changes t these Policies and Terms will be deemed to be acceptance by you of those changes.