INTRODUCTION
Use of this Service (The “Association of Franchise & Trademarks Services (TAGMOA) in UAE“) is deemed acceptance of the terms of this agreement without limitation. These terms and conditions apply solely to the TAGMOA Aowned and operated by FAD (Emirates Association for Franchise Development’s established by federal law by decree No.3 of 2003 regarding the organization of telecommunications Sector, as amended.
Please note that UAE Government e-Services linked with TAGMOA may have additional terms and conditions regarding your use of UAE Government e-Services. Nothing in “Terms & Conditions of using TAGMOA services” is intended to modify UAE Government e-Services terms and conditions.
Your use of the TAGMOA and any resources provided by TAGMOA is subject to these Terms & Conditions, which form an agreement between you and the FAD regarding your use of TAGMOA Services.
TAGMOA Account
In order to create your TAGMOA account, and access certain TAGMOA and linked UAE Government e-services, you are required to register on TAGMOA to create a user name and password. You agree that the information you provide in connection with establishing your account is accurate and that you will keep your information up-to- date. You are solely responsible for the security of your user name, password, registration information, Emirates ID card and PIN and for any use of your TAGMOA Aaccount. You agree to notify FAD immediately of any unauthorized activity regarding your TAGMOA account or other breach of security. FAD may, in its discretion, suspend or terminate your TAGMOA Aaccount at any time with or without notice.
TAGMOA Services
The TAGMOA is inclusive of Federated Authentication service, Registration Self-service, Profile Management Self- Service provided by TAGMOA to the users of the TAGMOA website, TAGMOA kiosk applications, TAGMOA mobile applications and/or future TAGMOA service channels made available for the users.
Acceptable use
If the use of the TAGMOA by you or anyone using your account, violates these Terms & Conditions or any other FAD agreement or policy, or if it is – in FAD’s sole discretion- objectionable or unlawful, or interferes with, disrupts or degrades the functioning or use of Smart Pass, without limiting any other right or remedy TRA may have, TRA may suspend, deny or restrict your access to the TAGMOA (and to take any other action TRA deems appropriate to protect TRA, and our users).
Without limiting the general policy stated above, you agree not to use the TAGMOA(including by linking to UAE Government e-Services), in any manner that:
Is unlawful, invasive of another's privacy.
Infringes or misappropriates FAD 's or a third party's intellectual property, confidentiality, or other rights.
Compiles, uses, downloads or otherwise copies any user information and/or usage information (whether or not such information constitutes personally identifiable information), or that impermissibly transmits, provides or otherwise distributes such information to any third party.
Decompiles, disassembles, reproduce or otherwise attempts to derive the source code for the computer systems and other technology that operate the any of the TAGMOA or that is available through the TAGMOA Services.
Accesses (or attempts to access) any of the resources by any means other than through the interface that is provided by FAD.
You specifically agree not to access (or attempt to access) any of the resources through any automated script or routine, including "robots," "spiders," "offline readers," bots, web crawlers or other means, that accesses the resources in a manner that sends more request messages to servers in a given period of time than a human can reasonably produce in the same period by using a conventional user client such as online web browser, kiosk, and/or mobile application(s).
Interferes with or disrupts the resources (or the servers and networks which are connected to the resources), whether via malicious software or otherwise.
Reproduces, duplicates, redisplays, frames, makes copies of, or resells the resources for any purpose.
Intellectual Property Rights
TRA owns and reserves the intellectual property rights in the TAGMOA and all of its information and material, including but not limited to text, documents, graphics, and information contained in hyperlinked files, (the “Published Information”) The Published Information on the TAGMOA shall not be used for any commercial purposes, including but not limited to; selling, distributing, or republishing the Published Information.
Limitations of Warranties and Liability
The Published Information is provided on an “as is” basis, and the FAD gives no guarantees of the currency or accuracy of the Published information.
The TRA may amend or delete the Published Information without notice. The FAD disclaims all express and/or implied warranties and conditions with regard to the Published Information.
The FAD shall not be liable for any loss or damage whatsoever and howsoever arising, directly or indirectly, from the Published Information or from use of the TAGMOA including the Website, TAGMOA kiosk applications, TAGMOA mobile applications and/or future TAGMOA service channels.
The FAD does not accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to data or computer systems which may occur from using the TAGMOA or the Published Material, and disclaims all express or implied warranties that the TAGMOA and/or the server that makes it available is free of malicious software.
TAGMOA users will hold harmless and indemnify the FAD from and against damages based in use of the TAGMOA or the Published Information.
Hyperlinking
The TRA may include hyperlinks to third-party websites on the TAGMOA Website. The FAD is not responsible for the content or reliability of these third-party websites and/or does not endorse th e website linked to, (or any products and services referred to in that website).
Electronic Versions of Documents
The electronic versions of FAD documents published on the TAGMOA including the Website, TAGMOA kiosk applications, TAGMOA mobile applications and/or future TAGMOA service channels are for personal reference, research, information and/or educational purposes only. The definitive version of any FAD document is the original printed version held by the FAD. If the documen t has been signed by an authorized person, the definitive version is the original printed and signed version held by the FAD. In the case of any difference between documents, the version so held by the FAD shall take precedence over any other version.
English and Arabic Versions
Information contained in the TAGMOA are published in both English and in Arabic versions. Where there are any differences between the two language versions of the same information, the definitive version shall be the language version in which the information was originally issued.
Applicable Laws
This Term and Conditions document shall be governing by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United Arab Emirates. Any dispute arising under this document shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal courts of the United Arab Emirates.
Variation
The FAD may revise this Term and Conditions document without notice.
Entire Agreement
This Term and Conditions document constitutes the entire agreement between Services, users and the FAD in relation to use of the TAGMOA Services, and supersedes all previous agreements in respect of the same.
PRIVACY POLICY
Security and Privacy Policy
Emirates Association for Franchise Development’s (FAD) is committed to meet serve its members. We therefore realize our obligation to protect the privacy rights of all our members, who are visiting our website or mobile applications. Our Security and Privacy policy practices is related to information and usage of your data information.
Information Collection and Usage
FAD does not collect any personal information about you when you visit the website or mobile app, unless otherwise specified or you choose to provide this information to us. However, once you visit the following information is automatically collected and stored:
- The IP address, from which you access the Internet
- The date and time of your access to our website / mobile app
- The pages you visited (recorded by the text and graphics files that compose the page)
FAD use this information solely for statistical and monitoring purposes and to identify which services are most or least interesting to our visitors, as well as identifying website performance.
We may use third party tools or software for conducting statistical analysis; however please note that only certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who accessed our website, o r pages most visited etc are collected. Such information does not identify you individually. all collected information is confidential except where disclosure is enforced or required by law, or as part of requirement to protect the rights or properties.
Security of Transactions
Emirates Association for Franchise Development’s (FAD) has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security. Please be assured that this application has security measures in place to protect the information you provide us. We use encryption methods to protect all information, which is deemed to be sensitive, or any other data that should remain secure to meet our legal requirements.
Links to third-party websites
FAD website may provide links to other web sites. However we are not responsible for the following:
- Accuracy of the content of these sites
- Their mechanisms for information collection and usage
If you connect to any other site through FAD website, you need to read its Security and Privacy Policy to determine its practices related to information collection and usage.
Security and Privacy Policy Changes
FAD reserves the right to change this Security and Privacy Policy at any time. The amended version of the Security and Privacy Policy will be always published on (website / mobile app).
Privacy intrusion
If you doubt that your privacy is being compromised, do:
- Close all tabs and windows you are browsing
- Change your password immediately
- Inform us by email
Disclaimer
FAD is not responsible for any technical, hardware or software failures of any kind; lost or unavailable network connections; incomplete, garbled or delayed transmissions. It assumes no liability for any direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, consequential or psychological damages as a result of visiting or using its website / mobile app or loss of services, income or welfare resulting from any virus that may infect computer equipment used to access its sites. Under no circumstances will FAD be liable for any damages or injury that result from the use of the materials on this site and the user shall indemnify FAD from and against all liabilities resulting from the user’s failure to observe these terms of Policy. Dubai Chamber does not warrant that information currently accessible is up-to- date