Terms & Conditions
Introduction
These terms and conditions govern your use of this website; by using this website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. If you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and conditions, you must not use this website.
This website uses cookies. By using this website and agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to VenueSearch.ie’s use of cookies in accordance with the terms of VenueSearch.ie’s privacy policy.
License to use website
Unless otherwise stated, VenueSearch.ie and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.
You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages or other content from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.
You must not:
- republish material from this website (including republication on another website);
- sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;
- show any material from the website in public;
- reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose;
- edit or otherwise modify any material on the website; or
- redistribute material from this website except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution
- solicit businesses on our website for commercial purposes or for reasons other than booking event space(s)
Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed with our consent.
Acceptable use
You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.
You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.
You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without VenueSearch.ie’s express written consent.
You must not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications to venues. An example of this includes contacting venues on the platform to book space for an event where tickets are sold.
You must not use this website for any purposes related to marketing without express consent from any of the venues listed.
Restricted access
Access to certain areas of this website is restricted. VenueSearch.ie reserves the right to restrict access to areas of this website, or indeed this entire website, at our discretion.
If VenueSearch.ie provides you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential.
VenueSearch.ie may disable your user ID and password at our sole discretion without notice or explanation should we feel you are in breach of our terms and conditions.
User content
In these terms and conditions, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.
You grant to VenueSearch.ie a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to VenueSearch.ie the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.
Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or VenueSearch.ie or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).
Your user content should provide information on and be general relfection of your venue and must not be exploited in order to increase search engine rankings or bookings by unscrupulous methods or activites.
You may only submit content for a venue listing if you have direct relationship with that venue i.e. you are the admin contact or owner.
You may only select categories, facilities or locations that are genuinely applicable to your venue. VenueSearch.ie reserves the right to remove categories, facilities or locations if deemed not relevant to your listing at it’s sole discretion, with or without notice. Abuse of these sections may result in removal of the dashboard for your venue or suspension of your account.
We often populate venue listings with photographs and content taken and adapted from it’s own website and social media accounts. This is done to enhance your listing and is done on the basis that you are the presumed copyright holder. We do not take responsibility for copyright infringements in this case but if your require removal of a photo or user content this can be done via your dashboard or if requested by a third party you can contact us at: [email protected] for removal.
The content (text) of each listing including photos are hand crafted, carefully written & chosen and adapted for each listing by our in house team. The copyright of this listing content and all other content on the website belongs to VenueSearch.ie and is not permitted to be published on any other website or publication without express permission from us. This is further outlined in the ‘licence to use website’ section at the top of this document.
If you have access to your dashboard, please use this responsibly and please feel free to use the SEO section in a reasonable manner. Abuse of these sections may result in removal of the dashboard for your venue or suspension of your account.
Depening on your venue, there may be limitations on the type or amount of content that can be entered. Specific features for each account type are listed on the sign up page. You must not attempt to alter content in such a way to try and gain extra features, that your package has not provided for.
Any photos uploaded of your venue must be of your venue or the type of entertainment/food offered. We generally do not accept images with text or promotional offers/events.
You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.
VenueSearch.ie reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or stored on VenueSearch.ie’s servers, or hosted or published upon this website.
Notwithstanding VenueSearch.ie’s rights under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, VenueSearch.ie except for routine checks, does not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, this website.
No warranties
This website is provided “as is” without any representations or warranties, express or implied. VenueSearch.ie makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website. Venue listing categories, tags and locations may be altered or removed at any time at our discretion and without notice.
Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, VenueSearch.ie does not warrant that:
- this website will be constantly available, or available at all; or
- the information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.
Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind.
Venue, Event or Experience Bookings
VenueSearch provide a platform to make it easy for you to search and book venues for events, experiences, team building activities, entertainment and other service providers.
When you make a booking on our platform, you enter into a contract with the service provider and not VenueSearch (whether we have facilitated any deposit payments, final billing or not).
The information on our platform is based on what service providers have furnished us with. We do our best to keep things up to date at all times, but realistically, this can change frequently and without notice.
Payments
When you book a venue or experience on our platform, deposit payments and/or final billing may be facilitated by VenueSearch and/or by the venue / provider directly. This is provider and booking type dependent. Whether you make payment to VenueSearch and/or the provider, you enter into a contract with the provider.
Refunds
VenueSearch.ie do not offer refunds in any situation. All booking deposits are non-refundable unless otherwise stated.
Limitations of liability
VenueSearch.ie will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:
- to the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss;
- for any indirect, special or consequential loss;
- for any death or personal injury that occurs at an event coming from a reservation made through the website; or
- for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.
These limitations of liability apply even if VenueSearch.ie has been expressly advised of the potential loss.
Exceptions
Nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit VenueSearch.ie’s liability in respect of any:
- death or personal injury caused by VenueSearch.ie’s negligence;
- fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of VenueSearch.ie; or
- matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for VenueSearch.ie to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.
Reasonableness
By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable.
If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.
Other parties
You accept that, as a limited liability entity, VenueSearch.ie has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees. You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against VenueSearch.ie officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website.
Without prejudice to the foregoing paragraph, you agree that the limitations of warranties and liability set out in this website disclaimer will protect VenueSearch.ie officers, employees, agents, subsidiaries, successors, assigns and sub-contractors as well as VenueSearch.ie.
Unenforceable provisions
If any provision of this website disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of this website disclaimer.
Indemnity
You hereby indemnify VenueSearch.ie and undertake to keep VenueSearch.ie indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by VenueSearch.ie to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of VenueSearch.ie’s legal advisers) incurred or suffered by VenueSearch.ie arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions.
Breaches of these terms and conditions
Without prejudice to VenueSearch.ie’s other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, VenueSearch.ie may take such action as VenueSearch.ie deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you. VenueSearch.ie will not be liable for refunds in this instance.
Variation
VenueSearch.ie may revise these terms and conditions from time-to-time. Revised terms and conditions will apply to the use of this website from the date of the publication of the revised terms and conditions on this website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.
Assignment
VenueSearch.ie may transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with VenueSearch.ie’s rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.
You may not transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.
Severability
If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.
Entire agreement
These terms and conditions , together with our privacy policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and VenueSearch.ie in relation to your use of this website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.
Law and jurisdiction
These terms and conditions will be governed by and construed in accordance with Irish & EU Law, and any disputes relating to these terms and conditions will be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Ireland as regards any claim or matter arising out of or in relation to this Agreement.
Registrations and authorisations
VenueSearch.ie is registered with the Companies Registration Office. You can find the online version of the register at www.cro.ie.
VenueSearch.ie is registered with the IEDR for domain name purposes and has been granted in Ireland. VenueSearch.ie is subject to the domain registration rules which can be found at www.iedr.ie.
VenueSearch.ie’s details
The full name of VenueSearch.ie is Venue Search. Venue Search is a trading name of Kickfire Digital.
VenueSearch.ie is registered in Ireland under RBN number 9087440.
VenueSearch.ie’s registered address is 007 Vantage East, B.2, Central Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18.
You can contact VenueSearch.ie by email to [email protected].