Terms of Use

BACKGROUND 
www.visitmaldives.com [this ‘Website’] is owned and operated by the Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation [‘MMPRC’, ‘we’, ‘us’, ‘our’]. 
These terms of use constitute an agreement made between the Website user, [‘you’, ‘your’ and us]. You must not access or use this Website unless you accept all of these terms of use. By accessing and using this Website you are agreeing that you have read, understood and accepted these terms of use, and agree to be bound by them 
MMPRC may, without notice to you, at any time revise these Terms of Use and any other information contained in this Website by updating this posting. MMPRC may also make improvements or changes in the products, services, or programs described in this site at any time without notice. 
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS 
All editorial content, graphics, images, logos, sounds and multimedia works on the websites [the “Content”] are subject to copyright, trademark, and possibly other intellectual property rights. The Content shall not be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, imitated, or otherwise distributed, whether in whole or in part, unless authorized by MMPRC or otherwise by law. 
MMPRC welcomes requests for permission to use the content or materials provided in this site. Permission will be granted on a case-by-case basis and interested parties are kindly requested to direct their enquiries by email to: [email protected].
CONTENT 
We attempt to keep the Content of the Platform(s) up to date. However, we do not warrant the accuracy of the Content. 
We do not guarantee that our Platforms, or any Content on them, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to our Platforms is permitted on a temporary basis. We may suspend, withdraw, discontinue or change all or any part of our Platforms without notice. We will not be liable to you if for any reason our Platforms are unavailable at any time or for any period.
If you consider any Content that has been posted to the Site(s) is offensive, unsuitable or has in some other way breached these Terms and Conditions, please email us at [email protected] with a link to the relevant Content and your reasons for objecting to it. We will consider your objection and determine whether the Content should be removed at our sole discretion.
USE OF THE PLATFORM(S) 
a) You must not: 
i) disrupt or interfere with the Platform(s) or servers or other software, hardware or equipment connected to or via the Platform(s); 
ii) reproduce any Content from our Platform(s) without our express written permission, which we may withhold or grant (on terms acceptable to us), in our absolute discretion 
iii) violate any applicable law relating to your use of the Platform(s); or use or disseminate personal data or private information about other users of the Platform(s).
DISCLAIMER 
Your use of the Platform(s) is at your own risk. You must not rely on any statement published on or linked to the Platform(s) without first making your own enquiries to verify the information. All materials, information, and services are provide “as is,” and “as available” with no warranties or guarantees whatsoever. 
Neither MMPRC or our suppliers will, under any circumstances, be liable under the law of tort, contract or otherwise for any loss of income, profits, data or savings or for any indirect, incidental, consequential, exemplary, punitive or special loss or damage of any party [including third parties], however caused, arising out of or in connection with the use of the Website or the reliance on any information on this Website.
Availability 
Your use of this Website and any associated services may sometimes be subject to interruption or delay. Due to the nature of the Internet and electronic communications, we and our service providers do not make any warranty that this Website or any associated services will be error-free, without interruption or delay, or free from defects in design. We will not be liable to you should this Website or the services supplied through this Website become unavailable, interrupted or delayed for any reason.
LINKS TO AND FROM THIRD-PARTY SITES, AND WEB FEEDS 
We are not responsible for the content or accuracy of any off-Platform materials including websites, downloads, plug-ins, features or advertisements, which are linked to the Platform(s) through advertisements or search engines (collectively, Third Party Material). You may cache, hyperlink to, and frame the websites or any of the Content, but MMPRC reserves all rights to disable any links to, or frames of any site containing infringing, obscene, offensive, unlawful or defamatory material or information, or any other inappropriate material or information. 
We do not accept any responsibility or liability for any claims, losses, costs, expenses or damages of any kind (including legal fees) arising out of your use of these links or of the descriptions or information supplied there.
RIGHT OF ACCESS 
MMPRC reserves all rights to deny or restrict access to the websites to any particular person, or to block access from a particular Internet address to the websites, at any time, without ascribing any reasons whatsoever. 
You agree that you will not use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the websites, use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy any pages within the websites or the Content without MMPRC’s prior written permission, and take any action that imposes a disproportionately large or unreasonable load on MMPRC’s servers. 
VIRUSES 
We do not guarantee that our Platforms will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access our Platforms. You should use your own virus protection software. 
You must not misuse our Platforms by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Platforms, the server on which our Platforms is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Platforms.
MONITORING OF CONTENT 
You acknowledge that MMPRC may or may not pre-screen Content, and that there is no obligation on MMPRC to pre-screen Content, and that MMPRC shall have the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion to pre-screen, refuse or remove any Content provided by you.
INDEMNITY 
You agree to indemnify and hold MMPRC and its affiliates, officers, agents, employees, partners and licensors harmless from any claim against us arising out of Content you submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available through the Site(s), your use of the Site(s), your connection to the Site(s), your breach of these Terms of use, or your violation of any rights of another, including all damages, losses, and expenses of any kind (including reasonable legal fees and costs) related to such a claim.