Terms of Use of the Website

Egged Transportation Company Ltd. ("the Company") operates the Websites at the following addresses:

https://reserved-seats.egged.co.il

and https://www.egged.co.il (“the Website”).

Please read these terms before using the Website. If you are under the age of 18, we ask that you contact an adult before using the Website.

Your access to and/or use of the Website, including access to and/or use of the functions, content, materials and services contained therein, constitutes an acknowledgement that you have read these Terms of Use ("Terms of Use"), that these terms constitute a binding agreement between the Company and you and that you agree to them. If you do not agree to these Terms, you are requested not to use the Website.

In these Terms of Use, the masculine gender is used, but the intention is to include all genders.

1. Definitions 

For the purposes of the Terms of Use:

1.1. "External websites": means third-party applications or websites.

1.2. "User": means any person who accesses the Website, views the Website's content, enters content into the Website and/or uses the Website and/or Services.

1.3. "Services": means the services provided through the Website, including the ability to access external websites, make contact, report an accident or loss, make reservations on designated lines, respond to public inquiries, pay fines, view the Website's content and/or any other service of the Website.

1.4. "Content": means data and content displayed on the Website, including text, document, photograph or any other format containing data and content.

1.5. The terms "us", "we" or "our" refer to the Company.

1.6. The term "you" refers to the User.

2. Use of the Website and Services

2.1. You hereby acknowledge and agree that any access to, or use of, the Website is your sole responsibility and that the consequences of such access or use will apply solely to you.

2.2. You undertake to use the Website solely in accordance with these Terms of Use.

2.3. We may and are authorized to cease (permanently or temporarily) providing the Services, in whole or in part, to you or to Users generally, at our sole discretion.

2.4. If we permanently cease to provide you with the Services, the Terms of Use will be canceled (except for provisions which by their nature are intended to continue to apply after cancelation of the Terms of Use) and the terms of Section 13 will apply.

3. The Content

3.1. You agree and acknowledge that any use or reliance on any content displayed on the Website is at your sole discretion and risk, and you do not impose any responsibility or liability on the Company.

3.2. You agree and acknowledge that the Company is not responsible for examining or evaluating the accuracy, completeness, validity, intellectual property, compatibility, legality, adequacy, quality or reliability of the Content, including with regard to changes in dates and/or travel routes, failure to make trips, failure to meet schedules, cancellation of service lines and/or their relocation, traffic reports and/or any other aspect of the Content.

3.3. Without derogating from the foregoing, the Website may include information on departure and/or arrival times at the destination, travel duration, etc. ("Travel Information"). This information is based solely on estimates  and depends on additional parameters beyond the Company's control, including, among others, weather, traffic congestion, special events, road closures, etc. The Company will not be responsible in any way for travel information, whether displayed on the Website or displayed on a third-party website.

4. Ownership and Intellectual Property

4.1. You are hereby granted a personal, non-exclusive, revocable license, which does not include the right to transfer or grant sublicenses, to view and use the Website, the Content and the Services solely for the purpose of receiving or using the Services, as provided on the Website, in the manner permitted solely by the Terms of Use.

4.2. The Website constitutes an original creation of the Company, and the ownership and all rights attached to the Website, including, but not limited to, the structure, composition, organization, coordination and arrangement of the content (whether or not such content is protected by copyright and/or by other intellectual property rights) contained on the Website, the instructions, details, content and technology contained on the Website and/or on which it is based, and all patent rights and/or copyrights, trade secrets, trademarks and all other intellectual property rights attached to the Website – shall be the exclusive property of the Company and shall remain so.

4.3. The trademarks, trade names, service marks, graphics, logos and other brand features of the Company used in connection with the Website and the Services are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Company. Nothing in the Terms of Use grants you the right to use or display such marks (in whole or in part) in any form or manner.

4.4. The Website and Services include trade secrets that are owned by the Company and are protected by the relevant legal provisions.

4.5. All copyrights in and/or in connection with the Website are the exclusive property of the Company and/or a third party that has lawfully granted the Company a license to use it, and they retain all their rights therein in this regard.

4.6. Use of the Website and/or any part of the Services, in a manner not expressly permitted under the Terms of Use, is strictly prohibited, violates the rights (including intellectual property rights) of the Company and/or others, and may expose you to civil and/or criminal liability.

5. External websites and social networks

5.1. The Website may allow access to external websites.

5.2. Our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy do not apply to your access to and/or use of such external websites. You should check the relevant terms and policies, including the privacy and data collection policies, of each website to which you navigate from our Website.

5.3. By using the external websites, you agree and acknowledge that we are not responsible for examining or evaluating the content, legality, reliability, copyright compliance, appropriateness, quality and/or any other aspect of the External websites, and that we shall not bear any responsibility or liability in relation to any content on the external websites.

5.4. We do not endorse advertising, products and/or services found or available on external websites and are not and will not be liable for any loss or damage incurred by you as a result of any reliance on any advertising, product and/or service found or available on external websites.

5.5. The Company may operate official pages using its name on various social networks. You agree and confirm that viewing and/or using those pages is subject to the terms of use of the relevant social network as well as the rules of use specified by the Company on the page itself.

6. Problems with the Website

6.1. The Company does not undertake that the Website will be compatible with any hardware or software that you use, or that the Website will operate without interruptions or errors.

6.2. You confirm and agree that the Company is not and will not be liable to you or to any other person for any interruption, error, malfunction, delay or any other problem that may occur in the operation of the Website and/or the Services, including that you confirm and agree that the Company is not responsible for examining or evaluating the quality, reliability, and quality of the operation of the Website and/or the Services.

7. Restrictions on the use of the Website and Services

7.1. You may not use the Website and/or Services if:

7.1.1. The laws of the State of Israel and/or other law that applies to you and/or your use of the Website legally prohibit you from so doing;

7.1.2. Your use of the Website or Services is in a manner that does not comply with the Terms of Use or the provisions of any law.

7.2. You may not perform any of the following actions:

7.2.1. use the Website or Services in a manner that is not in accordance with the Terms of Use or in violation of any law;

7.2.2. enable or encourage any violation of the Terms of Use;

7.2.3. make commercial use of and/or through the Website;

7.2.4. copy, reproduce, print, download or save a copy, publish, display, perform, distribute, transmit, gather information, extract information from the Website using a “crawler” or any other similar technology, perform reverse engineering operations, or any other operation which is intended to attempt to derive the source code of the Website and/or any part thereof, adapt, modify, translate or create derivative works, sell, rent, lease, loan, lend, transfer or make available or exploit in any form or by any means, the Website and/or any part thereof;

7.2.5. remove or change any notices regarding copyrights, trademarks or any other notices regarding the Company's intellectual property rights contained on the Website;

7.2.6. use the Website for illegal purposes or to promote illegal activities;

7.2.7. use the Website to interfere with or disrupt the access of any person, host or network, including by uploading and/or sending software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware;

7.2.8. carry out any action that may disable, overload and/or impair the proper operation of the Website and/or the Services;

7.2.9. use the Website to collect and/or store personal data about other users without their consent;

7.2.10. link to content from the Website from a website that (a) engages in illegal or pornographic activities, or encourages racism or unlawful discrimination; and (b) you undertake to cease providing links to the Website immediately upon our request.

7.3. Any use, or attempted use, of the Website and/or Services in violation of the Terms of Use constitutes a violation of our rights. To the extent that you violate the Terms of Use, you will be exposed to claims and liability for damages, and the Company will not bear any liability to you or any third party for such violation or its consequences.

7.4. We reserve the right to investigate complaints and reports of violations of the Terms of Use and to take any action we deem appropriate, as well as to disclose any information necessary or relevant to the investigation of such complaints and reports.

8. Privacy, information security

8.1. Our use of personal information that you provide to us through the Website or other content collected by us in connection with your use of the Website is subject to the Website's Privacy Policy, located at https://www.egged.co.il/privacy. By accessing the Website and/or using the Website or Services, you acknowledge that you have read the Privacy Policy and that you agree to its terms and to the collection and processing of personal information in accordance with its terms.

8.2. The User is responsible for taking all measures to protect the hardware and/or software and/or information on the device from which the Website is accessed, when using and connecting to the Website. Similar to other websites, the Website is not fully protected from attacks and intrusions, and its use, and the transmission of information through it, naturally involve the aforementioned risks.

9. Consent to receive advertising materials

We would like to send you updates and offers regarding the Company's Services from time to time. By providing your details to the Company, you agree to receive service and promotional messages from the Company by email, text messages and any other media. You may withdraw your consent at any time and, thus, prevent the continued receipt of such communications. For further details and information, please contact us using the contact details provided in Section 15 below.

10. Warranty

10.1. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Website and the Services are provided "as is" and "as available", without warranty and/or liability of any kind. The Company, its office holders, directors, employees, shareholders, suppliers and its affiliated companies shall not bear any responsibility and/or liability of any kind, in connection with the Website and/or the Services.

10.2. In addition, the Company, its office holders, directors, employees, shareholders, suppliers or related companies shall not bear any responsibility and/or liability of any kind in connection with any undertaking and/or representation regarding the Website and/or the Services, their nature and/or quality, including any undertaking as to the accuracy and/or completeness of content, information and/or data found on the Website, availability, usability, security, reliability and/or non-infringement of third party rights and/or warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

10.3. In addition to the above, the Company does not undertake that the operation of the Website and/or Services will be continuous and/or error-free, that defects in the Website and/or the Services will be corrected, that the Website and/or the Services will be free from attack, viruses, interference, hacking and/or any other event that may harm their safety, and will not be responsible for any interruption, disruption or delay that may be caused as a result of these or other factors.

10.4. You hereby confirm and agree that the risk of using the Website and Services and its repercussions will apply solely to you and that such use is at your sole responsibility.

10.5. The Company is not responsible for the schedules and/or any advance and/or delay and/or failure to execute and/or change in the travel routes, as well as for any damage and/or expense that may result therefrom.

10.6. To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event shall the Company, its office holders, directors, employees, shareholders, suppliers and its affiliated companies be responsible and/or liable to you and/or any third party for (a) direct, indirect and/or consequential damages of any kind, (b) loss of profits, loss of revenue, loss and/or damage to data, loss of use, damage to reputation, related to and/or arising, directly or indirectly (i) from your access to and/or use of, inability to use or reliance on the Website, the Content and/or the Services; (ii) malfunctions, errors, omissions and/or other inaccuracies in any content contained on the Website; (III) any other matter relating to and/or arising from the Website and/or the Services and/or from access to and/or use thereof, even if the Company has anticipated and/or should have anticipated the damage, and/or (c) third party claims (including, but without derogating from the generality of the foregoing, other users of the Website and/or the Services) against you.

10.7. The User is solely responsible for any damage that he may incur, direct, indirect and/or consequential, as a result of using the Website and/or the Services, and he hereby irrevocably releases the Company and/or anyone on its behalf, from any demand, claim and/or legal action as a result.

11. Indemnity

You shall indemnify the Company and all of its office holders, directors, employees, shareholders, suppliers and related companies for all damages, losses and expenses of any kind (including reasonable lawyer's fees) in connection with any demand, claim and/or legal action by any user and/or any other third party against the Company, arising, directly or indirectly, from your use of the Website and/or any violation by you of the Terms of Use.

12. Termination of the contract

12.1. These Terms of Use will be in effect until they are canceled by the Company without the need to provide prior notice.

12.2. In addition, the Company, at its sole discretion, may terminate the engagement with you under the Terms of Use if you fail to comply with any of the provisions of the Terms of Use, without prejudice to the Company's right to any other remedy granted to it by law.

12.3. In the event of cancellation of the Terms of Use for any reason, provisions which, by their nature, continue to apply after cancellation, will continue to apply to the parties, including, but not limited to, the provisions of Sections 5, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 16.

13. Applicable law and jurisdiction

13.1. The use of the Website, the Terms of Use, their interpretation and execution shall be subject solely to the law of the State of Israel.

13.2. The courts which are authorized to hear any conflict and/or dispute arising from and/or related to the Terms of Use and/or the use of the Website are the competent courts in the Tel Aviv-Yafo District. These courts will have sole and exclusive jurisdiction in any matter related to and/or arising from the Terms of Use.

14. Address and notifications

For any matter relating to the Website, the Services or these Terms of Use, you may contact us through the Customer Service Center, using the contact information below:

Egged Transportation Company Ltd., Company ref. no. 516041118

Address:

Beit Egged, 5 Menachem Begin Blvd., "Park Tech" Beit Dagan, PO Box 150, postcode 5020000 for Public Inquiries 

Telephone no.: *2800

15. Miscellaneous

15.1. Headings and interpretation - The section headings in the Terms of Use are for convenience only and should not be relied upon in explaining or interpreting the Terms of Use. In the Terms of Use, unless the context requires otherwise or expressly states otherwise, the words "including" and "as well as" shall not be construed restrictively.

15.2. Changes to the Terms of Use - The Company reserves the right, from time to time, to change the Terms of Use, in whole or in part. These changes will come into effect upon publication on the Website, without the need for notice or consent from you. Please be sure to check the Terms of Use, which are periodically updated on the Website. Your continued use of the Services will constitute your consent to any such change or amendment.

15.3. Prices and rates - The prices of public transportation are determined by the competent authority by law, and in accordance with the provisions of the law, and the Company has no involvement in this matter. The publication of prices and rates on the Website is for informational purposes only and does not impose any obligation on the Company. Prices and rates may change from time to time, and the Company does not undertake to update the published rates and prices in accordance with the provisions of the law.

15.4. Severability - If any provision of the Terms of Use is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be construed, limited, amended or deleted to the extent necessary to eliminate any invalidity or unenforceability, and the remaining provisions of the Terms of Use shall remain in full force and effect.

15.5. Assignment - The Company may assign its rights and obligations under this User Agreement to any third party in connection with a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, by operation of law, or otherwise. The Terms of Use shall be binding on and operate to the benefit of the parties to the Terms of Use and their permitted assignees.

15.6. Contract for the benefit of a third party - The Terms of Use do not create any obligation of any party towards any third parties and shall not be deemed to grant or create any rights to any third party.