Terms of service

www.getflair.ca (the “Website”) is owned by Flair Software Inc., (“Flair, “we”, “us”, or “our”) a company registered under the laws of Quebec, Canada, with its registered office at 4060 Boulevard Des Sources, Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec and any reference herein to the “Website” shall also be construed as a reference to FLAIR Software Inc.

These Terms of Service are the terms of agreement between the customer (“customer”, “you”, or “your”) and Flair for registering with, using or accessing our Services (“Terms of Service”).

You must read, agree with and accept these Terms of Service as it explains the terms and conditions guiding your usage of our Services. By accessing or engaging with our Services, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service, and you agree that these “Terms of Service” include every agreement linked herein, including the Privacy Policy www.getflair.ca/privacy-policy . If you do not agree with anything provided or referenced herein, please do not use or access our Services.

We have the right to change the provisions contained in these Terms of Service as and when considered necessary by us, without any notice to you. If we make any such revision in the Terms of Service, we will update the effective date above and the revised Terms of Service shall be effective from such date. You must frequently check these Terms of Service and its effective date to understand the conditions that apply to your use of our Services. Your continued use of the Services following such modification constitutes your acceptance of the modified Terms of Service. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site.

1. Our Services and your terms of use

  • We are a platform which helps you book salon services or services of barber shops (“Service Providers”) in your area and manage such bookings while maximizing your experience with tech based solutions (“Services”).
  • We operate as a platform which connects you to various grooming professionals and Service Providers. You are solely responsible for selecting the service provider, the specific service, and the venue at which services will be performed. Any decision made by you to receive services is a decision made at your sole discretion.
  • When registering with Flair you must provide accurate, complete, and current registration information and you agree to provide us with any updates to that information promptly after such changes occur.
  • You shall be responsible for obtaining the computer/mobile equipment and other devices necessary to access and use the site. You shall be responsible for all charges associated with accessing and maintaining a connection to the site including, but not limited to, charges imposed by an internet service provider.
  • To use our Services, you need to create an account with us, by registering and creating a User ID. You cannot avail our Services without prior registration.
  • When you use the Website, we assume that you are competent to form legally binding contracts under applicable local laws of your native country. Anyone acting on behalf of a legal person (i.e. entity) must have sufficient authority to bind the said legal person to these terms (in which case the term “you” throughout these Terms of Service will refer to such entity). We reserve the right to terminate your account and / or deny access to our Services if it is brought to our notice or if it is discovered that you do not meet this condition.
  • Our role under these Terms is limited to managing the platform, application and Website, including any Services made available to you through or in connection with Flair, listing the Services, order management, support with payment, enquiry management and other incidental services to facilitate the transaction between you and the Service Providers. For the sake of brevity, “User” herein refers to anyone visiting our platform, application or Website or anyone who accesses or uses our platform, application, website or Services, including anyone who registers with us in terms of these Terms of Service.
  • You will be responsible for maintaining confidentiality of your account, password, and keep its access restricted, and you hereby accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account. If you know or have reasons to believe that the security of your account has been breached, you should contact us immediately at the contact details provided on our Website. If we have found a breach or suspected breach of the security of your account, we may require you to change your password, temporarily or permanently block or suspend your account without any liability to us.
  • You can use this Website if and only if you or the business entity you represent is not domiciled or registered in or does not do business with any company belonging to any country or territory (including North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Syria, and Crimea), that is the subject or target of any national government financial and economic sanctions or trade embargoes or otherwise identified on a list of prohibited, sanctioned, debarred, or denied parties, including those imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by any government through the Consolidated Canadian Autonomous Sanctions List, Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, or Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom (collectively, “Sanctions”), without having first obtained any required license or other government authorization for doing so.

2. Users Representations

  • By using the Website or our Services, you represent that:
  • Your use of this website shall not breach any national or international laws and shall not breach any legal contract, policy or obligation you are currently a party to or in a manner that infringes the intellectual property rights of any third party.
  • You will not copy, or make use of any part of the Website for any purpose whatsoever unless expressly permitted to do so in these terms.
  • You will not access the site through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script or otherwise.
  • Flair, at all times and at its sole discretion, reserves the right to disable, suspend or terminate your account if you fail to comply with any of the provisions of these Terms of Service. We shall have all the rights to take necessary action and claim damages that may occur due to your involvement/participation in any activity which causes any harm or disrepute to Flair in any way either on your own or through group/s of people, intentionally or unintentionally.

3. Prohibited Activities

The following activities are prohibited during the use of our Services:

  • Retrieving data or other content from the site to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or directory for any use whatsoever.
  • Usage and/or mention of any part of the Website for an advertisement or marketing purposes.
  • Improper usage of our Services which open Flair up to unwanted liabilities.
  • Usage of the Website to solicit subscribers to join other online information services that are Flair’s competitive companies.
  • Reverse engineering any part of the Website.

4. Website Availability

  • While we endeavor to make the Website available 24X7, we do not represent that its access will be uninterrupted, timely, error free, free of viruses or other harmful components or that such defects will be corrected.
  • We do not warrant that the Website or the Services available on our Website will be compatible with all hardware and software which may be used by you to avail our Services.
  • The Website may undergo constant upgrades, as a result of which some functions and features may not be fully operational. We provide the Website on an 'as is' and 'as available' basis and expressly disclaim all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, with respect to the Services and other products or materials, data made available by it to you.
  • We reserve the right to make changes to any part of the Website including but not limited to appearance, function, likeness, offerings, layout at our discretion. However, we have no obligation to update any information on our Website. We also reserve the right to modify or discontinue all or part of the Services without notice at any time. We will not be liable to you or any third party for any modification, price change, suspension, or discontinuance of the Services.
  • You shall be solely responsible for any damage to your data system or for loss of data arising from download of any form of content from the Website. No guidance or information, written or oral, obtained from us, shall constitute any warranty, unless stated otherwise.

5. User Content

  • We are not responsible for content posted by users of the site ("Users' Content"). Flair reserves the right to cancel your access to these areas and/or delete, move, or edit any Users' Content (including messages posted in any forum/comment/review section) that it may determine, in its sole discretion, violative of the Terms of Service. You shall remain solely responsible for all Users' Content posted by you or by any other person using your account. We shall have the right, but not the obligation, to correct any errors or omissions in any Users' Content, as we may determine in our sole discretion.
  • You acknowledge and agree that Flair owns and has the unrestricted right to use, publish, in electronic form and otherwise, distribute and exploit any and all information that you post, submit, share or otherwise publish on the Website. You hereby waive any and all claims against Flair for any alleged or actual infringements of any rights of privacy or publicity, moral rights, rights of attribution or any other intellectual property rights in connection with Flair’s use and publication of such posting. This means that anything posted, submitted, shared or otherwise published by you to the Website shall be owned by Flair and may be used by us for any purpose, now or in the future, without any payment to, or further authorization by, you.
  • You warrant that you shall not post or otherwise publish on the Website any materials that (a) are threatening, libelous, defamatory, or obscene; (b) would constitute, or that encourage conduct that would constitute, a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate law; (c) infringe the intellectual property, privacy, or other rights of any third parties; (d) contain a computer virus or other destructive element; (e) contain advertising; (f) constitute or contain false or misleading statements; or (g) violate these Terms of Service.

6. Intellectual Property

  • The intellectual property contained in the Website is owned by or licensed to Flair and is protected by applicable copyright and trademark law.
  • Nothing contained in this site shall be construed as conferring by implication, estoppel, or otherwise, any license or transfer of right to any copyright, patent, trademark or other proprietary interest belonging to Flair. The content provided in this site, including, but not limited to, graphic images, audio, video, html code, buttons, and text, may not be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, without the prior written consent of Flair.

7. User License

  • Flair grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to access and make use of the Services or any other materials on the Website only to the extent provided by these Terms of Service. All rights not expressly granted to you in these Terms of Service are reserved and retained by us.
  • Permission is granted to temporarily download one copy of the materials (information or software) on our Website for personal, non-commercial use. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license you may not:
    • modify or copy the materials;
    • use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial);
    • attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on the Website;
    • remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials; or
    • transfer the materials to another person or “mirror” the materials on any other server.
  • This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by Flair at any time. Upon terminating your viewing of any of the materials or upon the termination of this license, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession whether in electronic or printed format.

8. Disclaimers

  • The materials on the Website are provided on an ‘as is’ basis. Flair makes no warranties, expressed or implied, and hereby disclaims and negates all other warranties including, without limitation, implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property or other violation of rights.
  • Further, Flair does not warrant or make any representations concerning the accuracy, likely results, or reliability of the use of the materials on the Website or otherwise relating to such materials or on any sites linked to the Website.
  • The Services available on the Website are provided with the express understanding that you shall remain solely responsible for your use of the Website. You understand that should you choose to rely on or take decisions based on any of the Website contents, it shall be at your own risk. Neither Flair nor its third-party content providers and shall be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages or losses or for lost revenues or profits, whether or not advised of the possibility of such damages or losses.
  • We do not own, sell or resell any salon or barbershop services listed on Flair. We only facilitate the transaction between buyers (including you) and Service Providers as a 'marketplace' and have no control over the Service Providers listed on Flair whatsoever. We make no representation or warranty as to legal title, creditworthiness, or identity of the Service Providers. As a marketplace, Flair attempts to ensure that Service Providers enter accurate service descriptions and keep the prices and commercial terms current at all times. However, we do not warrant that the service specification, quality, origin, or other information / content provided by the Service Providers via the Website is accurate, complete, reliable, current or error-free. There may be some delay on the part of a Service Provider to update the relevant details. Also the service pictures may be indicative and may not match the actual particulars. We disclaim any liability whatsoever for any such inaccurate or incomplete information provided by the Service Providers.
  • You shall ensure that you have carefully read and agreed to the commercial / contractual terms of the service being provided by the Service Provider with whom you place your booking, as the said commercial / contractual terms of service shall govern your obligations and responsibilities in respect of the said booking. Any amendments to the commercial / contractual terms of service in relation to a booking after its confirmation should be mutually agreed upon by the Service Provider and you, without any recourse to our Website.
  • Flair does not control or determine or advise or in any way involve itself in the offering or acceptance of such commercial / contractual terms of service between you and the concerned Service Provider. Accordingly, we shall not have any privity of contract in such agreement of terms between you and the concerned Service Provider.

9. Limitation of Liability

  • In no event shall Flair be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of data or profit, or due to business interruption) arising out of the use or inability to use the materials on the Website, even if Flair or a Flair authorized representative has been notified orally or in writing of the possibility of such damage arising to a User.
  • If you have a dispute with us or are dissatisfied with our services, termination of your use of our services is your sole remedy. We have no other obligation, liability or responsibility towards you. Since some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on implied warranties, or limitations of liability for consequential or incidental damages, these limitations may not apply to you if you are residing within such jurisdictions. In the event that we are found liable to you in such jurisdictions, you acknowledge that we are simply a marketplace and not the entity delivering the services to you and therefore, our liability to you for any cause whatsoever and regardless of the form of the action, will at all times be limited to 10 (ten) percent of the amount received by us for the affected booking, prior to any cause of action arising.
  • We neither endorse any Service Provider nor the services offered by them. We will not be responsible for any damage or harm resulting from your interactions with the concerned Service Provider or from your availing the services of any Service Provider. By using the Services, you agree that any legal remedy or liability that you seek to obtain for actions or omissions of a Service Provider or other third parties will be limited to a claim against the particular Service Provider or such third parties who caused you harm and you agree not to attempt to impose liability on, or seek any legal remedy from Flair with respect to such actions or omissions.

10. Indemnification

You hereby indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Flair and all of its successors, parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, directors, shareholders, investors, employees, agents, and representatives and their respective heirs, successors and assigns (collectively, the "Indemnified Parties") from and against any and all liability and costs, including, without limitation, reasonable attorneys' fees, incurred by any or all the Indemnified Parties in connection with any claim arising out of or relating to: (i) your access to or use of the Website and violation of any third party’s rights or (ii) any breach by you of these Terms of Service or the representations, warranties, and covenants you have made by agreeing to these Terms of Service. You shall cooperate as fully as reasonably required in the defense of any such claim. Flair reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you.

11. Third Party Links

We may provide links to third-party websites, and some of the content appearing to be on the Website is in fact supplied by third parties. We do not endorse and have no responsibility for the availability or content of these third-party websites, which are governed by the terms of use and privacy policies, if any, of the applicable third-party content providers. We shall have no liability or responsibility, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by the use or reliance on any content, goods or services available on or through such websites.

12. Bookings and No Show Policy

  • The Website permits you to request various services at a time of your choice based on available slots. To make a booking, you must follow the instructions on the Website and provide necessary information. We shall use our best efforts to find you a Service Provider who is able to attend to you at the allotted time. In the unlikely event that we cannot find you a Service Provider for the allotted time, we shall contact you to provide the next best timeslot. However we shall not be liable if you do not end up making a booking with us due to the unavailability of a timeslot or Service Provider. We do not guarantee that a Service Provider of your choice will be available for a booking at the time you choose.
  • Your booking with Flair is only an “offer” to avail and may be subject to confirmation by the Service Provider in certain cases. When you receive a booking confirmation from the Service Provider, your booking shall be treated as final. Where applicable, the amount of the order may include applicable taxes. You can make a booking with your credit card and save your credit card details on the Website, so that if the booking is not confirmed, your payment will be returned to you.
  • Fulfillment of services booked on our website is the sole responsibility of the Service Provider. Flair is merely providing a Service to the Service Provider and you, providing security of payment and facilitating the booking for you and the Service Provider.
  • We schedule our appointments so that each User receives the right time slot for the services to be provided by the Service Provider. That’s why it is very important that you keep your scheduled appointment with the Service Provider, and arrive on time. The Service Provider may, as a courtesy, choose to provide you a reminder of the appointment at reasonable times. If your schedule changes and you cannot keep your appointment, please contact the Service Provider so they may reschedule you, and accommodate those Users who are waiting for an appointment. As a courtesy to those users who are waiting to make a booking with our Service Providers, please give the Service Provider an advance notice as per the minimum hours requirement displayed in your booking information. If you do not cancel or reschedule your appointment with such advance notice, the Service Provider may levy a “no-show”service charge to be paid by you. The “no-show” charge can be viewed in your booking information. In case there is a no-show by you, your Flair account will reflect the amount and further orders will not be processed until the payment is made. The amount may also be adjusted from your cancellation refund.The Service Provider shall be the final authority on decisions related to your booking and its execution.

13. Charges and Refunds

  • If the Service Provider has chosen an advance payment, you will need to pay in advance in order to book the services. The Website does not allow a booking to be processed if the payment is not received in such cases. If the Service Provider has chosen that the payment can be received after the provision of Services, you will be required to make an appropriate payment at the salon.
  • The charges include the amount charged by the Service Provider and the convenience fee levied by Flair. Flair collects the charges on behalf of the Service Provider via Stripe payment gateway provider.
  • You may be entitled to a refund upon cancellation in line with the provisions of clause 12 of this policy.
  • All pricing, payment and refunds  are at the discretion of the Service Provider.
  • In order to book a service via the Website, you may be asked to provide your credit / debit card details. By providing a debit/credit card and billing address for that card, you represent that you are the debit/credit card holder or that you are an authorized representative of the debit/credit card holder. Various Service Providers may require different modes of payment and you may need to comply in order to make your booking.
  • Credit card fraud is a felony. We may report any wrongful or fraudulent chargebacks to your local police, your local bank, our merchant service (credit card processing company). We will aggressively prosecute anyone attempting to misuse a credit card number. We track every transaction and will use all means available to prosecute persons attempting fraud.
  • You agree to bear all bank charges in relation to the payment made and agree to pay all applicable taxes levied on the services utilized by you in connection with using the website.

14 Credits and Loyalty Program

From time to time we may introduce loyalty programs or communicate with you the loyalty programs or schemes offered by our Service Providers. You can check the Website for any such programs. Any terms and conditions of such programs will be available at the time of the introduction of such programs.

15. Privacy

Your privacy is very important to us and any data received by us shall be handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy which is available at: www.getflair.ca/privacy-policy

16. Governing Law

  • These Terms of Service shall be construed in accordance with the applicable laws of Quebec, Canada without regard to the conflict of law principles.
  • If any dispute or claim arises from or in connection with (i) these Terms of Service, (ii) any booking made on the Website, or (iii) your access to or use of our Services (“Dispute”), the relevant parties shall resolve the Dispute through the procedure stated in Clause 16.3 below.
  • You may be entitled to a refund upon cancellation in line with the provisions of clause 12 of this policy.
  • In the first instance any Dispute that you have with regards to the use of the Website will be referred to the senior management of Flair. If such Dispute is not resolved within a period of 30 (thirty) days from the date on which it was referred to the senior management or such extended period as the senior management may agree with you, you agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts at Montreal, Canada for the resolution of the Dispute.

17. Assignment

These terms and all rights and obligations of you the user hereunder are personal to you and may not be transferred or assigned by you to any third party at any time. We may assign our rights under these Terms of Service to any entity that assumes our obligations hereunder in connection with any sale or transfer of all or a substantial portion of our assets to such entity.

18. Force Majeure

We shall not be in breach of these terms nor liable for delay in performing, or failure to perform, any of its obligations under these terms to the extent such delay or failure results from acts of God, fire, war, terrorism, severe illness, terrorist acts, cyber event, accidents, acts of government, sanctions, pandemics, electricity or internet disruptions, economic recession, political destabilization, circumstance or cause whatsoever beyond its reasonable control (a “Force Majeure Event”). In case of any scheduled maintenance and downtime of the Website, we will inform the customers reasonably in advance and shall ensure that such scheduled maintenance is completed as soon as possible.

19. Severability

Any part, provision, representation or warranty of these Terms of Service which is prohibited or which is held to be void or unenforceable shall be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof. Any part, provision, representation or warranty of these terms which is prohibited or unenforceable or is held to be void or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall be ineffective, as to such jurisdiction, to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.

20. No Waiver

Our failure to require your performance of any provision hereof shall not affect our full right to require such performance at any time thereafter, nor shall our waiver of a breach of any provision hereof be taken or held to be a waiver of the provision itself.

21. Entire Agreement

These Terms sets forth the entire understanding between you and Flair and supersedes all prior versions of the Terms and any prior understanding or agreement. In addition, you may also be subject to additional terms and conditions when you use or access Flair affiliate services.

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