Website Terms of Use

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

https://reserved-seats.egged.co.il and https://www.egged.co.il ("the Site"). 

Please read these terms before using the Site.

If you are under 18, we ask that you consult an adult before using the Site. 

Your access to and/or use of the Site, including access to and/or use of the functions, contents, materials and services included thereon, constitute confirmation 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 Site. 

These Terms of Use are written in the masculine form, but are intended for all genders. 

1.  Definitions

For the purpose of the Terms of Use:

  1. "External sites": means third-party applications or websites.

  2. "User": means any person who accesses the Site, views the Site's content, enters content to the Site and/or uses the Site and/or the Services. 

  3. "Services": means the services provided through the Site, including the ability to access external sites, contact us, report an accident or loss, make reservations on designated lines, contact Public Inquiries, pay fines, view the Site's content and/or any other service of the Site. 

  4. "Content": means data and content presented on the Site, including any text, document, photograph or other format containing data and content.

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

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

2. Use of the Site and Services

2.1. You hereby confirm and agree that any access to or use of the Site is at your sole responsibility, and that the consequences of such access or use shall apply solely to you.

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

2.3. We may and are entitled to stop (permanently or temporarily) providing the Services, in whole or in part, to you or to users in general, at our sole discretion.

2.4. If we permanently stop providing the Services to you, the Terms of Use will be terminated (except for provisions which by their nature are intended to survive the termination of the Terms of Use), and the terms of Section 13 will apply. 

3. The Content

3.1. You agree and confirm that any use of or reliance upon any content presented on the Site is at your own discretion and sole responsibility, and you do not hold the Company responsible or liable in any way. 

3.2. You agree and confirm that the Company is not responsible for examining or evaluating the accuracy, completeness, validity, intellectual property, compatibility, legality, propriety, quality or reliability of the Content, including regarding changes in travel times and/or routes, non-performance of 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 Site may include information about departure and/or arrival times, travel duration, etc. (“travel information”). This information is based on estimates only and depends on additional parameters that are not under the Company's control, including, inter alia, weather, traffic congestion, special events, road blockages, etc. The Company shall not be responsible in any way for travel information, whether presented on the Site or on a third-party website. 

4. Ownership and Intellectual Property

4.1. You are hereby granted a personal, non-exclusive, revocable, non-transferable and non-sublicensable license to view and use the Site, the Content and the Services, for the sole purpose of receiving or using the Services as provided on the Site, solely in the manner permitted under the Terms of Use.

4.2. The Site constitutes an original work of the Company, and the ownership and all rights attached to the Site, including, but not limited to, the structure, composition, organization, coordination and arrangement of the Content (whether such Content is protected by copyright and/or by other intellectual property rights) included on the Site, the instructions, details, contents and technology included on the Site 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 Site - shall be and shall remain the exclusive property of the Company.

4.3. The trademarks, trade names, service marks, graphics, logos and other brand features of the Company used in connection with the Site 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 the said marks (in whole or in part) in any form or manner whatsoever.

4.4. The Site and the Services include trade secrets owned by the Company, and they are protected by the relevant provisions of the law.

4.5. All copyrights in the Site and/or in connection therewith are exclusively owned by the Company and/or a by third party that granted the Company a lawful license to use them, and they reserve all their rights in this regard. 

4.6. The use of the Site and/or any of the Services, in a manner not expressly permitted by 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 Site may allow access to external websites. 

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

5.3. By using the external websites, you agree and confirm 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 with respect to any content on the external websites. 

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

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

6. Website Issues

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

6.2. You acknowledge and agree that the Company is not and shall not be liable to you or to any other person for any interruption, error, malfunction, delay or any other problem that may be caused in the operation of the Site and/or the Services, and, inter alia, you acknowledge and agree that the Company is not responsible for examining or evaluating the quality, reliability and nature of the activity of the Site and/or the Services.

7. Restrictions on the Use of the Site and the Services

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

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

7.1.2. You use the Site or the Services 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 Site or the Services in a manner that is not in accordance with the Terms of Use or contrary to any law.

7.2.2. Allow or encourage any violation of the Terms of Use.

7.2.3. Make commercial use of the Site and/or through it. 

7.2.4. Copy, duplicate, print, download or save a copy, publish, display, perform, distribute, broadcast, perform information scraping, extract information from the Site using a crawler or any other similar technology, perform reverse engineering operations, or any other action whose purpose is to attempt to derive the source code of the Site and/or any part thereof, adapt, modify, translate or create derivative works, sell, rent, lease, lend, loan, transfer or make available or exploit in any form or by any means, the Site and/or any part thereof.

7.2.5. Remove or alter notices regarding copyrights or trademarks or any other notice regarding the intellectual property rights of the Company included on the Site; 

7.2.6. Use the Site for illegal purposes or to promote illegal activities;

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

7.2.8. Do anything that may disable, overburden and/or impair the proper operation of the Site and/or the Services.

7.2.9. Use the Site to collect and/or store personal data about other users without their consent.

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

7.3. Any use or attempt use of the Site and/or the Services contrary to the Terms of Use constitutes a violation of our rights. If you violate the Terms of Use, you will be exposed to lawsuits and liability for damages, and the Company will not be liable to you or to 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 detail necessary or relevant for the purpose of investigating such complaints and reports.

8. Privacy, Information Security

8.1. Our use of personal information that you provide to us through the Site or other content collected by us in connection with the use of the Site is subject to the Site's Privacy Policy, available at https://www.egged.co.il/privacy. By accessing the Site and/or using the Site or the Services, you confirm 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. It is the User's responsibility to take all measures in order to protect the hardware and/or software and/or the information contained on the device from which the Site is accessed, during the use of and connection to the Site. Like other websites, the Site is not fully protected against attacks and intrusions, and the use of the Site, and the transmission of information through it, naturally involve such risks. 

9. Consent to Receive Promotional Materials

We would like to send you occasional updates and offers regarding the Company's services. By providing your details to the Company, you agree to receive service messages and promotional messages from the Company by email, SMS, and any other media. You may revoke your consent at any time and thereby prevent the continued receipt of promotional materials. For details and further information, please contact us using the contact details appearing in Section 15 below.

10. אחריות

10.1. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Site and the Services are provided "as is" and "as available", with no responsibility and/or liability of any kind whatsoever. The Company, its officers, directors, employees, shareholders, suppliers and affiliated companies shall not bear any responsibility and/or liability of any kind whatsoever, in connection with the Site and/or the Services. 

10.2. In addition, the Company, its officers, directors, employees, shareholders, suppliers or affiliated companies shall not bear any responsibility and/or liability of any kind whatsoever in connection with any undertaking and/or representation in relation to the Site 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 Site, 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 foregoing, the Company does not guarantee that the operation of the Site and/or the Services will be continuous and/or fault-free, that defects in the Site and/or the Services will be corrected, that the Site and/or the Services will be free from attack, viruses, interferences, hacking and/or any other event that compromises their security, and it shall 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 from using the Site and the Services and the consequences thereof shall 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 for any advancement and/or delay and/or non-performance and/or change in travel routes, as well as for any damage and/or expense that may be caused as a result thereof. 

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

10.7. The User is solely responsible for any direct, indirect and/or consequential damage caused to them from the use of the Site and/or the Services, and they hereby irrevocably release the Company and/or anyone on its behalf from any demand, claim and/or suit in this regard.

11. Indemnification

You shall indemnify the Company and all its officers, directors, employees, shareholders, suppliers and affiliated companies for all damages, losses and expenses of any kind and nature whatsoever (including reasonable expenses for attorneys' fees), in connection with any demand, claim and/or suit of any user and/or any other third party against the Company, arising, directly or indirectly, from your use of the Site and/or from any breach of the Terms of Use by you. 

12. Termination of the Engagement

12.1. These Terms of Use will remain in effect until terminated 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 do not comply with any of the provisions of the Terms of Use, without prejudice to the Company's right to any other remedy available to it by law.

12.3. In the event of termination of the Terms of Use for any reason whatsoever, provisions that by their nature survive termination 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 Site, the Terms of Use, their interpretation and execution, shall be governed solely by the laws of the State of Israel.

13.2. The courts competent to hear any dispute and/or disagreement arising from and/or related to the Terms of Use and/or the use of the Site are the competent courts in the Tel Aviv-Jaffa district. These courts shall have sole and exclusive jurisdiction in any matter related to and/or arising from the Terms of Use.

14. Address and Notices

In any matter relating to the Site, the Services or these Terms of Use, you may contact us through the customer service center, using the contact details below:

Egged Transportation Company Ltd., Company No. 516041118 

Address: 

Egged House, 5 Menachem Begin Boulevard, Tech Park, Beit Dagan, P.O.B. 150, Zip Code 5020000, Attn. Public Inquiries

Phone number: *2800

15. Miscellaneous

15.1. Headings and interpretation - The headings of the sections 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 stated otherwise: the words "include" and "including" 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 take effect upon publication on the Site, without the need to provide notice or obtain your consent. Please be sure to check the updated Terms of Use on the Site from time to time. Your continued use of the Services constitutes your consent to any such change or amendment.

15.3. Prices and rates - Public transport fares are determined by the competent authority according to 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 Site is done 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 rates and prices published in accordance with the provisions of the law.  

15.4. Severability - If any provision of the Terms of Use is determined by a competent court 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 use agreement to any third party pursuant to a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, by law or otherwise. The Terms of Use shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties to the Terms of Use and their permitted assigns. 

15.6. Third party beneficiary contract - The Terms of Use do not create any obligation of any party towards any third parties, and shall not be deemed to confer or create any rights on or for any third party.