Terms and Conditions

1. Introduction

1. These terms and conditions outline the rules and regulations for the use of National Environment and Planning Agency's Website, located at www.nepa.gov.jm.
2. By accessing or using this website you agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. If you disagree with any part of these Terms and Conditions terminate use of this website immediately.
3. The following terminology applies to these Terms and Conditions, Privacy Statement and Disclaimer Notice and all Agreements:
4. “User”, "Client", "You" and "Your" refers to you, the person using this website and compliant to the Agency’s terms and conditions.
5. “The Agency”, "The Company", "Ourselves", "We", "Our" and "Us", refers to our Organisation.
6. "Party", "Parties" or "Us", refers to both the User and ourselves.
7. Any use of the above terminology or other words in the singular, plural, capitalization and/or he/she or they, are taken as interchangeable and therefore as referring to same.
2. Cookies
1. We employ the use of cookies. By accessing National Environment and Planning Agency, you agreed to use cookies in agreement with the National Environment and Planning Agency's Privacy Policy.
2. Most interactive websites use cookies to let us retrieve the user’s details for each visit. Cookies are used by our website to enable the functionality of certain areas to make it easier for people visiting our website.
   1. License
1. Unless otherwise stated, National Environment and Planning Agency owns the intellectual property rights for all material on National Environment and Planning Agency’s website. All intellectual property rights are reserved. You may access this from National Environment and Planning Agency for your own personal use subjected to restrictions set in these terms and conditions.
2. You must not:
   1. Republish material from National Environment and Planning Agency
   2. Sell, rent or sub-license material from National Environment and Planning Agency
   3. Reproduce, duplicate or copy material from National Environment and Planning Agency
   4. Redistribute content from National Environment and Planning Agency
3. This Agreement shall begin on the date hereof.
4. Parts of this website offer an opportunity for users to post and exchange opinions and information in certain areas of the website. National Environment and Planning Agency does not filter, edit, publish or review Comments prior to their presence on the website. Comments do not reflect the views and opinions of National Environment and Planning Agency, its agents and/or affiliates. Comments reflect the views and opinions of the person who post their views and opinions. To the extent permitted by applicable laws, National Environment and Planning Agency shall not be liable for the Comments or for any liability, damages or expenses caused and/or suffered as a result of any use of and/or posting of and/or appearance of the Comments on this website.
5. National Environment and Planning Agency reserves the right to monitor all Comments and to remove any Comments which can be considered inappropriate, offensive or causes breach of these Terms and Conditions.
6. You warrant and represent that:
7. You are entitled to post the Comments on our website and have all necessary licenses and consents to do so;
8. The Comments do not invade any intellectual property right, including without limitation copyright, patent or trademark of any third party;
9. The Comments do not contain any defamatory, libelous, offensive, indecent or otherwise unlawful material which is an invasion of privacy
10. The Comments will not be used to solicit or promote business or custom or present commercial activities or unlawful activity.
11. You hereby grant National Environment and Planning Agency a non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, edit and authorize others to use, reproduce and edit any of your Comments in any and all forms, formats or media.
3. Acceptable use
1. You must not:
   1. use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website;
   2. use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity;
   3. use our 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;
   4. conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent;
   5. access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;
   6. violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website]; or
   7. use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing).
2. You must not use data collected from our website to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities.
3. You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.
   1. Hyperlinking to our Content
1. The following organizations may link to our Website without prior written approval:
   1. Government agencies;
   2. Search engines;
   3. News organizations;
   4. Educational institutions
2. These organizations may link to our home page, to publications or to other Website information so long as the link: (a) is not in any way deceptive; (b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement or approval of the linking party and its products and/or services; and (c) fits within the context of the linking party’s site.
   2. iFrames
1. Without prior approval and written permission, you may not create frames around our Webpages that alter in any way the visual presentation or appearance of our Website.
   3. Content Liability
1. We shall not be hold responsible for any content that appears on your Website. You agree to protect and defend us against all claims that is rising on your Website. No link(s) should appear on any Website that may be interpreted as libelous, obscene or criminal, or which infringes, otherwise violates, or advocates the infringement or other violation of, any third party rights.
   4. Your Privacy
1. Please read Privacy Policy
   5. Reservation of Rights
1. We reserve the right to request that you remove all links or any particular link to our Website.
2. You agree to immediately remove all links to our Website upon request.
3. We also reserve the right to amen these terms and conditions
   6. Removal of links from our website
1. If you find any link on our Website that is offensive for any reason, you are free to contact and inform us any moment. We will consider requests to remove links but we are not obligated to or so or to respond to you directly.
2. We do not ensure that the information on this website is correct, we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy; nor do we promise to ensure that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up to date.
   7. Disclaimer
1. The National Environment and Planning Agency makes no representations or warranties of any kind, expressed or implied, about the completeness, reliability, suitability or availability of the information, products, services, or related graphics contained on the website.
2. The Government of Jamaica and the National Environment and Planning Agency accept neither liability nor responsibility for any loss or damage which may arise from use of this website or for the website being temporarily unavailable due to technical issues beyond our control.
3. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to our website and the use of this website. Nothing in this disclaimer will:
   1. limit or exclude our or your liability for death or personal injury;
   2. limit or exclude our or your liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
   3. limit any of our or your liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or
   4. exclude any of our or your liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.
4. The limitations and prohibitions of liability set in this Section and elsewhere in this disclaimer: (a) are subject to the preceding paragraph; and (b) govern all liabilities arising under the disclaimer, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort and for breach of statutory duty.
5. To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.
6. You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).
4. Law and jurisdiction
1. These terms and conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Jamaican law.

Any disputes relating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of Jamaica.

5. Our details

1. This website is owned and operated by National Environment and Planning Agency.
2. Our principal place of business is at 10 Caledonia Avenue, Kingston 5, Jamaica.
3. You can contact us:
   1. by post, using the postal address [given above];
   2. using our website contact form;
   3. by telephone, as published on our website