Terms and Conditions

Blinkoo srl, through the management of the online platform “blinkoo,” accessible via browser and app (hereinafter the “Platform”), makes available to users a service allowing them to participate in the Community, share, publish, and consult travel information, itineraries, and tips (hereinafter the “Service”).

These Terms and Conditions provide information on, and govern the use of, the Service, and have binding legal effect.

1. Ownership of the Platform

BLINKOO srl, with its registered office at Via Pozzone no. 5 in Milan, is the sole owner of the Platform and of the related functionalities through which the Service described below is provided and managed, as well as of all connected and related rights concerning the exploitation of the Platform itself.

2. Acceptance of Terms and Conditions

By registering for or using the Service, users confirm that they accept these Terms and Conditions and agree to comply with them.

The term “User” also refers to individuals who publish and share their own content (also referred to as “Creators”), after registering and creating a profile via the Platform.

Access to and use of the Service are also subject to the Privacy Policy and the Cookie Policy, the terms of which can be found on the Platform.

3. Terms of Using the Service

Use of the Service is permitted only to individuals who have reached the age of majority under Italian law (18 years and older). Should minors use the Service, it must be with prior authorization and under the supervision of parents or legal guardians, who will be responsible for the minor’s conduct vis-à-vis BLINKOO srl and any third parties involved in any capacity.

These Terms and Conditions apply exclusively to services provided by BLINKOO srl.

When the Service involves intermediary activities for services provided by third-party suppliers, the terms and conditions of each third-party supplier will apply in addition to and independently from these Terms and Conditions, and BLINKOO srl has no involvement or responsibility in that regard.

4. The Service

BLINKOO srl’s objective is to promote a personalized and conscious approach to tourism through crowdsourcing.

To achieve this goal, BLINKOO srl has prepared a range of personalized opportunities for creating, sharing, and communicating travel experiences within its Community.

In order to foster Community growth and thus make these experiences ever more inclusive, and at the same time ensure Platform security, BLINKOO srl develops and uses advanced technologies that allow for personalization, protection, and improvement of the Service.

Content, primarily in video format, is published and shared by Creators after registration.

By publishing content on the Platform, Users grant BLINKOO srl the broadest possible rights to use it, including, for example, reposting the content on BLINKOO’s social media profiles.

In the ranking of videos and in the recommended content engine, artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms are used to display content that aligns with users’ preferences.

The Service also allows integration of content with booking services and/or the direct or indirect sale of additional travel sector services/products offered and managed by third parties in partnership with BLINKOO srl. Each video is linked to specific bookings created by those third parties through their APIs.

Through connections with third-party partners, the Platform displays sponsored posts and advertisements for products and services to provide users with personalized offers of potential interest.

4.1 Registration

To access or use certain features of the Service, you must create an account.

When creating the account, the user must provide truthful, correct, and up-to-date information and must not reveal or disclose their password to third parties. If a user suspects or becomes aware that a third party is in possession of their password or has accessed their personal account, they must promptly notify BLINKOO srl using the appropriate tools provided.

By accepting these Terms and Conditions, the user acknowledges that they are solely responsible, to BLINKOO srl and to third parties, for any activity undertaken through their account.

If, at BLINKOO srl’s sole discretion, the user fails to comply with any provision of these Terms and Conditions, or if activities occur on the account that may cause harm or violate applicable laws or regulations or third-party rights, BLINKOO srl reserves the right to deactivate the account at any time.

The user undertakes to indemnify and hold BLINKOO srl harmless from any damage, loss, or expense arising from such violations.

4.2 User-Generated Content

Users may create and be authorized to publish and share content (videos, text, photographs, recordings, etc.) through the Service, in complete managerial, organizational, and operational autonomy, without any employment relationship.

Information and material in the content, as well as any expressed opinions, are not subject to BLINKOO srl’s control or responsibility.

Users warrant that their content complies with these Terms and Conditions and with applicable laws and regulations, and they are liable for it (as further specified in Section 5).

Content uploaded to the Platform that successfully passes BLINKOO’s technical review may participate in the reward system described in Section 4.3 below. Once reviewed, the content may no longer be deleted from the Platform by the Creator.

For intellectual property rights regarding the content, please refer to Section 6.

4.3 Ranking System

BLINKOO srl has developed a Platform reward system based on an algorithm that, monthly, assigns a score to each piece of content according to predefined parameters (for example, time spent, clicks on CTAs, content saves). The assigned score may vary over time at the sole and full discretion of BLINKOO srl.

Through this merit-based system, Creators can monetize their content automatically based on the calculation formula set out on the Platform.

For details on the reward mechanism, please refer to the published materials. In order to participate in the ranking system, the Creator must activate an account within the management system indicated on the Platform.

5. User Responsibilities

Users agree to use the Platform in accordance with the practices set out in these Terms and Conditions.

Users are fully and solely responsible for their use of the Service and are, therefore, the only guarantors and liable parties for the accuracy, completeness, and lawfulness of their conduct.

By way of example but not limitation, Users must not:

• Provide false information, assume an identity other than their own, or create accounts on behalf of others;
• Act in an unlawful, deceptive, or fraudulent manner or for an unauthorized or illegitimate purpose;
• Collect information using automated methods, or request, collect, or use login credentials belonging to other users;
• Create unauthorized copies, modify, adapt, translate, reverse-engineer, disassemble, decompile, or create derivative works;
• License, distribute, transfer, or sell, even in part, the Service or works derived therefrom;
• Commercialize the Service or use the Platform to advertise or facilitate commercial advertising without BLINKOO srl’s express consent (including, for example, solicitation, promotional material, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes);
• Interfere with the proper functioning of the Platform or any network connected to the Service;
• Publish: sexually explicit material; violent or discriminatory content based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age; content that is defamatory, obscene, offensive, pornographic, inflammatory, or that encourages hatred, harassment, harm, injury, intimidation, or annoyance to others; content that may constitute or encourage criminal behavior, dangerous acts, or self-harm; content containing any kind of threats;
• Use the Service in a manner that creates, even potentially, a conflict of interest or compromises the goals of the Service itself;
• Disclose any private information relating to third parties (including addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, identification documents, or credit card numbers) without the consent of those third parties;
• Engage in actions that violate others’ rights, including intellectual property rights.

Blinkoo srl may remove content or restrict access if violations occur. Users bear full responsibility for any third-party claims related to their content and must indemnify Blinkoo srl for damages or losses.

6. Intellectual Property

A condition for accessing and using the Service is that Users respect any copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights of any third party.

Users, and especially Creators, warrant that the content they upload to the Platform does not in any way, even potentially, infringe any copyright, industrial property right, or any other right of third parties.

In the event of any such violation, the User assumes full responsibility and undertakes to indemnify and hold BLINKOO harmless.

The Creator remains the exclusive owner of the intellectual property rights to their original content. By transmitting and/or publishing content on the Platform, the Creator grants BLINKOO—together with all legal warranties—a permanent and worldwide right to use, transmit, share, and modify such content without any limitation of time, number of uses, methods, or geographical scope.

By way of example only, BLINKOO has the right to reproduce the content by any means, communicate it, transmit and/or broadcast it in whole or in part, live and/or recorded, using any media or distance transmission system whether currently existing or invented in the future, by employing any technical means of transmission or reception—whether now known or invented in the future—in any form. BLINKOO may distribute it, publish it, and/or reproduce images or other parts, including for commercial initiatives. It may be used without limitation in audio, video, and/or audiovisual productions; transcribed, performed, represented, or recited in public; placed on the market, loaned, or rented; translated and/or dubbed; integrated with events, prize contests, games, programs, and various shows, subtitles, and distinctive signs (figurative or verbal); elaborated and/or transformed; stored in archives; subject to editing, modification, and/or addition; integrated or replaced with spoken commentary and/or soundtracks; and used in extracts, sections, sequences, or images, including for promos and/or other forms of advertising, and in any form currently known or that may be invented in the future.

Should users, with prior written authorization, use content covered by intellectual property rights owned by BLINKOO, BLINKOO reserves all related rights to that content.

7. Music Content

If videos or other content that include music are published, users are solely responsible for such content, as nothing in these Terms constitutes authorization by BLINKOO srl to use music for which the appropriate licenses have not been obtained.

Users who share such content through the Service represent that they possess all necessary authorizations, licenses, and permissions from the rights holders.

The right of use granted to BLINKOO srl excludes any obligation to pay fees to third parties. “Third parties” may include, for example, owners of copyright in recordings (such as record labels), owners of music publishing rights (e.g., music publishers), organizations dedicated to copyright protection (e.g., SIAE in Italy), or any other participant in the copyright chain involved in creating the content.

8. Limitation of Liability

BLINKOO srl provides users with its Platform and related features without any obligation to deliver specific services.

The Service is provided through the website, app, and applications that may include banners or links to other websites or applications that are neither managed nor controlled by BLINKOO srl. The presence of such banners or links does not imply approval or endorsement by BLINKOO srl of the content of these sites, nor does it imply any warranty or liability on its part, including in connection with any loss or damage that may be caused by the use of third-party websites.

BLINKOO srl provides no representation or warranty, either express or implied, regarding the accuracy, completeness, or currency of any content published by users or on other third-party sites or services. Links to these are provided for informational purposes only.

The user acknowledges that BLINKOO srl is not obliged to perform prior checks, monitoring, revision, or modification of any content published by users or by third parties on the Platform.

Users acknowledge and agree that, when viewing content provided by third parties via the Service, they do so at their own sole responsibility.

With respect to information provided by third parties through the Service, users themselves must verify individual details or links, as BLINKOO srl makes no representation or warranty and is not liable for the content of the offers or any agreements concluded with third-party providers.

BLINKOO srl reserves the right to make changes to the content or features, or to suspend or discontinue the Service, in whole or in part, at any time, even without notice and without having to provide reasons for such actions.

In particular, BLINKOO srl cannot in any way be held liable for technical problems (such as server malfunctions and other electronic devices, malfunctioning installed software, computer viruses, or hacking attempts or other unauthorized access to the network).

9. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

Without prejudice to any non-waivable statutory provisions, the relationship between BLINKOO srl and users is governed by Italian law, according to which these Terms and Conditions must also be interpreted. The Court of Milan shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute regarding these Terms and Conditions and the relationships governed by them.

10. Amendments to the Terms and Conditions

BLINKOO srl reserves the right to amend these Terms and Conditions at any time. In the event of substantial changes, BLINKOO srl will notify users by publishing a notice on its Platform or through another means of communication.

In particular, in the event of a unilateral modification of these Terms and Conditions, BLINKOO will provide explicit notice to the email address the User provided during registration. If the User does not intend to accept the proposed unilateral modification, they will have 15 days from the proposal’s date to inform BLINKOO accordingly. In the absence of any response from the User, the modifications shall be deemed agreed to and accepted.

These Terms and Conditions may be subject to periodic amendments, for instance in the event of updates to the Service’s functionalities or the combination with applications or services managed by BLINKOO srl or by third parties in partnership, or in the case of regulatory changes.

Users are advised to periodically check the Terms and Conditions for any updates.