Website Terms of Use
These website terms of use (the "Terms of Use") constitute a legal agreement between you and our company concerning access to and use of the Website. PLEASE READ THE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY before browsing the Website or using the services it describes (the "Services").
Acceptance of Terms of Use
Whenever you browse the Website or use any of the Services, you agree to be bound by the Terms of Use. IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO ACCEPT THE TERMS OF USE, YOU SHOULD NOT USE THE WEBSITE OR THE SERVICES. We may amend the Terms of Use at any time, at our complete discretion. Your use of the Website and/or the Services, after an amendment has been posted, shall be deemed to signify your acceptance of the revised Terms of Use.
We reserve the right to cancel the Terms of Use and/or your right to browse and use any or all of the Website or Services, without notice, at our complete discretion.
Advisory
Although we strive to use our best efforts to keep the Website secure and maintain its integrity, we MAKE NO WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION in that regard. All information and data presented on or obtained from the Website should be independently verified by users – don’t just rely on us!
Copyright
All material, articles, text, illustrations, graphics, images, photographs, information, audio or video clips, data, databases, maps, files, software and codes available on the Website (the "Content"), including the manner in which the Content is presented, are protected by Canadian and foreign law, including copyright law, and belong to us, our affiliates, licensors and/or the party acknowledged as the Content supplier.
You agree not to: (i) copy, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, download, distribute or transmit all or any part of the Content; (ii) perform "data scraping", "database scraping" or any other activity intended to collect, store, reorganize or manipulate data from the Website or any part of the Content in any form and by any means; (iii) sell, lease, license or otherwise use the Content for commercial, public or non-personal purposes; (iv) modify, remove or cover any trade-mark or proprietary notice included in the Content; (v) decompile, disassemble, decrypt, extract or reverse engineer the Website and its components, including, in particular, the Content, or help anyone do so; or (vi) use the Website in any way that could damage, impair, overburden, disable, or otherwise affect the Website or any services, accounts, servers, networks, resources, linked or accessible through the Website.
Trade-marks
Our company name, logo, and domain name, are trademarks owned and controlled by us. Other names, words, titles, phrases, logos, drawings, graphics, icons and trademarks posted on the Website may constitute trademarks of ours or of a third party. Nothing on the Website shall be construed as granting you any licence or right of use of any logo, drawing or trademark of ours or of a third party.
Submissions
Via the Website, if you can post and submit messages, data, text, photographs, images, videos and other material ("Your Content") and interact with us, our employees, agents and other users, you are fully responsible for the quality and accuracy of Your Content. You agree that Your Content must not violate or infringe upon the rights of others, including privacy, confidentiality, personally identifiable information and intellectual property rights, contravene any law, regulation or government order, infringe any applicable third party terms of use, including any terms of use related to the use of a mobile application or related to a service for which the terms of use are accessible on the Website, or constitute false, misleading, or otherwise illegal information. You agree not to use the Website to harass or abuse, send spam or any unwanted communications, including for commercial purposes, or send unlawful, libelous, obscene, offensive, threatening, aggressive, abusive, discriminatory or otherwise objectionable messages.
Whenever you post Your Content on the Website or submit Your Content to us, you grant us an unlimited, irrevocable, non-exclusive, perpetual and royalty-free worldwide licence to: (i) use, copy, store, adapt, translate, modify, create derivative works, transmit, distribute and publicly perform Your Content or make it publicly available for any purpose; and (ii) grant sublicences to third parties for unlimited rights to exercise any of the foregoing rights. Other than granting the aforementioned licence, you hereby (i) agree to waive all of the moral rights to Your Content in our favour; (ii) consent to the appearance of your name, address and e-mail address for Your Content, if any, and to the disclosure and/or posting of such information, as well as any other personal or confidential information about you or a third party, which information may be found in Your Content; (iii) acknowledge and agree that we shall not be liable for any loss, damage to or corruption of Your Content; and (iv) acknowledge and agree that the presentations you upload for posting on the Website or that you submit to us shall not be deemed confidential.
We reserve the right, without any obligation, to monitor the Website, Your Content or any of the content accessible via the Website, in our sole discretion, and to disclose any information necessary in order to comply with any law, regulation or government request, in the interest of operating the Website properly or protecting ourselves or our users. We may remove Your Content and/or terminate, limit or suspend your access to the Website for any reason.
Links to Third-Party Sites The Website may contain links to third-party sites (the "Third-Party Sites") which will direct you away from the Website. We provide these links for your convenience. The Third-Party Sites are not under our control and the links shall not be construed as approval or an endorsement of their content by us. We shall not be liable for the content of Third-Party Sites, the links they contain or any changes or updates made to them, and we make no warranty in that respect.
Links to Website We encourage links to our Website. However, we reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to refuse a link at any time. You agree to remove any link you may have to the Website at our request. The link must allow for a new full-screen browser window, only occupied by the Website’s pages. It is strictly prohibited to frame or display the Content in any way that alters its appearance.
Privacy
You acknowledge that your personal information may be used by the Website in accordance with our privacy policy as it appears on this Website.
Advisory
THE WEBSITE, SERVICES AND CONTENT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE". YOU BROWSE AND USE THE WEBSITE AND ITS FUNCTIONALITIES AT YOUR OWN RISK. WE MAKE NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY REGARDING THE WEBSITE, THE SERVICES OR THE CONTENT. WE ASSUME NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY MISLEADING CONTENT OR INCORRECTLY LISTED INFORMATION.
Limitation of Liability WE ASSUME NO LIABILITY IN CASE OF FORCE MAJEURE CAUSING THE PARTIAL OR COMPLETE INTERRUPTION OF THE SERVICES, TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY. FOR ILLUSTRATIVE PURPOSES, WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, WE ASSUME NO LIABILITY FOR THE INTERRUPTION OF THE SERVICES CAUSED BY A THIRD PARTY, INCLUDING THE TERMINATION OF ANY THIRD PARTY’S ACTIVITIES WHICH ARE ESSENTIAL TO PROVIDE THE SERVICES.
WE, OUR AFFILIATES, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, AND LICENSORS, INCLUDING THEIR RESPECTIVE SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, SHALL UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR FORTUITOUS DAMAGE, ARISING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE WEBSITE, THE SERVICES OR THE CONTENT CONTAINED THEREON OR ON ANY OTHER SITE YOU MAY LINK TO THROUGH THE WEBSITE, EVEN IF THEY WERE OR SHOULD HAVE BEEN AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
WE, OUR AFFILIATES, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS AND LICENSORS, INCLUDING OUR RESPECTIVE SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS, DISCLAIM ANY LIABILITY FOR THE ACTS, OMISSIONS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY USING THE WEBSITE AND ITS FUNCTIONALITIES OR THAT OF ANY ADVERTISER OR SPONSOR ON THE WEBSITE ("THIRD-PARTY USERS") AND SHALL IN NO EVENT BE LIABLE FOR ANY HARM, LOSS OR DAMAGES (INCLUDING SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES) OR COSTS ARISING IN ANY MANNER FROM (i) THE ACTS, OMISSIONS OR CONDUCT OF A THIRD-PARTY USER; OR (ii) THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE ANYTHING OR ANY SOFTWARE, CONTENT, GOODS OR SERVICES ON OR OFFERED THROUGH A SITE LINKED TO THE WEBSITE.
Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, hold harmless and defend us, our affiliates, their directors, employees, agents, and licensors, including their respective successors and assigns, from and against all claims, demands, liability, costs or expenses of any nature, including legal fees and disbursements arising directly or indirectly from: (i) your violation of the Terms of Use; (ii) your browsing, use or inability to browse or use the Website and/or the Services or any site to which the Website is or may be linked from time to time; (iii) your use of publications, communications, distributions or downloads of any nature via the Website and/or the Services, or your reliance thereon; and/or (iv) your violation of the applicable legislation or regulations. You agree to cooperate with us in contesting any claims.
Governing Law
These Terms of Use, as well as your use of the Website and Services, shall be governed by the laws of the Province of Alberta and/or the federal laws of Canada. You hereby acknowledge that all matters arising from your use of this website or our company’s services are subject to mandatory arbitration under the Arbitration Act, R.S.A. 2000, c. A-43.