TERMS OF USE
These are the general terms and conditions on which we supply all our services. If you use our website and services, you agree to abide by these terms.
At Mapleviewers.ca we supply a lot of different services. Some of them will have specific terms tailored for them. If that is the case, Mapleviewers.ca contract with you for that service will be on these terms, supplemented by any terms specific to the service. In the case of any conflict, service specific terms will take precedence.
We process personal data in accordance with our privacy policy. As part of this agreement, you consent to our doing so. You should read the policy carefully, especially if you have any concerns about your privacy.
Warning: Unless we have agreed a particular level of service with you, we make absolutely no promises about the quality or existence of any of our services. Please read the sections below and our general exclusion of liability.
All use of our web services are subject to our terms for web users. There are further terms if you have signed up for an account with one of our services and, if you have agreed to pay us for a service, please see the additional terms for paid-for services. At the end are some general terms and definitions.
If you believe there may be illegal content hosted on our web services, please let us know at info@mapleviewers.ca
DISCLAIMER
While we are proud of the services we provide to the world for free and try to make them reliable and useful, we make no promises about them. All web services are certain to fail some of the time. We adapt and change our services from time to time, so you may find that something that worked for you may cease to work. We may also stop supplying any service, temporarily or permanently or block access to our services to anyone for any reason.
We are not a law firm and nothing we do is intended to be taken as legal advice.
In particular:
CONDITIONS TO RESPECT
I agree not to use the website to do any of the following:
Other websites
ACCOUNTS
Our website requires you to create an account to make certain kinds of, or any, use of the service. All our accounts are subject to the following rules:
MEMBERSHIP
By registering as a Mapleviewers.ca member, you are acknowledging your connection to us. You are subject to any rules for Mapleviewers.ca members we may publish, and we may send you email messages we think appropriate for members, for example to poll you on some important issue.
Mapleviewers.ca membership is not membership in the formal sense of membership of a company limited by guarantee.
CONTENT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Your content:
If you contribute content to any of our services, for example by commenting on a blog, or uploading data, then as a rule you agree to license that content to us under the same licence as prevails for that service or website.
Our content:
Unless otherwise stated all our services are offered under open content or data licenses and you should refer to the provisions of the license in question to find out what you can do. Some of our content belongs to third parties. Most third-party data is subject to an open license, but we cannot guarantee it. You should refer to the third party if you are in doubt.
Ownership does not change:
As a rule, this agreement will not change the ownership of any intellectual property belonging to either party. Where your content is used by us or vice versa both you and we would do so under a license (see above).
WE MAY SUSPEND A PAID FOR SERVICE IF WE REASONABLY BELIEVE
EXCLUSIONS
We limit our liability in several different ways — all of which we believe to be fair.
GENERAL CONDITIONS
March 2021
These are the general terms and conditions on which we supply all our services. If you use our website and services, you agree to abide by these terms.
At Mapleviewers.ca we supply a lot of different services. Some of them will have specific terms tailored for them. If that is the case, Mapleviewers.ca contract with you for that service will be on these terms, supplemented by any terms specific to the service. In the case of any conflict, service specific terms will take precedence.
We process personal data in accordance with our privacy policy. As part of this agreement, you consent to our doing so. You should read the policy carefully, especially if you have any concerns about your privacy.
Warning: Unless we have agreed a particular level of service with you, we make absolutely no promises about the quality or existence of any of our services. Please read the sections below and our general exclusion of liability.
All use of our web services are subject to our terms for web users. There are further terms if you have signed up for an account with one of our services and, if you have agreed to pay us for a service, please see the additional terms for paid-for services. At the end are some general terms and definitions.
If you believe there may be illegal content hosted on our web services, please let us know at info@mapleviewers.ca
DISCLAIMER
While we are proud of the services we provide to the world for free and try to make them reliable and useful, we make no promises about them. All web services are certain to fail some of the time. We adapt and change our services from time to time, so you may find that something that worked for you may cease to work. We may also stop supplying any service, temporarily or permanently or block access to our services to anyone for any reason.
We are not a law firm and nothing we do is intended to be taken as legal advice.
In particular:
- We encourage the use of our open data commons licenses, but we cannot give any warranty that they will work in the way expected or should be used for any specific purpose. If in doubt, you should take your own legal advice.
CONDITIONS TO RESPECT
I agree not to use the website to do any of the following:
- Anything which is illegal either where you are in the world, or where we are.
- Cause nuisance to other users of our services.
- Interfere with the normal running of our services.
- Try to access our systems in a way other than those advertised by us and, in particular, to use a web crawler that does not respect the robots exclusion policy.
Other websites
- Some of our activities are carried out on web platforms provided by third parties. If you make use of any service where that is the case, you are responsible for complying with any terms of service the third-party platform.
ACCOUNTS
Our website requires you to create an account to make certain kinds of, or any, use of the service. All our accounts are subject to the following rules:
- If asked for any personal details, you must answer truthfully (see our privacy policy for what we do with those details). You must supply us with a valid e-mail address.
- You are responsible for the security of your accounts and making sure that any contact details in the account are kept up to date. If we need to contact you but are unable to do so, for example because your e-mail address is no longer valid,
- You must not let anyone else use your account.
- You must let us know of any unauthorized use of your account as soon as you are able to after becoming aware of it.
- We may suspend or terminate it at any time. Equally, you may close your account at any time.
MEMBERSHIP
By registering as a Mapleviewers.ca member, you are acknowledging your connection to us. You are subject to any rules for Mapleviewers.ca members we may publish, and we may send you email messages we think appropriate for members, for example to poll you on some important issue.
Mapleviewers.ca membership is not membership in the formal sense of membership of a company limited by guarantee.
CONTENT AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Your content:
If you contribute content to any of our services, for example by commenting on a blog, or uploading data, then as a rule you agree to license that content to us under the same licence as prevails for that service or website.
Our content:
Unless otherwise stated all our services are offered under open content or data licenses and you should refer to the provisions of the license in question to find out what you can do. Some of our content belongs to third parties. Most third-party data is subject to an open license, but we cannot guarantee it. You should refer to the third party if you are in doubt.
Ownership does not change:
As a rule, this agreement will not change the ownership of any intellectual property belonging to either party. Where your content is used by us or vice versa both you and we would do so under a license (see above).
WE MAY SUSPEND A PAID FOR SERVICE IF WE REASONABLY BELIEVE
- It is necessary for us to do so to prevent any unlawful activity.
- If we do suspend a service for any of the above reasons, we will take all reasonable steps to inform you promptly of what we have done, and we will lift the suspension as soon as we are satisfied that the reason for the suspension no longer applies.
- If your breach causes you to be sued by someone else, you will not sue us for any loss you suffer as a result.
EXCLUSIONS
We limit our liability in several different ways — all of which we believe to be fair.
- We will not be liable for any damage that was not reasonably foreseeable at the time we made this agreement.
- Any liability to you is limited by the amount you have paid us for a service.
- Our liability is zero for a free service.
- We are not liable for any loss which is indirect or consequential. That includes any loss of business or profit.
GENERAL CONDITIONS
- We may update these terms and conditions at any time. If we do so, we will announce the change on our blog. Any changes will be binding on you from the moment we announce them.
- We may sometimes fail to enforce our rights under this agreement (for example because we decide not to, or we did not realize you were in breach of contract). Just because we have not enforced any of our rights, does not stop us from doing so in the future.
- Neither party is liable for anything which is beyond their reasonable control.
- If for some reason beyond Mapleviewers.ca reasonable control, we are unable to or it would not be commercially viable for us to continue to supply any of our services, we may cease to supply that service, ending any agreement between us for its supply.
March 2021