Terms of Service Legal Terms & Conditions

• 1. Please read the terms and conditions set forth below carefully as they contain the legal terms that govern your use of any website or web page operated (collectively "website") or provided by Sun Media Corp. The terms and conditions may be modified by Sun Media Corp. from time to time in its sole discretion so please return to the terms and conditions from time to time to review them. Your use of the website means that you accept any and all changes. If you do not agree with any of the terms and conditions you may not use this website.
• 2. Sun Media endeavors to include accurate and up-to-date information on its websites. However, Sun Media offers no guarantees, express or implied, as to the accuracy or completeness of the information contained or referenced therein. All users accept that all access to and use of the website, and any site linked to the website, and the content thereof, is at their own risk. The website is operated in Canada in the province of Quebec. Sun Media does not represent that content or materials presented on the website are appropriate or available for use in other locations or jurisdictions. If you access the website from a jurisdiction other than Canada, you agree that you do so on your own initiative, and are responsible for compliance with local laws.
• 3. Personal information from those who communicate with us online may be collected for the purpose of responding to specific questions, advising visitors of new online material, activities and events, internal research and offering opportunities for contributing to our website. Our web server recognizes consumer domain names for the purpose of analyzing website access and improving the content of our website.
• 4. Any personal data submitted by the visitor to this website will not be used for any direct marketing or unsolicited follow-up unless Sun Media has previously informed the visitor of this possible use and the visitor has given Sun Media an express permission for such utilization. For further information please see our Privacy Policy.

Copyright

• 1. All content (texts, illustrations, images, codes and URLs) reproduced on the website and their selection, coordination, and arrangement, are owned by Sun Media Corp, or its third-party licensors, and are protected to the full extent provided under the copyright laws for the world. Any reproduction, in part or in whole, of the website content is strictly prohibited. Nothing stated or implied on the website confers on you any license or right unto the content.
• 2. You are further prohibited from modifying, copying, distributing, publishing, transmitting, displaying, reproducing, compiling, arranging or storing or archiving the content for commercial or lucrative purposes, or to create compilations from the content or parts thereof, or to transfer to anyone the content in any manner whatsoever, including by reproducing or transmitting part of the content along with or without a hyperlink. It is also prohibited to sell or profit from, in any manner whatsoever, any information, software, product or service obtained through the website, or to create compilations or derivative works from these.

Trade and Service Mark Rights

• All rights in the product names, company names, trade names, logos, product packaging and designs of Sun Media Corp. or third-party products or services, whether or not appearing in large print or with the trademark symbol, belong exclusively to Sun Media Corp. or their respective owners, and are protected from reproduction, imitation, dilution or confusing or misleading uses under national and international trademark and copyright laws, as applicable. The use or misuse of these trademarks or any materials, except as permitted herein, is expressly prohibited and nothing stated or implied on this website confers on you any license or right under any patent, copyright or trademark of Sun Media Corp. or any third party.

Links

• This website may contain links to other services or sites ("Linked Services"). The Linked Services are independent of Sun Media Corp. are not under the control of Sun Media Corp. Sun Media Corp. is not responsible for the contents of the Linked Services, including, without limitation, links contained on Linked Services, or any changes or updates to Linked Services. Sun Media Corp. provides Linked Services to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any such Linked Services is not an endorsement by Sun Media Corp. in favor of any company offering Internet services, products or services on the Linked Services.

Additional Agreement by Linked Services

• Any third party website with permission that links to the website: shall not create a frame, browser or border environment around any of the content of the website; may link to, but not replicate, website content; shall not imply that Sun Media Corp. endorses or sponsors it or its products or services; shall not present false information about Sun Media Corp. or its products or services; shall not use Sun Media Corp. trademarks without the prior written permission from Sun Media Corp.; and shall not contain content that could be construed as distasteful, offensive or controversial. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this agreement, we reserve the right to deny or rescind permission to link to the website, and to require termination of any link to the website, for any reason in our sole and absolute discretion.

Prohibited Uses and Obligations

• 1. You are required to comply with all applicable laws in connection with your use of the website and such further limitations as may be set forth below and in any written or on-screen notice from Sun Media Corp. You may not use the website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by the terms and conditions or that harms Sun Media Corp., its affiliates, its service providers, suppliers or customers.
• 2. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree not to transmit, distribute, post, communicate or store information or other material on, to or through the website that: is copyrighted, unless you are the copyright owner or valid licensee to such materials and you have the right to grant Sun Media Corp. the rights and licenses set forth in the Notice of Copyright Infringement below; reveals trade secrets, unless you own them, or you are the valid licensee to such materials and you have the right to grant Sun Media Corp. the rights and licenses set forth in Notice of Copyright Infringement below; infringes on any other intellectual property rights of others or on the privacy or publicity rights of others; is obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful, or embarrassing to any other person or entity or in violation of applicable law as determined by Sun Media Corp. in its sole discretion; is sexually-explicit; constitutes advertisements or solicitations of business, surveys, contests, chain letters or pyramid schemes; or contains viruses, Trojan Horses, worms, time bombs, or other computer programming routines or engines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or information.
• 3. You further agree not to: use any incomplete, false or inaccurate biographical information or other information for purposes of registering as a user of the website, or for purposes of registering for any promotions offered through the website; delete or revise any material or other information of any other user of the website; harvest, collect, or send information about others, including e-mail addresses, without their consent; take any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the website's infrastructure; use any device, software or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the website or any activity being conducted on this website; use or attempt to use any engine, software, tool, agent or other device or mechanism (including without limitation browsers, spiders, robots, avatars or intelligent agents) to navigate or search the website to harvest or otherwise collect information to be used for any commercial purpose; allow any other person or entity to use your username or password for posting or viewing comments or sending or receiving materials; or attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of the website.
• 4. You further agree not to violate or attempt to violate the security of the website, including, without limitation: accessing data not intended for you or logging into a server or account that you are not authorized to access; attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization; attempting to interfere with service to any user, host or network, including, without limitation, by way of submitting a virus to, or overloading, "flooding", "spamming", "mail bombing" or "crashing" the website; sending unsolicited e-mail, including promotions and/or advertising of products or services; or forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or posting. Violations of system or network security may result in civil or criminal liability. Sun Media Corp. may investigate occurrences that may involve such violations and may involve, and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who are involved in such violations.
• 5. Sun Media Corp. reserves the right (but does not have the obligation) to review postings on the website, to remove any postings, and to terminate your ability to post to the website at any time without notice, in its sole discretion. Sun Media Corp. also reserves the right to disclose any information necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part.
• 6. You are responsible for, and assume all liability associated with, any material you make available or transmit through the website, whether through chat rooms, messages boards or other forums, including liability for claims of infringement and defamation. You may not post, transmit through or otherwise make available on or through the Service:
• (i) any material that violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others, that is unlawful, defamatory, obscene, abusive, profane, vulgar, sexually explicit, racist, threatening, hateful or otherwise objectionable or that encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any law;
• (ii) without the express written consent of the owner thereof, any copyrighted material; or
• (iii) without the express prior written consent of Sun Media Corp. any advertising or any solicitation with respect to products or services (unless posted in an area specifically designated for that purpose).

 

• 7. Although Sun Media Corp. does not and cannot review every message posted on or transmitted through the website, Sun Media Corp. has no obligation to permit any material posted or transmitted to remain on the website, and may remove from, or refuse to display on the website any material that Sun Media Corp., in the exercise of its sole discretion, believes violates the terms and conditions.

License

• 1. While we do not claim ownership of any information or material ("Your Content") you transmit, distribute, post, communicate or store on, to or through the website (expressly excluding your user data which is collected in accordance with our Privacy Policy), by submitting or posting Your Content, to or through the website, you grant Sun Media Corp. a world-wide, royalty free, perpetual, irrevocable and non-exclusive right (including any moral rights) and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display Your Content anywhere, for any purpose, and in any form, media or technology now known or later developed. No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of Your Content. Sun Media Corp. is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in Your Content for any purpose whatsoever including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products using Your Content. Sun Media Corp. is under no obligation to maintain any of Your Content and may remove any of Your Content at any time in its sole discretion.
• 2. By posting or submitting Your Content to this Service, you also represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to Your Content, and that use of Your Content by Sun Media Corp. will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party or constitute violation of any applicable law.

Notice of Copyright Infringement

• If you believe that a work has been copied and is accessible on this website in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide Sun Media Corp. Copyright Agent with the following information by written notice by fax to 514-525-5442: identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed; identification of the allegedly infringing material on the website that is requested to be removed; your name, address and daytime telephone number, and an e-mail address if available, so that someone from Sun Media Corp. may contact you if necessary; a statement that you have a good faith belief that the use of the copyrighted work is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the signatory is the owner or is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive copyright right that is allegedly infringed; and an electronic or physical signature of the copyright owner or someone authorized on the owner's behalf to assert infringement of copyright and to submit the statement. Sun Media Corp. reserves the right to remove any posted submission which infringes the copyright of any person under the laws of Canada upon receipt of such a statement.

Registration, Username, Password, Security

• 1. Registration may be required for the use of certain portions of the website. Your registration shall not impose any duty on us to provide any particular service to you. If the terms of any Sun Media Corp. registration agreement conflict with these terms and conditions, the registration agreement shall govern. Your User Identity (your username and password) will be your identity for purposes of interacting with the website and other users through the website.
• 2. You shall keep confidential, shall not disseminate, and shall use solely in accordance with the terms and conditions your User Identity. You shall immediately notify Sun Media Corp. if you learn of or suspect any loss, theft or unauthorized use of your User Identity. In the event of such loss, theft, or unauthorized use, Sun Media Corp. may impose on you, at its sole discretion, additional security obligations.
• 3. If any unauthorized person obtains access to the website as a result of any act or omission by you, you shall use your best efforts to ascertain the source and manner of acquisition and shall fully and promptly notify Sun Media Corp.. You shall otherwise cooperate and assist in any investigation relating to any such unauthorized access.

Privacy Policy

• We are committed to protecting your privacy and security and have explained in detail the steps we take to do so in the Privacy Policy, a copy of which you should review by clicking here. You in turn agree and consent to the terms of the Privacy Policy by your use of the website.

Disclaimer of Warranties

• 1. THE WEBSITE IS PROVIDED "AS IS." SUN MEDIA CORP. MAKES NO REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON RELATING IN ANY WAY TO THE WEBSITE, INCLUDING ANY PART THEREOF, OR OTHER CONTENT OR SERVICE THAT MAY BE ACCESSIBLE DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY THROUGH THE WEBSITE. SUN MEDIA CORP. DISCLAIMS TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY AND ALL SUCH REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, SUN MEDIA CORP. DISCLAIMS TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW ANY AND ALL (i)WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, (ii) WARRANTIES AGAINST INFRINGEMENT OF ANY THIRD PARTY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OR PROPRIETARY RIGHTS, (iii) WARRANTIES RELATING TO DELAYS, INTERRUPTIONS, ERRORS, OR OMISSIONS IN THE WEBSITE, OR ANY PART THEREOF, (iv) WARRANTIES RELATING TO THE TRANSMISSION OR DELIVERY OF THE WEBSITE, (v) WARRANTIES RELATING TO THE ACCURACY OR CORRECTNESS OF DATA, AND (vi) WARRANTIES OTHERWISE RELATING TO PERFORMANCE, NONPERFORMANCE, OR OTHER ACTS OR OMISSIONS BY SUN MEDIA CORP. OR ANY THIRD PARTY. FURTHER, AND WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF ANY OF THE FOREGOING, THERE IS NO WARRANTY THAT THE WEBSITE WILL MEET YOUR NEEDS OR REQUIREMENTS OR THE NEEDS OR REQUIREMENTS OF ANY OTHER PERSON.
• 2. SUN MEDIA CORP MAKES NO WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, THAT THE INFORMATION PROVIDED THROUGH THE WEBSITE WILL BE FREE FROM ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DEFECT, OR DELAY IN OPERATION. ANY INFORMATION ON THIS WEBSITE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE, AND WE DISCLAIM ALL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THESE CHANGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, CHANGES TO PRICES, DISCOUNTS, AND HOURS OF OPERATION.

Limitation of Liabilities

• 1. IN NO EVENT WILL SUN MEDIA OR ITS AFFILIATES, OR ANY PERSON OR PARTY INVOLVED IN CREATING, PRODUCING OR DELIVERING THIS WEBSITE, OR ON ANY SITE LINKED TO THIS WEBSITE, BE LIABLE IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER FOR ANY DIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, (INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS OR DATA, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, TRADING LOSSES) INDIRECT, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN AN ANY WAY RELATED TO THE WEBSITE OR ANY SITE LINKED TO THE WEBSITE OR YOUR ACCESS, USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE WEBSITE OR ANY SITE LINKED TO THE WEBSITE, OR IN CONNECTION WITH ANY FAILURE OF PERFORMANCE, ERROR, OMISSION, INTERRUPTION, DEFECT, DELAY IN OPERATION OR TRANSMISSION, COMPUTER VIRUS OR LINE OR SYSTEM FAILURE. THE ABOVE SHALL APPLY EVEN IF SUN MEDIA CORP. OR ANY THIRD PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR LOSSES.
• 2. SUN MEDIA CORP. RESERVES THE RIGHT TO ALTER THE CONTENT OF THE WEBSITE IN ANY WAY, AT ANY TIME, FOR ANY REASON, WITHOUT PRIOR NOTIFICATION, AND WILL NOT BE LIABLE IN ANY WAY FOR POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES OF SUCH CHANGES.
• 3. THE LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITIES APPLY WHETHER THE ALLEGED LIABILITY IS BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER BASIS, EVEN IF SUN MEDIA CORP. OR ANY THIRD PARTY HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. BECAUSE SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SUN MEDIA CORP'S LIABILITY IN SUCH JURISDICTIONS SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. IN NO EVENT SHALL SUN MEDIA CORP'S TOTAL LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ALL DAMAGES, LOSSES, OR CAUSES OF ACTION ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00) IN CANADIAN CURRENCY.

Indemnification

• Upon a request by Sun Media Corp., you agree to indemnify and hold harmless Sun Media Corp. and its respective subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, agents, licensors, co-branders or other partners and employees from and against all liabilities, claims and expenses, including legal fees and disbursements on a substantial indemnity basis, made by any third party due to or arising out of your conduct including content you submit, post to or transmit through the website, your use of the website, your violation of the terms and conditions or your violation of any rights of another.

Choice of Law and Forum

• This Agreement shall be governed solely by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Quebec, excluding its conflict of law rules. You expressly and irrevocably consent and agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the courts in the Province of Quebec in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of the Website. YOU HEREBY WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO COMMENCE OR PARTICIPATE IN ANY CLASS ACTION AGAINST Sun Media Corp. OR ITS AFFILIATES OR ANY THIRD PARTY RELATING TO THE WEBISTE, THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OR ANY RELATED MATER.

Severability and Integration

• Except for other agreements you may enter into through use of a specific part of the Website, these terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and Sun Media Corp. and governs your use of this Service, superceding any prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals (whether oral, written or electronic) between you and Sun Media Corp.. If any portion of the terms and conditions is held invalid or unenforceable, that portion shall be construed in a manner consistent with applicable law to reflect, as nearly as possible, the original intention of the parties, and the remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect. The terms and conditions may be modified only by our posting on the website changes to the terms and conditions or by a subsequent writing signed by Sun Media Corp.

No Waiver

• The failure of Sun Media Corp. to enforce any provisions of the terms and conditions or respond to a breach by you or other parties shall not in any way waive its right to enforce subsequently any of the terms or conditions or to act with respect to similar breaches.

No Professional Advice

• Any information supplied by any employee or agent of Sun Media Corp. whether by telephone, e-mail, letter, facsimile or other form of communication, is intended solely as general guidance on the use of the website, and does not constitute legal, tax, accounting or other professional advice and may not be relied on to base any claim or action. Individual situations and provincial laws vary and users are encouraged to obtain appropriate advice from qualified professionals in the applicable jurisdictions. Sun Media Corp. makes no representations or warranties concerning any course of action taken by any person following or otherwise using the information offered or provided within or through the website. Limitation of Liabilities, Indemnification and Choice of Law and Forum (Sections above) apply to this section.

Miscellaneous

• References to Sun Media Corp. in the terms and conditions shall include all of Sun Media Corp.'s affiliates and all of its and their directors, officers, shareholders, employees, agents, advisers, suppliers and insurers. You are prohibited from assigning your rights and obligations under the terms and conditions. Sun Media Corp. may assign its rights and obligations in its sole discretion at any time or times, in whole or in part, without notice to you. Nothing contained in the terms and conditions is in derogation of Sun Media Corp's right and obligation to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of the website. A printed version of the terms and conditions and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to the terms and conditions to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. The section titles used in the terms and conditions are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual significance. Where the context permits all words in the singular shall include the plural and vice versa.

Termination

• Sun Media Corp. reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to all or part of the Website, with or without notice and with or without cause. Termination of your access to the Website means the revocation of the limited and temporary license and permission to use the software and other resources of the Website granted to you under the terms and conditions by Sun Media Corp. The provisions of the terms and conditions survive the termination of your access to the website. You are prohibited from terminating your rights and obligations under the terms and conditions.

Notices

• Sun Media Corp. may give notices to users of the website, at its option, by posting a message on the website, by electronic or conventional mail or by any other means by which users obtain actual knowledge thereof. Notices by users of the website must be given by electronic or conventional mail. Notices to Sun Media Corp. by electronic mail must be sent by this website’s online feedback page. Notices to Sun Media Corp. by conventional mail must be sent to: Sun Media Corp., 4545 Frontenac Street, Montreal, Quebec H2H 2R7. Notices by a user to Sun Media Corp. will not change the terms and conditions unless the change is expressly accepted in writing by an authorized officer of Sun Media Corp.