Terms of Use




This Site is owned and operated by CIPA through its operating company, hereafter referred to as the Company. By using this Site, you agree that any disputes arising from your use of this Site shall be governed exclusively by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the laws of Canada applicable in the Province of Ontario. You agree not to raise conflict of laws principles in an attempt to defeat the application of these laws and you expressly consent to the exclusive forum, jurisdiction and venue of the courts of Ontario and/or the Federal Court of Canada.

1) ACCEPTANCE

By accessing and browsing the CIPA (the "Company") web site or by using and/or downloading any content from same, you agree and accept the Terms of Use as set forth below.

2) PURPOSE OF THE WEB SITE

All the materials contained in the Company's web site are provided for informational purposes only and shall not be construed as a commercial offer, a license, an advisory, fiduciary or professional relationship between you and the Company. No information provided on this site shall be considered a substitute for your independent investigation.

The information provided on this web site may be related to products or services that are not available in your country.

3) LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEB SITES

Links to third-party web sites are provided for convenience only and do not imply any approval or endorsement by the Company of the linked sites, even if they may contain the Company's logo, as such sites are beyond the Company's control. Thus, the Company cannot be held responsible for the content of any linked site or any link contained therein.

You may not create on any web site a link to any page of the Company's web site without the Company's prior written authorization, and you acknowledge that framing the Company's web site, or any similar process is prohibited.

4) INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

This web site is protected by intellectual property rights and is the exclusive property of the Company. Any material that it contains, including, but not limited to, texts, data, graphics, pictures, sounds, videos, logos, icons or html code is protected under intellectual property law and remains the Company or third party's property.

You may use this material for personal and non-commercial purposes in accordance with the principles governing intellectual property law. Any other use or modification of the content of the Company's web site without the Company'S prior written authorization is prohibited.

5) WARRANTY AND LIABILITY

All materials, including downloadable software, contained in the Company's web site is provided "AS IS" and without warranty of any kind to the extent allowed by the applicable law; While the Company will use reasonable efforts to provide reliable information through its web site, the Company does not warrant that this web site is free of inaccuracies, errors and/or omissions, viruses, worms, Trojan horses and the like, or that its content is appropriate for your particular use or up to date, and the Company reserves the right to change the information at any time without notice. The Company does not warrant any results derived from the use of any software available on this site. You are solely responsible for any use of the materials contained in this site.

The information contained in this site does not extend or modify the warranty that may apply to you as a result of a contractual relationship with the Company.

The Company will not be liable for any indirect, consequential or incidental damages, including but not limited to lost profits or revenues, business interruption, loss of data arising out of or in connection with the use, inability to use or reliance on any material contained in this site or any linked site.

6) PRIVACY - COOKIES

We may need to obtain certain personal information, such as your name, home or business address and e-mail address. The purpose of collecting such data is to determine who is the nearest Company's representative according to your country, and how s/he can contact you. This information will be sent to this representative via our intranet or any appropriate means. Such information may be copied, used and stored by the relevant Company's representative in accordance with local data privacy laws but will not be disclosed to third parties, unless required by law or judicial authorities.

You are hereby informed that you have a right of access and rectification to the data relating to you. If you wish to enforce such rights, please contact the webmaster@cipa.ca who will communicate to you the name and address of the Company entity, recipient of the information you have provided, where you should direct your request.

The Company's site may use "cookies" to track users traffic patterns. A cookie is an element of data that a web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. These cookies are used to assist you in reaching the appropriate information and make your visit tailored to your individual preferences. You are free to decline these cookies by setting your browser accordingly; however, refusing the cookies may prevent you from accessing some pages of the Company web site.

Should you have any other question or request regarding our privacy policy, please contact the webmaster@cipa.ca

7) USERS' COMMENTS

The Company does not assume any obligation to monitor the information that you may post on its web site.

You warrant that any information, Materials (the term "Material" is intended to cover all projects, files or other attachments sent to us) or comments other than personal data, that you may transmit to the Company through the web site does not infringe intellectual property rights or any other applicable law. Such information, Materials or comments, will be treated as non-confidential and non proprietary. By submitting any information or material, you give the Company an unlimited and irrevocable license to use, execute, show, modify and transmit such information, Material or comments, including any underlying idea, concept or know-how (the term "Material" is intended to cover all projects, files or other attachments sent to us). The Company reserves the right to use such information in any way it chooses.

8) APPLICABLE LAW - SEVERABILITY

Any controversy or claim arising out of or related to the Terms of Use shall be governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the laws of Canada.

If any provision of these Terms of Use is held by a court to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.

9) MODIFICATIONS OF THE TERMS OF USE

The Company reserves the right to change the Terms of Use under which this web site is offered at any time and without notice. You will be automatically bound by these modifications when you use this site, and should periodically read the Terms of Use.

Copyright Notice

The Site and all content provided on the Site is protected by copyright, trade-mark, and other applicable intellectual property and proprietary rights laws and is owned is owned by CIPA through its operating company or the applicable licensor to the operating company.

You may not copy, reproduce, save, distribute or sell any of the content available to you on, or through, this Site without the express written consent of CIPA. You understand that content refers to the information and materials available on the Site as well as to the trade-marks, logos and names which may accompany the information and materials. You may download one copy of any of the CIPA/Company content into the memory of your personal computer for your personal, non-commercial use only. You agree that you will respect and maintain all copyright and proprietary notices on downloaded content and you acknowledge and confirm that you have no rights in any content, whether owned by CIPA or otherwise, that is downloaded from the Site.




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