Terms of Use

Last updated: June 2, 2016

Please read these Terms of Use carefully before using the TIP Canada website (the Service) operated by TIP.

Your access to and use of the Service is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms. These Terms apply to all visitors, users and others who access or use the Service.

This website uses cookies. By using this website and agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our TIP's use of cookies in accordance with the terms of TIP Canada's privacy policy.

By accessing or using the Service you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you disagree with any part of the terms then you may not access the Service.

License to Use Website

Unless otherwise stated, TIP and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages or other content from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.

You must not:

  • Republish material from this website (including republication on another website)
  • Sell, rent or sub-license material from the website
  • Show any material from the website in public
  • Reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose
  • Edit or otherwise modify any material on the website
  • Redistribute material from this website (except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution)

 

Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed within the TIP organization.

Acceptable Use

You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without TIP's express written consent.

You must not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

You must not use this website for any purposes related to marketing without TIP's express written consent.

 

Restricted Access

Access to certain areas of this website is restricted. TIP reserves the right to restrict access to (other) areas of this website, or indeed this entire website, at TIP's discretion.

If TIP provides you with a user ID and password to enable you to access restricted areas of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential.

TIP may disable your user ID and password in TIP's sole discretion without notice or explanation.

 

User Content

In these terms and conditions, "your user content" means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.

You grant to TIP a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to TIP the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party's legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or TIP or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has ever been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

TIP reserves the right to edit or remove any material submitted to this website, or stored on TIP s servers, or hosted or published upon this website.

Notwithstanding TIP's rights under these terms and conditions in relation to user content, TIP does not undertake to monitor the submission of such content to, or the publication of such content on, this website.

 

No Warranties

This website is provided "as is" without any representations or warranties, express or implied. TIP makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, TIP does not warrant that:

  • This website will be constantly available, or available at all
  • The information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading

 

Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind. If you require advice in relation to any (legal, financial or medical) matter you should consult an appropriate professional.

 

Limitations of Liability

TIP will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contract, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:

  • To the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss
  • For any indirect, special or consequential loss
  • For any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data

These limitations of liability apply even if TIP has been expressly advised of the potential loss.

 

Exceptions

Nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit TIP 's liability in respect of any:

  • Death or personal injury caused by TIP 's negligence
  • Fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of TIP
  • Matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for TIP to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability

 

Reasonableness

By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable. If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.

 

Termination

We may terminate or suspend access to our Service immediately, without prior notice or liability, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation if you breach the Terms. All provisions of the Terms which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.

 

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to third-party web sites or services that are not owned or controlled by TIP

TIP has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party web sites or services. You further acknowledge and agree that TIP shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such web sites or services. We strongly advise you to read the terms and conditions and privacy policies of any third-party web sites or services that you visit.

 

Governing Law

These Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Canada, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

Our failure to enforce any right or provision of these Terms will not be considered a waiver of those rights. If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable by a court, the remaining provisions of these Terms will remain in effect. These Terms constitute the entire agreement between us regarding our Service, and supersede and replace any prior agreements we might have between us regarding the Service.

 

Changes

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any time. If a revision is material we will try to provide at least 30 days notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion. By continuing to access or use our Service after those revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised terms. If you do not agree to the new terms, please stop using the Service.

 

Contact Us

If you have any questions about these Terms, please contact us.