TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Last modified: April 28, 2022.
INTRODUCTION
These terms of use explain how you may use this website (the “Site”). References in these terms to the Site includes www.venturelegalsupport.ca and all associated web pages. You should read these terms and conditions carefully before using the Site. By accessing or using the Site or otherwise indicating your consent, you agree to be bound by these terms and conditions and the documents referred to in them. If you do not agree with or accept any of these terms, you should cease using the Site immediately. If you have any questions about this website, please contact General@VentureLegalSupport.ca.
DEFINITIONS
In these terms of use,
“Content” means any text, images, video, audio or other multimedia content, software or other information or material submitted to, subsisting on or accessible from the Site.
“We”, “us” or “our” means the River City Venture Legal Services Centre, a legal service provided by volunteer law students. References to us in these terms also includes any agents, employees, volunteers, partners, divisions, subsidiaries, parents, successors or assigns of any of the above, but does not include any lawyers or law firms involved with River City Venture Legal Services Centre, nor does it include the University of Alberta in any way, including the University of Alberta Faculty of Law.
“You” or “your” means the person accessing or using the Site or its content and includes any persons, natural, incorporated, or otherwise, that any person accessing or using the Site purports to represent.
NO LAWYER-CLIENT RELATIONSHIP
The use of the Site does not create a lawyer-client, advisory, or fiduciary relationship between us and you. Law students are not lawyers, professionals or experts and may not give legal advice.
Do not send any confidential information to us until we have confirmed in writing that we will accept you as a client. We may, at our sole discretion, accept or reject any person as a client, and may limit the scope of work that we perform.
If we accept you as a client, any documents prepared by us are not to be considered final products, but only drafts that may be used by you or your counsel in producing a final product. Any products or communications made by us are for guidance.
Further, the content on the website is for general information purposes only. It is only intended to amount to professional or legal advice on which you should rely.
NO ASSOCIATION WITH SUPPORTERS OR ADVISORS
We gratefully acknowledge the generosity that the supporters and advisors listed on the Site have extended to us by way of financial support, through the time and expertise of their employees and partners, and/or access to their services. However, we are not and do not purport to be professionally associated, affiliated, or partnered with any of these supporters or advisors in any way. Furthermore, nothing on this Site binds the supporters or advisors in any way, or creates any relationship between you and the supporters or advisors.
PRIVACY STATEMENT
These terms include our Privacy Statement which shall be subject to these terms in the event of any conflict or inconsistency.
This Site is intended for and directed to residents of Canada over the age of 18 years.
ACCESSIBILITY
We seek to make this Site as accessible as possible. If you have any problems accessing this Site or the content contained on it, please contact us at General@VentureLegalSupport.ca
RESTRICTIONS ON USE
This Site is for your use only. As a condition of your use of the Site, you agree:
not to use the Site for any purpose that is unlawful under applicable law, or prohibited by these terms and conditions;
not to defame or disparage anybody or make comments of an obscene, derogatory or offensive manner or otherwise use the Site or its content in a way that brings us or any third party into disrepute or causes us to be liable to any third party;
not to reverse engineer, decompile, copy, modify, distribute, transmit, license, sublicense, display, revise, perform, transfer, sell or otherwise make available to any third party or otherwise publish, deep-link, create derivative works from or exploit in any way the Site or its content except as permitted by us under these terms or as expressly provided under applicable law;
not to use the Site to distribute viruses or malware or other similar harmful software code;
not to represent or suggest that we endorse any other business, product or service unless we have separately agreed to do so in writing;
that you are solely responsible for all costs and expenses you may incur in relation to your use of the Site; and
we reserve the right to prevent or suspend your access to the Site if you do not comply with any part of these terms and conditions or any applicable law.
OWNERSHIP, USE AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
This Site and all intellectual property rights in the Site (including without limitation any content) are owned by us and/or our licensors. We and our licensors reserve all our intellectual property rights (which include without limitation all copyright, trade-marks, domain names, design rights, database rights, patents and all other intellectual property rights of any kind) whether registered or unregistered anywhere in the world.
Nothing in these terms and conditions grants you any rights to the Site other than as necessary to enable you to access the Site. You agree not to adjust, to circumvent, or delete any intellectual property notices contained on the Site and in particular in any digital rights or other security technology embedded or contained within any Site content.
The use or misuse of any trade-marks or any other content on the Site except as provided in these terms and conditions is strictly prohibited. Nothing contained on the Site shall be construed as granting, by implication, estoppel or otherwise, any license or right to use any trade-mark without our prior written permission.
SUBMITTING INFORMATION TO THE SITE
The Site is not a secure means of communication; any information you supply to us via the Site may not be kept confidential. For that reason, you should not submit or send to us via the Site any patentable ideas or patent applications, advertising or marketing suggestions, prototypes or any other information that you regard as confidential or commercially sensitive or valuable. Once we accept you as a client, you may submit confidential information to us in a manner we mutually agree upon.
Where our Site enables you to communicate with us and/or other users of the Site, you may not use the Site to transmit harmful or offensive (e.g., violent, obscene, discriminatory, defamatory or otherwise illegal) communications or material which might otherwise bring us or the Site into disrepute. Although we reserve the right to monitor, edit, review or remove discussions, chats, postings, transmissions, bulletin boards and similar communications on the Site from time to time, we are under no obligation to do so and assume no responsibility or liability arising from any content posted on the Site nor for any error, omission, infringement, defamatory statement, obscenity, or inaccuracy contained in any such information. Our right to use submissions or other material provided by you is non-exclusive, freely transferable and worldwide so you shall be entitled to use your own material yourself subject to applicable law.
Any communications to our email General@VentureLegalSupport.ca shall not be deemed to have been submitted for publication without your express written consent.
ACCURACY OF INFORMATION AND AVAILABILITY OF THE SITE
While we use reasonable efforts to include accurate and up-to-date information on the Site, we do not represent, warrant or promise (whether expressly or by implication) that any content is or remains available, accurate, complete and up to date, free from bugs, errors or omissions or fit or suitable for any purpose. Any reliance you may place on the information on this Site is at your own risk and we may suspend or terminate operation of the Site at any time at our sole discretion. Nothing in these terms and conditions shall operate to prejudice any mandatory statutory requirement or your statutory rights. Content on the Site is provided for your general information purposes only and to inform you about us and our news, features, services and other websites, which may be of interest. It does not constitute technical, financial or legal advice or any other type of advice and should not be relied on for any purpose.
While we make commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that the Site is available, we do not represent, warrant or guarantee in any way the Site's continued availability at all times or uninterrupted use by you of the Site.
HYPERLINKS AND THIRD PARTY SITES
The Site may contain hyperlinks or references to third party websites other than the Site. Any such hyperlinks or references are provided for your convenience only. We have no control over third party websites and accept no responsibility for any content, material or information contained in them. The display of any hyperlink and reference to any third party website does not constitute an endorsement of such third party's website, products or services. Your use of a third party site may be governed by the terms and conditions of that third party site.
WARRANTIES AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
You agree that your use of the Site is on an “as available” basis. As stated above, except as otherwise expressly required by applicable law, we make no representations, warranties, conditions or other terms (whether express or implied) in relation to the provision of the Site, including without limitation as to completeness, accuracy and currency or any content on the Site, or as to satisfactory quality, or fitness for a particular purpose.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude all liability (whether arising in contract, tort, breach of statutory duty or otherwise) which we may otherwise have to you as a result of any error or inaccuracies in any content, the unavailability of the Site for any reason, and any representation or statement made on the Site.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage we cause which we could not reasonably anticipate when you started using the Site, for example if you lose revenue, salary, profits or reputation as a result of your use of the Site and/or the acts or omissions of any third party such as other users of the Site or any other indirect or consequential loss or damage you may incur in relation to the Site and its content.
Notwithstanding any other provision of these terms and conditions, we do not exclude or limit our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, for any fraudulent misrepresentation made by us on the Site or for any other statutory rights which are not capable of being excluded.
GENERAL
These terms are dated April 28, 2022. No changes to these terms are valid or have any effect unless agreed by us in writing. We reserve the right to vary these terms and conditions from time to time. Our new terms will be displayed on the Site and by continuing to use and access the Site following such changes, you agree to be bound by any variation made by us. It is your responsibility to check these terms and conditions from time to time to verify such variations.
Unless otherwise expressly stated in these terms and conditions, all notices from you to us must be in writing and sent to our email address General@VentureLegalSupport.ca, and all notices from us to you will be displayed on our website from to time.
If any part of these terms and conditions is unenforceable (including any provision in which we exclude or limit our liability to you) the enforceability of any other part of these terms and conditions will not be affected. If we choose not to enforce any right that we have against you at any time, then this does not prevent us from later deciding to exercise or enforce that right.
These terms and conditions (together with the Privacy Statement contain the entire understanding and agreement between us and you in relation to your use of the Site and supersede and replace any representation, statement or other communication (whether written or otherwise) made by you or us which is not contained herein. Save for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, we shall have no liability for any such representation being untrue or misleading.
You may not assign, sub-license or otherwise transfer any of your rights and obligations in these terms to any other person.
These terms and conditions shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws in effect within Alberta, Canada. Any litigation arising from these terms and conditions shall be litigated in the courts in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
The parties acknowledge that they have required that these terms and conditions and all related documents be prepared in English. Les parties reconnaissent avoir exigé que la présente convention et tous les documents connexes soient rédigés en anglais.
These terms and conditions can be modified and are effective upon posting. You agree to review these terms and conditions periodically and your continued use of the website is your acceptance of any changes.