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TERMS OF USE Acceptance of Terms of Use.
Welcome to Green Collaborate Inc., the use of certain Products and Services available to you are subject to your acceptance of these Terms of Use. You agree to accept and adhere to these Terms of Use by clicking the "ok" button confirming that you have read and understand these Terms of Use and are consenting to be bound by these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to all of these Terms of Use, you may not use the Products and Services. These Terms of Use may be revised or updated by GreenCollaborate from time to time and at any time without notice to you. In addition, when you use any of GreenCollaborate's Products or Services, you will also be subject to the provincial and federal laws, regulations, and rules. All applicable to the Products and Services used. All such local, provincial, and federal laws, regulations, and rules applicable to the Products and Services are incorporated by reference into these Terms of Use.
GreenCollaborate.
GreenCollaborate, as used herein, shall mean (i) a corporation or other entity that is a parent or subsidiary of GreenCollaborate, or of which a controlling interest is owned or held, directly or indirectly, by GreenCollaborate or GreenCollaborate's parent or subsidiary; (ii) an individual, corporation or other entity owning or holding, directly or indirectly, a controlling interest in GreenCollaborate; (iii) a corporation or other entity under common control with GreenCollaborate; (iv) the employees or directors of GreenCollaborate; or (v) a corporation or other entity under the control of any officer, director, shareholder, or other principal of GreenCollaborate. For purposes of this definition, the term "control", "controlling", or "under common control with" means the power, directly or indirectly, to direct the management, operation, or policies of a person or entity, whether through exercise of voting rights, by contract, or otherwise.
You or Your.
"You" or "Your", as used herein, shall mean the individual or entity that GreenCollaborate has explicitly granted the limited, non-exclusive, and non-transferable right to use the Products and Services in accordance with these Terms of Use.
Products and Services.
Products and Services, as used herein, shall mean the www.GreenCollaborate.ca and .org website (individually, the "Website") and all GreenCollaborate software products and services, now known or as later developed, whether hosted on the Website or available through a third party's server. The Products and Services shall only be used as specifically provided for in these Terms of Use.
GreenCollaborate may modify or discontinue offering or supporting any or all of the Products or Services at any time, for any reason, without notice, and without liability to you or any other party.
Use of Products and Services.
GreenCollaborate grants you a limited, non-exclusive, and non-transferable right to use the Products and Services in accordance with these Terms of Use such that the use shall not violate any provision in these Terms of Use. You must have a valid GreenCollaborate account for the duration of your right to use the Products and Services. A valid GreenCollaborate account may only be created and maintained by you upon agreeing to these Terms of Use and providing accurate and complete Personal Information in the sign up process. To maintain a valid GreenCollaborate account beyond the 30-day Free Trial period, you must keep your Personal Information updated, regularly assure the accuracy of such information, make timely payment of any fees owed to GreenCollaborate, and maintain and strictly comply with these Terms of Use.
In exchange for the limited, non-exclusive, and non-transferable right to use the Products and Services, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your GreenCollaborate account and password and for restricting access to your computer. You agree to accept complete responsibility for all activities that occur in connection with your GreenCollaborate account and password.
The Products and Services shall not be copied, distributed, duplicated, modified (whether or not such modification constitutes a derivative work), reproduced, sold, stored (including any portion of the software or documentation thereof), or otherwise exploited without the express written consent of GreenCollaborate. You shall not: (1) frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any of GreenCollaborate's Intellectual Property without the express written consent of GreenCollaborate; or (2) use meta tags, water colors, or any other "hidden text" utilizing GreenCollaborate's Intellectual Property without the express written consent of GreenCollaborate.
GreenCollaborate grants you a limited, non-exclusive, and non-transferable right to create a hypertext link to the home page of the Website so long as the hypertext link does not portray GreenCollaborate in a derogatory, false, misleading, or otherwise offensive manner. You may use GreenCollaborate's service marks, trademarks, or trade name in connection with the hyperlink, so long as the ownership of these service marks, trademarks, or trade names is attributed by you to GreenCollaborate.
Use of the Products and Services requires a certain level of knowledge and familiarity with the Internet and the World Wide Web. It is not the responsibility of GreenCollaborate to provide free support to you for the use of the Internet, World Wide Web, or the Products and Services. Only Products and Services marked as "free" or "no charge" are free or without charge, all other Products and Services are provided for a fee and you are liable to GreenCollaborate for such fees.
Privacy.
GreenCollaborate takes privacy seriously. As a result, GreenCollaborate developed and adopted a Privacy Policy that clearly identifies how Personal Information is collected and used. This Privacy Policy may be updated by GreenCollaborate from time to time and at any time without notice to you. You can review the most current Privacy Policy below.
Intellectual Property.
The Products or Services are protected by provincial, federal, and common law Intellectual Property rights. Intellectual Property shall mean all intellectual property, industrial property, and other intangible rights including without limitation, all rights with respect to copyrights, patents, trademarks, service marks, moral rights, trade names, domain names, technology, mask works, know-how, design rights, trade dress, trade secrets, inventions, ideas, processes, formulas, source code and object code, data, and similar rights including the information in any application, registration, or renewal thereof that may be protected under the intellectual property or industrial property laws, regulations, or rules of any country.
In this respect, all content on the Website, including, but not limited to data, graphics, icons, images, logos, text, and the compilation of all content therein, and all service marks, trademarks, trade names, and trade dress depicted on the Website are owned by GreenCollaborate. This Website content may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not owned by GreenCollaborate, used in any manner that is likely to cause confusion by consumers, or used in any manner that disparages, denigrates, or otherwise damages or injures the good reputation of GreenCollaborate or GreenCollaborate's Products or Services.
Any complaint against GreenCollaborate for alleged violations of Intellectual Property rights shall be submitted in accordance with GreenCollaborate's Intellectual Property Complaint Procedure below.
Representations and Warranties.
You represent and warrant that you shall not assign, grant, grant a security interest in, or transfer the Products and Services to any third party and that you shall not directly or indirectly enable any third party to use the Products and Services. You represent and warrant that you shall not copy, create a derivative work, decompile, disassemble, modify, reverse engineer, store, display software code in human readable form, attempt to discover any source code, or otherwise use the Products and Services except as explicitly provided for in these Terms of Use.
You represent and warrant that you shall not use the Products and Services in connection with any automated device, and that the Products and Services shall only be used through a personal computer under your manual control.
GreenCollaborate represents and warrants that GreenCollaborate has the exclusive and unchallenged title, right, power, interest, and authority to offer the Products and Services and to grant the limited, non-exclusive, and non-transferable rights herein. GreenCollaborate further represents and warrants that the Products and Services are free from any intentionally created security threat.
Disclaimer of Warranties; Limitations of Liability; and Indemnification.
Notwithstanding the foregoing Representations and Warranties, GreenCollaborate makes no other representation or warranty with respect to the Products and Services and specifically disclaims all other representations and warranties, whether express or implied, arising out of or relating to these Terms of Use or Products and Services, including, without limitation, any implied or statutory representation or warranty with respect to the merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement of Intellectual Property or other proprietary right by the Products and Services.
To the fullest extent permissible by applicable law, GreenCollaborate expressly disclaims any and all responsibility or liability for the accuracy, availability, content, completeness, legality, operability, or reliability of any data, information, or material in connection with the Products and Services. GreenCollaborate's Products and Services are provided on an "as is" and "as available" basis. You understand and agree that you access, download, or otherwise obtain data, information, and materials from the Products and Services at your own discretion and risk and that you will be solely responsible for any damage to your computer (or any software or hardware thereof) or any loss of data or information in connection with the Products and Services.
You shall completely indemnify and hold GreenCollaborate harmless from and against all actions, claims, damages, demands, liabilities, losses, and suits including, but not limited to, reasonable attorneys fees and costs from any and all actions, claims, damages, demands, liabilities, losses, and suits asserted against GreenCollaborate that may arise or result, directly or indirectly, from your use of the Products or Services or violation of these Terms of Use. In the event that a court of competent jurisdiction finds that you violated any of these Terms of Use, including the Representations and Warranties made herein, you shall, at GreenCollaborate's sole discretion, promptly indemnify GreenCollaborate for any costs, expenses, or losses, including adequate compensation for any loss of business suffered by GreenCollaborate, associated with the violation of these Terms of Use.
Under no circumstance shall GreenCollaborate be liable to you or to any third party for any damages of any kind, including, but not limited to direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, special, exemplary, or consequential damages. This provision shall apply to prevent liability of GreenCollaborate for any direct, indirect, incidental, punitive, special, exemplary, or consequential damages whether such action, claim, or suit is based on contract, negligence, tort, warranty, or otherwise (even if GreenCollaborate has been advised of the possibility of such damages). Such limitation of liability shall apply whether or not the damages arise, directly or indirectly from the use or misuse of, or reliance upon, the Products and Services; from the inability to use the Products and Services, including mistakes, omissions, interruptions, deletion of files, errors, defects, delays in operation, or any failure of performance not limited to acts of God, communication failure, theft, or destruction; or from the interruption, suspension, or termination of the Products and Services. Such limitation on liability shall apply notwithstanding any failure of essential purpose of any limited remedy and to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Acceptable Use and Lawfulness.
You shall use the Products and Services only for lawful purposes. You are prohibited from using the Products and Services for the distribution, housing, processing, propagation, storage, or otherwise handling in any way abusive, defamatory, harassing, libelous, lewd, libelous, obscene, pornographic, threatening, or tortuous material, or any other material (including links to such material) that GreenCollaborate deems, in its sole discretion, to be objectionable whether or not such material is unlawful. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold GreenCollaborate harmless from any action, claim, or suit resulting, directly or indirectly, from your use (or allowed use by others) of the Products and Services to disparage, denigrate, or otherwise damage or injure the reputation of any third party.
You shall not use the Products and Services to impersonate, alter the attribution of origin, misidentify or conceal the identity of the sender, recipient, or another person, or to misrepresent authorization to act on behalf of a third party.
Termination and Cancellation.
Unless superseded by another agreement with GreenCollaborate, GreenCollaborate may immediately terminate, at any time and without notice and without penalty, your limited, non-exclusive, and non-transferable right to use the Products and Services upon your breach of any provision of these Terms of Use.
Your cancellation of any agreement, whereby you have the right to use the Products and Services, including your obligation to make timely payment of any amount owed for the right to use the Products and Services and to adhere to these Terms of Use, shall not be effective until you complete the cancellation process through your GreenCollaborate account by logging into your account and clicking on the "cancel account" button. No method, other than completion of the cancellation process through your GreenCollaborate account shall be effective to discontinue your obligation to make timely payment of any amount owed for the right to use the Products and Services and to adhere to these Terms of Use.
If either GreenCollaborate terminates, or you cancel, your right to use the Products and Services, GreenCollaborate shall have all the legally available rights and privileges to receive any outstanding amount owed by you to GreenCollaborate. In addition, if you are a party to a Reseller Agreement, GreenCollaborate shall have all the legally available rights and privileges to receive directly from you any outstanding amount owed by you to Reseller for your right to use the Products and Services if (i) payment for your right to use the Products and Services has not been made by you to Reseller; and (ii) Reseller has not effectuated payment for your right to use the Products and Services to GreenCollaborate.
Refunds.
Under no circumstances shall you be eligible to receive reimbursement, in whole or in part, of any payment to GreenCollaborate unless the Products and Services were unable to be used as a result of uptime of the Products and Services below 99.9% for a certain thirty (30) day payment period. In this limited event, you shall be eligible to receive a pro rata (1/30th of the payment due on the payment date immediately subsequent to the date during which the Products and Services were unable to be used) reimbursement for each individual day during the thirty (30) day payment period for which the uptime of the Products and Services was below 99.9%. To qualify for a pro rata reimbursement of payment under this Section, you must notify GreenCollaborate in writing within seventy-two (72) hours of such inability to use Products and Services. GreenCollaborate, in its sole discretion, shall determine whether uptime of the Products and Services was below 99.9% for a certain thirty (30) day payment period.
Miscellaneous Provisions.
Notice required or permitted to be given under these Terms of Use shall be in writing and shall be delivered by an internationally recognized overnight courier or by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid. Notices are effective upon delivery to GreenCollaborate as follows:
GreenCollaborate ATTN: Legal Department:
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You agree that GreenCollaborate may communicate with you electronically. Such electronic communications may consist of e-mail or other notices on the Website. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications GreenCollaborate sends to you electronically will satisfy any requirement that such communication be in writing.
These Terms of Use, including all questions concerning the validity, operation, interpretation, and construction of these Terms of Use, or any litigation or other legal action arising out of these Terms of Use, shall be brought in the province of Ontario or federal courts of Canada without regard to choice-of-laws rules or any conflict of laws provision if there is a dispute that cannot be amicably settled. GreenCollaborate will be entitled to reasonable attorneys' fees and all costs incurred in enforcing these Terms of Use.
In the event that you, in good faith, believe that GreenCollaborate is not complying with these Terms of Use, and before any claim or cause of action arises for noncompliance, you are required to notify GreenCollaborate in writing giving sufficient particulars to enable GreenCollaborate to inquire into the matter and evaluate the alleged noncompliance. Such Notice shall also request such corrective action as deemed appropriate. So long as GreenCollaborate takes appropriate measures to correct any noncompliance within a reasonable time following receipt of the Notice from you, GreenCollaborate will have no liability for said noncompliance.
In no event will GreenCollaborate be liable to you, or any other individual or third party related to you or with which you have a relationship, for any lost or anticipated profits or for any monetary damages, regardless of the form of action (including any action for incidental, consequential, special, punitive or indirect damages, and regardless of whether for loss of profits, business opportunity, data, or use). The maximum liability of GreenCollaborate arising out of or in connection with these Terms of Use shall not exceed the duty of GreenCollaborate to refund the fee paid by you to GreenCollaborate for the single thirty (30) day period during which the event giving rise to the alleged liability first began.
A breach by you of any of the provisions in these Terms of Use may result in irreparable and continuing harm to GreenCollaborate for which there may be no adequate remedy at law. You agree that the GreenCollaborate shall be entitled to seek injunctive relief and/or specific performance regarding these Terms of Use and any other relief as may be appropriate (including monetary damages if applicable).
If any provision of these Terms of Use is held by a court, judicial, or administrative body of competent jurisdiction in Canada to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision will be held as if it had never existed, and the remainder of these Terms of Use, including all of the remaining provisions, will remain in full force and effect and will not be impaired, affected, or invalidated in any manner as if such invalid or unenforceable provision had never been included.
You shall be responsible for the payment of any and all sales, use, value added, or other taxes levied by any government against you in respect of these Terms of Use.
You represent that you are acting on your own behalf and are not acting as an agent for or on behalf of any third party. GreenCollaborate may assign or transfer these Terms of Use in the context of a merger, acquisition, or the sale of substantially all of GreenCollaborate's assets without your prior written consent or Notice. Any unauthorized assignment, grant, or transfer, or attempted assignment, grant, or transfer of the Products and Services by you shall be deemed void. These Terms of Use shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of your successors, heirs, and assigns.
GreenCollaborate will not, by mere lapse of time, be deemed to have waived any breach or strict performance of any provision of these Terms of Use by you or preclude any other or further exercise of any right or remedy set forth herein. Further, the waiver by GreenCollaborate of a particular breach of these Terms of Use will not be construed or constitute a continuing waiver of such breach or a waiver of the breach of the same or other provision of these Terms of Use.
The section and paragraph headings used within these Terms of Use are for convenience only and shall not be considered as substantive parts of these Terms of Use or used to interpret these Terms of Use. No rule resolving ambiguities against GreenCollaborate, as the drafter of these Terms of Use, shall be applied.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COMPLAINT PROCEDURE
GreenCollaborate respects all Intellectual Property rights. For that reason, if you believe that your Intellectual Property has been infringed or violated by GreenCollaborate in any way, please provide GreenCollaborate with the following information:
1. A description of the material that you allege has been infringed or violated;
2. A copy or specimen of the material that you allege has been infringed or violated;
3. The date of first use, and a description of such use, of the material that you allege has been infringed or violated;
4. Any application, prosecution, registration, or renewal information in connection with the material that you allege has been infringed or violated;
5. A description of where the material is located that you allege infringes or violates your material;
6. Your full name, current mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address;
7. A statement by you that you are the true and correct owner of the material that you allege has been infringed or violated, or are the agent of the owner of the material alleged to be infringed or violated;
8. A statement by you that the foregoing information is accurate and complete in all respects; and
9. Your electronic or physical signature, or the electronic or physical signature of the agent authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the material alleged to be infringed or violated.
PRIVACY POLICY
GreenCollaborate understands that you take your privacy seriously, and this Privacy Policy will detail the Personal Information that is collected by GreenCollaborate and how this Personal Information is used. This Privacy Policy may be updated by GreenCollaborate from time to time and at any time without notice to you.
Personal Information is information that identifies you or relates to your use of the Products and Services. GreenCollaborate collects Personal Information from you that you enter to obtain a valid GreenCollaborate account or give to GreenCollaborate in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain Personal Information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of certain features offered by GreenCollaborate. GreenCollaborate uses the Personal Information to respond to your requests, customize features, develop new products and services, improve existing Products and Services, communicate with you, or for any other reason. The Personal Information collected by GreenCollaborate is kept completely private and confidential and is not shared with third parties. GreenCollaborate shall make no effort to validate any information provided by you.
Although GreenCollaborate does not license or sell your Personal Information to third parties, GreenCollaborate may disclose your Personal Information as required by law or if GreenCollaborate has a good faith belief that the disclosure of your Personal Information is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of you, GreenCollaborate, or other third party.
In addition to Personal Information, GreenCollaborate may collect information and/or track data on your use of the Products and Services. This statistical information and data is used to improve the Products and Services and may be collected through the use of Cookies. Although you may set your Internet browser to refuse Cookies, in doing so, you may not be able to take advantage of certain features offered by GreenCollaborate
This Privacy Policy does not apply to individuals, entities, or other third parties that GreenCollaborate does not control, employ, manage, or own.
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