Using Northern
Ontario.org
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else's use and enjoyment of Northern Ontario.org. Prohibited behaviour
includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any person,
transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow
of dialogue within Northern Ontario.org.
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and Limitation of Liability
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pictures, logos and icons regarding or relating to the Northern
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services), is provided "AS IS" and on an "IS AVAILABLE" basis without
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implied by law), including the implied warranties of satisfactory
quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement,
compatibility, security and accuracy.
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indirect or consequential damages, or any damages arising from use or
loss of use, data or profits, whether in contract, negligence or other
tortious action, arising from or in connection with the use of Northern
Ontario.org.
Northern Ontario.org does not warrant that functions contained in
Northern Ontario.org content will be uninterrupted or error free, that
defects will be corrected, or that Northern Ontario.org or the server
that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs.
Intellectual
Property
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third parties and their products and services are subject to copyright,
design rights and trade marks of Northern Ontario.org and/or the third
parties. Nothing contained in these terms shall be construed as
conferring by implication, estoppel or otherwise any licence or right to
use any trademark, patent, design right or copyright of the Northern
Ontario.org, or any other third party.
Contributions
to Northern Ontario.org
Where you are invited to submit any contribution to Northern Ontario.org
(including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio) you agree,
by submitting your contribution, to grant Northern Ontario.org a
perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, right and license to use,
reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works
from, distribute, perform, and play, your contribution to Northern
Ontario.org on this site, and/or to incorporate your contribution
in other secondary and affiliated sites now known or later developed for
the full term of any rights that may exist in your contribution, and in
accordance with privacy restrictions set out in Northern Ontario.org
Privacy Policy. If you do not want to grant Northern Ontario.org the
rights set out above, please do not submit your contribution to Northern
Ontario.org.
Further, by submitting your contribution to Northern Ontario.org, you:
warrant that your contribution;
1. is your own original work and that you have the right to make it
available to Northern Ontario.org for all the purposes specified above;
2. does not infringe any law; and
3. indemnify Northern Ontario.org against all legal fees, damages and
other expenses that may be incurred by Northern Ontario.org as a result
of your breach of the above warranty; and
4. waive any moral rights in your contribution for the purposes of its
submission to and publication on Northern Ontario.org and the purposes
specified above.
Northern
Ontario.org Community Rules
About your submissions:
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unlawful, harassing, abusive, threatening, obscene,
profane, extreme sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise
objectionable material is not acceptable.
No advertising.
You may not refer to specific URLs (web
site addresses) unless allowed under the relevant local house rules. If
you know of a worthy web site relevant to this site, please inform
Northern Ontario.org for inclusion.
Privacy Policy
1. Statement of intent
From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information
about yourself (e.g. name and email address etc) in order to receive or
use services on our website. Such services include newsletters,
competitions, "Alert Email",live chats, message boards and Northern
Ontario.org Northern Perspectives membership.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable Northern
Ontario.org and its service providers to provide you with the services
you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will
treat that information in accordance with this policy. Our services are
designed to give you the information that you want to receive. Northern
Ontario.org will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to
meet current Internet best practice.
2. Information on visitors
During the course of any visit to Northern Ontario.org, the pages
you see, along with something called a cookie, are downloaded to your
computer (see point 3 for more on this). Most, if not all, websites do
this, because cookies allow the website publisher to do useful things
like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited
the site before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and
finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.
Any information that is supplied by cookies can help us to provide you
with a better service and assists us to analyse the profile of our
visitors. For example: if on a previous visit you went to, say, the
Stuff of Life pages, then we might find this out from your cookie and
highlight this information on a second visit.
We gather non-personal
data regarding the visitors to our site using cookies and
code which is embedded in the site. Both the cookies and the embedded
code provide non-personal statistical information about visits to pages
on the site, the duration of individual page view, paths taken by
visitors through the site, data on visitors' screen settings and other
general information. Northern Ontario.org uses this type of information,
as with that obtained from other cookies used on the site, to help it
improve the services to its users.
3. What is a cookie?
When you enter a site your computer will automatically be issued
with a cookie. Cookies are text files that identify your computer to our
server. Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual user, just
the computer used. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their site
in order to track traffic flows.
Cookies themselves only record those areas of the site that have been
visited by the computer in question, and for how long. Users have the
opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them
when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last
of these, of course, means that certain personalised services cannot
then be provided to that user.
4. Use and storage of your personal information
When you supply any personal information to Northern Ontario.org
(e.g. for competitions, Northern Ontario.org Northern Perspective
Community services or Northern Ontario.org membership) we have legal
obligations towards you in the way we deal with that data. We must
collect the information fairly, that is, we must explain how we will use
it (see the notices on particular webpages that let you know why we are
requesting the information) and tell you if we want to pass the
information on to anyone else. In general, any information you provide
to Northern Ontario.org will only be used within Northern Ontario.org
and by its service providers. It will never be supplied to anyone
outside Northern Ontario.org without first obtaining your consent,
unless we are obliged or permitted by law to disclose it.
We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you
use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the
purpose has been met, or, in the case of Northern Ontario.org membership
you no longer wish to continue your registration as a Northern
Ontario.org member. For safety reasons, however, Northern Ontario.org
may store messaging transcript data (including message content, member
names, times and dates) arising from the use of Northern Ontario.org
Northern Perspective services for a period of six months. Where personal
information is held for people who are not yet registered but have taken
part in other Northern Ontario.org services (eg competitions), that
information will be held only as long as necessary to ensure that the
service is run smoothly. We will ensure that all personal information
supplied is held securely.
If you are notified on a Northern Ontario.org site that your information
may be used to allow Northern Ontario.org to contact you for "service
administration purposes", this means that Northern Ontario.org may
contact you for a number of purposes related to the service you have
signed up for. For example, we may wish to provide you with password
reminders or notify you that the particular service has been suspended
for maintenance. We will not contact you for promotional purposes, such
as notifying you of improvements to the service or new services on
Northern Ontario.org unless you specifically agree to be contacted for
such purposes at the time you submit your information on the site, or at
a later time if you sign up specifically to receive such promotional
information.
