Welcome to The Sealives Initiative. These terms apply to your use of our website, which you may access in several ways, including but not limited to the World Wide Web via sealives.org.
In this document, when we say “we” or “us” we mean The Sealives Initiative.
When we say the “our site” we mean sealives.org, regardless of how you access it, as well as any associated digital media created by us.
When we say our site and “it’s services” we mean any content, features or services provided by us via our site.
Your use of Our Site
These terms along with our privacy policy apply to your use of our site and it’s services. Use of our site implies agreement with these terms. If at such point you opt to pay us a fee for the use of our site this may result in a separate subscription agreement that will also apply for as long as you agree to pay us.
Accessing Our Site and Its Services
We reserve the right to change or discontinue any aspect of the site or its services at any time, including the availability of any feature, content or part. We may also impose limits on certain features and services or restrict your access to parts or all of our site and its services without notice or liability.
Although we will do our best to provide uninterrupted access to our site, we do not guarantee this. We accept no responsibility or liability for any interruption or delay.
You understand that before accessing our site and its services, it is your responsibility to take protective measures to guard against computer viruses and other destructive elements that may affect your computer or any data stored on it. We take no responsibility for any damage that may occur to your hardware, software or data while accessing our site.
You expressly agree, that to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, our site and its services are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis and that your use of and reliance on our site and its services will be at your sole risk.
You acknowledge and agree that in no event will we, The Sealives Initiative, or its directors, employees or contractors be liable to you or any other party for loss, damage, expense or liability of any kind arising in any way out of or in connection with, the availability, use, reliance on, or inability to use our site and its services.
Third Party Charges
We are not responsible for any charges you incur from third parties outside of our organization as a result of accessing our site and its services.
Content
Our site and its services includes works of journalism and photographic, literary, and artistic works, including but not limited to text, photography, video, cinematography, audio, sounds, sound effects, sound recordings, computer programs, software, databases, information, data, code, musical compositions, pictures, illustrations and graphics.
The site and its services and everything contained within or conveyed by it is protected by Canadian and international intellectual property laws and treaties, including copyright and trademark law, and is either used with the permission of a third party, owned by The Sealives Initiative, or licensed to The Sealives Initiative.
All trademarks (including, but not limited to, trade names, logos, word and design marks) that appear in our site and it’s services are the trademarks or registered trademarks of The Sealives Initiative or of their respective owners and are protected from reproduction, dilution and confusing or misleading uses.
We cannot guarantee that all of our site and its services will be suitable for or palletable to all people or age groups. By accessing our site you acknowledge this and take responsibility for how by whom our site is accessed on devices that you own.
Content You Submit or Send to Us
Users may submit articles, letters to the editor, photos, videos, discussion forums, comments and other items to the site and its services. You are solely responsible for what you send to us or submit via our site and its services.
The Sealives Initiative reserves the right to remove or refuse to post anything via our site and its services that we deem to be unacceptable, undesirable or otherwise in violation of these Terms and Conditions.
You represent and warrant that you are the copyright owner of anything that you submit to our site and its services or send to us via any method, that you convey all intellectual property rights in and to anything you submit or otherwise send to us to The Sealives Initiative, and that you have the unfettered right and means do so.
You hereby grant The Sealives Initiative a perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable worldwide, non-exclusive license (but not the obligation) to publish, display, retain, archive, use, store, produce, reproduce, perform in public, broadcast and communicate to the public by telecommunication, anything you submit to us via our site and its services or send to us by any method, in any material form, in whole or in part, on any Service, and on any platform.
You hereby waive all moral rights in and to anything you submit to us via our site and its services or send to us by any method in favour of The Sealives Initiative and acknowledge and understand that we may edit, remove, modify or alter anything you submit to us via our site and its services or send to us by any method at our discretion and publish it on anywhere without your further consent and without attribution to you.
Restrictions
- You agree that you will not use the site and its services in an unlawful manner, and agree to not do anything while accessing or in connection to our site and its services that:
- Is defamatory, libellous, offensive, abusive, stalking, threatening, demeaning, obscene, promotes hatred, bigotry, racism, sexism, harassment, discrimination, is pornographic, indecent, unlawful, profane, harmful to minors, false, misleading, would constitute spam, promotes, advocates or otherwise encourages illegal activities including activities that would constitute a criminal offense or give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate the legal rights of others;
- Infringes any intellectual property rights including copyrights, trademarks, proprietary rights, privacy rights, publicity rights or any other rights of any kind whatsoever;
- Promote commercial activities, such as to conduct sales of goods and services of any kind, or participation in sweepstakes and contests, whether by advertising, solicitations, links or any other form of communication, without our prior consent;
- Transfers software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy, circumvent, disable, replicate, damage or otherwise limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment, including without limitation, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, computer viruses, code, cancelbots or corrupted files;
- Uses any spider, robot, other automatic device or manual process to monitor, harvest or copy any part of our site and its services without the express written consent of The Sealives Initiative;
- Violates or attempt to violate the security of the our site and its services, including without limitation accessing data not intended for you, logging into a registration account you are not authorized to access, attempting to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Services, information technology systems or network or to breach security authorizations;
- Takes any action that imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the infrastructure of our site and its services.
- Creates a substitute for our site and its services, meaning any product or service that diminishes the need for users or third-parties to access the Services or Content via The Sealives Initiative.
Links to other sites
Our website contains links to other sites. We are not responsible for the content and the privacy practices of other websites and encourage you to examine each site’s privacy policy and disclaimers and make your own decisions regarding the accuracy, reliability, and correctness of material and information found.
Third Party Advertising
You will see advertising material submitted by third parties on our site. Each individual advertiser is solely responsible for the content of its advertising material. We accept no responsibility for the content of advertising material, including, without limitation, any error, omission or inaccuracy therein.
If you want to advertise on Sealives.org, please email us at: info@sealives.org and we will respond accordingly.
Updates
These terms and conditions may change from time to time and all updates will be posted on this page.
Questions?
If you have any questions about our terms of service, please contact us at info@sealives.org