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Terms and Conditions of Use

GTHLCANADA.COM
Last Updated: March 25, 2015

These terms and conditions (“Terms of Use”) govern access to and use of the website located at URL www.gthlcanada.com (the “Site”), materials, information, data, images, video recordings, audio recordings and other content  available through access  to the  Site (collectively, “Content”) and the services offered through the Site (“Services“). The Site is owned by Greater Toronto Hockey League (“GTHL”). For the purpose of these Terms of Use, wherever the context so requires “you” or “your” or “user” means any natural or legal person that accesses or uses the Site, Content and/or Services and “we”, “our” or “us” means GTHL.

Your access or use of the Site is subject to these Terms of Use and the privacy policy available at https://d2pr6pnwfmh0za.cloudfront.net/gthl_gthl/2013/10/30/Privacy_Policy.pdf (the “Privacy Policy”). Please note that by accessing or using the Site you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use and these Terms of Use are a legally binding agreement between you and GTHL. If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy, do not access or use the Site or any Content and/or Service.

If you have not attained the age of majority in the jurisdiction in which you reside, one of your parents or your legal guardian must review these Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and provide you with permission to access and use this Site or any Content and/or Service.

We may change these Terms of Use at any time without notice to you. In the event that we make any revision to these Terms of Use we will update the date appearing above to reflect the date of last modification.  It is your sole responsibility to periodically verify these Terms of Use to determine whether these have changed since your last review of these. Your access and use of the Site or of any Content and/or Service constitutes your unconditional acceptance to be modified by the Terms of Use, as last modified.

1. Access and Use of the Site
Subject to your continued compliance with these Terms of Use, GTHL hereby grants you the limited right to access and use the Site and Content only for your personal and non-commercial use. Any use for which you receive any remuneration, whether in money or otherwise, is a commercial use for the purposes of this clause. Any use for which you receive any remuneration, whether pecuniary or otherwise, is a commercial use for the purposes of these Terms of Use. You may not use the Site for commercial purposes or in any way that is unlawful, or prejudices us or any other person or entity, as determined in our sole discretion. Any scraping, harvesting, deep linking, inlining or framing of any Content is strictly prohibited.

You may post/share links/images/text content on the site on social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, with appropriate link-back to the original source.

When the Site provides for the download of particular Content, you may download such Content to a computer or mobile device (as applicable) for your personal, non-commercial use only, provided that you (a) keep intact all copyright and other proprietary notices, (b) make no modifications to, and do not rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, copy (except copies incidental to your personal, non-commercial use), or create any derivative works based on the Site or the Content, in whole or in part, and (c) transfer any Content to any other computer or mobile device. Any commercial use of the Site or any Content is expressly prohibited.

Except as expressly provided above, nothing contained in these Terms of Use will be construed as conferring, by implication, estoppel or otherwise, any license or right with respect to the Site and/or any Content. GTHL expressly reserves any right not expressly granted under these Terms of Use.

We reserve the right to change the Site and the Content without notice to you, at any time.

2. Services
GTHL reserves the right to modify or discontinue any Service at any time and from time to time without prior notice.

You represent and warrant that any information that you provide in conjunction with registration for any Service including, without limitation, receipt of any electronic publications is accurate, complete and up-to-date.  You further confirm that, if you have not attained the age of majority in the jurisdiction in which you reside, that one of your parents or your legal guardian has authorized such disclosure.    

3. Prohibited Use
You agree not to use the Site or any Content or Service for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms of Use or by any domestic or international laws, regulations, rules, regulations or requirements. Your use of the Site and Content in compliance with the foregoing is your sole responsibility.

You further agree not to access or use the Site or any Content or Service if and to the extent the foregoing is prohibited by applicable laws in the jurisdiction in which you reside or from which you are accessing and/or using the Site, Content and/or Service.

You shall not, whether in conjunction with your access and/or use of the Site, Service and/or Content, or otherwise:

  • attempt to reproduce the Site, Content, Service for any purpose;
  • attempt to extract any source code, scripts or similar materials from any software or materials comprising the Site and/or used to operate, offer access to and/or display the Site, Content and/or any Service;
  • attempt to disrupt the operation of the Site or any access to and/or use of the Site, any Content and/or any Service;
  • undertake any conduct that, in GTHL’s sole discretion, restricts or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying the Site.
  • attempt to circumvent, neutralize and/or disable any security measure or feature of the Site or that relating to any Content and/or Service;
  • attempt to intercept any communication between GTHL and/or any user of the Site and/or any GTHL vendor, sponsor and/or service provider;
  • modify and/or supplement the Site and/or any Content;
  • create and/or publish any website or online materials that falsely suggest any affiliation with GTHL or endorsement by GTHL;
  • use the Site for any activities, or submit to or via the Site any information or materials, which breach any laws or regulations or infringe a third party’s patent, trademark, copyright or other proprietary rights;
  • publish, distribute, transmit or disseminate on the Site any material which is unlawful, obscene, defamatory, indecent, offensive, inappropriate or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
  • promote any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising, promotional materials, surveys, contests, pyramid schemes, chain letters, unsolicited e-mailing or spamming via the Site;
  • impersonate any person or entity;
  • upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or to surreptitiously collect information; or
  • create any website that provides similar content as that provided by GTHL on the Site in regards to GTHL and its operations (including, without limitation, content relating to the GTHL’s hockey league, GTHL teams, GTHL players, GTHL coaches, GTHL tournaments and special events, GTHL league and event schedules, and the like). For clarity the foregoing, does not preclude reporting of GTHL activities and events for purely journalistic, non-commercial purposes.

We reserve the right to suspend or deny, in our sole discretion, your access to all or any portion of the Site as well as to any Content and/or Service, for the violation of any provision of these Terms of Use.

4. Intellectual Property
All Content, and the selection, arrangement and display thereof, are copyrighted works that are exclusively owned by GTHL or its vendors, suppliers or licensors. All Content as well as all software used to operate or host the Site and/or provide access to or allow use of Content and/or Services, are proprietary to GTHL or its vendors, suppliers or licensors, and are protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws as well as by Common Law. Except as expressly stated herein, none of the Content may be modified, copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, sold, compiled, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means, including but not limited to, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or other means, without the prior express written permission of GTHL. 

You acknowledge and agree that nothing in these Terms of Use will have the effect of transferring the ownership of any copyrights, trademarks, trade names or other proprietary rights in the Site or Content, or any part thereof to you, or any third party.

Without limitation to the generality of the foregoing, copyright and all other intellectual property rights in all Content on the Site or available through the Site, trademarks and logos appearing on this Site are the exclusive property of GTHL and its service providers, vendors, sponsors, advertisers and/or other licensors. All rights not expressly granted to you under these Terms of Use are reserved.

You agree not to use any framing techniques to enclose any trademark or logo or other proprietary information of GTHL or remove, conceal, mask, distort or alter any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice or any credit-line or date-line on other mark or source identifier included on the Site, including without limitation, the size, colour, location or style of all proprietary marks.

Any suggestions, feedback or other content that you provide through the Site and/or through the use of any Service, or that you provide to GTHL via e-mail to any address associated with the Site become the exclusive property of GTHL and you irrevocably and unconditionally assign any and all rights thereto to GTHL without consideration of any sort (including, without limitation, any upfront amount and/or any royalty) and without any obligation by GTHL (or any assignee of GTHL’s rights to such suggestions, feedback or other content) to identify you as the source or author of any such suggestions, feedback and/or other content.  You hereby waive any moral rights that you may have in any such suggestions, feedback and/or other content.

You agree that GTHL can publish, modify, adapt, translate and retransmit to others any content submitted by you free of charge and without restriction, subject to the obligations on GTHL set out in the Privacy Policy.

If you believe that any Content infringes on your intellectual property rights or those of any third party you can write to us at generalinfo@gthlcanada.com.

5. Links
GTHL may from time to time establish on the Site a hypertext link to a third party website or third party content. Any such link is provided for information purposes only for the convenience of the Site’s users and does not state or imply any endorsement of third party website, content, goods and/or services by GTHL. GTHL has no control over such third party website and/or content and your access to and/or use of such third party website and/or content, or any offsite dealings with such third parties is at your sole risk.

6. Advertising
Some portions of the Site may contain advertising information, promotional materials or other materials relating to third parties. GTHL will not be responsible for any inaccuracy, datedness or incompleteness of any such materials or with respect to any promotions, goods or services that may be advertised, mentioned or described in such materials or with respect to any dealings that you may have with such third parties. You agree not to involve GTHL in any dispute that you may have with respect to any such third parties.

GTHL reserves the right to omit, suspend or change the location and/or position of any advertising material submitted for insertion, or to remove any such advertising material.

7. International Use
This Site is controlled and operated from within Canada. GTHL makes no representation that the Site is appropriate or available in locations outside of Canada. Those who choose to access the Site from other locations do so at their own risk and are responsible for compliance with applicable laws.

8. Disclaimer
The Site, the Content and the Services are generated or made available from a variety of sources and are intended solely as general information and provided on “as is” and “as available” basis without any representation, or warranties of any sort, whether express, implied or statutory. GTHL hereby disclaims any express, implied or statutory warranty or condition with respect to the Site, the Content and/or the Services including, without limitation, those relating to fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability, accessibility, availability, uninterrupted access, uninterrupted use, error free use, non-infringement, compliance with applicable laws, safety, security and the like. 

Without limitation to the generality of the foregoing, you understand and acknowledge that access to the Site, Content and Services is through a public network and that any such access and use of the Site, Content and Services may be monitored by third parties and that communications via e-mail may be intercepted, misappropriated or otherwise unduly accessed by third parties. You assume all risks relating to access to and/or use of the Site, Content and/or Services, as well as that relating to any e-mail communications between you and the GTHL.

The Content does not constitute advice of any sort and should not be relied upon in making (or refraining from making) any decision. Any specific advice or replies to queries in any part of the Site is/are the personal opinion of such experts/consultants/persons and do not constitute or indicate our endorsement, confirmation and/or validation of such Content.

9. Limitation of Liability
You agree that GTHL will not be liable for any direct, special, incidental, indirect or consequential damages of any kind in connection with these Terms of Use or your use of the Site, Services and/or Content (or your inability to do so), even if GTHL has been informed in advance of the possibility of such damages.  Your use of the Site is at your sole risk and you will solely bear any damages, costs, expenses, liabilities  and other losses relating thereto or arising therefrom.

10. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold GTHL, its advertisers, affiliates, sponsors, co-venturers, service providers, and each of their respective members, officers, directors, governors, employees, agents or representatives harmless from any claim or action (including legal expenses) arising out your use of the Site, your breach of the Terms of Use and violation of any third party intellectual property rights or privacy.    

11. Applicable Law and Attornment
These Terms of Use will be governed by and interpreted and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario, Canada. Any dispute with respect to the Site, the Content and/or the Services must be brought before the courts located in Toronto, Ontario. Notwithstanding the foregoing, GTHL reserves the right to pursue any action or claim against you in any court of competent jurisdiction with respect to any misappropriation of Content and/or trade secrets, as well as with respect to any violation of any intellectual property rights or privacy rights.

12. Entire Agreement
These Terms of Use, as amended from time to time, constitute the entire agreement between you and GTHL. If any provision of these Terms of use is for any reason considered unlawful, void, or unenforceable, then that provision will be deemed severed from these Terms of Use and the foregoing will not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

13. Changes to Terms of Use
We reserve the right, to modify these Terms of Use at any time without notice. Any changes to Terms of Use will be posted on the Site and your continued use of the Site following a posting of changes is your agreement to the changes and you are bound by the then-current version of these Terms of Use. If any changes to these Terms of Use are unacceptable to you, you must discontinue access and use of the Site, any Content and any Service.

14. Relationship
None of the provisions of the Terms of Use shall be deemed to constitute a partnership or agency between you and GTHL and you will not have any authority to bind GTHL in any manner whatsoever. You will not represent or otherwise infer that you hold any such authority.

15. Waiver
Any express waiver or failure to promptly exercise any right under these Terms of Use will not create a continuing waiver or any expectation of non-enforcement.

16. Termination
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to immediately, with or without notice and for any reason, suspend or terminate your access to and/or use of the Site or of any Content and/or Service. Upon any such termination, the provisions of these Terms of Use relating to intellectual property, disclaimers, indemnification and limitations of liability will survive any such termination or cessation of operation of the Site.