Thank you for visiting [website URL].
All users of this site agree that access to and use of this site are subject to the following terms and conditions and other applicable law. If you do not agree to these terms and conditions, please do not use this site.
These Terms of Use (“Terms of Use”) were developed by [company name] (“we,” “us” or “our”) as an extension of our commitment to combine the highest quality products and services with the highest level of integrity in dealing with our valued customers, and the companies, businesses and organizations they represent (collectively, “you”).
COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARKS
The entire content included in this site, including but not limited to text, graphics or code is copyrighted as a collective work under the Copyright Act of Canada (“the Act”) and other copyright laws, and is the property of [company name].
[Company Name] and associated trademarks, service marks and logos appearing on this Website are owned by us or our licensors. All other trademarks, service marks and logos appearing on this Website are the sole property of their respective owners. You are granted no licenses with respect to any of the foregoing.
The Website and our newsletters contain information, data, software, photographs, graphics, videos, text, images, typefaces, sounds, and other material (collectively “Content”) that is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws. Content is owned by us or our licensors. The only rights you are granted with respect to Content are those stated expressly in these Terms of Use, and there are no implied rights or licenses.
You may not modify, remove, delete, augment, add to, publish, transmit, sell, create derivative works of, or in any way exploit any of the Content, in whole or in part. You are hereby granted a revocable, limited license, without the right to grant sublicenses, to copy and to print in hard copy portions of the Website and/or our newsletters solely for your person, non-commercial use.
Other than as provided in the preceding sentence or as permitted by fair dealing under the Copyright Act of Canada, you may not reproduce or distribute Content in any way without first obtaining permission of the owner of the copyright thereof. Any other use of the Content is strictly prohibited. If you breach these Terms of Use, your right to use the Content will automatically terminate and you must immediately destroy all copies of Content.
If you are a copyright owner or an agent thereof and believe that any portion of the Website or Content infringes upon your copyrights, you may submit a notification to the Website owner [contact info].
THIS WEBSITE DOES NOT PROVIDE ANY MEDICAL ADVICE
Information on this Website is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician or other healthcare professional or any information contained on or in any product label or packaging.
You should not use the information on this Website for diagnosing or treating any health problem or disease, or selecting any medication or other treatment. You should always speak with your physician or other healthcare professional before taking any medication or nutritional, herbal or homeopathic supplement, or adopting any treatment for a health problem.
You should carefully read all product packaging and instructions for any products or services you purchase through this Website. If you have or suspect that you have a medical problem, you should immediately contact your health care provider. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay in seeking professional advice because of something you have read on this Website.
Information provided on this Website and the use of any products or services purchased through this Website by you DOES NOT create a doctor-patient relationship between you and any physician. Information and statements regarding dietary supplements have not been evaluated by Health Canada, unless otherwise noted, and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
YOUR CONDUCT ON THE WEBSITE
Any conduct by you on the Website that we believe, in our sole discretion, restricts or inhibits any other user from using or enjoying the Website will not be permitted. You agree to use the Website only for lawful purposes. You are prohibited from posting on or transmitting through the Website any material that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, profane, hateful, fraudulent, racially, ethnically, or derogatory, racially, ethically, or otherwise, to another’s faith or status, or is otherwise objectionable, including, but not limited to, any material that encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any applicable local, provincial, national, or international law.
You agree not to solicit passwords or personally identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from others users. You agree not to: (a) transmit “junk mail,” “chain letters,” or unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging or “spamming”; (b) use the Website to engage in commercial activities or sales without our prior written consent, including without limitation any contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes; (c) create or distribute any unauthorized copy of any third party’s copyrighted work, including without limitation providing pirated computer programs or links to such programs, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files; or (d) or impersonate any person or entity or forge anyone’s digital or manual signature or attempt to gain unauthorized access to any other person’s computers, software, or data. You may not use the Website to defame, insult or ridicule another person. Any verbiage that we find objectionable will be removed without notice.
You may not post any message impersonating another user. You may also not post any message that contains any personal information such as telephone numbers, Social Insurance Numbers (SIN), account numbers, addresses or employer references. Any threat or suggestion to commit suicide will be reported to the proper authorities and the posting will be removed.
You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of the Website. You further agree not to access the Website by any means other than through the interface provided by us for use in accessing the Website. You understand that the robots.txt file is the only means by which robots are authorized to access the Website. You agree not to violate any of our robot access policies.
You hereby acknowledge that any breach of these Terms of Use or any violation of any of our policies by you may result in termination of your access to the Website, deactivation or deletion of your account and all related information and files in your account, and permanent termination of your access to such information and files, without prior notice.
THIRD-PARTY LINKS
In an attempt to provide increased value to our visitors, [company name] may link to sites operated by third parties. However, even if the third party is affiliated with [company name], we have no control over these linked sites, all of which have separate privacy and data collection practices, independent of [company name]. These linked sites are only for your convenience and therefore you access them at your own risk. Nonetheless, [company name] seeks to protect the integrity of its Website and the links placed upon it and therefore requests any feedback on not only its own site, but for sites it links to as well (including if a specific link does not work).
USAGE OF THE WEBSITE BY MINORS
We do not solicit and will not knowingly accept personal information from any person under thirteen (13) years of age.
DISCLAIMERS
We provide this website, the content and all other goods and services on an “as is” basis, without any warranty. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, we hereby disclaim all warranties, express, implied, statutory, arising from course of dealing or otherwise, and including without limitation any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness or a particular purpose, title and non-infringement.
You hereby agree to consult your physician and medical advisors before purchasing or using any products or services available through the Website. In addition, you should carefully read all information provided by the manufacturers of such products or in product packaging and on labels before using any product purchased through the Website.
The Website may contain links to other websites, and third parties may link their websites to the Website. You understand and agree that we shall have no responsibility for any product or service or the accuracy, content, or availability of information found on other websites, or that contain links to or from the Website.
Because some websites may employ automated search results or may otherwise link to websites containing information that may be deemed inappropriate or offensive, you understand and agree that we will have no responsibility for the accuracy, legality, or decency of material contained in third-party websites, and you hereby irrevocably waive any claim against us with respect thereto. Prices and availability of products and services available through the Website are subject to change without notice.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
Under no circumstances shall we or any other party involved in creating, producing, or distributing the Website or content be liable for any indirect, incidental, PUNITIVE, special or consequential damages, INCLUDING ANY loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses (even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages), including without limitation any damages that result from: (i) any delay, failure, interruption or corruption of the Website or any data or information transmitted in connection with the use of this Website; (ii) personal injury or death caused by use or misuse of the Website; (iii) the cost of procurement of substitute goods and services; (iv) unauthorized access to or alteration of the website or your account, including without limitation your transmissions or data; (v) statements or conduct of any third party; or (vi) any other matter relating to the Website. You hereby acknowledge that this paragraph shall apply to all content, products and services available through the Website.
AFFILIATED SITES
[Company name] has no control over, and no liability for any third party websites or materials. [Company name] works with a number of partners and affiliates whose Internet sites may be linked with the Site. Because neither [Company name] nor the Website has control over the content and performance of these partner and affiliate sites, [Company name] makes no guarantees about the accuracy, currency, content, or quality of the information provided by such sites, and [Company name] assumes no responsibility for unintended, objectionable, inaccurate, misleading, or unlawful content that may reside on those sites. Similarly, from time to time in connection with your use of the Website, you may have access to content items (including, but not limited to, websites) that are owned by third parties. You acknowledge and agree that [Company name] makes no guarantees about, and assumes no responsibility for, the accuracy, currency, content, or quality of this third party content, and that, unless expressly provided otherwise, these Terms of Use shall govern your use of any and all third party content.
INDEMNITY
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless us, our officers, directors, employees, agents, providers, merchants, sponsors, licensors and affiliates from and against all claims, actions, demands, judgments, losses, and liabilities (including, without limitation, costs, expenses and attorneys’ fees) resulting or arising, directly or indirectly, out of Content you submit, post to or transmit through the Website, your misuse of the Website, your violation of these Terms of Use, or your violation of any rights of any other person.
PRIVACY
We respect your privacy in accordance with the terms of our Privacy Policy [link], which is hereby incorporated by reference into these Terms of Use.
POSTED INFORMATION & USER CONTENT
You may also have the ability to post Content yourself on the Website (“Posted Information” or “User Content”). If so, you hereby represent to us that you are the sole owner of Posted Information. You further hereby grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, non‑exclusive, royalty-free, paid up, transferable license, including the right to grant sublicenses through multiple tiers, to use, publicly perform, publicly display, digitally perform, copy, and create derivative works of Posted Information.
You will not be compensated for any User Content. You agree that [Company name] may publish or otherwise disclose your name in connection with your User Content. By posting User Content on the Site or Service, you warrant and represent that you own the rights to the User Content or are otherwise authorized to post, distribute, display, perform, transmit, or otherwise distribute User Content.
APPLICABLE LAW; JURISDICTION AND VENUE
We control the Website from our offices within Canada. We make no representation that the Content on the Website is appropriate, legal or available for use in other locations. If you access the Website from outside Canada, you are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws. Any dispute between you and us, and any dispute relating to the Website, the goods and services provided through the Website, or the Content shall be governed by the laws of the province of British Columbia, without reference to its conflicts of laws provisions. The province and federal courts located in Vancouver, Canada shall have sole jurisdiction over each such dispute, and the parties hereby consent to the personal jurisdiction of such courts.
PROHIBITED USES
[Company name] imposes certain restrictions on your permissible use of the Website and the Service. You are prohibited from violating or attempting to violate any security features of the Website or Service, including, without limitation, (a) accessing content or data not intended for you, or logging onto a server or account that you are not authorized to access; (b) attempting to probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service, the Website, or any associated system or network, or to breach security or authentication measures without proper authorization; (c) interfering or attempting to interfere with service to any user, host, or network, including, without limitation, by means of submitting a virus to the Site or Service, overloading, “flooding,” “spamming,” “mail bombing,” or “crashing;” (d) using the Site or Service to send unsolicited e-mail, including, without limitation, promotions, or advertisements for products or services; (e) forging any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or in any posting using the Service; or (f) attempting to modify, reverse-engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise reduce or attempt to reduce to a human-perceivable form any of the source code used by [Company name] in providing the Site or Service. Any violation of system or network security may subject you to civil and/or criminal liability.
TERMINATION
These Terms of Use are effective until terminated by either party upon notice to the other party. If you no longer agree to be bound by these Terms of Use, you must cease your use of the Website. We reserve the right to suspend or deny, in our sole discretion, your access to all or any portion of the Website with or without notice at any time. You agree that any termination of your access to the Website may be effected without prior notice, and acknowledge and agree that we may immediately deactivate or delete your account and all related information and files in your account and bar you from any further access to such files or the Website. Further, you agree that we shall not be liable to you or any third party for any termination of your access to the Website.
GENERAL
These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and us and govern the use of the Website. You also may be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply when you use affiliate services, third-party content or third-party software. Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of these Terms of Use is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should give effect to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of these Terms of Use remain in full force and effect. The section titles in the Terms of Use are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.
MODIFICATIONS
Company may, in its sole discretion and without prior notice, (a) revise these Terms of Use; (b) modify the Site and/or the Service; and (c) discontinue the Site and/or Service at any time. Company shall post any revision to these Terms of Use to the Site, and the revision shall be effective immediately on such posting. You agree to review these Terms of Use and other online policies posted on the Site periodically to be aware of any revisions. You agree that, by continuing to use or access the Site following notice of any revision, you shall abide by any such revision.
ASSIGNMENT
We may assign these Terms of Use, including your Content and personal information, in the event of any merger, acquisition, change in control or other similar transaction involving us or any of our affiliates.
COMMENTS
If you have any questions or comments about us or these Terms of Use, you may contact us at:
[company address and contact info]
The trademarks of Healthy Lifestyle Brands, LLC may not be used without prior written permission.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
BY USING THE SERVICE OR ACCESSING THE SITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THESE TERMS OF USE AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THEM.
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