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TERMS OF USE
This Web site (“Site”) is owned by and operated for the YMCA.
By accessing this Site, you are agreeing to these Terms and Conditions. You further agree to comply with all local rules, regulations and laws regarding online conduct and acceptable content.
The YMCA may update these Terms and Conditions at any time without notice to you. The YMCA may further, in its sole discretion, suspend, terminate access to, make changes or improvements to this Site or any of the services provided on this Site without notice to you. Please review these Terms and Conditions from time to time, as your continued Site usage will mean that you accept these changes.
USE OF THIS WEBSITE
Upon acceptance of these Terms and Conditions, permission is granted for you to temporarily view, copy, print or download a single copy of the content, text, pictures, graphics, designs, audio or video clips, software and any other information (“Materials”) on this site solely for your personal, non-commercial use and provided you: (a) retain all copyright and other proprietary notices displayed on the original Materials; (b) abide by all applicable laws including copyright, trade-mark and other intellectual property laws and; (c) agree not to modify, distribute or otherwise use the Materials for any public or commercial purposes.
The unauthorized use, modification or copying of the Materials may violate copyright, trade-mark, and other laws that protect YMCA’s intellectual property.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
All Materials included on this Site, all other information and all trade-marks, trade names and logos, are the property of the YMCA or its content suppliers. The use of the Materials and trade-marks, trade-names and logos other than as expressly provided for by these Terms and Conditions is strictly prohibited.
USER SUBMISSIONS
By submitting your content, comments, text, pictures and graphics (“User Submissions”), you agree to the following:
(a) User Submissions will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary. YMCA has no obligations with respect to User Submissions. You warrant that your User Submissions are original to you and you own or otherwise control all rights in and to such User Submissions. Any User Submissions containing pictures or material of a third party must have written consent from such third party rights holder (or such person’s parent or legal guardian if a minor) and such material shall not be confidential information. You warrant that User Submissions do not infringe or violate the rights of any third party including trade-mark, copyright, right of publicity, personality or other intellectual property rights. You further warrant that you have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each identifiable individual (or such person’s parent or legal guardian) in your User Submission to use such person’s name and/or likeness.
(b) You grant to the YMCA a non-exclusive, world-wide, perpetual license, with the right to sublicense, to use, reproduce, copy, publish, advertise, display, post, transmit, modify, adapt and otherwise exploit the User Submissions, and your name and/or likeness as contained in your User Submission, in whole or in part in any form or media or technology, including all YMCA promotions, advertising and marketing. All User Submissions may be posted on the Site for immediate public viewing. You expressly waive any moral rights and release to YMCA any claims under the Canadian Copyright Act (as amended from time to time) in and to the User Submissions.
(c) You agree that your User Submission does not contain any illegal, harassing, defamatory, abusive, libellous, deceptive, fraudulent or obscene content or use vulgar language.
(d) You agree that transmitting or posting any User Submissions on this Website makes such content accessible to the public and the YMCA will not be held liable for any copying, reproducing, use or exploitation by third parties. You agree that you shall have no recourse against the YMCA for any alleged or actual infringement of any proprietary right in User Submissions. If you are under the age of majority you must have permission from your parent or legal guardian to post any User Submissions on this Site. In the event it is discovered that a minor posted User Submissions without consent from a parent or legal guardian all such material will be immediately removed.
(e) You agree not to intentionally, post or send communications through this Site that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, or other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with any of this Site’s systems, data or information.
(f) The YMCA reserves the right to refuse to post, edit or to remove any User Submissions in whole or in part, that, in its sole discretion are unacceptable, or in violation of these Terms and Conditions. The YMCA, in its sole discretion, may, without notice to you, suspend or terminate your use of, or access to this Site for any reason, including where the YMCA believes that you have violated any of these Terms and Conditions.
GENERAL DISCLAIMER
All content, Materials and User Submissions included on this Site are provided for convenience and informational purposes only. The information is provided AS IS, without any representations, warranties or conditions of any kind. The YMCA does not guarantee error-free or un-interrupted operations of its Site. While the YMCA makes all reasonable efforts to review content, Materials and User Submissions before they are published, the YMCA makes no guarantees as to the accuracy, completeness or suitability of any content of its Site.
The YMCA has no control and takes no responsibility for the non-delivery, loss, delay, defect or alteration to Materials, User Submissions and other communications and transmissions through this Site or the Internet. The YMCA cannot ensure the confidentiality of communications through this Site or the Internet.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
The YMCA assumes no responsibility for viruses or other destructive items that may infect the Site and/or result in the need for servicing, repair or correction of equipment or data belonging to you.
The YMCA expressly disclaims any liability whatsoever for any losses or damages, whether direct, indirect, incidental or otherwise, arising out of the use of this Site (including any services, Materials, User Submissions or other information contained on this Site and/or other linked websites), any unauthorized access to or modification of any content, Materials, User Submissions and other information you may have posted, accessed or transmitted through the Site, whether or not the YMCA is advised of the possibility of such damages.
You agree to indemnify the YMCA for all claims, loss or damage of any kind resulting from or arising out of (1) your breach of these Terms and Conditions and (2) your use of this Site, including any claim of infringement of any intellectual property rights of any third party.
LINKS PROVIDED FROM THIS SITE
This Site may contain hyperlinks to other websites that are provided solely as a convenience to you. The YMCA does not endorse such websites and assumes no responsibility for the accuracy or appropriateness of the information or links contained on such websites.
LINKING TO THE YMCA SITE
In order to establish a hyperlink to the Home Page of this Site, you must contact us to obtain YMCA’s approval of the link. You may only use the text and images provided or approved by the YMCA. If approval of the link is granted, the YMCA will be providing you with a non-exclusive, limited license to use the YMCA’s trade-marks solely for the purpose of hyperlinking to this Site.
APPLICABLE LAWS
These Terms and Conditions shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein. The courts of the Province of Ontario shall have exclusive jurisdiction over all disputes.
INQUIRIES
Please email any comments and enquiries you may have to Customer Service or call YMCA Contact Centre at (416) 928-9622.




