1. Introduction<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1.1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Digital Innovation Foundation (DIF) (https:\/\/digitalinnovation.site<\/a>), as owner of the web site https:\/\/disinform.app<\/a><\/a>, requires your consent to these terms and conditions to govern your use of our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1.2 By using our\nwebsite, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you\ndisagree with these terms and conditions or any part of these terms and\nconditions, you must not use our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1.3 If you register\nwith our website, submit any material to our website or use any of our website\nservices, we will ask you to expressly agree to these terms and conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1.4 You must be\nat least 18 years of age to use our website; by using our website or agreeing\nto these terms and conditions, you warrant and represent to us that you are at\nleast 18 years of age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1.5 In this document, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to Digital Innovation Foundation (DIF). For more information about us, see Section 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Credit<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2.1 This document\nwas created using a template from SEQ Legal (https:\/\/seqlegal.com<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Copyright notice<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3.1 \u00a9 2022 Digital Innovation Foundation (DIF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3.2 Subject to\nthe express provisions of these terms and conditions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n (a) we, together\nwith our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual\nproperty rights in our website and the material on our website; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n (b) all the\ncopyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the\nmaterial on our website are reserved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. Permission to use website<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4.1 You may:<\/p>\n\n\n\n (a) view pages\nfrom our website in a web browser;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (b) download\npages from our website for caching in a web browser;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (c) print pages\nfrom our website for your own personal and non-commercial use, providing that\nsuch printing is not systematic or excessive;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (d) stream audio\nand video files from our website using the media player on our website; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n (e) use our\nwebsite services by means of a web browser, subject to the other provisions of\nthese terms and conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4.2 Except as\nexpressly permitted by Section 4.1 or the other provisions of these terms and\nconditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any\nsuch material to your computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4.3 You may only\nuse our website for your own personal and business purposes; you must not use\nour website for any other purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4.4 Except as\nexpressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or\notherwise modify any material on our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4.5 Unless you\nown or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not:<\/p>\n\n\n\n (a) republish\nmaterial from our website (including republication on another website);<\/p>\n\n\n\n (b) sell, rent or\nsub-license material from our website;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (c) show any\nmaterial from our website in public;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (d) exploit\nmaterial from our website for a commercial purpose; or<\/p>\n\n\n\n (e) redistribute\nmaterial from our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4.6 Notwithstanding\nSection 4.5, you may redistribute our newsletter in print and electronic form\nto any person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4.7 We reserve\nthe right to suspend or restrict access to our website, to areas of our website\nand\/or to functionality upon our website. We may, for example, suspend access\nto the website during server maintenance or when we update the website. You\nmust not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access\nrestriction measures on the website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Misuse of website<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5.1 You must not:<\/p>\n\n\n\n (a) use our\nwebsite in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the\nwebsite or impairment of the performance, availability, accessibility,\nintegrity or security of the website;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (b) use our\nwebsite in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in\nconnection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or\nactivity;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (c) hack or\notherwise tamper with our website;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (d) probe, scan\nor test the vulnerability of our website without our permission;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (e) circumvent\nany authentication or security systems or processes on or relating to our\nwebsite;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (f) use our\nwebsite to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any\nmaterial which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus,\nTrojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer\nsoftware;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (g) impose an\nunreasonably large load on our website resources (including bandwidth, storage\ncapacity and processing capacity);<\/p>\n\n\n\n (h) decrypt or\ndecipher any communications sent by or to our website without our permission;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (i) conduct any\nsystematic or automated data collection activities (including without\nlimitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in\nrelation to our website without our express written consent;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (j) access or\notherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated\nmeans, except for the purpose of search engine indexing;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (k) use our\nwebsite except by means of our public interfaces;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (l) violate the\ndirectives set out in the robots.txt file for our website;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (m) use data\ncollected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without\nlimitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing);\nor<\/p>\n\n\n\n (n) do anything\nthat interferes with the normal use of our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5.2 You must not\nuse data collected from our website to contact individuals, companies or other\npersons or entities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5.3 You must\nensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in\nrelation to our website, is true, accurate, current, complete and\nnon-misleading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. Registration and accounts<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6.1 To be\neligible for an account on our website under this Section 6, you must be lawfully\ncompliant and allowed to conclude business transactions with companies in\nCanada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6.2 You may\nregister for an account with our website by completing and submitting the\naccount registration form on our website and clicking on the verification link in\nthe email that the website will send to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6.3 You must not\nallow any other person to use your account to access the website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6.4 You must\nnotify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of\nyour account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6.5 You must not\nuse any other person’s account to access the website, unless you have that\nperson’s express permission to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7. User login details<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7.1 If you\nregister for an account with our website, we will provide you with OR you will\nbe asked to choose a user ID and password.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7.2 Your user ID\nmust not be liable to mislead and must comply with the content rules set out in\nSection 10; you must not use your account or user ID for or in connection with\nthe impersonation of any person. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 7.3 You must keep\nyour password confidential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7.4 You must\nnotify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any disclosure of your\npassword.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 7.5 You are\nresponsible for any activity on our website arising out of any failure to keep\nyour password confidential, and may be held liable for any losses arising out\nof such a failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8. Cancellation and suspension of account<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8.1 We may:<\/p>\n\n\n\n (a) suspend your\naccount;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (b) cancel your\naccount; and\/or<\/p>\n\n\n\n (c) edit your\naccount details,<\/p>\n\n\n\n at any time\nin our sole discretion with or without notice to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8.2 We will\nusually cancel an account if it remains unused for a continuous period of 18\nmonths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8.3 You may\ncancel your account on our website using your account control panel on the\nwebsite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9. Our rights to use your content<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9.1 In these\nterms and conditions, “your content” means all works and materials\n(including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video\nmaterial, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit\nto us or our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or\ntransmission via, our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9.2 You grant to\nus a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use,\nreproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any\nexisting or future media OR reproduce, store and publish your content on and in\nrelation to this website and any successor website OR reproduce, store and,\nwith your specific consent, publish your content on and in relation to this\nwebsite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9.3 You grant to\nus the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section 9.2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9.4 You grant to\nus the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under\nSection 9.2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9.5 You hereby\nwaive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by\napplicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in\nyour content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable\nlaw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9.6 You may edit\nyour content to the extent permitted using the editing functionality made\navailable on our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9.7 Without\nprejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach\nany provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably\nsuspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may\ndelete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 10. Rules about your content<\/p>\n\n\n\n 10.1 You warrant\nand represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 10.2 Your content\nmust not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person’s legal rights,\nand must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in\neach case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 10.3 Your content,\nand the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and\nconditions, must not:<\/p>\n\n\n\n (a) be libellous\nor maliciously false;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (b) be obscene or\nindecent;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (c) infringe any\ncopyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right\nin passing off or other intellectual property right;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (d) infringe any\nright of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection\nlegislation;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (e) constitute\nnegligent advice or contain any negligent statement;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (f) constitute an\nincitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the\npromotion of criminal activity;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (g) be in\ncontempt of any court or in breach of any court order;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (h) be in breach\nof racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (i) be\nblasphemous;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (j) be in breach\nof official secrets legislation;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (k) be in breach\nof any contractual obligation owed to any person;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (l) depict\nviolence in an explicit, graphic or gratuitous manner;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (m) be\npornographic, lewd, suggestive or sexually explicit;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (n) be untrue,\nfalse, inaccurate or misleading;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (o) consist of or\ncontain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon\nand could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or\ndamage;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (p) constitute\nspam;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (q) be offensive,\ndeceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing,\nhateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or<\/p>\n\n\n\n (r) cause\nannoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 11. Limited warranties<\/p>\n\n\n\n 11.1 We do not\nwarrant or represent:<\/p>\n\n\n\n (a) the\ncompleteness or accuracy of the information published on our website;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (b) that the\nmaterial on the website is up to date;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (c) that the\nwebsite will operate without fault; or<\/p>\n\n\n\n (d) that the\nwebsite or any service on the website will remain available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 11.2 We reserve the\nright to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop\npublishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or\nexplanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms\nand conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon\nthe discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop\npublishing the website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 11.3 To the maximum\nextent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 12.1, we exclude all\nrepresentations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms\nand conditions, our website and the use of our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12. Limitations and exclusions of liability<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12.1 Nothing in\nthese terms and conditions will:<\/p>\n\n\n\n (a) limit or\nexclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (b) limit or\nexclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (c) limit any\nliabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or<\/p>\n\n\n\n (d) exclude any\nliabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12.2 The\nlimitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 12 and\nelsewhere in these terms and conditions: <\/p>\n\n\n\n (a) are subject\nto Section 12.1; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n (b) govern all\nliabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject\nmatter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in\ncontract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty,\nexcept to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and\nconditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12.3 To the extent\nthat our website and the information and services on our website are provided\nfree of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12.4 We will not be\nliable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events\nbeyond our reasonable control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12.5 We will not be\nliable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation)\nloss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated\nsavings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12.6 We will not be\nliable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or\nsoftware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12.7 We will not be\nliable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or\ndamage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 12.8 You accept\nthat we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and\nemployees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a\nlimited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim\npersonally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you\nsuffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will\nnot, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity\nitself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 13. Breaches of these terms and conditions<\/p>\n\n\n\n 13.1 Without\nprejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach\nthese terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you\nhave breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may: <\/p>\n\n\n\n (a) send you one\nor more formal warnings;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (b) temporarily\nsuspend your access to our website;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (c) permanently\nprohibit you from accessing our website;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (d) block\ncomputers using your IP address from accessing our website;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (e) contact any\nor all of your internet service providers and request that they block your\naccess to our website;<\/p>\n\n\n\n (f) commence\nlegal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and\/or<\/p>\n\n\n\n (g) suspend or\ndelete your account on our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 13.2 Where we\nsuspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a part of our\nwebsite, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or\nprohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating and\/or using a\ndifferent account).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 14. Variation<\/p>\n\n\n\n 14.1 We may revise\nthese terms and conditions from time to time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 14.2 We will give\nyou written notice of any revision of these terms and conditions, and the\nrevised terms and conditions will apply to the use of our website from the date\nthat we give you such notice; if you do not agree to the revised terms and\nconditions, you must stop using our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 14.3 If you have\ngiven your express agreement to these terms and conditions, we will ask for\nyour express agreement to any revision of these terms and conditions; and if\nyou do not give your express agreement to the revised terms and conditions\nwithin such period as we may specify, we will disable or delete your account on\nthe website, and you must stop using the website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 15. Assignment<\/p>\n\n\n\n 15.1 You hereby\nagree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our\nrights and\/or obligations under these terms and conditions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 15.2 You may not\nwithout our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise\ndeal with any of your rights and\/or obligations under these terms and\nconditions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 16. Severability<\/p>\n\n\n\n 16.1 If a provision\nof these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent\nauthority to be unlawful and\/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue\nin effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 16.2 If any\nunlawful and\/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be\nlawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to\nbe deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 17. Third party rights<\/p>\n\n\n\n 17.1 A contract\nunder these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit, and is\nnot intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 17.2 The exercise\nof the parties’ rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not\nsubject to the consent of any third party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 18. Entire agreement<\/p>\n\n\n\n 18.1 Subject to\nSection 12.1, these terms and conditions, together with our privacy policy,\nshall constitute the entire agreement between you and us in relation to your use\nof our website and shall supersede all previous agreements between you and us\nin relation to your use of our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 19. Law and jurisdiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n 19.1 These terms\nand conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Canadian law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 19.2 Any disputes\nrelating to these terms and conditions shall be subject to the exclusive\njurisdiction of the courts of Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 20. Our details<\/p>\n\n\n\n 20.1 This website is owned and operated by Digital Innovation Foundation (DIF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 20.2 We are registered in Qu\u00e9bec, Canada, under Qu\u00e9bec enterprise number (NEQ) 1165538407.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 20.3 Our main place\nof business is at 86 Gal\u00e8re, Gatineau, QC, Canada, J8P 0G2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 20.4 You can\ncontact us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n (a) by email, dif@gagnontech.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n (b) by telephone,\n+1-819-815-7748; or<\/p>\n\n\n\n (c) by post, to\nthe postal address given above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 21. Legal representative officer<\/p>\n\n\n\n 21.1 Our legal representative officer is St\u00e9phane Gagnon, please contact him by email, dif@gagnontech.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1. Introduction 1.1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Digital Innovation Foundation (DIF) (https:\/\/digitalinnovation.site), as owner of the web site https:\/\/disinform.app, requires your consent to these terms and conditions to govern your use of our website. 1.2 By using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full; accordingly, if you disagree with these terms and conditions or any part…<\/span><\/p>\n