Terms Of Use

This website (the Site) is developed and maintained by Shaftesbury Emerald I Inc., which also owns all content and materials (collectively, the Content) available on the Site. The Content is being made available to you solely for personal, non-commercial, entertainment, informational and educational purposes. We reserve the right to change or discontinue any aspect of the Site, or to remove, revise or upload Content, at any time, at our sole discretion.

By using the Site, you agree that your use if subject to these terms of use and all applicable laws. If you do not agree to these terms of use, you agree to refrain from using the Site or accessing any of the Content. We reserve the right to revise or modify these terms of use at any time, effective immediately upon the posting of revised terms of use. You agree to periodically review the terms of use, and to discontinue your use of the Site should you at any time deem a change to the terms unacceptable.

All Content on the Site is protected, nationally and internationally, by copyright and where applicable trademark laws. Illegal downloading, duplication, distribution or reproduction, in whole or in part, of any or all of the Content is strictly prohibited. No Content, or any part of the Content (including photos, excerpts, etc.) may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, downloaded, posted, transmitted, distributed, modified, altered, decompiled or disassembled in any manner.

Your use of the Site is at your own risk. If you are dissatisfied with any of theContent or other elements of the Site, or with these terms of use, you agree that your sole remedy is to cease accessing the Site immediately. We make no warranty i) that the Site will be error free or that the Content will be uninterrupted or that defects will not occur or will be corrected; or ii) with respect to the correctness, accuracy, reliability or fitness for any particular purpose of the Site, Content or any elements thereof.

Some elements of the Site may offer you the opportunity to submit, upload and exhibit materials created by you. By submitting any such material, you (i) automatically and irrevocably grant to us the non-exclusive, sub-licensable, royalty-free, unlimited right to share, exhibit, transmit, distribute, host, post, cache, promote, incorporate into other materials or productions, edit, alter and otherwise use and store such material as we deem fit, in any and all media now known or hereafter devised, worldwide, in perpetuity; and (ii) waive any and all moral rights which you may have in such material. You represent and warrant that any material you submit will be wholly created by you and original to you (except to the extent that it contains material from The Emerald Code series or material in the public domain), and that our use of the material submitted by you will not infringe upon the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyright, trademark rights, or any other right of any other person or entity.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, SHAFTESBURY EMERALD I INC. AND ITS PARENT AND RELATED COMPANIES AND PARTNERS, OR ANY OTHER PARTY INVOLVED IN THE CREATION AND MAINTENANCE OF THIS SITE, AND ITS AND THEIR OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS AND REPRESENTATIVES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF YOUR ACCESS TO, OR USE OF, THE SITE, THE CONTENT OR ANY ELEMENT THEREOF IN ANY MANNER.

Without limiting the foregoing, we shall not be liable for any damages to, or viruses or other harmful components that may infect, your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing the Site.

The Site may contain links to third party sites. We are not responsible for any third party sites, and your link through to such sites and use thereof is at your sole risk and liability.

This Site is subject to the laws of the province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein. If any provision of these terms of use are found to be unlawful, void or unenforceable, such provision shall be deemed severed from the rest of the terms of use, which shall remain in full force and effect, unamended.