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This is a contract between you and the Gavamedia Corporation listed in the section titled "Gavamedia Corporation, Applicable Law, and Place for Resolving Disputes" in this contract. This contract refers to Gavamedia as "we," "us," or "our." This contract applies to any Gavamedia sites (and their successor sites), services (including pre-release services) and software, including all updates, support, and content. This contract refers to all of these as the "service." This contract also covers your use of any additional Gavamedia services for which you sign up while this contract is in force, unless other terms accompany those services. If so, those terms apply. You represent that you are at least 18 years of age or have attained the age of majority where you live, and that all information you supply is true and correct. Each service may have other posted notices or codes of conduct. All such notices and codes of conduct are incorporated by reference into this contract.

You may only use the service if you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service. This contract limits our liability and disclaims warranties for the service to the maximum extent permitted by law. Please read these sections of the contract carefully.

  1. Provision of Service
  2. Gavamedia will provide you with the service ordered as described in the order summary. You understand and agree that Gavamedia will publish the Web site solely in accordance with the information provided by you in written form and telephone interview. After you provide all information and files, Gavamedia will begin building the Web site. Unless otherwise indicated in the order summary, Gavamedia will deliver a complete Web site within 45 calendar days. This is dependent on you providing all necessary content within 7 business days of the sale and you providing feedback on site progression stages within 2 business days. The Web site will be made available for you to view prior to hosting for purposes of editing for corrections to content only. Editing beyond correction of content will be considered as additional services or part of the monthly update service (if you select this service) and will be billed as such. Gavamedia will bill final balance upon the earlier of i) 7 business days of making the site available for your review or ii) 45 days from purchase date, regardless of Web site progression. Gavamedia will attempt to contact you to notify that the site is completed, and ready to publish. In the event you do not respond within 7 business days, the site shall become "passively accepted" by you, and Gavamedia will publish the site and bill the remaining amount.

  3. How You May Use the Service
  4. In using the service, you will

  5. How You May Not Use the Service
  6. In using the service, you may not

  7. Rights to the Web Site and Content
  8. With the exception of any third-party materials and Background Technology (as set forth in the section titled "Limited License to the Background Technology" in this contract), you own the Web site. "Customer Content" means all content or information (including, without limitation, any text, music, sound, photographs, video, graphics, data, or software), in any medium, provided by you to Gavamedia. Gavamedia will provide you a limited, personal, nonexclusive, non-transferable license to use the graphics during the term of this contract. Upon written request, Gavamedia will deliver you the source files and database script, if applicable, for a fee of $100. Gavamedia will collect 100% of the fees prior to providing the information.

  9. Your Service Account
  10. You may establish a service account and password for the service on the Gavamedia website. The service may enable you to have other people create member accounts and passwords associated with your account. We call these "associated accounts." You are responsible for all activity under your account, associated accounts, and passwords.

  11. Associated Account Users
  12. If you are the user of an associated account, then the holder of the service account has full control over your associated account. This control includes the right to end the service, close or alter your associated account at any time, and in some cases, to request and receive computer and service use information related to your associated account. Any data related to your associated account is collected and delivered to the account holder and Gavamedia.

  13. How We May Change This Contract
  14. Gavamedia may change this contract at any time without notice. If we make a material change to this contract, we will notify you at least 30 days before the change takes place. If you do not agree to the change, you must cancel and stop using the service before the change takes place. If you do not stop using the service, your continued use of the service will be under the changed contract.

  15. Charges and Billing
  16. This section applies in all situations in which you pay Gavamedia directly for a service. If you pay a company other than Gavamedia for a service, then the charges and billing terms are as stated by that company. Even if you do not pay for the service, you may still incur other charges incidental to using the service; for example, charges for phone or Internet access, mobile text messaging, wireless service and other data transmissions.

  17. Limited License to the Background Technology
  18. "Background Technology" means computer programming and formatting code or operating instructions developed by or for Gavamedia and used to create any portion of a Web site or used to operate the Web site or a Web server in connection with a Web site. Background Technology includes, but is not limited to, any files necessary to make forms, buttons, checkboxes, and similar functions and underlying technology or components, such as style sheets, animation templates, interface programs that link multimedia and other programs, customized graphics manipulation engines, menu utilities, and PHP code, whether in database form or dynamically driven.

    All Background Technology is property of Gavamedia, and you are denied from copying, distributing, transmitting, displaying, performing, creating derivative works of, and otherwise use any such Background Technology that is incorporated into a Web site, in whole or in part. You may not duplicate or distribute any Background Technology to any third party. All rights to the Background Technology are retained by Gavamedia. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree not to reverse-engineer, reverse-assemble, decompile, or otherwise attempt to derive any source code of the Background Technology.

  19. Limited License to Content
  20. You hereby grant Gavamedia the limited, nonexclusive right and license to copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, create derivative works from, modify, and otherwise use and exploit Web site, any Customer Content, or any you Marks provided to Gavamedia hereunder, solely for the purpose of rendering Gavamedia's services. Such limited right and license shall extend to no other materials or for any other purpose and will terminate automatically upon termination of this contract for any reason.

  21. Changes to the Service; Cancellation or Termination

  22. Limits On Service
  23. Gavamedia may establish limits on the service. For example, we may limit If you exceed the published service limits, Gavamedia reserves the right to cancel your service.

  24. A Service May Be a Pre-release Version
  25. A particular service may be a pre-release version. It may not work the way a final version of the feature or service will. We may change it for the final, commercial version. We may not release a commercial version. We also reserve the right to change a pre-release service at any time without advance notice to you.

  26. Gavamedia Does Not Have Editorial Control

  27. Privacy

  28. Software

  29. Materials that Gavamedia Licenses to You

  30. Gavamedia ID
  31. We may provide you with Gavamedia ID credentials to use with the service. A Gavamedia ID is a multi-purpose authentication Web service that makes it easy for you to sign in to Web sites. We may contact members of a Gavamedia ID from time to time. Gavamedia ID members can opt-out of such communications any time. You may not use any software or hardware that reduces the number of users directly accessing or using Gavamedia ID (sometimes called "multiplexing" or "pooling" software or hardware). We require creating Gavamedia IDs for your customers in most situations, including, but not limited to, customers buying goods or services from you on a Gavamedia Web site, or adding subscribers to your own mailing list. Gavamedia will not share any personally identifiable Gavamedia ID information with third parties or advertisers. You are solely responsible for any dealings with third parties (including advertisers) that support Gavamedia ID, including the delivery and payment for goods and services. This contract applies to you whenever you access or use Gavamedia ID credentials. When you use Gavamedia ID to gain access to any site or service, the terms and conditions for that site or service may also apply to you. Please refer to the terms of use for each site or service that you visit.

  32. Your Dealings with Others
  33. If you obtain anything from a third party (including third party offered services) through the service, you understand that your relationship with respect to those things is with the third party directly and not with Gavamedia. In the event you assert a claim that relates to or implicates your relationship with a third party, you shall only assert such claim against the third party, and you will not assert any such claim against Gavamedia, even if Gavamedia assisted in billing for the third party offering. You are solely responsible for your dealings with any third party, including You represent and warrant that
  34. Feedback
  35. If you give feedback about the service to Gavamedia, you give to Gavamedia, without charge, the right to use, share, and commercialize your feedback in any way and for any purpose. You also give to third parties, without charge, any patent rights needed for their products, technologies, and services to use or interface with any specific parts of a Gavamedia software or service that includes the feedback. You will not give feedback that is subject to a license that requires Gavamedia to license its software or documentation to third parties because we include your feedback in them. These rights survive this contract.

  36. Our Notices to You; Your Notices to Us
  37. This contract is in electronic form. We have promised to send you certain information in connection with the service and we have the right to send you this information in electronic form. There may be other information about the service that the law requires us to send to you. We may send this information to you in electronic form.

    We may provide required information to you
    • by e-mail at the e-mail address you specified when you signed up for the service, or
    • on your home page when we first send you an e-mail notice alerting you to the notice on your home page.
    Notices will be deemed given and received on the transmission date of the e-mail.
    As long as you can access and use the service, you have the necessary software and hardware to receive these notices. If you do not consent to receive notices electronically, you must cancel the service.

  38. No Warranty
  39. Gavamedia makes no guarantee about the reliability, accuracy, or timeliness of the service or the results obtained from the service. You understand that the security mechanisms in the service have inherent limitations and that you are responsible for determining that the service meets your needs.

    We provide the service "as-is," "with all faults," and "as available." You bear the risk of using it. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Gavamedia parties give no express warranties, guarantees, or conditions. You may have additional rights under your local laws that this contract cannot change. To the extent permitted by law, we exclude any implied warranties or conditions including those of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, workmanlike effort, non-infringement, and satisfactory quality.

  40. Liability Limitation
  41. You can recover from the Gavamedia parties only direct damages up to an amount equal to your service charge for one month or the equivalent of $5 CAD (whichever is greater). To the extent permitted by law, you cannot recover any other damages from the Gavamedia parties, including consequential, lost profits, special, indirect, or incidental damages.


    This limitation applies to anything related to:
    It also applies even if
    Some provinces do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitations or exclusions may not apply to you. They also may not apply to you because your sate or country or region may not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental, consequential, or other damages.

  42. Claim Must Be Filed Within One Year
  43. To the extent permitted by law, any claim related to this contract or the service must be brought within one year. The one-year period begins on the date when the claim first could be filed. It if is not filed, then that claim is permanently barred. This section applies to you and your successors. It also applies to Gavamedia and its successors and assigns.


  44. Gavamedia Company, Applicable Law, and Place for Resolving Disputes
  45. This contract is between you and the Gavamedia company in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.

    Gavamedia company with which you are contracting:
       Gavamedia Corporation
       275 Canning Court
       Oakville, Ontario  L6J 5Y4
       Canada

    Governing law and place for resolving disputes
    Ontario provincial law governs the interpretation of this contract and applies to claims for breach of it, regardless of conflict of laws principles. All other claims, including claims regarding consumer protection laws, unfair competition laws, and in tort, will be subject to the laws of your province of residence in Canada, or if you live outside Canada, the laws of the country or region to which we direct your service. You and we irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the provincial or federal courts in Ontario, Canada, for all disputes arising out of or relating to this contract.

  46. Contract Interpretation
  47. All parts of this contract apply to the maximum extent permitted by law. A court may hold that we cannot enforce a part of this contract as written. If this happens, then that part will be replaced with terms that most closely match the intent of the part that we cannot enforce. The rest of this contract will not change. This contract, together with any codes of conduct and other notices we provide, is the entire contract between Gavamedia and you regarding the service. It supersedes any other contract or statements related to the service. If you have confidentiality obligations related to the service, those obligations remain in force (for example, you may have been a tester for a pre-release version of a service). The section titles in the contract do not limit the other terms of this contract.

  48. Assignment
  49. Gavamedia may assign this contract, in whole or part, at any time without notice to you. You may not assign this contract, or any part of it, to any other party. Any attempt to do so is void. Instead, you may cancel your service. The other party may then establish a service account and enter into a contract with us.

  50. Force Majeure
  51. Gavamedia will not be liable for any loss or damage or be deemed to be in breach of this contract due to any event or circumstance beyond its reasonable control, including, war, invasion, electrical shortages, terrorist attacks, earthquakes, or acts of god.

  52. Notices
  53. Copyright Notice
    All contents of the service are Copyright © 2011 Gavamedia and/or its suppliers, 275 Canning court, Oakville, Ontario, Canada. All rights reserved.

    Respect Copyright
    Please respect the rights of artists and creators. Content such as music, photos, and video may be protected by copyright. People appearing in content may have a right to control use of their image. You may not share other people's content unless you own the rights, have permission from the owner, or such sharing is otherwise legal.

  54. Domain Name Service

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