When you use or register for any of Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse’s websites, web applications or web communications, you’re agreeing to comply with these terms.
1. Overview
Please add your comments to this site — we’re very interested in what you have to say. Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse wants discussion sections to be a good experience for everyone, so here are a few simple guidelines to keep in mind.
- be respectful — no personal shots or defamatory statements.
- avoid partisan comments. This is a place to discuss policies and initiatives of the provincial Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse, not a political party. There are lots of other places to voice your political preferences
- express your own opinion
- treat others as you woould treat a guest in your home, with courtesy. All discussions are moderated, wich means that inflammatory or otherwise inappropriate posts will be removed.
2. Definitions
For the purposes of these terms of use, the following definitions will apply :
2.1. Contents
means all information, data, text, software, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages, or any other materials whatsoever
2.2 Offensive
with reference to language, material, content or any other type of submission means obscene, indecent, defamatory, abusive, bullying, harassing, racist, hateful, or violent. It includes but is not limited to ethnic slurs, religious intolerance, and homophobic or personal attacks
2.3. Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse
means the Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse
3. Monitoring
Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse tries to provide a useful and positive online experience for users, so it makes reasonable efforts to monitor activity on the website in forums, blogs, wikis, etc., to encourage compliance with this Terms of Use. However, Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse does not make any warranties or guarantees that the website, or any portion thereof, will be constantly monitored for accuracy or unacceptable use; or that apparent statements of fact will be authenticated; or that you will never come across any offensive content.
Please contact Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse if you come across offensive content.
4. Moderation
All submitted content is subject to moderation. Moderators may approve, edit, or reject content before it appears, sometimes causing a delay in the appearance of your submission/post/content. Moderators may edit or delete your submission/post/content after it has been posted if in our sole discretion it violates the Terms of use. This discretion includes a moderator’s determination of whether posted material is offensive.
5. Use of user ID and password
You are solely responsible for all usage or activity on your account. Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse requires you to take reasonable efforts to ensure your ID and username are protected and not used without your knowledge or consent or on your behalf by others.
6. Use of the website by you
Each user must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with the use of any content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such content.
Under no circumstances will Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse be liable in any way for any content, including, but not limited to, liability for any errors or omissions in any content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any content posted, emailed or otherwise transmitted via Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse’s websites.
Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse does not control user-supplied content posted to the websites and, as such, does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of such content. Content, whether publicly posted or privately transmitted, is the sole responsibility of the person from whom such content originated. This means that the user, and not Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse, is entirely responsible for all content that he or she uploads, posts, emails or otherwise transmits via the website. No user shall transmit content or otherwise conduct or participate in any activities on Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse’s websites that, in the judgment of Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse, is likely to be prohibited by law in any applicable jurisdiction, including laws governing the encryption of software, the export of technology, the transmission of obscenity, or the permissible uses of intellectual property.
You may not provide to or post on or through the website any graphics, text, photographs, images, video, audio or other material that constitutes unsolicited junk mail, spam, advertising, commercial offers, or attempts at deception or fraud. You may not repeat the same posting multiple times in a day or week.
You agree not to use offensive language or to provide to or post on or through the website any graphics, text, photographs, images, video, audio or other material that is offensive when using the website.
You are responsible for ensuring that any graphics, text, photographs, images, video, audio or other material you provide to or post on the website, including without limitation in forums, blogs, wikis, and chats does not violate the copyright, trademark, trade secret or any other personal or proprietary rights of any third party or is provided or posted with the permission of the owner(s) of such rights.
7. Comments by others are not endorsed by Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse
Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse does not endorse, support, sanction, encourage, verify, or agree with the comments, opinions, or statements posted on forums, blogs, wikis, chats, or otherwise contained in the website. Any information or material placed online, including advice and opinions, are the views and responsibility of those who post the statements and do not represent the views of Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse.
8. Use of material supplied by you
or information regarding use of information about you that you may supply or communicate to the website, please see our Privacy statement. Except as expressly provided otherwise in the Privacy statement, in this Terms of Use, or as stated on specific pages, you agree that by posting messages, uploading text, graphics, photographs, images, video or audio files, inputting data, or engaging in any other form of communication with or through the website, you grant Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse a royalty-free, perpetual, non- exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide licence to use and modify or adapt in order to reproduce any such communication in any medium now in existence or hereinafter developed. In addition, please be aware that information you disclose in publicly accessible portions of the website will be available to all users of the website, so you should be mindful of personal information and other content you may wish to post. Certain sites and pages may waive this grant and not claim any rights over material submitted by you. Such pages and sites will provide clear notice of this.
Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse shall have the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion to refuse or delete any content that it reasonably considers to be offensive, that violates the Terms of Use, or that is otherwise illegal. Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse, in its sole and absolute discretion, may preserve content and may also disclose content if required to do so by law or judicial or Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse shall mandate or as reasonably determined useful by Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse’s websites’ users and the public or as permitted by law.
9. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse and its employees, agents, representatives and third party service providers, and to defend and hold each of them harmless, from any and all claims and liabilities (including legal fees) which may arise from your submissions, from your unauthorized use of material obtained through the website, or from your breach of this Terms of Use, or from any other acts through your use of the website.
10. Editing and deletions
Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse reserves the right, but undertakes no duty, to review, edit, move or delete any material provided for display or placed on the website or its forums, blogs, wikis, chats, etc., or otherwise, in its sole discretion, without notice.
11. External websites
Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse’s websites may link you to websites outside of our control. These links are solely for your convenience and information and do not constitute an endorsement of those websites, their contents, or the services provided on those sites. Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse is not responsible for the accuracy, currency, or the reliability of the content.
Our privacy policy applies only when you are on Réseau Santé – Nouvelle-Écosse websites. Once you go to another website, take care to read that website’s privacy policy before disclosing any personal information. The personal information you provide on these links may be stored outside of Canada. The subsequent use and disclosure of your personal information would not be subject to the protections or provisions of Nova Scotia privacy laws.