Website Terms and Conditions

• Your Acceptance of these Terms and Conditions
  By using the website of the Portuguese-Canadian National Congress ("PCNC"s), you agree to these terms and conditions. If you do not agree with these terms and conditions, you may not use the website.
• No Professional Advice
  The website is for convenience and informational purposes only. The information on the website is not intended to be a substitute for any professional advice, including but not limited to financial, legal or medical advice. You should seek appropriate, qualified professional advice before acting or omitting to act based upon any information provided on or though the website.
• Content Supplied by Users
  The website provides various services that permit you and other users to submit, post and/or store content on the website and that may or may not be viewed by you or others, including content pursuant to listservs and blogs. You acknowledge that you are responsible for the content that you submit, post and/or store on the website, and that you, and not PCNC, have full responsibility for the content, including its legality, reliability, appropriateness, originality and copyright.
  
  Any information contained in your requests, responses, communications or submissions to the website or to PCNC, its affiliates, subsidiaries, suppliers and licensors, which are placed by you in areas that are accessible by other users of the website, or which PCNC makes apparent, may be disclosed to other users of the website, shall be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary and may be used, reproduced, distributed and disclosed by PCNC, its affiliates, subsidiaries, suppliers or licensors for any purpose without restriction.
  
  You acknowledge and understand that while PCNC does not review or monitor content that is submitted, posted and/or stored on the website, PCNC reserves the right to do so. If PCNC reviews or monitors content that is submitted, posted and/or stored on the website, PCNC shall have the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion to refuse, modify, move or remove any content that is on the website. PCNC will not assume liability or responsibility for any content submitted, posted and/or stored by you or other users to the website in any area. PCNC and you will fully cooperate with any legal obligation to disclose the identity of any person posting unlawful, threatening, libelous, obscene, pornographic, profane or otherwise offensive or illegal materials on the website.
  
  The website may not be used to transmit to PCNC any confidential information. Information transmitted to PCNC through the website may not be secure. You should not send confidential or sensitive information by the internet or e-mail unless you take appropriate precautions, such as the use of encryption.
• Access and Passwords
  Some parts of the website require registration and/or the use of a password before you can access it. You agree to keep confidential the passwords you use to access such areas of the website and agree not to disclose it to any other person. You agree that you are fully responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and that you will be responsible for any breach of this obligation, including any damages which flow from, or are connected to, such breach, without limitation. You agree that you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your password. You agree to contact PCNC immediately if you have any reason to believe that your password has been compromised. You further agree to ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session. PCNC reserves the right to change your access at any time to protect the security of the website. If a user name is required to access any part of the website, your user name may be disclosed to other users of the website, including on listervs and blogs. You may wish to select a user name that does not personally identify you.
• No Liability
  PCNC DOES NOT ACCEPT ANY LIABILITY FOR YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE. YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE WEBSITE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT ANY REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AND INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION IMPLIED REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF TITLE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, PERFORMANCE, DURABILITY, AVAILABILITY, TIMELINESS, ACCURACY, OR COMPLETENESS, ALL OF WHICH ARE HEREBY DISCLAIMED BY PCNC TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. PCNC WILL NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE ARISING FROM, CONNECTED WITH, OR RELATING TO THE USE OF THE WEBSITE BY YOU OR ANY OTHER PERSON.
• Personal Information Privacy
  PCNC collects, uses and discloses your personal information in accordance with its Web Privacy Policy. [NTD: Link “Web Privacy Policy” to the policy.] Each time you use the website, you consent to PCNC’s collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with PCNC’s Web Privacy Policy as it then reads without any further notice or any liability to you or any other person.
• Ownership and Permitted Use of the Website
  The website is the property of PCNC and is protected by Canadian and international copyright, trade-mark, and other laws. Your use of the website does not transfer to you any ownership or other rights in the website or its content.
  
  The website is made available to you for your lawful, personal, non-commercial use only. You may print or download website pages for your personal, non-commercial use provided that you do not modify any of the website pages or other content and you do not remove or alter any visible or non-visible identification, marks, notices, or disclaimers. You may not use the website or its content for any other purpose or in any other way. In particular, the website and its content may not be copied, imitated, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, modified, indexed, catalogued, mirrored or distributed in any way, in whole or in part, without the express prior written consent of PCNC or applicable owners.
• Other Sites
  For your convenience, the website includes links to other internet sites or resources and businesses operated by other persons (collectively “Other Sites”). Other Sites are independent from PCNC, and PCNC has no responsibility or liability for or control over Other Sites, their business, goods, services, or content. Your use of Other Sites and your dealings with the owners or operators of Other Sites is at your own risk.
• Indemnity
  You agree to indemnify and hold PCNC and its affiliates, subsidiaries, suppliers and licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees, representatives, agents and consultants harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable legal fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of content you submit, post, transmit or make available through the website, your use of the website, your connection to the website, your violation of the terms and conditions, or your violation of any rights of another.
• Termination of these Terms and Conditions
  If you breach any provision of these terms and conditions, you may no longer use the website. PCNC may, at any time and for any reason and in its sole discretion, change, suspend or terminate, temporarily or permanently, the website or any part of it, or your permission to use the website, without any prior notice or liability to you or any other person. If these terms and conditions or your permission to use the website is terminated by you or PCNC for any reason, then: (a) these terms and conditions, will nevertheless continue to apply and be binding upon you in respect of your prior use of the website; and (b) PCNC may continue to use and disclose your personal information in accordance with the Web Privacy Policy as amended from time to time. Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 13 survive indefinitely after the termination of these terms and conditions.
• Governing Law and Dispute Resolution
  These terms and conditions, your use of the website, and all related matters are governed solely by the laws of the Province of Ontario and applicable federal laws of Canada, excluding any rules of private international law or the conflict of laws which would lead to the application of any other laws. Any dispute between PCNC and you or any other person arising from, connected with or relating to the website, these terms and conditions or any related matters must be resolved before the Courts of the Province of Ontario sitting in the City of Toronto, and you hereby irrevocably submit and attorn to the original and exclusive jurisdiction of those Courts in respect of any such dispute or matter.
• Changes to these Terms and Conditions
  PCNC may, in its sole discretion, change, supplement or amend these terms and conditions as it relates to your future use of the website from time to time, for any reason, and without any prior notice or liability to you or any other person. You may not change, supplement, or amend these terms and conditions in any manner.
• Other Matters
  These terms and conditions, including any changes made to these terms and conditions from time to time, constitutes the entire agreement between you and PCNC relating to your use of the website, and supersedes all previous agreements, written, oral or otherwise, between you and PCNC with respect to your use of the website.
  
  If any provision of these terms and conditions is found to be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed to be severed from the rest of these terms and conditions and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
  
  The provisions of these terms and conditions will enure to the benefit of and be binding upon each of PCNC and its successors and assigns and related persons, and you and your heirs, executors, administrators, successors, permitted assigns, and personal representatives. You may not assign these terms and conditions or your rights and obligations under these terms and conditions without the express prior written consent of PCNC which may be withheld in PCNC's sole discretion. PCNC may assign these terms and conditions and its rights and obligations under these terms and conditions without your consent.
  
  No consent or waiver by either party to or of any breach or default by the other party in its performance of its obligations under these terms and conditions will be deemed or construed to be a consent to or waiver of a continuing breach or default or any other breach or default of those or any other obligations of that party. No consent or waiver will be effective unless in writing and signed by both parties.
  
  The parties have expressly requested and required that these terms and conditions and all other related documents be drawn up in the English language. Les parties conviennent et exigent expressement que ce contrat et tous les documents qui s'y rapportent soient rediges en anglais.
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Web Privacy Policy

Privacy is important to the Portuguese-Canadian National Congress ("PCNC"). By using this website, you are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this policy. If you do not agree with this policy, you may not use this website.

During your use of this website, you may be asked to voluntarily provide certain personal information (e.g., name, email address, postal address and telephone number) for purposes such as facilitating communications with you (e.g., responding to your emails to PCNC) or for applying for access to certain areas of the website (e.g., the special features in our Connection Section).

PCNC may use your personal information to contact and correspond with you, to respond to your inquiries, keep you informed and up-to-date on the activities of PCNC and as otherwise permitted by law or with your consent. PCNC will not sell, rent or disclose your personal information to third parties, unless required or permitted by law or with your consent.

PCNC employs security safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information; however, due to the nature of the internet and internet technologies, security and privacy risks cannot be eliminated and PCNC cannot guarantee that your personal information will not be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this policy.

This website may use "cookies", a technology that installs information on a website user's computer to permit the website to recognize future visits using that computer. Cookies enhance the convenience and use of the website. You may choose to decline cookies if your browser permits, but doing so may affect your use of the website and your ability to access certain features of the website.

This website contains links to other websites or internet resources. When you click on one of those links you are contacting another website or internet resource that may collect information about you, whether through cookies or other technologies. PCNC has no responsibility or liability for or control over those other websites or internet resources or their collection, use and disclosure of your personal information.

This policy may change from time to time without notice.

If you have any questions concerning this policy or your personal information, please contact the Portuguese-Canadian National Congress at (416) 532-3233 or pcnc_info@bellnet.ca.
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