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LEGAL TERMS AND
CONDITIONS
Welcome to Purview Risk Management Services web site
(the “Site”).
PLEASE READ THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY
BEFORE USING THIS SITE. Wherever used
herein, “Teranet” means Teranet Enterprises Inc. (referred to as “Teranet”,
“we”, “us” or “our” herein) and the “Teranet Group”
means Teranet and includes Teranet’s related or affiliated entities, suppliers
and licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees,
consultants, representatives and agents. The Purview Risk Management Services
Account Application form is available from Teranet. “Pricing
Sheet” means a Purview Risk Management Services pricing sheet approved by
Teranet. A complete Account Application is comprised of the Account Application
form and Pricing Sheets approved by Teranet from time to time. “Agreement” means a combination of these Legal Terms
and Conditions (and the Account Application approved by Teranet). The
words “you” and “your”
means the subscriber identified on the Purview Risk Management Services Account
Application form (the “Account Application”). “User” means a person, at least eighteen (18) years of age,
designated by you on the Account Application, which User may access, browse and
use the Site on your behalf using a User ID and password provided by Teranet.
These Legal Terms and Conditions shall take priority over all attachments to
the Agreement, including the Account Application, except as otherwise expressly
set out in the Legal Terms and Conditions or the Account Application.
By accessing,
browsing and using this Site, you and your Users are signifying consent to be
bound by the Agreement. If you or your Users do not agree to the Agreement,
including these Legal Terms and Conditions, please exit this Site.
1.
RESTRICTIONS ON USE OF MATERIALS
This Site is a service of Teranet which is controlled
and operated by Teranet. All content included on this Site, including but not
limited to those based on data extracted from the POLARISÒ database, including (a)
Parcel Register; (b) Sales History Report; (c) Sales History and Map; (d) Map
Subject Property; (e) Zoom2It; (f) Instrument Images; (g) Neighbourhood Sales
Report; (h) Automated Valuation Model
(“AVM”) Report; (i) Fraud Check (“FC”) Report; (j) Combined AVM/FC Report; (k)
Monitoring; (l) reavsÒ Combined AVM/FC Report; (m) Ontario Mortgage InsiteÒ (“OMI”) Reports; and other
products and/or services which may be added from time to time by Teranet (the “Property
Information Services”), and all text,
graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio and video clips, materials, information,
products or service and software (collectively the “Content”)
is the property of Teranet, or other parties that have
licensed their materials to Teranet, and is protected by Canadian and
international copyright laws. You
shall not otherwise copy, adapt, publish, compile, or create derivative
products in any manner in any format.
Unless otherwise expressly stated, no Content from this Site and/or
Content on any web site owned, operated, licensed or controlled by Teranet may
be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, framed,
commercially exploited or distributed in any way or by any means
whatsoever. Where expressly permitted
hereunder you and your Users may download or print one copy of certain of the
Content for your internal business use only and in accordance with purposes
that may be set out in the approved Account Application and/or posted on the
Site, provided all copyright and other proprietary notices are maintained. “Internal Business Use” means your
internal business processes, activities, operations and administration.
Modification of the Content or use of the Content for any other purpose
(including use of any such material on any other web site or networked computer
environment) is a violation of copyright and other proprietary rights. Any other use by you must be agreed to in
advance in writing by Teranet. You and
your Users agree to abide by all copyright notices, information and
restrictions contained in the Content on or accessed through the Site.
Data may not be extracted from, or copies
made of, the data in the Content. The foregoing prohibitions expressly include,
but are not limited to, the practice of screen scraping, database scraping or
any such practice or activity; the purpose of which is to obtain data or
portions hereof, portions of databases from the Content in any manner or any
quantities not expressly authorized hereunder.
The Content delivered through this Site, may not be used: (a) in a
computer service or timesharing business; (b) to create a database in
electronic or other format or for the purposes of data aggregation or
dissemination (otherwise than for your internal archival use); (c) for the
purpose of sale, resale or the licensing of the data and information or
components thereof contained in the Content; or (d) for any unauthorized,
improper or illegal purpose or in connection with the commission of any
criminal or otherwise illegal act. Property Information Services may not be
tampered with through attempts to translate, reverse engineer, decompile,
disassemble, modify or merge Property Information Services with any other
system.
Pursuant to Teranet’s agreements with its
suppliers, you and your Users shall not: (a) sub-license access to Property
Information Services or other Content to the Government of the United States or
any regulatory body or agency thereof; (b) export your access to Property
Information Services or other Content outside Canada; or (c) infringe any copyright,
patent, trademark or trade secret of the Teranet Group. Modification of the
Content or use of the Content which includes Property Information Services for
any other purpose is a violation of copyright and other proprietary rights.
Unauthorized access to, reproduction, and/or distribution of Property
Information Services, or any portion of it, may result in serious civil and
criminal penalties, and will be prosecuted to the maximum extent of the law.
"Purview" and “Ontario Mortgage Insite” are
registered trademarks of Teranet Enterprises Inc. “POLARIS” and “Teranet” are
registered trademarks and the Gateway design is a trademark of Teranet Inc.
used under license. Other trademarks or trade names mentioned herein are the
trademarks or trade names of their respective owners and are used under
license.
In the event you and your Users download software from
the Site, the software, including any files, images incorporated in or
generated by the software and data accompanying the software are licensed to you
by Teranet. The license is personal,
non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-assignable. Title to the software,
images and data is not being transferred to you. You own the medium on which
the software, images and data is recorded, but Teranet, or others, retain full
and complete copyright in and title to the software, images and data and all
other intellectual property rights therein. You and your Users may not
redistribute, sell, decompile, reverse-engineer or disassemble the software.
2.
TERMINATION AND SUSPENSION
(a) This
Agreement is effective until it is terminated by you or Teranet. (b) You may
terminate this Agreement or disable a User ID and password at any time by
contacting Teranet customer support. A User may disable its assigned User ID
and password at any time by contacting Teranet customer support. Information on
how to contact Teranet customer support is available on the Site. (c) Teranet
may terminate this Agreement and/or disable a User ID and password immediately
on notice to you at any time. (d) This Agreement will terminate immediately
without notice from Teranet if, at the expiration of a Subscription Period (as
defined in section 15), a new Pricing has not been approved in writing by you
and Teranet. (e) This Agreement will terminate immediately
without notice to you from Teranet if, in Teranet's sole discretion, you or a
User fail to comply with any material term or provision hereof or if Teranet
believes that you have or a User has, by conduct, violated any applicable law
or are acting contrary to the interests of Teranet.
All of the provisions of this Agreement, except for Section 8,
shall survive termination of this Agreement and you and your Users agree to
remain bound by those provisions that survive termination of this Agreement. Termination
of this Agreement shall include disablement of all User IDs and passwords
provided to you and your Users. (f) For
clarity, a suspension hereunder does not constitute termination of the
Agreement and you shall continue to be bound by the terms hereof during the
period of such suspension. If your
account has been suspended you may not access the Site through the use of an
account which you are not authorized to access.
3.
DISCLAIMER
Unless otherwise provided, the Site and
the Content are provided on an "as is" and "as available"
basis and without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, statutory
or otherwise. To the fullest extent
permitted by applicable law, the Teranet Group disclaims all warranties,
express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of
merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, with respect to the Site,
the Content and any website with which the Site it is linked. The Teranet Group does not warrant the
functions or links contained on the Site or that the Content will meet your
requirements of you and your Users, that the Site or the Content, are fit for
any particular purpose or that the operations of the network over which the
Site is made available, or the Content will be uninterrupted or error-free or
accurate, that defects will be corrected, or that the Site or the server(s)
that makes the Site and the Content available are free of viruses, worms or
other harmful components. The Teranet
Group does not warrant or make any representations regarding the use of or the
results of the use of the Content (including, without limitation, services for
the transfer of information and data) on the Site in terms of their
correctness, accuracy, reliability, security or otherwise. You (and not the Teranet
Group) assume the entire cost to you and your Users of any necessary servicing,
repair or correction. Applicable law may not allow the exclusion of implied
warranties, so the above exclusion may not apply to you and your Users.
The Site is
controlled and operated at offices in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Certain Content
and services may be hosted on computers in other jurisdictions. The Teranet
Group makes no representation that the Site or Content on the Site are
appropriate or available for use in other locations. If you or your Users
choose to access this Site and the Content from other locations, you and your
Users do so on your and their own initiative and you and your Users are
responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are
applicable.
All Content including Property Information
Services obtained through Purview Risk Management Services are provided
"as is" and “as available”. You acknowledge that:
(a) use of Content and a Property Information Service may not always return a
result in all cases;
(b) the results from use of Content and a Property Information Service may
change over time due to changes in source data, functionality of Property
Information Services and/or your model configurations; and
(c) Property Information Services and other Content are not the official
government record and will not necessarily reflect the current status of
interests in land.
You hereby
acknowledge that the Teranet Group is not required to provide any updates,
fixes, new versions, new releases, maintenance and/or support of any kind for
Property Information Services or Content to you or your Users.
You and your
Users acknowledge that the Province of Ontario (the “Province”) makes no
warranties, express or implied, with respect to Property Information Services
or other Content supplied by or through this Site and all risk as to the
results and performance of Property Information Services and other Content is
assumed by you and your Users. The Teranet Group and the Province shall each
not have any liability to you and your Users or any other person or entity for
any claims, actions, loss, damage including, without limitation, loss of
revenue or profit or savings, lost or damaged data, or other commercial or
economic loss, or any direct, indirect or incidental, special or consequential
damages whatsoever, even if Teranet or the Province has been advised of the
possibility of such damages, or for claims by a third party. This section shall apply whether or not the
liability results from a breach of a fundamental term or condition or a
fundamental breach. You and your Users acknowledge that Teranet accesses
records filed with the Province and this clause is included for the benefit of
and can be relied on by the Province.
4.
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
Under no circumstances, including, but not limited to,
negligence, shall the Teranet Group be liable for any direct, indirect,
special, consequential or other damages that result from the use of, or the
inability to use, the Site and the Content on the Site, even if Teranet, or a
Teranet authorised representative has been advised of the possibility of such
damages. Applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability
for incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitation or exclusion
may not apply to you and your Users. In no event shall the Teranet Group’s
total aggregate liability to you and your Users for all damages, losses, and
causes of action (whether in contract, tort, including but not limited to
negligence, or otherwise) exceed the lesser of: (a) CDN$10,000; and (b) the
charges and fees, if any, paid to Teranet by you and your Users during the 6
months previous to the date of the loss or claim; excluding, without
limitation, any statutory fees and charges for the use of any products or
services provided by persons other than Teranet. This section shall apply
whether or not liability results from negligence, a breach of a fundamental
term or condition or a fundamental breach of this Agreement.
5.
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES
The links on the Site will enable you and your Users
to leave the Site and connect directly to linked sites. Teranet is providing
these links only as a convenience. Such linked sites are entirely independent
of the Site, and shall not be construed as any reflection on, any affiliation
with, approval of, or endorsement by the Teranet Group of any such site or
entity, or its respective information, publications, products or services. The Teranet Group shall not be responsible
for the contents of any site linked to a Teranet site or for any link contained
in a linked site. When linking to a
third party site you are leaving the privacy coverage of this Site and are
subject to the privacy coverage of the third party site. The Teranet Group cannot and does not
guarantee that the third party web site privacy statement is the same or
contains the same privacy statement of Teranet.
6.
SUBMISSIONS
We would like to hear from you and your Users
regarding Teranet's products and services. Please note that if you and your
Users send us suggestions, ideas, or other information (collectively, "Submissions"),
unfortunately we will not be able to return the Submissions. Once submitted,
the Submissions will become the property of Teranet and Teranet shall
exclusively own all rights to the Submissions of every kind and nature
throughout the universe, now known or hereafter existing, and shall be entitled
to unrestricted use of the Submissions for any purpose whatsoever, without
compensation to you and your Users. By providing the Submissions, you and your
Users assign all copyright in and to the Submissions to Teranet and all authors
waive all moral rights in the Submission.
7.
JURISDICTION AND SEVERABILITY
You and your Users agree and acknowledge
that use of this Site and Content shall be deemed to have occurred and taken
place solely in the Province of Ontario, Canada. You and your Users further agree and acknowledge that this
Agreement, and any disputes in connection with use of this Site or its
contents, will be governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario, Canada, and
the laws of Canada applicable therein.
You and your Users expressly consent to the exclusive forum,
jurisdiction, and venue of the courts of Ontario in any and all actions,
disputes, or controversies relating hereto. If any provision of this Agreement
shall be found to be unlawful, void or unenforceable, then such provision shall
be deemed severable herefrom and will not affect the validity and
enforceability of any remaining provisions.
8.
AMENDMENTS
Teranet reserves the right to make changes to the Site, the Content and pricing and to modify, alter or otherwise update this Agreement at any time with or without notice. You and your Users should review this link on a regular basis for any such changes. Continued use of the Site and Content by you and your Users shall constitute acceptance of any revisions to this Agreement and pricing.
9.
AUDIT
Teranet, or its authorized representatives, acting reasonably, may upon written request to you or your Users examine and inspect during normal business hours, the materials and records of you or your Users relating to Purview, the Site and Content and this Agreement. Subject to section 12 hereof, Teranet shall keep confidential, and not disclose, information concerning the business and affairs of you or your Users.
10.
LANGUAGE
The parties
have requested that this Agreement and all documents contemplated hereby be
drawn up in English. Les
parties aux présentes ont exigé que cette entente et tous autres documents
envisagés par les présentes soient rédigés en anglais.
11.
INDEMNIFICATION
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, you
will defend, indemnify and hold the Teranet
Group harmless from and against all claims, liability, and expenses,
including all legal fees and costs, arising out of: (i) a breach of any
provision of this Agreement by you and your Users; (ii) any misuse of the Site,
the Property Information Services, or the Content committed under your Account,
and (iii) the use of the Site and the contents by you and your Users. No third party shall make any reliance on
the information of the Site and the contents and services contained on the Site
and you shall indemnify the Teranet
Group to the fullest extent from such third parties.
Teranet reserves the right, in its sole discretion and
at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defence and control of any action,
claim or matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you. You and your Users
will co-operate as fully as reasonably required in the defence of any claim.
12.
USER PRIVACY AND SECURITY POLICY
Use of this Site
is subject to the terms of Teranet’s Privacy Policy accessible on this Site at http://www.purview.ca/PV_Privacy_Statement.htm as amended from time to time without notice. Without limiting the generality of the
Privacy Policy, by using the Site and the Content, you and your Users expressly
consent to the disclosure by Teranet of any of your personal information of you
and your Users that may be included within or with respect to access to or use
of the Site to the Province of Ontario, its ministries or agencies, for the
purposes of ministry or agency use, and to the disclosure of such personal
information to the Province of Ontario, its ministries or agencies and to any
law enforcement or regulatory authority having jurisdiction, in connection with
any investigation by any of them relating to you and your Users use of the Site
and the Content. You and your Users recognise and agree that: (i) the
Internet is not a secure medium, and neither the privacy of communications, nor
visits to this Site, can be guaranteed; (ii) the nature of Internet
communications means that communications may be susceptible to data corruption,
unauthorised access, interception and delays; (iii) the Site and the Content
may include incomplete information, inaccuracies or typographical errors; (iv)
Teranet and any other persons involved in the management of the Site and the
Content may make changes in the information and Content included in the Site at
any time without notice; (v) Teranet shall not be responsible for any
detrimental reliance you and your Users may place on the Site or its Content;
and (vi) use of the Site and the Content is on an "as is" and “as
available” basis and is strictly at the risk of you and your Users.
Use of this Site and Content is also subject to the
terms of Teranet's Security Policy accessible
on this Site at
http://www.www.purview.ca/PV_Security_Statement.htm as amended from time to
time without notice.
You and your Users recognize and agree that although Teranet security
efforts are generally consistent with industry practice in Canada, complete
privacy, confidentiality and security associated with any communications is not
yet possible over the Internet, and therefore cannot be guaranteed. As a result, the Group shall not be
responsible or liable for any loss of privacy, disclosure of information, harm,
damage or loss that may result from the transmission of any information in any
connection with the Site or the Content.
You and your Users must not attempt to violate the security of the Site,
including without limitation: (i) attempting to log into an account or server
which you and your Users are not authorized to access; or (ii) attempting to
interfere with the Content provided by the Site through means of a virus or
flooding or otherwise overloading the Site’s servers, or by any other similar
or dissimilar means.
13.
U.S. GOVERNMENT END USERS
The software available on this Site is a "Commercial Item," as
that term is defined at 48 C.F.R. §2.101, consisting of "Commercial
Computer Software" as such term may be used in 48 C.F.R. §12.212 or 48
C.F.R. §227.7202, as applicable. Consistent with 48 C.F.R. §12.212 or 48 C.F.R.
§§227.7202-1 through 227.7202-4, as applicable, the Commercial Computer
Software is licensed to U.S. Government end Users: (i) only as Commercial
Items; and (ii) with only those rights as are granted to all other end Users
pursuant to the terms and conditions herein.
14.
PRODUCTS/SERVICES SUPPLIED FROM OUTSIDE ONTARIO
You and your Users acknowledge and agree that certain Content available
on the Site may be supplied by third parties resident and operating outside the
Province of Ontario and/or may be hosted on computers located outside of the
Province of Ontario.
15.
PAYMENT FOR SITE SUBSCRIPTION, PRODUCTS AND/OR
SERVICES
Charges.
Charges and fees for accessing, browsing and using the
Site and the Content on the Site will be in accordance with the rates and
pricing sheets established by Teranet and its
suppliers from time to time plus all additional applicable taxes. Fees, charges
and allowable search volumes may be set out in the Account Application and/or
posted on the Site together with changes thereto.
Payment
Methods. If payment is made by cheque, you shall
deliver cheques payable in the required amounts to Teranet. If payment is made
by credit card, you will be asked to provide credit card information as part of
a Account Application or as you and your Users use certain Content that
generate a fee or charge. Payment methods may vary depending on the which
Content is accessed, browsed or used.
Setup
Fees. A one time fee to establish a Purview Risk
Management Services account (the “Setup Fee”) may be paid by cheque or
be charged to a credit card. Payment of a Setup Fee must be tendered with your
completed Account Application and is not prorated. A separate Setup Fee is
payable for each Purview Risk Management Services account. If this Agreement is
terminated and you complete a new Account Application a new Setup Fee will be
payable.
Subscription
Fees. Fees for User access to the Site and certain
Content (the “Subscription Fee”) for a period as indicated on the
Purview Account Application (“Subscription Period”) may be paid by
cheque or be charged to a credit card.
Subscription Fees may be paid by a single payment by cheque or credit
card (the “Single Payment Plan”).
Prorating. Where Subscription fees become payable part of the way through a
Subscription Period, the annual fee shall be prorated from the date Teranet advises you
that: (a) your Account Application has been approved; or (b) the addition of a
User has been approved; up to and including to the expiration of the applicable
Subscription Period.
Online
Transaction Fees payable by Credit Cards.
Fees for some of the Content on the Site must
be paid by credit card at the time of purchase. We do not store credit card
information except for payment and refund purposes (based on the Refund Policy
set out below). If you or a User logs out of the Site or submits a new order,
you or the User will be required to re-enter credit card information. Each
submission or order online for Content for which a fee is charged is deemed to
be an authorization to debit predetermined sums representing applicable statutory
and service fees, charges, and applicable taxes from the credit card tendered
for payment. You or the User will be informed of the total charges and asked to
confirm the transaction before it is charged to the credit card tendered for
payment.
On-line
Transaction Fees payable on Invoicing. Fees
for some of the Content on the Site is invoiced on a monthly basis. Each
submission or order online for such Content for which a transaction fee is
charged is deemed to be an authorization to invoice sums representing
applicable statutory fees, transaction fees, charges, and applicable taxes.
Invoices are prepared monthly. Fees for such
transactions shall be invoiced monthly within 45 days of month end for
transactions occurred in that month.
Obligation
to Pay and Interest. You are responsible
for all charges, fees and taxes incurred by you and your Users. Payment
obligations for Setup Fees, Subscription Fees and transaction fees including
online orders are material terms of this Agreement. If we are unable for any reason to collect the charges, fees
and/or taxes from a credit card or cheque tendered as payment, you are
responsible to pay Teranet directly the fees, charges and taxes incurred by you
and your Users plus any other charges (including bank charges and the costs of
collection) incurred by Teranet. All
outstanding fees not paid by credit card shall be invoiced monthly. Outstanding
charges, fees and taxes will be subject to a one percent per month interest
charge after 30 calendar days calculated on a monthly basis (an effective
annual rate of 12.7%).
Suspension
of Service.
Teranet may suspend without notice access to the Site and the Content to
any User for non payment of fees or charges.
Statutory Fees. If any
statutory fees are collected from you or your Users by Teranet as a result of
usage of this Site and the Content, Teranet shall remit the required payments
to the Crown in right of Ontario (the “Crown”). You and your Users
acknowledge that Teranet is acting as an agent of the Crown
and that the Crown shall have recourse against you for any unpaid statutory
fees.
Refund
Policy. Before submitting any request for material,
information, products or services or through the Site please verify that the
name and other information have been entered correctly. We cannot refund the cost of material,
information, a product or service if the request has been inputted incorrectly.
Once fee,
charges or taxes are paid or a submission or order is
submitted, there are NO REFUNDS, EXCHANGES OR CANCELLATIONS except as follows:
(a) If this Agreement is terminated by Teranet as set out in section 2(c)
above, you
shall receive a pro-rata refund of any unused prepaid fees. If a User ID and password is disabled by Teranet as set out in section
2(c) above, you
shall receive a pro-rata refund of any unused prepaid fees for that User whose
User ID and password has been disabled.
(b) If any attempted use of Property Information
Services or other Content by you or your Users fails through a fault of
the Site, Property Information Services or other
Content or Teranet’s facilities, Teranet’s sole liability, at your written request,
shall be to refund the charges imposed by us for the failed use of Property Information Services or other Content to: (i) the
Subscriber if payment was by cheque; or (ii) to the holder of the credit card
if a credit card was used for payment. This section shall apply whether
or not the liability results from negligence, a breach of a fundamental term or
condition, or a fundamental breach of this Agreement. You are responsible for
notifying Teranet of the failed use of Property
Information Services or other Content within 30 calendar days of the failed
transaction. After any such 30 calendar day period, you, your Users and
the holder of a credit card tendered for payment shall forfeit any recourse to
Teranet to claim a refund.
Record. Teranet records all
transactions on the Site for the purposes of administration of the Site and the
Content.
16.
YOU AND YOUR
USERS OBLIGATIONS
You must nominate a Purview Administrator
(your “Purview Administrator”). Your Purview Administrator will have the
capability to configure the models for the following Property Information
Services: (a) Automated Valuation Model; (b) Fraud Check; (c) Fraud Check
Monitoring; and (d) Instrument Monitoring.
During the term of the Agreement you agree that you shall keep your:
(a)
address, telephone number and
e-mail address up to date at all times;
(b) list of Users up to date including their names, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses including your designated Purview Administrator; and
(c) appointment of your Purview Administrator current.
Use of personal information (which is data about an
identifiable individual such as name, address and financial information),
contained in Property Information Services, shall relate directly to the
purpose for which the data appears in land registry records and is subject to
all applicable privacy legislation in respect of personal information. Such information shall not be used for marketing to a
named individual.
If you or your Users have access to this Site and certain of the
Property Information Services through a combination of this Agreement and an
evaluation agreement (which includes an Evaluator Acknowledgement); to the
extent that there is any inconsistency between the Agreement and an evaluation
agreement, the evaluation agreement shall prevail with respect to use of the
Property Information Services by you and your Users.
You and your Users are
responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of you and your Users’ ID and
passwords. You are responsible for all
activities that occur under your account.
You agree to: (a) immediately notify us of any unauthorized use of your
account or any other breach of security, and (b) ensure that you and your Users
exit from the account at the end of each session. Teranet will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from
you or your Users failure to comply with this section.
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