Industry Spotlight Canada

Privacy and Use of Information

You acknowledge that (a) we cannot ensure the security or privacy of Content you provide through the Internet, and you release us from any and all liability in connection with the use of such Content by other parties; (b) we are not responsible for, and cannot control, the use by others of any Content which you post on the Services or provide to them and you should use caution in selecting the personal information posted or provided to others through the Services; and (c) we cannot assume any responsibility for the Content sent by other users of the Services, and you release us from any and all liability in connection with the Content of any communications you may receive from other users.

External Links

The Services, Content, or Member profiles may from time to time contain links to other Internet sites and resources ("External Links"). You acknowledge that we have no control over the External Links and that we are not responsible for, and have no liability as a result of, the availability of External Links or their contents. We recommend that you review the terms of use and privacy statements of such External Links prior to use of them.

Inclusion of an External Link on the Industry Spotlight Canada Services does not imply approval or endorsement of that website by Industry Spotlight Canada.com. Furthermore, Industryspotlight.ca is not responsible for third party advertisements which are posted on this Industry Spotlight Canada Website or through the Industry Spotlight Canada Services, nor is it responsible for the goods and services provided by its advertisers.

Term

These Terms shall remain in full force and effect while you access and use the Website and during the time that you are a Member using the Industry Spotlight Canada Services. You may terminate your Membership at any time, for any reason, by following the instructions on the Members' account page. Industryspotlight.ca may terminate your membership for any reason, at any time. Where possible, we will use reasonable efforts to give Members fair notice of termination of their access to the Services. If you are using a paid version of a Service (such as Plus), and we terminate your membership in the Service because you have breached these Terms, you will not be entitled to any refund of unused subscription fees. Even after your Membership is terminated, certain sections of these Terms will remain in effect.

Disclaimer of Warranties

• YOU EXPRESSLY ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT:
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• ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICES IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA OR OTHER LIABILITY THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL.
• NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM INDUSTRYSPOTLIGHT.CA OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICES SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE TERMS.

Limitation of Liability

IN NO EVENT SHALL INDUSTRYSPOTLIGHT.CA, ITS DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES OR AGENTS BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, EXEMPLARY, SPECIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION LOSS OF PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, GOODWILL, USE, DATA, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES), WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, ARISING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT CANADA WEBSITE OR THE INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT CANADA SERVICES, WHETHER ONLINE OR OFFLINE, EVEN IF SUCH DAMAGES ARE FORESEEABLE OR INDUSTRYSPOTLIGHT.CA IS EXPRESSLY ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL INDUSTRYSPOTLIGHT.CA’S AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, EXCEED THE AMOUNT OF FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($500.00).

BY PARTICIPATING IN ANY OFFLINE INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT CANADA EVENT, YOU AGREE TO RELEASE AND HOLD INDUSTRYSPOTLIGHT.CA HARMLESS FROM ANY AND ALL LOSSES, DAMAGES, RIGHTS, CLAIMS, AND ACTIONS OF ANY KIND INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, PERSONAL INJURIES, DEATH, AND PROPERTY DAMAGE, EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY RELATED TO OR ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICIPATION IN ANY SUCH OFFLINE INDUSTRYSPOTLIGHT.CA EVENT.

Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless, industryspotlight.ca, our officers, directors, employees and agents, suppliers, licensors, sponsors and advertisers from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, costs and expenses, including without limitation reasonable legal fees and disbursements which we may suffer from your activities on or access to and use of the Website or the Service, including without limitation, any infringement or misappropriation of a third party's intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights by Your Content, any breach by you of these Terms including, but not limited to, the Code of Conduct or any charges or complaints made by other parties against you regarding Your Content or otherwise. You shall cooperate as fully as reasonably required in the defence of any claim. We reserve the right to assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you; provided, however, that you shall remain liable for any such claim, including the associated defense costs. This defense and indemnification obligation will survive your use of the Industry Spotlight Canada Website, Services and the Terms.

Guest Columnists

The Services may from time to time include messages from advice columnists who respond to "lifestyle" questions. Any statements made by advice columnists are provided for entertainment purposes only, and are not intended, and should not be taken, as specific advice in any particular circumstance and the statements provided by advice columnists are strictly the views of the columnists and not of industryspotlight.ca. Such statements do not constitute counseling of any kind.

Jurisdiction

This Website originates in Canada. Any claim or dispute arising from, or in relation to the Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Alberta, Canada, and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein, without giving effect to its conflict of laws provisions or your actual province or country of residence. You agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Province of Alberta and the Federal Courts located within the Province of Alberta. Additionally, you agree that the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply to these Terms and is strictly excluded.

Trade-marks

INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT CANADA, INDUSTRYSPOTLIGHT.CA and the design marks of Industryspotlight.ca displayed or published on the Industry Spotlight Canada Website and the Industry Spotlight Canada Services are trade-marks or trade dress of industryspotlight.ca and industryspotlight.ca’s marks may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not industryspotlight.ca’s in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers or in any manner that disparages or discredits industryspotlight.ca.

Assignment

You do not have the right to assign these Terms or any of your rights to the Services to anyone. Industryspotlight.ca has the right to assign any or all of its rights and obligations under these Terms or to the Services to any third party. At the election of Industry Spotlight Canada, if Industryspotlight.ca’s obligations hereunder are assumed by a third party, Industryspotlight.ca shall be relieved of any and all liability under these Terms.

General

These Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and Industryspotlight.ca regarding the use of the Industry Spotlight Canada Services and the Website. The failure of Industryspotlight.ca to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision. The section titles in the Terms are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect. If any provision of these Terms is unlawful, void or unenforceable, that provision is deemed severable from the Terms and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

Please contact us at lisa@industryspotlight.ca with any questions you may have regarding these Terms.

PRIVACY POLICY

Our Commitment to Your Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this Privacy Policy to explain our information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected, used and disclosed. This Privacy Policy is accessible by a link at the bottom of every page on Industryspotlight.ca and applies to all information collected through or submitted to the Industry Spotlight Canada website.

We are particularly committed to protecting the privacy of minors. For that reason, we will refuse to open an account for a person under the age of 13. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for Industryspotlight.ca or send any information about yourself to us. If we learn that information from a child under the age of 13 has been submitted to us, we will delete that account and information as soon as possible.

For persons between the ages of 13 and 18, we require parental or guardian consent prior to opening an account and we reserve the right to verify the existence of that consent.

We will fully cooperate with any request to release information to any law enforcement agency when a proper request is received. We may also take steps to protect the health and well being of members, visitors and other parties if we have reason to believe that any of these persons are in danger.

Collection and Use of Personal Information by industryspotlight.ca

It is important that you understand what information is displayed to the public. Except as described in this Privacy Policy, any information included in your Profile or posted to videos and forums and classifieds is accessible to the general public and not just registered members. We encourage you to view your Profile as others would view it by clicking on the Profile link in the top menu. All posting and sharing is done at your own risk.

When opening an account, Industryspotlight.ca collects identifiable information submitted by you (Personal Information), including but not limited to: name, email address, username (that you create), sex (gender), location and age. Profile Data is not Personal Information collected by Industry Spotlight Canada.

You may change or remove any of your Profile Data at any time by logging into your account and clicking on the “Profile” and “Preferences” tabs in the top menu, except for your username, age, sex and location which are all publicly visible to all members and visitors (non-members). You may restrict your Profile from being viewed by visitors (non-members) and those users placed or your “ignore list”. In addition, you may choose to hide your birth date. However, this information is still used to calculate your age.

We may use your external email address to respond to your inquiries or send updates or other news regarding the Industry Spotlight Canada service. We also use Personal Information of members included in a member’s Profile to deliver advertising content that we believe may be of interest or use to a member.

From time to time, industryspotlight.ca may hold a promotion, sweepstake or contest on industryspotlight.ca Members may be asked to provide Personal Information such as name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. If you participate, Industryspotlight.ca may collect and use Personal Information to administer the promotion, sweepstake or contest. What information is being collected and how it may be used or disclosed (and to whom) will be made evident at the time of collection through the relevant promotion, sweepstake or contest rules.

Industryspotlight.ca also logs non-personally-identifiable information of members and visitors to the site, including IP address, aggregate user data, and browser type. This information helps us manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. Aggregated information may be shared with third parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website or that Y number of men or Z number of women filled out our registration form. Industryspotlight.ca also records user IP addresses for the purposes of security and monitoring.

Disclosure of Personal Information

We may share some or all of your Personal Information with any parent company, any subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control we may have (collectively, “Affiliates”), in which case we will require our Affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.

In the event Industry Spotlight Canada goes through a business transition such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your Personal Information will likely be among the assets transferred. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Industry Spotlight Canada or its assets may continue to use your Personal Information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

Industry Spotlight Canada expressly reserves the right, and in some states may be legally required, to report certain materials, such as, but not limited to, child pornography or terror plans, that we may become aware of in the course of providing the Services to the authorities in charge.

Some Personal Information may be stored or processed by third parties, including contractors, business partners and affiliates located in the United States. Therefore, your information may be processed and stored in the United States. As a result, the governments, courts, or law enforcement or regulatory agencies may be able to obtain disclosure of your information through laws applicable in the United States.

Except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, Industryspotlight.ca will not disclose Personal Information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary for one of the following reasons: (1) as required by law, including to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by Industry Spotlight Canada; (2) to enforce the industryspotlight.ca Terms of Use or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of the public and members of and visitors to the service.

Notification of Changes

If we decide to change our Privacy Policy, we will post any changes on our site and provide notification so that users will always be aware of what changes have been made to how information is collected, used and disclosed, and continued use of Industryspotlight.ca shall constitute consent to the changes in the Privacy Policy.

Cookies

A “cookie” is a small piece of information/text sent by a web server to be stored on a user’s web browser so it can later be read back from that browser on subsequent visits to a website. industryspotlight.ca uses cookies to store visitors' preferences and to record session information. You may be able to configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or to notify you when a cookie is set, however, cookies must be enabled in order to access some functions on the site. Since each browser is different, check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.

Links

Industryspotlight.ca contains links to other sites. Industryspotlight.ca is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. A member should read the privacy policy stated on any site being accessed. The Industry Spotlight Canada Privacy Policy only governs the privacy policies and practices of Industry Spotlight Canada.com.

Advertising

industryspotlight.ca does not provide Personal Information to advertisers, however, if you click on an ad appearing on industryspotlight.ca, you may be taken to an advertiser’s or other third’s party web-site. Your use of these other websites is subject to the privacy policies of those web sites and Industryspotlight.ca expressly disclaims all representations and responsibilities in relation to those web sites.

Blogs, Forums, Message Boards and Classifieds

When you voluntarily post comments, including your personally identifiable information to blogs, forums, classifieds or any other public forums, the information can be accessed by the public. In turn, the information can be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications. These posted comments are not Personal Information collected by Industry Spotlight Canada.

Security

Industryspotlight.ca uses physical and electronic precautions to protect member Personal Information stored within our database, and we restrict access to member information to those employees who need access it to perform their job functions, such as our customer service personnel and technical staff.

Industryspotlight.ca uses member-created passwords to assist in the security of member accounts. It is your responsibility to protect your password as disclosure of it allows anyone to access your account, including all of your sent and received messages. You should also take precautions to protect your email account as anyone can request that your password be sent to your email address. As such, if you allow someone else to use or control your email account, that person may be able to gain access to your Industry Spotlight Canada account. To protect your Industry Spotlight Canada account, please ensure that you do not use the “Remember Me” feature or set your browser to remember your details on any public or shared computers.

While we take measures to attempt to protect your Personal Information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of Personal Information due to actions of other members with whom you share your pages and information and factors such as unauthorized third party entry or use, or hardware or software failure that may compromise security.

For any additional information about the security measures we use on Industryspotlight.ca, please contact us at lisa@industryspotlight.ca.

Access to Personal Information

As set out below, Industry Spotlight Canada permits requests for access to and review of Personal Information collected by Industry Spotlight Canada about an individual by the individual concerned. An individual can request to access and/or update Personal Information collected about them by Industry Spotlight Canada by sending an email request to lisa@industryspotlight.ca. Industry Spotlight Canada reserves the right not to change any Personal Information but may append any alternative text the individual concerned believes appropriate. An individual may also request that Industry Spotlight Canada delete an individual's Personal Information from Industry Spotlight Canada's system and records. However, due to technical constraints and the fact that Industry Spotlight Canada backs up its systems, Personal Information may continue to reside in Industry Spotlight Canada's systems after deletion. Individuals, therefore, should not expect that their Personal Information would be completely removed from Industry Spotlight Canada systems in response to an accepted request for deletion.

Industry Spotlight Canada reserves the right to decline access to Personal Information where the information requested:

• Would disclose the Personal Information of another individual or of a deceased individual;
• Was not collected by Industry Spotlight Canada from the individual;
• Would disclose business confidential information that may harm Industry Spotlight Canada or the competitive position of a third party;
• Is subject to solicitor-client or litigation privilege;
• Could reasonably result in:
  serious harm to the treatment or recovery of the individual concerned; serious emotional harm to the individual or another individual; or serious bodily harm to another individual;
• May harm or interfere with law enforcement activities and other investigative or regulatory functions of a body authorized by statute to perform such functions;
• Is not readily retrievable and the burden or cost of providing would be disproportionate to the nature or value of the information; or
• Does not exist, is not held, or cannot be found by Industry Spotlight Canada.

Where information will not or cannot be disclosed, the individual making the request will be provided with the reasons for non-disclosure.

Where information will be disclosed, Industry Spotlight Canada will endeavor to provide the information in question within a reasonable time and no later than 30 days following the request. Industry Spotlight Canada will not respond to repetitious or vexatious requests for access. In determining whether a request is repetitious or vexatious, it will consider such factors as the frequency with which information is updated, the purpose for which the information is used, and the nature of the information.

To guard against fraudulent requests for access, Industry Spotlight Canada will require sufficient information to allow it to confirm the identity of the person making the request before granting access or making corrections.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, please contact us at: lisa@industryspotlight.ca, or by mail at: Duncan McNeill Centre, W207F, 11762-106 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, T5G 2R1