Welcome to The b5media Network (the “Websites”) owned and operated by b5media Inc. (“B5”). Please read these Terms of Use and the accompanying Privacy Policy carefully before using the Websites and/or submitting any personal information that could identify you (including but not limited to name, address, telephone number and email address). By using the Websites, you signify your agreement to these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these
Terms of Use and/or the Privacy Policy, do not use the Websites.
Copyright and Trademarks: The names and marks “b5media”, and all Websites within the b5media Network, are the trademarks of B5 and are owned or licensed to B5. All materials, including but not limited to images, audio and video clips, animation, diagrams, photographs and any and all information of any kind in any form (the “Materials”), incorporated into, published or otherwise exhibited on this Website are protected by copyright or other intellectual property rights and are owned and controlled by B5 or third parties who have licensed B5 the right to include the Materials in this Website. Any copying, reproducing, republishing, uploading, posting, modifying or transmission or distribution of any Materials is strictly prohibited and will be considered a violation of B5’s intellectual property rights and could result in legal liability and/or criminal sanction.
Disclaimer: The Material provided on this Website are for informational, educational and/or entertainment purposes only. B5 makes no warranties regarding the reliability, truthfulness, accuracy or completeness of any Materials. Unless otherwise stated expressly, any opinion, view or idea expressed in any article, review or story, or any content contributed or published by visitors in chat rooms or on bulletin boards or otherwise disseminated or sent to B5 or others on or via the Websites (“Visitor Content”) is the author’s own and does not reflect the views of B5 or its affiliated and related entities, or its partners, sponsors, advertisers or content providers. Neither B5, its affiliated and related entities, partners, advertisers, sponsors or content providers are liable to any person or entity whatsoever for any loss, damage, injury, liability, claim or any other cause of action of any kind arising from the use, dissemination of or reliance on any Materials or Visitor Content provided on the Websites. You agree to use the Websites entirely at your own risk. B5 and its affiliated and related entities, its partners, advertisers, sponsors and content providers disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose or that the Websites will function error free or uninterrupted or that the Websites or the servers that make it available for use are free of viruses or defects. B5 and its affiliated and related entities, its partners, advertisers, sponsors and content providers shall not be held liable for any information, services or products that are provided or offered by websites that are linked to the Websites. The links to other websites are provided only as a convenience to you and do not constitute any endorsement of the linked websites or any information, services or products that are provided or offered by the linked websites. You agree that you use any linked websites entirely at your own risk.
Visitor Content and Indemnification: Any Visitor Content provided by you to B5 on its billboards, chat rooms or other means shall become the property of B5 throughout the universe in perpetuity and B5 shall have the right to publish, reproduce, disseminate, exhibit or otherwise distribute and use the Visitor Content in all media now known or hereafter devised. By submitting Visitor Content to the Websites, you agree to represent and warrant that such Visitor Content shall not contain any libelous, defamatory, obscene, illegal, threatening or abusive materials and shall not infringe any intellectual property right or any other right of any person or entity and shall not breach any law. By visiting and using the Websites, you signify your agreement to save B5, it’s affiliated and related entities, its officers, directors and employees harmless from any and all damages, legal actions or causes of action that may now or hereinafter arise as a result of your use of the Websites and your breach of these Terms of Use and/or any representations and warranties related to the Visitor Content. B5 monitors the use of its billboards, chat rooms and any posted materials and reserves the right to remove any Visitor Content and block access to any visitor for any reason at its sole discretion.
Jurisdiction: The Websites are owned and controlled by B5, a company incorporated under the laws of the province of Ontario and whose head office is located in the city of Toronto. The Websites are presented solely for informational, educational and entertainment purposes to visitors located in Canada. Neither B5 nor its affiliated or related entities make any representation, express or implied, that the Websites will be available for use in or comply with the law of any country other than Canada. By using this Website, you agree that these Website Terms of Use and Privacy Policy shall be governed, construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the province of X as it is applied to contracts entered into and performed entirely within such province and you submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of such province.
b5media Inc. (“B5”) is committed to respecting the privacy concerns of its visitors to The b5media Network (“the Websites”). B5 has created this privacy policy (the “Policy”) to establish guidelines that will govern the collection, use, protection and disclosure of the personal and non-personal information of its visitors.
B5 collects three kinds of information from the Websites: (1) your voluntarily provided personal information; (2) anonymous non-personal information; and (3) “cookie” based information.
(1) Personal Information: B5 does not automatically collect personal information, such as name, address, phone number, email address and other personally identifiable information, from its visitors (“Personal Information”). From time to time, B5 will collect Personal Information that is voluntarily provided by its visitors in filling out contest entry forms and subscribing to newsletters and other activities carried out on the Websites. B5 will only collect and use such Personal Information solely for the purpose(s) disclosed by B5 at the time of collection and only after the visitor has voluntarily agreed to such collection and use, by clicking “I agree” on the online form or in writing if entering via faxed or mailed form. B5 also sometimes use email addresses that have been voluntarily provided by its visitors to respond to visitors who communicate with us, to inform winners of contests or to subscribe to newsletters. All emails from B5 to its visitors include instructions on how to discontinue receipt of emails, newsletters and other communication from B5 and visitors can discontinue such communication at any time. Email addresses from visitors who wish to discontinue receipt of B5’s emails will be removed from B5’s distribution list and data bases. All Personal Information that may identify a visitor and has been collected with the visitor’s consent by B5 is not disclosed in any identifiable form to any other party outside the company except for the fulfillment of the specific purpose identified to the visitor at the time of collection. However B5 may disclose such information in anonymous, aggregated and non-personally identifiable form to other parties for marketing, advertising or other purposes and to better understand visitor’s use of the Website. At any time, a visitor may send an email to privacy@b5media.com to request that Personal Information be changed, removed or updated in B5’s databases.
Visitors should exercise caution when they disclosed personally identifiable information on bulletin boards or chat rooms on the Websites or any other website. Such areas are accessible by anyone and may result in the visitor receiving unsolicited messages from other people and/or companies. Although B5 is committed to protecting the Personal Information provided to it by its visitors in compliance with this Privacy Policy, it cannot guarantee the security of information, whether personal or otherwise, that visitors disclose online to publicly accessible bulletin boards or chat rooms.
(2) Anonymous Non-Personal Information: When visitors visit the Websites, anonymous, non personal information about their visit is automatically collected. Such information may include the length and date of the visit, how the visitor navigated the Websites, what pages the visitor viewed, the type of browser being used by the visitor, the type of operating system used by the visitor and the domain name of the visitor’s Internet service provider. B5 uses this Anonymous Non-Personal Information to track the success of its Websites with its visitors and to better tailor the Websites to visitors’ needs and interests. This Anonymous Non-Personal Information may be shared with other parties, such as broadcasters, advertisers, sponsors and partners.
(3) Cookie-based Information: B5 may use cookies on its Websites. “Cookies” are pieces of information that a website transfers to a visitor’s hard drive for record keeping and identification purposes. Cookies are used to make the visitor’s use of a website easier by saving visitor preferences and passwords and to identify which areas of the website are popular and which areas need improvement and how to target certain advertising to its visitors. B5 does not use cookies to collect personally identifiable information except in connection with a password protected online registration for a contest or newsletter or other service and only with the visitor’s informed consent. Visitors may visit the Websites with its cookies turned off to avoid the collection of Cookie-based Information.
Protection of Visitors’ Personal Information: B5 protects the Personal Information it collects with appropriate technological, physical and administrative safeguards to protect if from unauthorized disclosure or use. Access to Personal Information collected by B5 is limited to authorized individuals and stored on its databases, which are protected by firewalls and are password-secured. B5 retains the Personal Information only for as long as is required for the purposes identified at the time of its collection and consented to by the visitor providing it or as otherwise required by law. Once Personal Information is no longer necessary for the purposes consented to by the visitor, it is B5’s practice to delete it from its data bases or systems or make it anonymous.
Linked Websites: The Websites may be linked to other websites. These linked websites are not under the control of B5 and are required to have their own privacy policies. Visitors should ensure that they read and understand how their Personal Information may be collected, used, and disclosed by the linked websites as B5 is not responsible for and shall not be held liable for any procedures, policies or activities of any websites linked to the Websites.
Visitor’s Consent to Privacy Policy: By visiting and using the Websites, the visitor agrees to the Privacy Policy and the terms of use (“Terms of Use”) included with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the Privacy Policy do not use the Websites or provide Personal Information to B5. If you wish to amend, update or remove the Personal Information already provided, contact privacy@b5media.com
Accountability: B5 takes its commitment to securing privacy very seriously. From time to time, B5 may amend or update this Privacy Policy to comply with visitor concerns, best practices and/or the law. B5 has appointed a member of its management team to act as B5’s Privacy Officer and who is responsible for reviewing, approving and administering this Privacy Policy and B5’s commitments hereunder. If you have any questions, concerns or comments, feel free to contact the Privacy Officer at privacy@b5media.com or by telephone at 1-866-652-7189 or in writing at: Privacy Officer, b5media Inc., 174 Spadina Ave., Suite 302, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2C2, Canada.
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