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TERMS AND CONDITIONS - MR. COMICS TERMS OF USE
Last Updated: 12/10/2019
Please read these Terms carefully before using http://www.mrcomics.ca/ (the
“Site”), provided by Mr. Comics (“Mr. Comics”, “we”, or “us” or “our”). By
visiting or otherwise using the Site in any manner, you agree to the then
posted Terms and any applicable Additional Terms (defined below), to be bound
by them, and that you have read and understood them. You also acknowledge,
agree and consent to our data practices as described in our Privacy Policy.
1. These Terms affect your legal rights, responsibilities and
obligations and govern your use of the Site, are legally binding, limit Mr.
Comics’s liability to you and require you to indemnify us and to settle
certain disputes through individual arbitration. If you do not wish to be bound
by these Terms and any Additional Terms, do not use the Site.
Mr. Comics’s Exclusive Right to Manage Our Site. Mr.
Comics may, but will not have any obligation to, review, monitor, display,
post, store, maintain, accept, or otherwise make use of, any of your
Submissions, and Mr. Comics may, in its sole discretion, reject, delete, move,
re-format, remove or refuse to post or otherwise make use of Submissions
without notice or any liability to you or any third-party in connection with
our operation of Submissions venues in an appropriate manner, such as to
enhance accessibility of Submissions, address copyright infringement and
protect users from harmful Submissions. Without limitation, we may, but do not
commit to, do so to address content that comes to our attention that we believe
is offensive, obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, harassing,
threatening, abusive, illegal or otherwise objectionable or inappropriate, or
to enforce the rights of third parties or these Terms or any applicable
Additional Terms. Such Submissions submitted by you or others need not be
maintained on the Site by us for any period of time, and you will not have the right,
once submitted, to access, archive, maintain, change, remove, or otherwise use
such Submissions on the Site or elsewhere.
Representations and Warranties Related to Your
Submissions. Each time you submit any Submission, you represent and warrant that
you are at least the age of majority in the jurisdiction in which you reside
and are the parent or legal guardian, or have all proper consents from the
parent or legal guardian, of any minor who is depicted in or contributed to any
Submission you submit, and that, as to that Submission, (a) you are the sole
author and owner of the Intellectual Property and other rights to the
Submission, or you have a lawful right to submit the Submission and grant Mr.
Comics the rights to it that you are granting by these Terms and any applicable
Additional Terms, all without any Mr. Comics obligation to obtain consent of
any third-party and without creating any obligation or liability of Mr. Comics ;
(b) the Submission is accurate; (c) the Submission does not and, as to Mr.
Comics ’s permitted uses and exploitation set forth in these Terms, will not
infringe any Intellectual Property or other right of any third-party; and (d)
the Submission will not violate these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms,
or cause injury or harm to any person.
(vii) Appropriate Content and Alerting Us of Violations.
We expect Submissions to be appropriate for a general audience, but do not
undertake to monitor it, and you consent to potentially encountering content
you find offensive or inappropriate. Additional Terms may govern content and
venue of Submissions. If you discover any content that violates these Terms or
any applicable Additional Terms, then you may report it via email to info@mrcomics.ca.
2. SERVICE AND CONTENT USE RESTRICTIONS.
A. Service Use Restrictions. You agree that you will not:
(i) use the Site for any political or commercial
purpose (including, without limitation, for purposes of advertising, soliciting
funds, collecting product prices, and selling products); (ii) use any meta tags
or any other “hidden text” utilizing any Intellectual Property; (iii) engage in
any activities through or in connection with the Site that seek to attempt to
or do harm any individuals or entities or are unlawful, offensive, obscene,
lewd, lascivious, filthy, violent, threatening, harassing, or abusive, or that
violate any right of any third-party, or are otherwise objectionable to Mr.
Comics ; (iv) decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, or attempt to
reconstruct, identify, or discover any source code, underlying ideas,
underlying user interface techniques, or algorithms of the Site by any means
whatsoever or modify any Site source or object code or any software or other
products, services, or processes accessible through any portion of the Site;
(v) engage in any activity that interferes with a user’s access to the Site or
the proper operation of the Site, or otherwise causes harm to the Site, Mr.
Comics , or other users of the Site; (vi) interfere with or circumvent any
security feature (including any digital rights management mechanism, device or
other content protection or access control measure) of the Site or any feature
that restricts or enforces limitations on use of or access to the Site or
Content; (vii) harvest or otherwise collect or store any information (including
personally identifiable information about other users of the Site, including
email addresses, without the express consent of such users); (viii) attempt to
gain unauthorized access to the Site, other computer systems or networks
connected to the Site, through password mining or any other means; or (ix)
otherwise violate these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms.
B. Content Use Restrictions. You also agree that, in using
the Site, you: (i) will not monitor, gather, copy, or
distribute the Content (except as may be a result of standard search engine
activity or use of a standard browser) on the Site by using any robot, rover,
“bot”, spider, scraper, crawler, spyware, engine, device, software, extraction
tool, or any other automatic device, utility, or manual process of any kind;
(ii) will not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any such content
(including any Mr. Comics s, text, or page layout); (iii) will keep intact all
trademark, copyright, and other Intellectual Property and other notices
contained in such content; (iv) will not use such content in a manner that
suggests an unauthorized association with any of our or our licensors’
products, services, or brands; (v) will not make any modifications to such content
(other than to the extent of your specifically permitted use of the Mr. Comics Licensed
Elements, if applicable); (vi) will not copy, modify, reproduce, archive, sell,
lease, rent, exchange, create derivative works from, publish by hard copy or
electronic means, publicly perform, display, disseminate, distribute,
broadcast, retransmit, circulate or transfer to any third-party or on any
third-party application or website, or otherwise use or exploit such content in
any way for any purpose except as specifically permitted by these Terms or any
applicable Additional Terms or with the prior written consent of an officer of Mr.
Comics or, in the case of content from a licensor, the owner of the content;
and (vii) will not insert any code or product to manipulate such content in any
way that adversely affects any user experience or the Site.
C. Availability of Site and Content. Mr. Comics , in its sole discretion without advance notice or
liability, may immediately suspend or terminate the availability of the Site
and/or Content (and any elements and features of them), in whole or in part,
for any reason, in Mr. Comics’s sole discretion, and without advance notice or
liability.
3. NOTICES, QUESTIONS AND CUSTOMER SERVICE.
You agree that we may give you notices or otherwise
respond to you by mail or to your email (if we have it on file) or in any other
manner reasonably elected by us. All legal notices to us must be sent to:
[address]. If you have a question regarding the Site, you may contact Mr.
Comics Customer Support by sending an email to info@mrcomics.ca. You acknowledge that we have no obligation to provide you
with customer support of any kind and that customer service personnel cannot
change or waive Terms or applicable Additional Terms.
4. DISCLAIMER OF REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.
A. AS PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, YOUR ACCESS TO AND USE
OF THE SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND THE SITE IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS”, “AS
AVAILABLE”, AND “WITH ALL FAULTS” BASIS. To the fullest extent permissible by
applicable law, Mr. Comics and their direct and indirect parents, subsidiaries,
affiliates, and each of their respective employees, directors, members,
managers, shareholders, agents, vendors, licensors, licensees, contractors,
customers, successors, and assigns (collectively, “Mr. Comics Parties”) hereby
disclaim and make no representations, warranties, endorsements, or promises,
express or implied, in connection with, or otherwise directly or indirectly
related to, without limitation, the Site, Content, Mr. Comics Licensed
Elements, Submissions or other Mr. Comics products or services.
B. EXCEPT FOR ANY SPECIFIC WARRANTIES PROVIDED HEREIN, OR
IN APPLICABLE ADDITIONAL TERMS, OR AS OTHERWISE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, MR.
COMICS PARTIES HEREBY FURTHER DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE,
NON-INFRINGEMENT OR MISAPPROPRIATION OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OF THIRD
PARTIES, TITLE, CUSTOM, TRADE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, SYSTEM INTEGRATION AND FREEDOM
FROM COMPUTER VIRUS.
C. NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, THIS SECTION DOES NOT
EXPAND OR LIMIT MR. COMICS PARTIES’ LIABILITY FOR PERSONAL INJURY TO YOU CAUSED
BY MR. COMICS PARTIES TO THE EXTENT NOT WAIVABLE OR CANNOT BE LIMITED UNDER
APPLICABLE LAW; OR (III) ANY CAUSE OF ACTION YOU MAY HAVE AGAINST MR. COMICS PARTIES
THAT IS NOT WAIVABLE OR CANNOT BE LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.
5. LIMITATIONS OF OUR LIABILITY.
A. AS PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES
WILL ANY MR. COMICS PARTIES BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGES OF
ANY KIND, including personal injury or death or for any direct, indirect,
economic, exemplary, special, punitive, incidental, or consequential losses or
damages of any kind, including without limitation loss of profits, in connection
with, or otherwise directly or indirectly related to, without limitation, the
Site, Content, Mr. Comics Licensed Elements, Submissions or other Mr. Comics products
or services.
B. The foregoing limitations of liability will apply even
if any of the events or circumstances were foreseeable and even if Mr. Comics Parties
were advised of or should have known of the possibility of such losses or
damages, regardless of whether you bring an action based in contract,
negligence, strict liability, or tort (including whether caused, in whole or in
part, by negligence, acts of god, telecommunications failure, or destruction of
the Site).
6. UPDATES TO TERMS.
It is your responsibility to review the posted Terms and
any applicable Additional Terms each time you use the Site (at least prior to
each transaction or submission). EACH TIME YOU USE THE SITE YOU ARE ENTERING
INTO A NEW AGREEMENT WITH US ON THE THEN APPLICABLE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND
YOU AGREE THAT WE MAY NOTIFY YOU OF NEW TERMS BY POSTING THEM ON THE SITE (OR
IN ANY OTHER REASONABLE MANNER OF NOTICE WHICH WE ELECT), AND THAT YOUR USE OF
THE SITE AFTER SUCH NOTICE CONSTITUTES YOUR GOING FORWARD AGREEMENT TO THE NEW
TERMS FOR YOUR NEW USE AND TRANSACTIONS. Any new Terms or Additional Terms will
be effective as to new use and transactions as of the time that we post them,
or such later date as may be specified in them or in other notice to you. In
the event any notice to you of new, revised, or additional terms is determined
by a tribunal to be insufficient, the prior agreement shall continue until
sufficient notice to establish a new agreement occurs. You can reject any new,
revised or additional terms by discontinuing use of the Site.
7. GENERAL PROVISIONS.
A. Mr. Comics’s Consent or Approval. As to any provision
in these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms that grants Mr. Comics a
right of consent or approval, or permits Mr. Comics to exercise a right in its
“sole discretion,” Mr. Comics may exercise that right in its sole and absolute
discretion. No Mr. Comics consent or approval may be deemed to have been
granted by Mr. Comics without being in writing and signed by an officer of Mr. Comics .
B. Indemnity. As permitted by applicable law, you agree
to, and you hereby, defend (if requested by Mr. Comics ), indemnify, and hold Mr.
Comics Parties harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, losses,
costs, investigations, liabilities, judgments, fines, penalties, settlements,
interest, and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) that directly or indirectly
arise from or are related to any claim, suit, action, demand, or proceeding
made or brought against any Mr. Comics Party, or on account of the
investigation, defense, or settlement thereof, arising out of or in connection
with: (i) your Submissions; (ii) your use of the Site
and your activities in connection with the Site; (iii) your breach or alleged
breach of these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms; (iv) your violation
or alleged violation of any laws, rules, regulations, codes, statutes,
ordinances, or orders of any governmental or quasi-governmental authorities in
connection with your use of the Site or your activities in connection with the
Site; (v) information or material transmitted through your Device, even if not
submitted by you, that infringes, violates, or misappropriates any copyright,
trademark, trade secret, trade dress, patent, publicity, privacy, or other
right of any person or entity; (vi) any misrepresentation made by you; and
(vii) Mr. Comics Parties’ use of the information that you submit to us
(including your Submissions) subject to our Privacy Policy (all of the
foregoing, “Claims and Losses”). You will cooperate as fully required by Mr.
Comics Parties, in the defense of any Claim and Losses. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, Mr. Comics Parties retain the exclusive right to settle, compromise,
and pay any and all Claims and Losses. Mr. Comics Parties reserve the right to
assume the exclusive defense and control of any Claims and Losses. You will not
settle any Claims and Losses without, in each instance, the prior written
consent of an officer of an Mr. Comics Party. This section is not intended to
limit any causes of action against us that you may have but are not waivable
under applicable law.
C. International Issues. Mr. Comics controls and operates
the Site from the Canada, and makes no representation that the Site is appropriate
or available for use beyond the Canada. If you use the Site from other
locations, you are doing so on your own initiative and responsible for
compliance with applicable local laws regarding your online conduct and
acceptable content, if and to the extent local laws apply.
D. Severability; Interpretation. If any provision of these
Terms, or any applicable Additional Terms, is for any reason deemed invalid,
unlawful, void, or unenforceable by a court or arbitrator of competent
jurisdiction, then that provision will be deemed severable from these Terms or
the applicable Additional Terms, and the invalidity of the provision will not
affect the validity or enforceability of the remainder of these Terms or the
applicable Additional Terms. To the extent permitted by applicable law, you
agree to waive and will waive, any applicable statutory and common law that may
permit a contract to be construed against its drafter.
E. Investigations; Cooperation with Law Enforcement;
Termination; Survival. As permitted by applicable law, Mr. Comics reserves the
right, without limitation, to: (i) investigate any
suspected breaches of its Site security or its information technology or other
systems or networks, (ii) investigate any suspected breaches of these Terms and
any applicable Additional Terms, (iii) use any information obtained by Mr.
Comics in accordance with its Privacy Policy in connection with reviewing law
enforcement databases or complying with applicable laws and use and/or disclose
any information obtained by Mr. Comics to comply with law enforcement requests
or legal requirements in accordance our Privacy Policy, (iv) involve and
cooperate with law enforcement authorities in investigating any of the
foregoing matters, (v) prosecute violators of these Terms and any applicable
Additional Terms, and (vi) discontinue the Site, in whole or in part, or,
suspend or terminate your access to it, in whole or in part, at any time,
without notice, for any reason and without any obligation to you or any
third-party. Any suspension or termination will not affect your obligations to Mr.
Comics under these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms. Upon suspension or
termination of your access to the Site, or upon notice from Mr. Comics , all rights granted to you under these Terms or any
applicable Additional Terms will cease immediately, and you agree that you will
immediately discontinue use of the Site. The provisions of these Terms and any
applicable Additional Terms, which by their nature should survive your
suspension or termination will survive, including the rights and licenses you
grant to Mr. Comics in these Terms, as well as the indemnities, releases,
disclaimers, and limitations on liability and the provisions regarding
jurisdiction, choice of law, no class action, and mandatory arbitration.
F. Assignment. Mr. Comics may assign its rights and
obligations under these Terms and any applicable Additional Terms, in whole or
in part, to any party at any time without any notice. These Terms and any
applicable Additional Terms may not be assigned by you, and you may not
delegate your duties under them, without the prior written consent of an
officer of Mr. Comics .
G. Complete Agreement; No Waiver. These Terms, and any
applicable Additional Terms, reflect our complete agreement regarding the Site
and supersede any prior agreements, representations, warranties, assurances or
discussion related to the Site. Nothing in the preceding sentence shall limit
or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation. Except as
expressly set forth in these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms, (i) no failure or delay by you or Mr. Comics in exercising
any of rights, powers, or remedies under will operate as a waiver of that or
any other right, power, or remedy, and (ii) no waiver or modification of any
term of these Terms or any applicable Additional Terms will be effective unless
in writing and signed by the party against whom the waiver or modification is
sought to be enforced.
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