Terms and Conditions
Terms and Conditions of user for AllNovaScotia.com
THIS IS A LEGAL CONTRACT BETWEEN YOU AND All Business Online News Group Ltd.
(d/b/a AllNovaScotia.com and AllNewfoundlandLabrador.com)
These Terms and Conditions are a legal agreement and contract between you
and All Business Online News Group Ltd. As a condition of your access to this site and to
any of its content, you must agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.
If you do not agree, you must immediately cease to use the site or its content
in any manner.
AllNovaScotia.com is a service to its authorized users, which
service involves providing paying subscribers with access to quality news
content (the “Service”). All subscriptions are personal; there are no group or
corporate subscriptions. In certain circumstances, a business may pay for one
or more personal subscriptions for individuals associated with that business.
In such a case, you agree that you will cause that business to agree to these
Terms and Conditions. However, no rights to the Service and any of its content
are granted to the business.
Those wishing to subscribe to AllNovaScotia.com must agree to
comply with these terms and conditions which are in place to support the
ongoing of the Service. AllNovaScotia.com is only able to exist and
to provide its authorized users with the Service and quality content by strict
adherence to this agreement.
These Terms and Conditions are subject to change at any time and in our
absolute discretion. Subscribers will be electronically notified if these
Terms and Conditions are changed. Changes may occur at any time and subscribers
will be required to agree to the revised Terms and Conditions in order to
continue to access the site. If you do not agree to the revised Terms and
Conditions, you must cease to use your account or access the site and should
contact us at service@allnovascotia.com for a refund of the
remaining term of your subscription.
AllNovaScotia.com takes privacy very seriously. Subscriber
information is carefully protected at all times and it is never made available
to third parties. Select information is used by members of the
AllNovaScotia.com subscription team for product delivery and for
other business reasons.
Subscribers understand subscription payment credentials will cover a monthly
subscription fee until further notice. I understand this information will be securely maintained
by the TD Bank and/or All Business Online News Group Ltd.
AllNovaScotia.com collects a fee from all subscribers at the
beginning of each month unless otherwise arranged. This fee is subject to
change .upon reasonable notice. The payment is for website access for the
named subscriber only and they may access the Service using any of their
personal electronic devices.
Subscription fees are not refundable. The Service may be cancelled at any
time and the cancellation will take effect at the end of the current billing
period.
Cancellations can be requested by contacting
service@allNovaScotia.com or calling
877-240-4130.
From time to time subscribers may be contacted with offers to resubscribe.
By creating an account, accessing the site and/or using the Service, you
specifically represent and warrant that:
- Your account is personal to you and that you are not creating or using the
account on behalf of any business, partnership or corporation;
- You, your employer and any business in which you have a material interest
are not employed in any manner or in any capacity that competes with the
business of All Business Online News Group Ltd., namely any newspaper, online or
broadcast media undertaking, blog or media monitoring business.
You acknowledge that AllNovaScotia.com is relying on the accuracy
of the above representations and warranties in deciding whether to offer you a
subscription.
By creating an account, accessing the site and/or using the Service, you
agree:
- To only use your personal email address for the purposes of accessing the
site and obtaining the service;
- To not share your password for the site with any other person;
- To not provide any other person with access to the Service, the site or to
any of its content;
- To not copy, share, publish, retransmit, modify or create any derivative
works from any content. accessed through the service;
- To not circumvent (or attempt to circumvent) any measures implemented on
the site or related to its content intended to prevent reproduction of any
portion of the site or its content in any manner not authorized by these Terms
and Conditions;
- That your use of the service and access to any of its content is not for
"research" or for "private study" as such terms are defined in the Copyright
Act (Canada);
- That the above representations, warranties and covenants are of the
essence of this agreement and that All Business Online News Group Ltd. would not provide
you with access to the site or the use of the Services absent these
representations, warranties and covenants.
- That if any of the representations and warranties cease to be true in any
material respect, you will immediately advise AllNovaScotia.com,
which may cancel your subscription with immediate effect.
All of the content available on AllNovaScotia.com is protected by
Canadian and international copyright law. All rights not specifically granted
in these Terms and Conditions are specifically reserved.
Subscribers may not redistribute any of AllNovaScotia.com's
content or conduct any commercial or journalistic activity that potentially
impedes the future sale of subscriptions, including any media monitoring
activity.
AllNovaScotia.com has invested significantly to develop its own
software to protect content behind a strict paywall. Content protection is
vital to the future of our business model. Any attempt to circumvent this
initiative is a violation of these Terms and Conditions.
AllNovaScotia.com reserves the right to refuse access to any
individual or corporation. AllNovaScotia.com reserves the right to
waive any one or more of these Terms and Conditions, but any waiver must be in
writing signed by an officer by All Business Online News Group Ltd.
These Terms and Conditions shall be governed by the laws in effect in the
Province of Nova Scotia, without regard to the conflict of laws rules thereof.
Any dispute arising under these Terms and Conditions shall be resolved by
final and binding arbitration under the Commercial Arbitration Act (Nova
Scotia). Any arbitration shall be conducted in the Halifax Regional
Municipality, Nova Scotia, in the English language. The prevailing party shall
be awarded its reasonable costs associated with the arbitration, including
legal fees on a full indemnity basis and other expenses. The non-prevailing
party shall be liable for all of the costs of the arbitration, including the
arbitrator’s fees. Notwithstanding the forgoing, AllNovaScotia.com
shall have the right to commence and pursue any claims against you in any
court of competent jurisdiction.
You acknowledge and agree that each and every term of these Terms and
Conditions is of the essence. If any one or more of the provisions contained
in these Terms and Conditions should be declared invalid, illegal or
unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality and enforceability of the
remaining provisions contained in these Terms and Conditions shall not in any
way be affected or impaired thereby so long as the commercial, economic and
legal substance of the transaction contemplated in the Terms and Conditions
are not affected in any manner materially adverse to any party. Upon such a
declaration, the parties shall modify these Terms and Conditions so as to
carry out the original intent of parties as closely as possible in an
acceptable manner so that the transactions contemplated are consummated as
originally contemplated to the fullest extent possible.
