Privacy Policy
Famic Technologies Inc. Website – Terms and Conditions of Use
By accessing or using this Website, you agree, without limitation or
qualification, to be bound by the terms and condition set forth and in any
changes thereto that Famic Technologies Inc. may publish from time to
time.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH, DO NOT
ACCESS THIS WEBSITE.
The use of information, services or the downloading for use of any material
or information available on this Website is done at your own risk. You agree
that you will be solely responsible for any direct or indirect damage
resulting from the use of these information, services, material, etc. Famic
Technologies Inc. assumes no liability for any damages whether direct or
indirect resulting from the use of information, services, material, etc.
available on its Websites. No advice or information, whether oral or
written, obtained by you directly from Famic Technologies Inc. or via the
Websites, services or materials shall create any warranty not expressly
stated in the Terms of Use and Conditions. Famic Technologies Inc. will not
be liable for any loss whatsoever that you may incur as a result of someone
else using your password and/or you account ID with respect to this Website
or any services or materials, either with or without your knowledge.
File Sharing Portal
Rules and Conduct
In consideration of the
availability, and your use, of the Services, you agree, while visiting Famic
Technologies Inc.’ Websites, not to post, transmit, link to, or otherwise
distribute any information constituting or encouraging conduct that could
become a criminal offense or give rise to civil liability. You agree not to
post or distribute any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing,
obscene, indecent or unlawful material or information; post, transmit, link
to, or otherwise distribute any information or software which contains a
virus, worm or other harmful or disruptive component; defame, abuse, stalk,
harass, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights of others, including
without limitation, rights relating to privacy and publicity.
Registration and Passwords
You agree to provide
accurate and current information about yourself as required by the relevant
registration process, and to promptly update such information as necessary
to ensure that it is kept accurate and complete.
You agree to be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any
passwords or other account identifiers which you choose or are assigned as a
result of any registration over our website all activities that occur under
such password or account. Further, you agree to notify Famic Technologies
Inc. of any unauthorized use of your password or account.
You are responsible for the security of your File Sharing Portal ID and
password. Please take care when using and storing them. We recommend that
you do not divulge your password and ID to anyone. You should log out of
your browser at the end of each computer session to ensure that others
cannot access your information, especially if you share a computer with
someone else or are using a computer in a public place like a library or
Internet cafe.
Responsibility for Minors
In cases where you have
authorized a minor to use the Portal, you recognize that you are fully
responsible for: (i) the online conduct of such minor; (ii) controlling the
minor's access to and use of the Portal; and (iii) the consequences of any
misuse by the minor.
Monitoring
You acknowledge that Famic Technologies
Inc. has no obligation to monitor the Famic Technologies Inc. File
Sharing Portal and you agree to upload only Famic Technologies
Inc. files. Therefore you acknowledge that all documents, files and
messages posted on this website solely express their authors’ views and
opinions.
Disclaimer Regarding Third Party Content
You agree
that it is your responsibility to review and evaluate any confidential
content of a document, and that any and all risk associated with the use of,
or reliance on, such content rests with you.
You further agree that Famic Technologies Inc. shall not be responsible or
liable, directly or indirectly, in any way for any loss or damage of any
kind incurred as a result of, or in connection with your use of, or reliance
on, any such content.
Service Modifications
You acknowledge and agree that
Famic Technologies Inc. reserves the right at any time to modify or
discontinue any access to the Portal with or without any notice.
Termination
You acknowledge and agree that Famic
Technologies Inc., in its sole and absolute discretion, may, without
notifying you, suspend or terminate your account, your use of, or your
access to the Portal, and remove and discard any information or content
related to it if Famic Technologies Inc. believes that you have violated any
of the Terms and Conditions. You further agree that Famic Technologies Inc.
shall not be liable to you or to any other person as a result of any such
suspension or termination.
Disclaimer of Warranties
You understand and agree
that the documents accessible on the File Sharing Portal are on an “As
Available” basis and that Famic Technologies Inc. is not responsible for the
contents of any document uploaded by other participants.
No License, Intellectual Property and Others
Famic Technologies Inc. owns the intellectual property of all its Websites.
Certain content available through the Portal are protected by copyright,
trademark, patent or other rights of Famic Technologies Inc. You agree not
to adapt, translate, modify, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any
applications, programs or software. Further, you agree not to modify, alter,
or deface any of the trademarks, service marks, or other intellectual
property. You also agree that the files uploaded on Famic Technologies Inc.
File Sharing Portal become available to other users of the Portal, so you
yield to Famic Technologies Inc. the right to release them for undetermined
period of time and for an unconditional use.
Nothing on the website may be interpreted as conferring on you any right,
title, interest or license in the software, files and information integrated
into the website or that can be downloaded from the website, including, in
particular, any intellectual property right whatsoever. All software, files
and information on the website is provided as is, without warranty of any
kind, either expressed or implied.
Limitation of Liability
Famic Technologies Inc. and its officers, directors and employees cannot be
held responsible for any special, direct, indirect or incidental damage of
any kind, including, in particular, loss of business, loss of savings, loss
of data and/or loss of profits for whatever reason, whether or not based on
a contract (including failure to fulfill an essential obligation), civil
liability (including negligence) or otherwise, even if Famic Technologies
Inc. knew or should have known of the possibility of such damages.
Famic Technologies Inc. and its officers, directors, employees, agents
cannot in any case be held liable for any loss or damage arising from the
failure of Famic Technologies Inc. or your failure to protect your access
code and password or account information.
Famic Technologies Inc. expressly disclaims all responsibility for the acts,
omissions or conduct of any third party user of the website. Famic
Technologies Inc. and its officers, directors and employees cannot be held
responsible for any damage, loss, damage (including special, direct,
indirect or incidental damage) or costs arising in any way: (I) acts,
omissions or conduct of a third party user; and (II) the use or inability to
use anything, software, file or content.
Applicable Laws
The Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed
in
accordance with the laws of the province of Quebec and the federal laws of
Canada applicable therein.
Cookie Consent
Cookies are small text files which may be transferred from our websites,
applications or services and stored on your device. We use cookies to help
us provide you with a personalized service, and to help make our websites,
applications and services better for you.
This website uses cookies and other tracking tools to store login
information, display content and maximize your browsing experience. We also
use cookies to analyze traffic and understand where our visitors come from.
By browsing our website, you agree to our use of cookies and tracking tools.
We use the following different types of cookies:
Cookies, analytics and traffic data
Our cookies may be session cookies (temporary cookies
that identify and track users within our websites, applications or services, which
are deleted when you close your browser or leave your session in the
application or service) or persistent cookies (cookies which enable our
websites, applications or services to “remember” who you are and to remember
your preferences within our websites, applications or services and which
will stay on your computer or device after you close your browser or leave
your session in the application or service).
Strictly necessary cookies
These are cookies needed
for our websites, applications or services to function properly, for
example, these cookies allow you to access secure areas of our website.
Performance cookies and analytics technologies
These
cookies collect information about how visitors and users use our websites,
applications and services, for instance which functionality visitors use
most often, and if they get error messages from areas of the websites,
applications or services. These cookies don't collect information that
identifies a visitor or user. All information these cookies collect are
aggregated and therefore anonymous. We only use these cookies to improve how
our website, applications and services work.
Functionality cookies
These cookies allow our
websites, applications and services to remember choices you make (such as
your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced,
more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes
you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can
customize. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for. The
information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track
your browsing activity on other websites.
Web beacons and parameter tracking
We could also use
cookies and similar software known as web beacons to count users who have
visited our website after clicking through from one of our advertisements on
another website or in emails and to collect details of any products or
services purchased. These web beacons would collect limited information
which does not identify particular individuals. It is not possible to refuse
the use of web beacons. However, because they are used in conjunction with
cookies, you can effectively disable them by setting your browser to
restrict or block cookies.
IP Address and traffic data
We keep a record of
traffic data which is logged automatically by our servers, such as your
Internet Protocol (IP) address, device information, the website that you
visited before ours and the website you visit after leaving our site. We
also collect some site, application and service statistics such as access
rates, page hits and page views. We are not able to identify any individual
from traffic data or site statistics.
How to disable cookies
You may be able to configure
your browser or our website, applications or services to restrict cookies or
block all cookies if you wish, however if you disable cookies you may find
this affects your ability to use certain parts of our website, applications
or services.
Further information and Privacy
If you have any questions about the
processing of your data, the content
of this Legal Notice, your rights under applicable Quebec or Canadian
legislation or how to update your information, we invite you to write to
the address Legal Advisor, Famic Technologies Inc., 300-8585 route
Transcanadienne, Saint-Laurent QC H4S 1Z6, Canada , or send an email to
legal@famictech.com. To find out what information we hold about you, or
for any request or complaint regarding such private information that we
may hold about you, please contact the Privacy Officer, Houda Nasr, by
phone at +1 514-748 -8050 extension 223, or by email at
confidentialite@famictech.com.