Terms and Conditions of Use


1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS WorkInNonProfits.ca provides a collection of online resources, including job and supplier advertisements, and various email services, (referred to hereafter as "the Service") subject to the following Terms of Use ("Terms"). By using the Service in any way, you are agreeing to comply with these Terms. In addition, when using particular WorkInNonProfits.ca services, you agree to abide by any applicable posted guidelines for all WorkInNonProfits.ca services, which may change from time to time. Should you object to any term or condition of these Terms, any guidelines, or any subsequent modifications thereto or become dissatisfied with WorkInNonProfits.ca in any way, your only recourse is to immediately discontinue use of WorkInNonProfits.ca.

2. MODIFICATIONS TO THIS AGREEMENT We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify or otherwise alter these terms and conditions at any time. Such modifications shall become effective immediately upon the posting thereof. You must review this agreement on a regular basis to keep yourself apprised of any changes. You can find the most recent version of these Terms on this page.

3. CONTENT You understand that all postings, messages, text, files, or other materials ("Content") posted on, transmitted through, or linked from the Service, are the sole responsibility of the person from whom such Content originated. More specifically, you are entirely responsible for all Content that you post, email or otherwise make available via the Service. You understand that WorkInNonProfits.ca does not control, and is not responsible for Content made available through the Service, and that by using the Service, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent, inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise objectionable. Furthermore, the WorkInNonProfits.ca site and Content available through the Service may contain links to other websites, which are completely independent of WorkInNonProfits.ca. WorkInNonProfits.ca makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy, completeness or authenticity of the information contained in any such site. Your linking to any other webites is at your own risk. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, that you may not rely on said Content, and that under no circumstances will WorkInNonProfits.ca be liable in any way for any Content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, emailed or otherwise made available via the Service. You acknowledge that WorkInNonProfits.ca does not pre-screen or approve Content, but that WorkInNonProfits.ca shall have the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion to refuse, delete or move any Content that is available via the Service, for violating the letter or spirit of the Terms or for any other reason.

4. THIRD PARTY CONTENT, SITES, AND SERVICES The WorkInNonProfits.ca site and Content available through the Service may contain features and functionalities that may link you or provide you with access to third party content which is completely independent of WorkInNonProfits.ca, including web sites, directories, servers, networks, systems, information and databases, applications, software, programs, products or services, and the Internet as a whole. Your interactions with organizations and/or individuals found on or through the Service, including payment and delivery of goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such organizations and/or individuals. You should make whatever investigation you feel necessary or appropriate before proceeding with any online or offline transaction with any of these third parties. You agree that WorkInNonProfits.ca shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings. If there is a dispute between participants on this site, or between users and any third party, you understand and agree that WorkInNonProfits.ca is under no obligation to become involved. In the event that you have a dispute with one or more other users, you hereby release WorkInNonProfits.ca, its officers, employees, agents and successors in rights from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind or nature, known or unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way related to such disputes and / or our service.

5. MEMBER ACCOUNT, PASSWORD, AND SECURITY During registration for a WorkInNonProfits.ca user id, you will select a password and user name. You understand and agree that you are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account including your password, and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your account, including billable activities.
You agree to (a) immediately notify WorkInNonProfits.ca of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security, and (b) exit from your account at the end of each session. WorkInNonProfits.ca will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this Section 5.

6. PRIVACY AND INFORMATION DISCLOSURE WorkInNonProfits.ca has established a Privacy Policy to explain to users how their information is collected and used, which is located at the following web address: https://www.WorkInNonProfits.ca/index?sel=pp Your use of the WorkInNonProfits.ca website or the Service signifies acknowledgement of and agreement to our Privacy Policy. You further acknowledge and agree that WorkInNonProfits.ca may, in its sole discretion, preserve or disclose your Content, as well as your information, such as email addresses, IP addresses, timestamps, and other user information, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: comply with legal process; enforce these Terms; respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third-parties; respond to claims that contact information (e.g. phone number, street address) of a third-party has been posted or transmitted without their consent or as a form of harrassment; protect the rights, property, or personal safety of WorkInNonProfits.ca, its users or the general public.

7. GENERAL CONDUCT You agree not to post, email, or otherwise make available Content:
a) that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, or is harmful to minors in any way;
b) that is pornographic;
c) that harasses, degrades, intimidates or is hateful toward an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, age, or disability;
d) that impersonates any person or entity, including, but not limited to, a WorkInNonProfits.ca employee, or falsely states or otherwise misrepresents your affiliation with a person or entity;
e) that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent;
f) that is false, deceptive, misleading, deceitful, misinformative, or constitutes "bait and switch";
g) that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party, or Content that you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships;
h) that constitutes or contains "affiliate marketing," "link referral code," "junk mail," "spam," "chain letters," "pyramid schemes," or unsolicited commercial advertisement;
i) that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitation if: posted in areas of the WorkInNonProfits.ca sites which are not designated for such purposes; or emailed to WorkInNonProfits.ca users who have not indicated in writing that it is ok to contact them about other services, products or commercial interests.
j) that includes links to commercial services or web sites, except as allowed in "services";
k) that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
l) that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive number of messages (flooding attack) to the Service, or that otherwise negatively affects other users' ability to use the Service; or
m) that employs misleading email addresses, or forged headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin of Content transmitted through the Service.
You also agree not to:
n) collect personal data about other users for commercial or unlawful purposes;
o) use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from the Service - unless expressly permitted by WorkInNonProfits.ca;
p) post irrelevant Content, repeatedly post the same or similar Content or otherwise impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our infrastructure;
q) attempt to gain unauthorized access to WorkInNonProfits.ca's computer systems or engage in any activity that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes with the performance of, or impairs the functionality of, the Service or the WorkInNonProfits.ca website; or
r) use any form of automated device or computer program that enables the submission of postings on WorkInNonProfits.ca without each posting being manually entered by the author thereof (an "automated posting device"), including without limitation, the use of any such automated posting device to submit postings in bulk, or for automatic submission of postings at regular intervals.

8. NO SPAM POLICY You understand and agree that sending unsolicited email advertisements to WorkInNonProfits.ca email addresses or through WorkInNonProfits.ca computer systems is expressly prohibited by these Terms. Such violations may subject the sender and his or her agents to civil and criminal penalties.

9. LIMITATIONS ON SERVICE You acknowledge that WorkInNonProfits.ca may establish limits concerning use of the Service, including the maximum number of days that Content will be retained by the Service, the maximum number and size of postings, email messages, or other Content that may be transmitted or stored by the Service, and the frequency with which you may access the Service. You agree that WorkInNonProfits.ca has no responsibility or liability for the deletion or failure to store any Content maintained or transmitted by the Service. You acknowledge that WorkInNonProfits.ca reserves the right at any time to modify or discontinue the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice, and that WorkInNonProfits.ca shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.

10. ACCESS TO THE SERVICE WorkInNonProfits.ca grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive license to access the Service for your own personal use. This license does not include any collection, aggregation, copying, duplication, display or derivative use of the Service nor any use of data mining, robots, spiders, or similar data gathering and extraction tools for any purpose unless expressly permitted by WorkInNonProfits.ca. A limited exception is provided to general purpose internet search engines and non-commercial public archives that use such tools to gather information for the sole purpose of displaying hyperlinks to the Service, provided they each do so from a stable IP address or range of IP addresses using an easily identifiable agent and comply with our robots.txt file.
"General purpose internet search engine" does not include a website or search engine or other service that specializes in job or supplier listings. WorkInNonProfits.ca permits you to create a hyperlink to the home page of WorkInNonProfits.ca sites so long as the link does not portray WorkInNonProfits.ca, its employees, or its affiliates in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive matter. Use of the Service beyond the scope of authorized access granted to you by WorkInNonProfits.ca immediately terminates said permission or license. In order to collect, aggregate, copy, duplicate, display or make derivative use of the the Service or any Content made available via the Service for other purposes (including commercial purposes) not stated herein, you must first obtain a license from WorkInNonProfits.ca.

11. TERMINATION OF SERVICE You agree that WorkInNonProfits.ca, in its sole discretion, has the right (but not the obligation) to delete or deactivate your account, block your email or IP address, or otherwise terminate your access to or use of the Service (or any part thereof), immediately and without notice, and remove and discard any Content within the Service, for any reason, including, without limitation, if WorkInNonProfits.ca believes that you have acted inconsistently with the letter or spirit of the Terms. Further, you agree that WorkInNonProfits.ca shall not be liable to you or any third-party for any termination of your access to the Service. Further, you agree not to attempt to use the Service after said termination. Sections 2, 4, 6 and 10-16 shall survive termination of these Terms.

12. PROPRIETARY RIGHTS The Service is protected to the maximum extent permitted by copyright laws and international treaties. Content displayed on or through the Service is protected by copyright as a collective work and/or compilation, pursuant to copyrights laws, and international conventions. Any reproduction, modification, creation of derivative works from or redistribution of the site or the collective work, and/or copying or reproducing the sites or any portion thereof to any other server or location for further reproduction or redistribution is prohibited without the express written consent of WorkInNonProfits.ca. You further agree not to reproduce, duplicate or copy Content from the Service without the express written consent of WorkInNonProfits.ca, and agree to abide by any and all copyright notices displayed on the Service. You may not decompile or disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to discover any source code contained in the Service. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any aspect of the Service. Although WorkInNonProfits.ca does not claim ownership of content that its users post, by posting Content to any public area of the Service, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to WorkInNonProfits.ca an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute said Content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, said Content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses (through multiple tiers) of the foregoing. Furthermore, by posting Content to any public area of the Service, you automatically grant WorkInNonProfits.ca all rights necessary to prohibit any subsequent aggregation, display, copying, duplication, reproduction, or exploitation of the Content on the Service by any party for any purpose.

13. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES YOU AGREE THAT USE OF THE WorkInNonProfits.ca SITE AND THE SERVICE IS ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE WorkInNonProfits.ca SITE AND THE SERVICE ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" OR "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. ALL EXPRESS AND IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS ARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WorkInNonProfits.ca DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR THE SECURITY, RELIABILITY, TIMELINESS, ACCURACY, AND PERFORMANCE OF THE WorkInNonProfits.ca SITE AND THE SERVICE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WorkInNonProfits.ca DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR OTHER SERVICES OR GOODS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON THE WorkInNonProfits.ca SITE OR THE SITES OR SERVICE, OR ACCESSED THROUGH ANY LINKS ON THE WorkInNonProfits.ca SITE. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WorkInNonProfits.ca DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTIES FOR VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE WorkInNonProfits.ca SITE OR THE SERVICE. Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of implied warranties. In such jurisdictions, some of the foregoing disclaimers may not apply to you insofar as they relate to implied warranties.

14. LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL WorkInNonProfits.ca BE LIABLE FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES (EVEN IF WorkInNonProfits.ca HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM ANY ASPECT OF YOUR USE OF THE WorkInNonProfits.ca SITE OR THE SERVICE, WHETHER THE DAMAGES ARISE FROM USE OR MISUSE OF THE WorkInNonProfits.ca SITE OR THE SERVICE, FROM INABILITY TO USE THE WorkInNonProfits.ca SITE OR THE SERVICE, OR THE INTERRUPTION, SUSPENSION, MODIFICATION, ALTERATION, OR TERMINATION OF THE WorkInNonProfits.ca SITE OR THE SERVICE. SUCH LIMITATION SHALL ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES INCURRED BY REASON OF OTHER SERVICES OR PRODUCTS RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE WorkInNonProfits.ca SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE WorkInNonProfits.ca SITE, AS WELL AS BY REASON OF ANY INFORMATION OR ADVICE RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED IN CONNECTION WITH THE WorkInNonProfits.ca SITE OR THE SERVICE OR ANY LINKS ON THE WorkInNonProfits.ca SITE. THESE LIMITATIONS SHALL APPLY TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. In some jurisdictions, limitations of liability are not permitted. In such jurisdictions, some of the foregoing limitation may not apply to you.

15. INDEMNITY You agree to indemnify and hold WorkInNonProfits.ca, its officers, subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, assigns, directors, officers, agents, service providers, suppliers and employees, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorney fees and court costs, made by any third party due to or arising out of Content you submit, post or make available through the Service, your use of the Service, your violation of the Terms, your breach of any of the representations and warranties herein, or your violation of any rights of another.

16. GENERAL INFORMATION The Terms constitute the entire agreement between you and WorkInNonProfits.ca and govern your use of the Service, superceding any prior agreements between you and WorkInNonProfits.ca. These Terms and Conditions shall be interpreted, construed and governed by the laws in force in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, except where prohibited by mandatory provisions of the laws applicable in your jurisdiction. You and WorkInNonProfits.ca agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada without reference to its conflict of laws principles. The failure of WorkInNonProfits.ca to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the Terms is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Terms remain in full force and effect. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the Service or the Terms must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.