The Association des propriétaires d'autobus du Québec (the «
APAQ » [Quebec Bus Owners' Association]) welcomes you to our Portal
www.espacebus.ca. Espacebus.ca is not a corporate body, but rather
a trademark under which we operate our Portal.
ACCEPTANCE AND MODIFICATION OF THE CONDITIONS OF USE
Use of the Portal implies the acceptance of the conditions of use
set out in this document. These may be modified at any time. It is
therefore suggested to refer to them regularly.
PERSONAL USE
The Portal is at the disposal of Internet users exclusively for
personal use and not for commercial use.
PORTAL CONTENT
Unless otherwise indicated, the content of the pages of our Portal
is presented for information purposes only and does not constitute
a contract commitment on our part.
The information found on our Portal comes from numerous external
sources. The APAQ has expended all possible efforts to ensure
accuracy, timeliness and reliability of the Portal's content. The
Portal's information is updated regularly. However, on occasion
certain recent modifications may not appear. Should that occur,
please advise us.
Any information provided concerning a business, a product or a
service within the Portal in no way means that we endorse it or do
not recommend it.
USE OF THE PORTAL
Any illegal use, directly or indirectly, of the services offered by
our Portal is strictly prohibited.
Harassment on the Portal, in any form whatsoever is prohibited. It
is also forbidden to disrupt our employees, hosts, representatives
or any other members or visitors of the Portal or to wrongfully use
their name or identity.
Attempts to access or accessing of areas protected and reserved to
our personnel or for users registered with the Portal is strictly
forbidden. Any violation or attempt to violate access protected by
a restricted password will automatically bring about lawsuits
against the offender.
COPYRIGHTS AND TRADEMARKS
All content posted on the current Portal, including texts, images,
graphics, interfaces, photos, videos, codes, content option and
layout (the "Content"), or otherwise accessible through the Portal
is protected by Copyright. The Content published on the current
Portal and the Copyrights on the Content belongs or is under the
control of the APAQ or their Content suppliers. Any use,
reproduction, broadcast, publication or retransmission of the
Content, in whole or in part, is strictly forbidden without our
written and prior authorization or the authorization of the
Copyright holder.
The names of products, services, companies and logos mentioned in
the Portal may be trademarks, filed or not by their respective
owners, and protected accordingly. It is therefore forbidden to use
any trademark contained on the Portal without our written and prior
authorization or the authorization of the right holder concerning
that Trademark. For any further information or authorization
concerning Copyrights, contact info@espapcebus.ca.
COMMUNICATIONS
If you forward any notes, messages, ideas, suggestions or you
submit concepts, you accept to assign your rights and renounce to
all related moral rights for the duration of the right,
perpetually, irrevocably, everywhere in the world. This assignment
overrides rights to post, under any manner whatsoever, including
for promotional and advertising purposes.
LINKS WITH OTHER SITES
The Portal includes links towards other Internet sites. Inasmuch as
the APAQ cannot control these sites, it is unable to guarantee the
exactness and exhaustiveness of the contents, advertisements,
products, services or any other material available on or from these
sites. Furthermore, the APAQ cannot be held responsible for any
damage or loss, proven or alleged, resulting from or associated
with the use or with the fact of having trusted as to the content,
for goods or services available on these Internet
sites.
CONFIDENTIALITY
Refer to the Declaration of Confidentiality of the current
Portal.
LIABILITY EXCLUSION AND LIMIT
No advice and no information obtained while using the Portal are
likely to create guarantees.
The APAQ cannot pledge its liability with regard to information
transmitted on the Portal.
Under no circumstance, except gross negligence, can the APAQ be
held liable for any loss or damages that could be closely or by far
related to the tardiness or delays inherent to the use of this
Portal, to the reliability of the data available, to be unable to
use the Portal and to the involuntary inoculation of a virus at the
user's entry port.
The user undertakes to keep the APAQ free of and protected in full
from damages, costs and expenses, reasonable lawyer fees included,
related to any violation of the conditions herein either by the
user himself or by the users of his account, either in relation
with the use of this Portal or upon the broadcast or the
transmission of any violation or other elements on this Portal by
the user himself or the users of his account.
We in no way guarantee around-the-clock operation of services or
access to such services. We offer no express or implicit guarantee
of any nature whatsoever with regard to services including, but
without limiting the number and the range, any guarantee with
regard to the transmission capacity of telecommunication businesses
and of the service provider or of the reliability of
telecommunication businesses' equipment or the service provider's
equipment or alternately the exactness or the relevance of the
information made available by the services or equipment. The APAQ
cannot be held liable for damages resulting from the use of the
services or equipment, nor from errors, omissions, interruptions,
delays or defectiveness concerning the services and the equipment
or the data provided by the services and the equipment.
The Portal user accepts the Portal's conditions of use and
understands that by using the information provided, he cannot hold
the APAQ liable for damages or losses that he may sustain following
his decision to do business with one of the businesses named in
this Portal and with which he may do business via an external
site.
APPLICABLE RIGHT
The conditions of use herein are governed by the laws in effect in
the Province of Quebec, and any litigation must be submitted to
competent Courts in the Province of Quebec, in the District of
Quebec. If one of the provisions of the conditions of use is deemed
to be invalid by a competent Court, it shall not have as effect to
render invalid all the other provisions, the invalid provision to
be dissociated from the other provisions of the conditions of use
herein, which shall remain in effect.
The conditions of use herein and any other legal notice posted on
our Portal constitute the agreement existing between us with regard
to the use of the Portal and its content.