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TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF
cosmossportsjobs.com
As of May 26, 2004
This web site (this "Site") is provided by Cosmos Sports,
cosmossportsjobs.com is a division of Cosmos Sports
("cosmossportsjobs.com"), conditional on your acceptance of the
terms and conditions of use set forth below (the "Terms and
Conditions"). By accessing, using, and/or downloading messages,
information, data, text, software or images, or other materials from this Site
(the "Materials"), and by sending messages, information, data, text,
software or images, or other materials to the Site ("Content"), you
agree on your own behalf and on behalf of any entity on whose behalf you may
act to accept and abide by these Terms and Conditions for each use and each
visit of this Site. If you do not agree to abide by these Terms and Conditions,
you should not use this Site or download or use Materials from it. These Terms
and Conditions apply exclusively to your access to and use of this Site and do
not alter the terms or conditions of any other agreement you may have with Cosmossportsjobs.com.
In case of inconsistency between these Terms and Conditions and any other
agreement you may have with Cosmossportsjobs.com, the other agreement shall
prevail, but only to the extent of the inconsistency.
Changes to Terms and Conditions
Cosmossportsjobs.com has the right, in its sole discretion, to add to,
remove, modify or otherwise change any part of these Terms and Conditions,
including the Privacy Policy, in whole or in part, at any time. Changes will be
effective when notice of such change is posted at this Site.. Your continued
use of this Site or downloading or use of Materials from it after any such
changes are posted will constitute acceptance of those changes.
Changes to this Site
Cosmossportsjobs.com may terminate, change, suspend or discontinue any aspect
of this Site, including (i) changing the availability of any features, at any
time without notice or liability; (ii) changing any fees or charges for use of
the Site, including instituting new or increased fees or charges for the use of
the Site or any other Site-related services (the "Services") or any
features thereof; (iii) removing, adding, modifying or otherwise changing any
Materials on or from this Site; or (iv) imposing limits on certain features and
Services or restricting your access to parts or all of this Site without notice
or liability for any reason whatsoever. Cosmossportsjobs.com reserves the
right but not the duty, in its sole discretion, to correct any errors or
omissions in any portion of this Site at any time without notice.
Permitted and Prohibited Uses
The Site may be used only for lawful purposes by individuals seeking
employment and career information ("Candidates"), and by employers
("Employers") and recruitment companies ("Recruiters")
seeking employees. You agree to use the Site only to send Content and receive
Materials that are proper and related to purpose of the Site.
Subject to these Terms and Conditions, Cosmossportsjobs.com grants you a
non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited right to access, use and view this
Site and the Materials thereon, solely for your own personal or internal
company use, provided, however, that you may not, nor may you allow others to,
directly or indirectly: (i) remove, from any copy of the Materials downloaded,
the copyright or other proprietary notices contained in the Materials; (ii)
sell, reproduce, modify or attempt to modify the Materials in any way or
reproduce or publicly display, perform, or distribute or otherwise use them for
any public or commercial purpose, including without limitation use of the
Materials on any other web site; (iii) transfer the Materials to any other
person without the written consent of Cosmossportsjobs.com; (iv) print or
copy any of the HTML or other computer programs that are accessible at this
Site; (v) use this Site in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden or
impair this Site; (vi) interfere with the security of, or otherwise abuse, this
Site or any services, system resources, accounts, servers or networks connected
to or accessible through this Site or affiliated or linked sites; (vii) disrupt
or interfere with any other person's use or enjoyment of this Site or
affiliated or linked sites; (viii) upload, post or otherwise transmit on this
Site any Content that would negatively affect the functioning of the Site,
including without limitation computer viruses, or other harmful, disruptive or
destructive files or computer programs or that imposes an unreasonable or
disproportionately large load on this Site's infrastructure; (ix) use any
robot, spider or other automatic program or device, or manual process to
monitor, copy, summarize, or otherwise extract information from this Site or
the Materials in whole or in part; (x) use or attempt to use another's account,
password, service, system or other information without prior written
authorization from Cosmossportsjobs.com; (xi) create or use a false identity
on this Site; (xii) attempt to obtain unauthorized access to this Site or
portions of this Site that are restricted from general access; (xiii) transmit
on, to or from this Site spam, chain letters, junk mail or any other type of
unsolicited mass e-mail; (xiv) harvest or otherwise collect information about
others, except for the sole stated purposes provided by this Site, including
e-mail addresses, without their consent; or (xv) register an e-mail address
that you do not own or for which you do not have the express permission of the
owner to register.
You may post certain Content to the Site. You may only post Content for the
lawful, stated purposes of this Site. You agree, that in posting Content, you
will not, nor will you allow others to, directly or indirectly: (i) post any
incomplete, false or inaccurate biographical information or information which
is not your own accurate resume; (ii) post any franchise, pyramid scheme,
multi-level marketing (MLM) opportunity, "club membership",
distributorship or sales representative agency arrangement or other business
opportunity which requires an up front or periodic payment, requires
recruitment of other members, sub-distributors or sub-agents; (iii) delete or
revise any material posted by any other person or entity; (iv) post or transmit
any Content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing,
defamatory, libelous, vulgar, obscene, or tortious or materials which infringe
or violate any third party's copyright, trademark, trade secrets, privacy or
other proprietary or property right or that could constitute a criminal offence,
give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable law; (v)
impersonate any person or entity, including without limitation a Cosmossportsjobs.com
employee or agent, an authorized user of Cosmossportsjobs.com' Services, a
Candidate, an Employer or a Recruiter, or otherwise misrepresenting your
affiliation with any person or entity; (vi) post opinions, notices or
advertisements, commercial or otherwise or solicit business from Recruiters or
Employers who post on the Site, including any solicitation by any of our
competitors of Recruiters or Employers who post on the Site.
In addition, you agree that you are solely responsible for actions and
communications undertaken or transmitted in the course of your usage of this
Site, and that you will comply with all laws that apply or may apply to your
use of or activities on this Site or in respect of the Content and Materials. Cosmossportsjobs.com
will investigate occurrences which may involve such violations and may involve,
and cooperate with, law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who are
involved in such violations.
Cosmossportsjobs.com reserves the right at all times to disclose any
Content provided by you as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or
governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or remove any Content, in
whole or in part, that in Cosmossportsjobs.com' sole discretion is
objectionable or in violation of these Terms and Conditions.
Registration, User Names and Password
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your
registration information and password. You shall be responsible for all uses of
your registration, whether or not authorized by you. You agree to immediately
notify Cosmossportsjobs.com of any unauthorized use of your registration or
password.
Proprietary Rights
Limited License and Copyright. This Site, including all Materials, is
protected by Canadian and worldwide copyright laws and treaty provisions. You
agree to comply with all copyright laws worldwide in your use of this Site and
to prevent any unauthorized copying of the Materials. Except as expressly
provided herein, Cosmossportsjobs.com does not grant any express or implied
right or license to you under any intellectual property right, including under
any patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, or confidential information, of
Cosmossportsjobs.com.
Trademarks. The Services names, company names and logos used on this Site
may be trademarks, including registered trademarks of Cosmossportsjobs.com.
Such Services names, company names and logos of Cosmossportsjobs.com may not
be copied, imitated or used, in whole or in part, without the prior written
consent of Cosmossportsjobs.com. Other services and company names mentioned
on this Site may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
Reservation of Rights. Cosmossportsjobs.com' Services, methods and
processes may be covered by one or more patents or other statutory intellectual
property rights, and are subject to trade secret and other proprietary rights. Cosmossportsjobs.com
reserves all such rights.
Software. Any software, including calculator software, as well any files,
images generated by such software, code and data accompanying such software
(the "Software"), used or accessible through this Site is the copyrighted
work of Cosmossportsjobs.com or its licensors. Unless provided for elsewhere,
you are licensed to use the Software on a non-exclusive basis for the purposes
expressly stated on this Site. Except as permitted by law, you may not use the
Software for any other purpose or attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble
or reverse engineer any of the Software comprising or in any way making up a
part of the Site.
Links and Third Party Content
Certain links on this Site may take you to other web sites. Cosmossportsjobs.com
provides these links only as a convenience. These linked sites are not
necessarily under the control of Cosmossportsjobs.com. If you use these
sites, you will leave this Site. If you decide to visit any linked site, you do
so at your own risk and it is your responsibility to take all protective
measures to guard against viruses and other destructive elements.
Cosmossportsjobs.com is not responsible for the contents of any such
linked page or any other page not under its control. Cosmossportsjobs.com
makes no representation or warranty regarding, and does not endorse, any linked
web sites, the information appearing thereon or any of the products or services
described. Links do not imply that Cosmossportsjobs.com sponsors, endorses,
is affiliated or associated with, or is legally authorized to use any
trademark, trade name, logo or copyright symbol displayed in or accessible
through the links, or that any linked site is authorized to use any trademark,
trade name, logo or copyright symbol of Cosmossportsjobs.com.
Agreement to Privacy Policy
You agree to abide by Cosmossportsjobs.com' Privacy Policy, which is
incorporated by reference into these Terms and Conditions.
Disclaimers
You acknowledge that any use of or reliance on this Site or any Materials
shall be at your sole risk. Cosmossportsjobs.com makes no representation or
warranty of any kind regarding the Site and/or the Materials, including with
respect to the information provided by third party legal and other consultants,
all of which are provided on an "AS IS" basis. cosmossportsjobs.com
expressly disclaims all representations, warranties and conditions, including
without limitation any implied warranties and conditions of merchantability,
merchantable quality, non-infringement and fitness for a particular purpose and
those arising by statute or otherwise in law or from a course of dealing or
usage of trade. cosmossportsjobs.com does not warrant that this site will
continue to operate, operate without interruptions or that it will be
error-free.
Not limiting the generality of the foregoing, the information provided on
this Site is for general informational purposes only. Information provided on
the Site with a byline, identification of publication source, or any other sort
of third-party identifier, including the Legal Q&A and other columns, is
provided by third parties on an "As Is" basis, and Cosmossportsjobs.com
does not review it. Cosmossportsjobs.com and its third party consultants do
not warrant or guarantee the truth, accuracy or completeness of this
information. No lawyer-client, advisory, fiduciary or other relationship is
created by accessing or otherwise using this Site. The Ontario Legal Q&A
and the Québec Legal Q&A provide information only about the laws in force
in their respective provinces and do not provide information about the laws in
force in any other Canadian province nor in any other jurisdiction. It is not
intended to be legal advice of any kind. No one should act, or refrain from
acting, based solely upon this or other general information without first
seeking appropriate legal or other professional advice.
This Site acts as a venue, among other things, for Recruiters and Employers
to post job opportunities and Candidates to post resumes.
Cosmossportsjobs.com does not screen or censor the listings offered. As a
result, Cosmossportsjobs.com has no control over the quality, safety or
legality of the jobs or resumes posted, the truth or accuracy of the listings,
the ability of Recruiters or Employers to offer job opportunities to Candidates
or the ability of Candidates to fill job openings. In addition, there may be
risks, including but not limited to risk of physical harm of dealing with
strangers, foreign nationals, underage persons or people acting under false
pretenses. You assume all risks associated with dealing with other users with
whom you come in contact through the Site.
Because user authentication on the Internet is difficult, Cosmossportsjobs.com
cannot and does not confirm that each user is who they claim to be. Because we
do not and cannot be involved in user-to-user dealings or control the behaviour
of participants on this Site, in the event that you have a dispute with one or
more users, you release Cosmossportsjobs.com (and our agents and employees)
from all claims, demands and damages of every kind and nature, known and
unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of
or in any way connected with such disputes.
Cosmossportsjobs.com is under no legal obligation to, and generally does
not, control the Content provided by other users which is made available
through the Site. By its very nature, other people's information may be
offensive, harmful or inaccurate, and in some cases will be mislabelled or
deceptively labelled. Cosmossportsjobs.com does not guarantee, and makes no
representations or warranties as to the truthfulness, accuracy, reliability,
currency, veracity or completeness of the Materials or about the results to be
obtained using the Materials. The use of the Site and the Material is at your
own risk. Changes are periodically made to the Site and may be made at any
time.
This Site contains materials, data, information provided, posted or offered
by third parties, including third party provided content, advertisements and
user content. You agree that Cosmossportsjobs.com shall have no liability
whatsoever for any such third party material, data or information.
You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for the form,
content and accuracy of any resume, posting or other Content placed by you, as
applicable on the Site.
Cosmossportsjobs.com shall not be responsible for any employment
decisions, for whatever reason made, made by any entity posting jobs on the Site.
Limitation of Liability
You agree that cosmossportsjobs.com and any third party mentioned on this
site will not be responsible or liable for any loss or damages whatsoever,
including without limitation indirect, special or consequential damages or other
damages (including without limitation damages for harm to business, loss of
information or programs or data, loss of profit, loss of savings, loss of
revenue), arising from or in connection with the use of or access to, or the
inability to use or access, this site, the materials, any content provided or
any linked website of a third party, even if cosmossportsjobs.com, or such a
third party has been advised of the possibility of such damage or loss. In any
event, you agree that Cosmossportsjobs.com' aggregate liability for damages
shall be limited to $10.00.
The limitations of liability and disclaimers in these Terms and Conditions
apply regardless of the form of action, whether in contract, warranty, civil
liability, strict liability, negligence, or other tort and shall survive a
fundamental breach or breaches, or the failure of the essential purpose of
contract or the failure of an exclusive remedy.
Indemnity
You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless each of Cosmossportsjobs.com,
its affiliates, and each of their officers, directors, employees and agents,
including all third parties mentioned at the Site, from and against any and all
claims, actions or demands, including without limitation reasonable legal and
accounting fees, alleging or resulting from your use of the Site and the
Materials or your breach of these Terms and Conditions.
Choice of law
This Site is controlled, operated and administered by Cosmossportsjobs.com
from its offices within Canada. Cosmossportsjobs.com makes no representation
or warranty that materials at this Site are appropriate or available for use at
any locations outside Canada. If you access this Site from outside Canada, you
are responsible for compliance with all local law. You may not export any of the
Materials accessible through this Site in violation of applicable export laws
and regulations. These Terms and Conditions shall be interpreted, construed and
governed by the laws in force in the Province of Ontario, without reference to
its conflict of laws principles, except where prohibited by mandatory
provisions of the laws applicable in your jurisdiction. Except in respect of
any matter relating to the enforcement of intellectual property rights and
protection of confidential information, the parties agree that any action, suit
or proceeding arising out of or related to these Terms and Conditions shall be
commenced in Mississauga or, if no jurisdiction exists, in the Province of
Ontario. Each party hereby agrees to submit to the jurisdiction of the courts
of Ontario and to waive any objections based upon venue in any such action,
suit or proceeding. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the
International Sale of Goods does not apply to these Terms and Conditions.
Arbitration
Any and all disputes arising out of these Terms and Conditions, its
performance, breach, enforcement, existence or validity, including any failure
of the parties to reach agreement with respect to matters provided for in these
Terms and Conditions and all matters of dispute relating to the rights and
obligations of the parties, which cannot be amicably resolved, even if only one
of the parties declares that there is a difference, will be referred to and
finally settled by private and confidential binding arbitration before a single
arbitrator held in Mississauga, Ontario in English and governed by Ontario law
pursuant to the Arbitration Act, 1991 (Ontario), as amended, replaced or
re-enacted from time to time. The arbitrator shall be a person who is legally
trained and who has experience in the information technology field in Canada
and is independent of either party.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, each party may pursue the protection
intellectual property rights and confidential information through injunctive or
other equitable relief through the courts.
General
(i) Except as expressly provided in additional terms of use for areas of
the Site, a particular legal notice, or an additional Agreement, these Terms
and Conditions constitute the entire agreement between Cosmossportsjobs.com
and you with respect to the subject matter hereof; (ii) Any cause of action you
may have with respect to your use of this Site or which is the subject of these
Terms and Conditions must be commenced within one (1) year after the claim or
cause of action arises; (iii) If for any reason a court of competent
jurisdiction finds any provision of these Terms and Conditions or portion
thereof to be unenforceable, that provision shall be enforced to the maximum
extent permissible so as to effect the intent of these Terms and Conditions,
and the remainder of these Terms and Conditions shall continue in full force
and effect; (iv) The relationship of the parties is solely that of independent
contractors and neither party shall have any authority to act for or bind the
other party; (v) The waiver of any breach or default hereunder shall not
constitute the waiver of any other or subsequent breach or default; (vi) No
changes to these Terms and Conditions shall be made except by a revised posting
on this page.
Additional Terms of Use.
Certain areas of this Site may be subject to additional terms of use. By
using such areas, or any part thereof, you agree to be bound by the additional
terms of use applicable to such areas.
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