Legal Disclaimer
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Warning: The elements of this website, including graphics, logos, images, designs, sounds, information, and documents (the “Materials”), are protected by copyright, trademark, trade dress, trade secret, unfair competition and other laws and are owned by Aareas Interactive Inc. and its subsidiaries, divisions and affiliates (“Aareas Interactive”); or its suppliers, vendors or other third parties who have contributed Materials to the website (each a “Supplier”). In no event shall any of the Materials be copied, reproduced, distributed, displayed, downloaded, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form without the prior express written permission of Aareas Interactive and/or its Supplier. Aareas Interactive, the Aareas Interactive logo and other Aareas Interactive products and brands mentioned in this website are registered trademarks or trademarks of Aareas Interactive in Canada and/or other countries. The names of actual products and companies mentioned in this website may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.
ACCEPTANCE OF LEGAL DISCLAIMER AND ANY REVISIONS THERETO
By accessing or using this Aareas.com website (the “Site”), you (“You”) acknowledge that You have read and understood this Legal Disclaimer (the “Legal Disclaimer”) and that, without limitation or qualification, You are bound by and agree to abide by the Legal Disclaimer, as well as any future revisions/modifications that may be made to it. You also agree that, if applicable, You have explained this Legal Disclaimer to any person or entity on whose behalf You are accessing the Site and the services available thereat, and confirm that they are in agreement with Your access and use of this Site on their behalf and that any information You provide on their behalf is also governed by this Legal Disclaimer. This Legal Disclaimer represents an agreement between You and Aareas.
If You do not agree to be bound by this Legal Disclaimer, You must not access or use this Site. If You consider any future revisions/modifications made to this Legal Disclaimer to be unacceptable, You must cease accessing and using this Site. If You continue to access or use this Site after any revisions/modifications are posted, You will be deemed to have accepted those revisions/modifications.
You should periodically revisit the posting of this Legal Disclaimer to review any revisions/modifications.
Links to Third Party Websites
Aareas may direct you to a third party website or there may be links to third party websites from the Site, that take you outside of Aareas’s website. These websites may send their own cookies to you or otherwise collect data or solicit information. Aareas has no control over those websites and is not responsible for the content used or the information collected. Aareas cannot be held liable for Your access and use of such third-party websites.
Limitation of Liability
In no event will Aareas Interactive and its suppliers be liable for indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages, whether in an action of contract or tort, arising out of the use or inability to use the materials available on this website, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. In particular, and without limitation, Aareas Interactive shall have no liability for any loss of use, data, including the costs of recovering such data, or profits.
Collection of Personal Information on Use of the Site
Aareas may collect personal information through Your use of the Site, various contracts, forms or documents You complete and/or other activities initiated through the Site. This occurs when You register at the Site, access and use the Site and its functions, use any of the services or products that are provided at the Site from time to time or otherwise by Aareas specifically requesting the personal information from You at the Site.
Aareas may also collect personal information relating to Your use of the Site. For instance, the Aareas servers will automatically identify Your computer by its IP address, ie. the number assigned to Your computer. That information may be used in a variety of different ways, including for system administration, to help diagnose problems with its Site, to aggregate information for Aareas to audit the use of the Site. Aareas may also use this information to identify You when there is a possibility that enforcement of compliance with the Terms of Use or this Legal Disclaimer is necessary. This information may also be used for tracking procedures, such as tallying the number of page views on the Site and of such administrative matters and to gather broad, aggregated demographic information. Aareas may also use this information where it is otherwise permitted by law.
The Site is not directed to children. No communication will be sent to anyone or information collected from anyone who indicates that he/she is younger than 16 years of age.
Personal Information and Public Information
Personal information is any information, in whatever form, about an identifiable individual. Therefore, through Your access and use of the Site, Aareas may receive personal information from and about You.
The following is not personal information (hereinafter the “public information”) and You agree that that is the case:
• Your name, email address(es) or other information by which Aareas may be able to contact You, including name, home address, home telephone number, position or title, business telephone number, business address, cell phone number and other electronic means by which You may be contacted;
• personal information about You that is publicly available information, such as information available through government sources (such as Land Titles/Registry offices, municipal departments and/or provincial regulators), public registries, telephone books, directories, online directories, social media sites, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.
• aggregated information that cannot be associated with You as a specific individual; and
• information which is not about You, but which is about any company, association, organization, club, etc., with which You are associated.
Public information is not governed by the personal information policies in this Legal Disclaimer.
The Site may host public forums, postings, message boards, blogs, social media sites, social feed sites, news groups, review groups and/or other public sites. Information which You disclose or post in these areas of the Site become public information and is not governed or protected by the personal information policies in this Legal Disclaimer.
Sharing Your Personal Information
As a general rule, Aareas does not disclose Your personal information, except with Your permission or consent or as set out herein or as permitted by law or under special circumstances, such as when Aareas believes, in good faith, that the law requires it or there are specific circumstances which require it.
Since personal information may be collected through registration at the Site and the use of the Site, including the use of any of the services or products that are provided at the Site from time to time, this personal information shall be disclosed by Aareas to its affiliates, as necessary or desirable to provide the required services, in each case as necessary, and You hereby consent thereto. Aareas and its affiliates may use Your personal information to better meet Your needs and to better provide service to You through this Site and such affiliates’ websites of Aareas for services in the real estate business, and You hereby consent thereto.
Aareas may disclose aggregated statistics (where Aareas discloses a characteristic or characteristics of users of the Site, as a group, and not as individuals) in order to describe and/or promote this Site, the services of Aareas for other lawful purposes.
The personal information You provide through registration at and accessing and use of the Site may be aggregated in order to show and promote the use of the Site.
From time to time, You may receive material, promotional and/or marketing literature or special offers from Aareas and/or third parties. To provide this information, Aareas may share Your public information including Your name, contact information and email address and some or all of Your personal information with third parties, and you hereby consent thereto. Aareas may also communicate with You about additional services or to provide information to You about other products and services which may interest You. You may inform Aareas that you do not wish to receive this information. You may continue to access the Site even if You have so advised Aareas.
Aareas may disclose Your personal information to perform credit checks or to collect accounts owed to Aareas, to prevent fraud, to prevent money laundering or to request information about You from the files of consumer reporting agencies.
Cookies
Aareas, like many other sites, uses small files called cookies (information that the Site transfers to Your hard drive for record keeping purposes) to help us customize Your experience and track use of our site. Aareas may use this information for improvements and updates to the site and its content. Advertisers that place web advertisements with Aareas may use cookies in which Aareas does not regulate. Please be aware that You have the option of disabling the receipt of cookies on Your computer, by adjusting the cookies setting.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Sharing
We will share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.
Newsletter
If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and email address.
Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.
Security of Your Personal Information
No data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be one hundred percent (100%) secure. As a result, while Aareas will strive to protect Your personal information, it cannot warrant the security of any personal information transmitted to it, including through the use of the Site. Any such transmission is done at Your own risk. Once Aareas receives Your transmission, Aareas uses industry standards to safeguard the confidentiality of Your personal information against loss and unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modifying, disposal or similar risks.
Notification of Changes
If there are changes in our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our web site so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.