Web Policy

Your access to and continued use of this Site represents your acceptance and observance of the following terms of use. Please review them. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THESE TERMS OF USE YOU SHOULD LEAVE THIS SITE AT ONCE.

Limitation of Liability

The Yellowhead Regional Library Web site consists of information made available under the http://www.yrl.ab.ca domain and other subdomains (hereinafter referred to as “Web site”). The information provided on this Web site is for general and informational purposes as a resource only.

No Warranties

This Web site and its contents are provided “as is” and Yellowhead Regional Library makes no representation or warranty respecting this Web site or any Web site accessible through this Web site. By accessing this Web site, you do so at your own risk. Yellowhead Regional Library expressly disclaims all express and implied warranties including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event will Yellowhead Regional Library or its principals, agents, affiliates, partners, directors or employees be liable to any party for any damages whatsoever in contract, statute, tort, economic loss or other laws arising out of or in connection with this Web site, be it direct, indirect, consequential or otherwise.

No Endorsement

This Web site has links to other websites. These links are provided as references to help you locate other internet resources. Please note that these other websites were independently created by other parties and Yellowhead Regional Library does not assume any responsibility for the accuracy or appropriateness of information contained in these other websites. By providing links to these other websites, Yellowhead Regional Library is not acting as a publisher or distributor of the contents of these other websites, nor do we seek to control the content of, or maintain any type of control over such websites. Users of other websites connected to this Web site use those websites at their own risk according to the terms and conditions contained in them, if any. Yellowhead Regional Library makes no representation as to the accuracy of or any other aspect of information contained in links to this Web site and does not monitor or endorse the content of other websites. If you link to this Web site from another website, the terms and conditions of use of this site prevail.

Intellectual Property

All trademarks used or referred to on this Web site are the property of their respective owners. No implied or other license or right (including without limitation, any copyright, patent, trademark or other proprietary right) pertaining to the content of this site is conferred to you, except if and where expressly stated in the particular web text.

This Web site and the content provided in this Web site, including, but not limited to, photos, graphic images, audio, video, html code, buttons, and text, may not be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, without the prior written consent of Yellowhead Regional Library, except that you may download, display, and print one copy of the materials on any single computer solely for your personal, non-commercial use, provided that you do not modify the material in any way and you keep intact all copyright, trademark, and other proprietary notices.

Grant of Limited Use

As a user of this Web site, you are granted a limited use to use (display or print) short extracts of the information for your own personal non commercial use only, provided that the information is not altered and you shall be fully responsible for any outcome resulting from such use. Any other use of the information is forbidden. None of the information may be reproduced, republished or redistributed in any way, shape or form without the prior written consent of Yellowhead Regional Library.

Submissions

You agree not to submit unauthorized ideas or submissions to Yellowhead Regional Library through this Web site. Information submitted to Yellowhead Regional Library through this Web site shall be deemed to be, and remain the property of Yellowhead Regional Library. Yellowhead Regional Library is free to use any ideas or concepts or techniques contained in the information provided to Yellowhead Regional Library for any purpose whatsoever even if sent to this Web site by e-mail. Yellowhead Regional Library shall not have any obligations of confidentiality regarding any information submitted to it unless agreed to in writing by Yellowhead Regional Library.

Choice and Conflict of Laws

Yellowhead Regional Library maintains this site in the Province of Alberta, Canada, and you agree that these terms of use and any legal action or proceeding or relating to this Web site shall be governed by the laws of Alberta, the Alberta Courts, in the jurisdiction of Alberta. However, Yellowhead Regional Library is not limited by this agreement to choose the forum conveniens without regard to the location in the world where you are situated, or from where in the world you visited this Web site.

Computer Viruses

Although Yellowhead Regional Library makes every attempt to ensure the information on the Web site does not contain any computer viruses, you should take reasonable and appropriate precautions to scan for computer viruses and should ensure that you have a complete and current backup of the information stored on your computer. Particular attention should be paid to newer viruses which automatically execute when an infected word processing document is loaded into certain word processing programs.