Terms of Use

General Terms of Use

The SOLIDIFI® Web Site (the “Site”) is an online information service provided by SOLIDIFI® Corporation (“SOLIDIFI®”), subject to your compliance with the terms and conditions set forth below.

Please read the following information carefully before using this Site. By accessing or using this Site, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use. If you do not agree with any of the below Terms of Use, do not use this Site. SOLIDIFI® reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify, alter or otherwise update these Terms of Use at any time and by continuing to use the Site after the posting of a modification, you accept the modification.

The terms and conditions herein apply to SOLIDIFI® Corporation, its parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, and divisions, all of which are referred to herein as “SOLIDIFI®”. The terms and conditions herein are in addition to, and do not override, the specific terms and conditions that apply to the products or services offered by SOLIDIFI®.

Nothing in this Site shall be construed as creating any warranty or other obligation on the part of SOLIDIFI®. The terms and conditions applicable to any SOLIDIFI® product or service are contained in the specific agreement(s) relating to such product or service.

Disclaimer of Warranties and Liability

Information offered on this Site is provided “as is” without any express or implied warranty of any kind, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. In no event will SOLIDIFI® be liable to any party for any damages of any kind, including but not limited to direct, indirect, special or consequential damages for any use of this Site or any linked site including, without limitation, lost profits, loss of use, business interruption, loss of programs or other data, whether in an action based on contract, negligence or other tortuous action, even if SOLIDIFI® is expressly advised of the possibility of such damages. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of warranties or damages in certain types of agreements, so the above exclusions or limitations may not apply to you. In no event will SOLIDIFI® warrant or guaranty the correctness, comprehensiveness, completeness, accuracy, timeliness, merchantability or fitness for any particular use or purpose of any information or any products or services featured on this Site.

Confidentiality

Comments, suggestions, ideas or materials (including without limitation original or creative materials) sent or transmitted to SOLIDIFI® (collectively “Feedback”) shall be deemed to be non-confidential and shall become the sole property of SOLIDIFI®. Subject to the conditions described on the privacy page of this Site, SOLIDIFI® shall have no obligation of any kind with respect to such Feedback and shall be free to use, copy, modify and/or distribute the Feedback to others without limitation for any purpose, commercial or otherwise, without compensation or acknowledgement to you, including, but not limited to developing and marketing products incorporating such Feedback.

Trademark Rights

SOLIDIFI®, the SOLIDIFI® Logo and the SOLIDIFI® product and service names referenced in this Site (“SOLIDIFI® Marks”) are trademarks and service marks or registered trademarks and service marks of SOLIDIFI®. Your use of the SOLIDIFI® Marks is governed by the SOLIDIFI® Third-Party Trademark and Logo Usage Requirements. Other products and company names mentioned on the Site may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

Copyright Information

Linking Policy

You are granted a limited, non-exclusive right to create a hypertext link to this Site provided that such link (i) does not portray SOLIDIFI® and/or its affiliates or any of their respective products and services in a false, misleading, derogatory or otherwise defamatory manner; and (ii) does not imply any sponsorship, approval, endorsement or affiliation of your web site or products by SOLIDIFI®. This limited linking right may be revoked at any time. You may not modify or alter the appearance or content of the home page or Site, or use framing techniques to enclose any SOLIDIFI® trademark, logo or other proprietary information, including the images found at this Site, the content of any text or the layout/design of any page or form contained on a page without SOLIDIFI®’s express written consent. To obtain consent, please email your request to [email protected] or send regular mail to Internet Manager; SOLIDIFI®; 50 Minthorn Boulevard, Suite 301; Markham, ON L3T 7X8; CANADA. You are granted only a limited license and nothing herein shall grant to you any rights in or to (i) any SOLIDIFI® Marks; (ii) the content of the Site; nor (iii) any other intellectual property or proprietary rights of SOLIDIFI®.

SOLIDIFI® makes no representations, warranties or endorsements with respect to any non-SOLIDIFI® web site which may be accessed from this Site. When you access a non-SOLIDIFI® web site, please understand that SOLIDIFI® has no control over the content or information at that site. It is your responsibility to protect your system from such items as viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other destructive items.

Special Admonition for International Use

Recognizing the global nature of the Internet, you agree to comply with all local rules including, without limitation, rules about the Internet, data, e-mail, or privacy. Specifically, you agree to comply with all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside.

Jurisdictional Issues

This Site is controlled and operated by SOLIDIFI® through its corporate headquarters within the Province of Ontario and this Agreement shall be governed by, construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario, as it is applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely within such Province. You agree that any legal action or proceeding between SOLIDIFI® and you for any purpose concerning this Site or the parties’ obligations hereunder shall be brought exclusively in the Province of Ontario.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless SOLIDIFI®, its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, suppliers and any third party information providers to the Site from and against all losses, expenses, damages and costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, resulting from any violation of these Terms of Use.

Miscellaneous

This Site is for informational purposes only and is not intended to provide any financial, legal, or investment advice.

No waiver of any breach of any provision of these Terms of Use shall constitute a waiver of any prior, concurrent, or subsequent breach of the same or other provisions hereof. All waivers must be in writing. If any court of competent jurisdiction finds any part or provision of these Terms of Use to be invalid or unenforceable, such findings shall have no effect on any other part or provision of these Terms of Use.

Any action against SOLIDIFI® must be brought within six (6) months after the cause of action arises. SOLIDIFI® is not responsible for delay or failure to perform due to causes beyond its reasonable control.

Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.

Trademark Requirements

SOLIDIFI® Third-Party Trademark and Logo Usage Requirements

These Trademark and Logo Usage Requirements (“Usage Requirements”) set forth SOLIDIFI® Corporation’s rules for third parties using or referring to SOLIDIFI®’s brand names, trademarks, service marks, product and service names, logos, and slogans (collectively referred to as “SOLIDIFI® Marks”). They apply to all non-SOLIDIFI® parties using or making reference to SOLIDIFI® Marks unless a separate license agreement applies. Other requirements apply to SOLIDIFI® licensees and are set forth in a specific license agreement.

General

SOLIDIFI®’s Marks are SOLIDIFI® intellectual property and are important and valuable assets of the company. Any use of SOLIDIFI® Marks that is inconsistent with these Usage Requirements, or other unauthorized use of SOLIDIFI® Marks or marks that are confusingly similar to SOLIDIFI® Marks, may violate SOLIDIFI®’s legal rights. SOLIDIFI® appreciates your compliance with these Usage Requirements and will take steps to protect the SOLIDIFI® Marks against improper use and infringement. SOLIDIFI® reserves the right to object to any use of SOLIDIFI® Marks (or anything confusingly similar to a SOLIDIFI® Mark) that SOLIDIFI® deems to be unlawful under the circumstances, even if that use is not expressly prohibited by these Usage Requirements.

Fair Use of SOLIDIFI® Marks

You may refer to SOLIDIFI® products and services by their appropriate SOLIDIFI® Mark (other than logos and stylized marks), so long as such references (a) are truthful, fair, and not misleading, and (b) comply with these Usage Requirements.

SOLIDIFI® Logos and Stylized Marks

You should never use SOLIDIFI® logos or stylizations of SOLIDIFI® Marks unless you have a license agreement or other explicit written permission from SOLIDIFI® to do so.

Proper Use of Trademark Symbols

Always use the proper trademark symbol (TM, sm, or ®) immediately following at least the first reference to the trademark on any page.

The exception to the above rule is when the “SOLIDIFI®” name is used as our company name, as opposed to an identifier of one of our products or services. In this case you should not use the ® symbol.

Note the correct spelling of “SOLIDIFI®” (not Solidify).

Examples of Correct Uses of Some SOLIDIFI® Marks

The following examples illustrate the correct use of (TM), (sm), or ® and the use of the trademark as an adjective with the correct generic noun or phrase:

SOLIDIFI® products and services
SOLIDIFI® ValuesTM

Check the list of SOLIDIFI® trademarks below to verify how the SOLIDIFI® Marks should appear.

Acknowledgment of Trademark Rights

Assuming your use of a SOLIDIFI® trademark is permitted, you should always acknowledge that SOLIDIFI® Corporation owns the trademark. If it is not clear from the context of the use of the SOLIDIFI® Mark, you should include a separate acknowledgment. The acknowledgment should appear in legible type in any materials in which a SOLIDIFI® Mark appears. The following language is acceptable:

“SOLIDIFI® and [Insert SOLIDIFI® Marks used] are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of SOLIDIFI® Corporation.”

Materials that mention SOLIDIFI® only:

“SOLIDIFI® is a registered trademark of SOLIDIFI® Corporation.”

Remember that the inclusion of a trademark symbol and acknowledgment does not turn an improper use of a SOLIDIFI® Mark into a proper use or entitle you to use any SOLIDIFI® Mark in a way prohibited by law or otherwise not allowed under these Usage Requirements.

Prohibitions

Do not use any SOLIDIFI® Mark, and do not adopt a “look and feel” with respect to any publication or Web site, in a way that might cause confusion about the relationship between SOLIDIFI® and any other party or any non-SOLIDIFI® product or service (e.g., as to source, origin, sponsorship, or endorsement).
Do not incorporate any SOLIDIFI® Mark into your own product names, service names, trademarks, logos, or company names, and do not adopt marks or logos that are confusingly similar to any SOLIDIFI® Marks.
Do not use or reproduce any SOLIDIFI® logos unless you have explicit written permission to do so.
Do not use any SOLIDIFI® Marks as a meta tag for your web pages.
Do not use any SOLIDIFI® Mark or any confusingly similar words as your domain names or as parts of your domain names.
Do not use any SOLIDIFI® Mark or any confusingly similar words as the alphabetic equivalent of a phone number.
Do not use SOLIDIFI® Marks as Internet search “keywords” or in any other way that is intended to or has the effect of directing traffic to a non-SOLIDIFI® Web site.
Do not state or imply that you have or are claiming rights in any SOLIDIFI® Mark.
Do not use SOLIDIFI® Marks in any improper way that would disparage SOLIDIFI® Corporation, its subsidiaries, its products, or its services (i.e., unfair competition, false or misleading, etc.).

Questions

Any questions regarding these Usage Requirements should be directed to [email protected].

Version and Right to Make Changes

These Trademark and Logo Usage Requirements were originally posted on March 1, 2009. SOLIDIFI® reserves the right to change these Usage Requirements at any time by posting a revised version on this Web site.

SOLIDIFI® Trademarks in the United States and/or Other Countries

SOLIDIFI® (words and logo)
SOLIDIFI® ValuesTM
SOLIDIFI® InsightTM
SOLIDIFI® MarketValueTM
Make an incredibly smart decision® (tagline)

Questions about SOLIDIFI® trademarks and their usage may be referred to [email protected].

Copyright Requirements

SOLIDIFI® Copyright Usage Requirements

The following requirements apply to all content contained on the Web site having the primary URL of www.SOLIDIFI.ca (referred to below as the “SOLIDIFI® Site”):

Everything that appears on the SOLIDIFI® Web Site, including articles, graphics, photographs, and other information, individually and as a collective whole (all of which is referred to as the “Content”), as well as the “look and feel” of the SOLIDIFI® Web Site, is protected under the copyright laws of Canada and the United States and applicable international copyright laws and treaties. No display, copying, modification, publication, performance, reverse engineering, or redistribution of the Content by any method is permitted except as provided in these Usage Requirements.

The copyrights in the Content are owned by SOLIDIFI® Corporation (“SOLIDIFI®”) or by third parties who have licensed their materials to SOLIDIFI®. These third-party materials are also copyrighted, and no copying or redistribution is permitted without the express written permission of SOLIDIFI® and the third party.

The following applies to all SOLIDIFI® materials on the SOLIDIFI® Web Site:

Limited License to Copyrighted SOLIDIFI® Materials

Individual Use:

Except for Content identified as being licensed from a third party, you may download, store, print, and copy selected portions of the Content for your own personal, noncommercial use, provided that:

You do not modify or alter the Content in any way.
You do not delete or modify any copyright or trademark notices.
You do not publish or post any part of the Content on any other Internet site.
You do not display, publish, or broadcast any part of the Content in or on any other media.
You do not sell or charge others for the use of any materials you print or download.

Fair Use and Use for Educational Purposes:

SOLIDIFI® does allow “fair use” of limited portions of the SOLIDIFI® Content for quotations, references, research, etc., as allowed by applicable law.

Any use described in the foregoing paragraph must be complete, accurate, and not misleading, and must not delete or modify any copyright or trademark notices. Any publication or display of Content must clearly disclose that the Content is the copyrighted property of SOLIDIFI® and that additional information can be found at www.SOLIDIFI.ca.

An example of an appropriate disclosure notice is:

“This information is provided by SOLIDIFI® Corporation, and is used with permission. Copyright © SOLIDIFI® Corporation. All rights reserved. Further use, reproduction, or distribution is governed by the SOLIDIFI® Copyright Usage Requirements, which can be found at www.SOLIDIFI.ca.”

Journalists

For more information on SOLIDIFI®, including media contact information, please refer to the “News” section of www.SOLIDIFI.ca. Commercial Use:

In general, use of Content for commercial purposes is prohibited. For example, without SOLIDIFI®’s express written permission, you may not:

Use any Content for commercial purposes to sell, market, or promote any product or service that competes, directly or indirectly, with any product or service offered by SOLIDIFI® through the SOLIDIFI® Web Site or otherwise;
Use or refer to any Content in any way that expresses or implies any sponsorship or endorsement by SOLIDIFI® or is otherwise likely to mislead consumers into thinking that any third-party Web sites, materials, products, or services are provided, created, sponsored, or endorsed by or affiliated with SOLIDIFI®.

Affiliates

Affiliate Partners of SOLIDIFI® may obtain consent to use portions of our Content. Please see Reprint or Reuse Permission below for instructions.

Limitations and Termination

Except as expressly stated above, you may not copy, download, print, publish, display, perform, distribute, transmit, transfer, translate, modify, add to, create derivative works from, update, abridge or in any other way transform or adapt all or any part of the Content without first obtaining written permission from SOLIDIFI®. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved. No license is granted to any HTML or other code incorporated into the SOLIDIFI® Web Site.

Any license granted hereunder does not allow you to misstate or mischaracterize the Content or any position taken by SOLIDIFI®, including reproducing portions of the Content out of context in a way that is likely to be misleading to any person.

Any license granted under these Usage Requirements will terminate automatically if you breach any of these Usage Requirements.

Reprint or Reuse Permission

If you would like to use materials published on the SOLIDIFI® Web Site in ways not authorized by this limited license, you must first obtain written permission from SOLIDIFI®. Contact us at [email protected] or write to us at:

Internet Manager
SOLIDIFI.ca
SOLIDIFI®
50 Minthorn Boulevard, Suite 301
Markham, ON L3T 7X8

Please describe the specific content and your proposed use in reasonable detail.

Version and Right to Make Changes

These Copyright Usage Requirements were posted on March 1, 2009. SOLIDIFI® reserves the right to change these Usage Requirements at any time by posting a revised version on the SOLIDIFI® Web Site.