Membership Registration Agreement

Article 1: General Rules

Section 1: Purpose

1. The purpose of this agreement is to define all issues relating to the conditions and procedures of use of all Services ("services" defined as all contents including news articles, pictures, images, illustrations, music files, video files, and other formats and diverse services) between the customer (herein referred to as "Member") and The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, and to define all other necessary particulars.

Section 2: Effectuation and Amendments

1. Services are provided on condition that the Member accepts this Agreement without changes. Clicking "Agree" means the Member accepts this Agreement.

2. This Agreement takes effect when it is published online or in the print publication. The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph may make amendments at its discretion as circumstances necessitate, and any such changes take effect by being posted on the service page or upon notification to the Member through other means.

3. The Member may choose to stop using Services and withdraw Membership if he does not agree to amendments to this Agreement. The Member is assumed to have agreed to changes if he continues to use Services after amendments have been made to this Agreement.

Section 3: Rules Not Included in This Agreement

1. Issues not defined in this Agreement are defined by the related laws of Quebec where applicable.

2. Services not defined by this agreement will require Member acceptance to (a) separate agreement(s).

Article 2: Membership Registration and Use of Services

Section 1: The Establishment of a Use Contract

1. A Use Contract is established upon The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph's acceptance of the user's application for use and the user's acceptance of the Agreement.

2. A person desiring to register as a Member and use Services must provide a pre-determined amount of personal information. The personal information provided by the user is thoroughly protected in accordance with the Canadian and the province of Quebec’s Personal Information Protection Policy.

3. Member information provided by the Member at registration is considered genuine. Members who do not provide genuine information may not receive legal protection.

4. Persons under the age of 14 may become Members with the approval of a legal guardian, in accordance with the related laws.

1) Should a person under the age of 14 desire to accept the Agreement, his legal guardian must provide his legal name, Resident Passport Number, and contact information to be approved by The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, having overseen the process of Membership application by the person under the age of 14.

2) The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph reserves the right to require additional confirmation of the legal guardian's consent by telephone, facsimile, postal mail, email, or other means, and in some cases may seek other reasonable methods of confirmation that the legal guardian has truly consented.

3) The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph approves applications for Membership by persons under the age of 14 after confirmation of the consent of the person's legal guardian.

4) The legal guardian must be careful not to allow a situation where the person under 14 learns of the legal guardian's Resident Passport Number and might manipulate use of the Resident Registration Number, as such information is an important means of confirmation of the legal guardian's consent.

5) The legal guardian may retract consent at any time, but does not gain exemption from responsibility for the Member's use of Services during the period during which the legal guardian provided consent.

5. Persons residing overseas and non-Canadian citizens residing in Canada and who therefore lack a Resident Passport Number must provide documented proof of identity via facsimile to 418-650-1764 or file attachment in order to complete the Membership application process. Such applicants must provide that documentation within one month of applying in order to be recognized as a Member.

Section 2: Approval of Application

1. The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph approves applications for use of services when the Member has stated all information accurately. The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph does not approve applications in circumstances falling under "Reasons for Rejecting Application for Membership."

2. Reasons for Rejecting Application for Membership

1) The use of a name that is not the legal name of the applicant.

2) The use of a Resident Registration Number (Passport Number) that is not that of the applicant.

3) The submission of false information at time of application.

4) Application with intent to harm good morals and manners or social peace and order and the common good.

5) Failure to meet other conditions for application as defined by The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph.

Section 3: Limits to Use of Services

1. In principle Services may be used 24 hours a day every day of the year, without regard to legal holidays but with exception to special instances where The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph operational or technical circumstances incur momentary suspension of Services.

2. Some Services provided by The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph require Member registration and use with a username and password.

Section 4: Benefits of Membership

1. Membership is subscription fee based.

2. The Member is automatically invited to participate in various events and programs organized for Members by The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph assumes the Member agrees to abide by all rights and duties relating to participation in such events and programs at the time of Membership application.

Article 3: Termination of Contract and Restrictions on Use of Services

Section 1: Termination of Contract and Prohibitions on Use of Services

1. The Member may discuss complaints about the handling of Member information on bulletin boards such as the open bulletin board for each Service.

2. A Member seeking to terminate the Service contract must do so himself by applying for termination on the personal information management page.

3. A Member who has terminated Membership may re-register for Membership within 3 months under the same username, as the Member's username will be preserved for that period. After three months the Member must re-register under a different username.

4. The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph may terminate a Member's contract or suspend use of Services for a set period without prior notification in any of the following instances.

1) Behavior that is contrary to public order or good morals and manners.

2) Criminal behavior.

3) Planning or acting on plans to use Services with the goal of harming the public interest.

4) Use of someone else's username and password.

5) Defamation of character or behavior injurious to another individual.

6) Registering as a Member twice under different usernames.

7) Actions hampering the positive use of Services, such as deliberate harm to Services.

8) Behavior that violates the pertaining laws or conditions of use as defined by The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph.

Section 2: Procedures in Prohibiting Use

1. When The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph seeks to restrict use by a Member the Member or his representative will be informed via email or telephone of the reason, when the time restriction is to begin and period of restriction of use. In urgent cases The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph may suspend membership without notification.

Article 4: Responsibility

Section 1: The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph s' Obligations

1. The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph will make Services available to Members, barring special circumstances.

2. The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph is obligated to provide Services in a continuous and stable manner in accordance with this Agreement, and to restore Services when they are discontinued for unavoidable reasons without delay. However, in cases of natural calamity, states of emergency, and other unforeseen events The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph may temporarily suspend Services.

3. The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph will deal immediately with views and complaints presented by the Member when determined to be legitimate.

4. The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph will not leak or distribute the Member's personal information as learned from the Membership registration process to third parties without the Member's consent. Exceptions include when a state agency demands such information in accordance with the Laws of Canada "Basic Law on Electronic Communication," when such information is demanded as part of a criminal investigation. The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph will disclose the Member's personal information when the request is consistent with the procedures required by the pertinent laws.

5. The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph may share Member information with sites with which The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph has signed cooperative agreements in order to further the ease of use of the The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph site and The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph may transmit a cookie to the Member's computer for that purpose.

6. The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph may use all or part of the Member's information for statistical purposes relating to business operations, within the limits outlined in "5" above.

Section 2: Obligations of the Member

1. All responsibility regarding the Member's username and password lies with the Member.

2. The Member may not transfer or give his username to another individual.

3. The Member must inform The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph by email or other method of any wrongful use of his username.

4. The Member must abide by this Agreement and the related laws of the Province of Quebec as they apply.

Article 5: Posted Material

Section 1: The Member's Posted Material

1. The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph may delete material posted by the Member without prior notification in the following instances.

1) If the Member's material damages, abuses, appropriates, threatens, or is harassment of another individual's privacy, rights to announce pertinent information, or other legal rights.

2) If the Member's material prints, mails, posts, distributes, or disseminates titles, names, material, or data that is illegal, inappropriate, profane, libelous, infringing, pornographic, or vulgar.

3) If the Member uploads files that are software of other material protected by Canada’s "Intellectual Protperty Law." Exceptions are when the Member maintains ownership or managerial rights over the material or has obtained consent regarding its use.

4) If the Member uploads files that contain viruses or are otherwise contaminated and as such can harm computers, or uploads similarly harmful software or programs.

5) If the Member advertises or sells products or services with commercial intent with out a Business Membership or Organizational Membership.

6) If the Member engages in data collection, contests, pyramid sales activities, or sends "letters of luck" (designed to be sent to large numbers of people that encourage further circulation).

7) If the Member downloads material he knows or reasonably can be believed to have known was posted by another site user and as such cannot be lawfully circulated.

8) If the Member removes material that consists of software or other material that has the author's name, legal or other appropriate information, trademark, source, or other descriptions and markings falsified or removed.

9) If the Member limits or prohibits another Member from using or enjoying Services.

10) If the Member posts material that includes pornographic content harmful to public order or good morals and manners, content that either promotes or attacks a specific religion, or other improper material such as content that incites regional or ethnic or cultural sentiments.

Section 2: Copyright

The rights and responsibilities regarding general posted material lies with the Member who posts the material.

Section 3: The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph’s Responsibility for Posted Material

1. The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph is not obligated to inspect all posted material. However, The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph reserves the right to disclose information pertaining to the material in order to satisfy legal or regulatory requirements or legal government requests, and can refuse to edit or post material or information either partially or entirely, completely at the discretion of The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph.

2. All Services regarding posted material is public communication and not private, and the Member recognizes that material he posts may be read by other individuals without his knowledge. The Member must be careful about information through which readers might be able to identify individuals or their children.

3. The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph reserves the right to end the Member's access to all or part of service for any reason and without notification.

4. The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph clearly denies all forms of responsibility for posted material and responsibility incurred by the Member's use of The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph Internet Services.

Article 6: The Provision of Information and Advertisements

1. The Member's personal information will be thoroughly protected, and it may be shared in accordance with Article 4, Section 1, Item 5.

2. The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph may transmit needed information to the Member via electronic or postal mail. The Member may refuse to receive information by choosing that option in the course of Membership registration or by making changes in his Membership information.

3. The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph may provide Members with commercial advertisements via email at the request of advertisers and based on the judgment of The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph.

Article 7: General Matters

1. This Agreement is governed by the applicable laws of Canada and the Province of Quebec. The Member agrees that any dispute arising from use of Services or any other related dispute falls entirely under the jurisdiction of the court with jurisdiction over The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph. The use of the The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph site is not permitted in areas that do not recognize the legal validity of this Agreement.

2. The Member agrees that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or representation exists between the Member and The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph as a result of the use of the The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph site. The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph is governed by existing laws and legal procedures in the course of implementing this Agreement. No part of this Agreement harms The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph’s right to abide by government, judicial, or law enforcement authority request or demand in relation to information gathered or provided by The Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph in the course of providing or the use of Services.

3. When the applicable laws render invalid or inexecutable any provision or provisions of this Agreement, including the aforementioned denial of responsibility the provision or provisions so legally rendered invalid or inexecutable will be replaced by (a) valid and executable provision or provision(s) that are as consistent as possible with the original intent of the provision or provisions determined, in any way, to be legally invalid or inexecutable.

Article 8: Final Release

Children under age 18 must have a parent or legal guardian's written permission to submit their material and such permission must accompany the material or it will not be considered.

Employees (and their immediate families and household members) of QUEBEC CHRONICLE-TELEGRAPH and its parent, subsidiaries, divisions, and affiliated entities are not eligible to submit material.

By submitting your material, for good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency and receipt of which you hereby acknowledge, you hereby grant to QUEBEC CHRONICLE-TELEGRAPH and its affiliates a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide  license to edit, telecast, rerun, reproduce, use, syndicate, license, print,  sublicense, distribute and otherwise exhibit the materials you submit, or any portion thereof, as incorporated in any of their programming or the promotion thereof, in any manner and in any medium or forum, whether now known or hereafter devised, without payment to you or any third party. You represent and warrant to QUEBEC CHRONICLE-TELEGRAPH that you have the full legal right, power and authority to grant to QUEBEC CHRONICLE-TELEGRAPH the license provided for herein, that you own or control the complete exhibition and other rights to the materials you submitted for the purposes contemplated in this license and that neither the materials nor the exercise of the rights granted herein shall infringe upon or violate the right of privacy or right of publicity of, or constitute a libel or slander against, or violate any common law or any other right of, any person or entity. This license shall be governed by the laws of the province of Quebec

QUEBEC CHRONICLE-TELEGRAPH has the right to edit and/or alter any submission. QUEBEC CHRONICLE-TELEGRAPH reserves the right not to use the material you submit at all and/or as little of the material as it chooses.

You acknowledge and agree that by submitting your material you are not entering into an employment relationship with QUEBEC CHRONICLE-TELEGRAPH and that no relationship is created other than licensor/licensee.

QUEBEC CHRONICLE-TELEGRAPH values your privacy. The information you submit is subject to our privacy policy. Children under age 18 must have a parent or legal guardian's written permission to submit their material and such permission must accompany the material or it will not be considered.

Employees (and their immediate families and household members) of QUEBEC CHRONICLE-TELEGRAPH and its parent, subsidiaries, divisions, and affiliated entities are not eligible to submit material.

By submitting your material, for good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency and receipt of which you hereby acknowledge, you hereby grant to QUEBEC CHRONICLE-TELEGRAPH and its affiliates a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide  license to edit, telecast, rerun, reproduce, use, syndicate, license, print,  sublicense, distribute and otherwise exhibit the materials you submit, or any portion thereof, as incorporated in any of their programming or the promotion thereof, in any manner and in any medium or forum, whether now known or hereafter devised, without payment to you or any third party. You represent and warrant to QUEBEC CHRONICLE-TELEGRAPH that you have the full legal right, power and authority to grant to QUEBEC CHRONICLE-TELEGRAPH the license provided for herein, that you own or control the complete exhibition and other rights to the materials you submitted for the purposes contemplated in this license and that neither the materials nor the exercise of the rights granted herein shall infringe upon or violate the right of privacy or right of publicity of, or constitute a libel or slander against, or violate any common law or any other right of, any person or entity. This license shall be governed by the laws of the province of Quebec.

QUEBEC CHRONICLE-TELEGRAPH has the right to edit and/or alter any submission. QUEBEC CHRONICLE-TELEGRAPH reserves the right not to use the material you submit at all and/or as little of the material as it chooses.

You acknowledge and agree that by submitting your material you are not entering into an employment relationship with QUEBEC CHRONICLE-TELEGRAPH and that no relationship is created other than licensor/licensee.

QUEBEC CHRONICLE-TELEGRAPH values your privacy. The information you submit is subject to our privacy policy.