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All material provided by this web site (the "Site") is designed for information purposes only.

Copyright © 2003-2008 Perth County Information Network. All rights reserved.

Terms of Use

1. Reserved Rights and Grant of Limited License

• The Perth County Information Network (PCIN) own the intellectual property rights, including copyright, in and to the InformationPerth Site, or have acquired the necessary licenses to the information and software.
• As a user of this Site, you are granted a limited license to use (display or print) short extracts of the information for your own personal, non-commercial use only, provided the information is not modified. You shall be fully responsible for any consequences resulting from such use. Any other use of the information is prohibited. None of the information may be otherwise reproduced, republished or re-disseminated in any manner of form without the prior written consent of the Perth County Information Network.
• The PCIN disclaim any liability for unauthorized use or reproduction of any portion of this web Site.

2. No Solicitation

• No part of the Site should be taken to constitute an offer or solicitation to buy or sell products or services.

3. No Endorsement

• The Site may contain links to other sites. These links are provided as references to help you identify and locate other Internet resources that may be of interest. Parties other than PCIN independently developed these other sites and, as such, PCIN do not assume responsibility for the accuracy or appropriateness of the information contained at such sites. In providing links to other sites, PCIN are not acting as a publisher or disseminator of the material contained on these other sites and do not seek to control the content of, or maintain any type of editorial control over, such sites.
• A link to another site should not be construed to mean that PCIN are associated with or are legally authorized to use any trademark, trade name, logo or copyrighted symbol that may be reflected in the link or the description of the link to such other sites. In addition, the mention of another party or its product or services on the Site should not be construed as an endorsement of that party or its product or service.

4. No Advice or Warranties

• The information on the Site is provided for educational or information purposes only. It is not intended to provide medical, legal or professional advice whatsoever and should not be relied upon in that respect.
• While PCIN has made every effort to check the quality, accuracy, completeness of the information presented, the site may contain typographical or other errors and should not be assumed to be error free.
• PCIN are not responsible for any content or information that you may find undesirable or objectionable.

5. No Liability

• PCIN is not responsible for any direct, indirect, special, incidental or consequential damage or any other damages whatsoever and howsoever caused, arising out of or in connection with the use of the Site or in reliance on the information available on the Site, including the loss of use, lost date, lost business profits, business interruption, personal injury, or any other personal or pecuniary loss, whether the action is in contract, tort (including negligence) or other tortious action.

6. Inclusion Policy

• PCIN collects, maintains and disseminates community services information that enables people to make informed choices to improve their quality of life.
• Inclusion in the InformationPerth database is free, and is completely unrelated to whether an organization is a partner in any collaboration.
• Subject to the priorities detailed in the next section, the community services database includes organizations or programs primarily located in or serving the County of Perth that:
• Provide a direct service to the public
• Are networks or coalitions of direct service providers
• Are involved in licensing, planning or coordinating direct services
• Are not-for-profit, community-based or government organizations
• Are commercial organizations that provide services not offered by the non-profit sector
• Are commercial organizations licensed by the government or with special contractual agreements to operate long term care facilities, child care centres and certain home care services

7. Data Sharing

• Requests by individuals, organizations or agencies for copies of the database or selected groups of records within the database are to be made in writing to PCIN and approved by the InformationPerth Community Services Database Steering Committee and PCIN Board of Trustees.
• Under no circumstances will the information within the database be sold to other organizations, or will other organizations be allowed to sell the information obtained from the database.

8. Exclusion of Data

• PCIN reserves the right to exclude from its database any organization that it has adequate reason to believe may spread hatred or have a philosophy that could be hurtful to the well-being of individuals, groups or the community as a whole. Certain information about an organization or its services may be withheld from the database if such information is deemed to be a possible threat to the organization or its clients.
• Potential grounds for exclusion or removal from the database may include, but is not limited to, service non-delivery, fraud, misrepresentation, discrimination, or criminal activities.
• PCIN reserves the right to refuse to list or to discontinue listings for organizations that have had serious complaints lodged against them with any regulatory body, with other organizations in the database providing similar services, or with PCIN itself.
• Database records detailing or describing an organization and its programs shall be deleted upon the receipt of a written request from that organization. Appeals may be made in writing to the PCIN Board of Directors after a reasonable attempt has been made to resolve the issue with the Database Advisory Committee.

9. Update Policy

• Most organizations listed are asked annually to complete a written questionnaire or to update their information by telephone, fax or e-mail. Nevertheless, community services change so rapidly that some omissions and changes are inevitable.
• PCIN encourages organizations to use the Contact Us link on the website to notify the database administrators of changes throughout the year.
• PCIN reserves the right to verify each change with the service provider. The amount of detail, the language used and the presentation of information in describing a service or organization, is at the discretion of PCIN.
• Changes submitted will not appear immediately on the Site.

10. Confidentiality Warning

• Absent the use of encryption, the Internet is not a secure medium and privacy cannot be ensured. Internet e-mail is vulnerable to interception and forging. PCIN will not be responsible for any damages you or any third party may suffer as a result of the transmission of confidential information that you make through the Internet, or that you expressly or implicitly authorize PCIN to make, or for any errors or any changes made to any transmitted information.

11. Computer Viruses

• While every effort is made to ensure that all information provided at the Site does not contain 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 applicable items or information contained on your computer system. You should pay specific attention to some of the newer viruses that have been written to automatically execute when an infected word processing document is loaded into certain word processing programs.

12. Choice of Law

• The laws of the Province of Ontario and the laws of Canada applicable therein shall govern as to the interpretations, validity and effect of this agreement notwithstanding any conflict of laws provisions or your domicile, residence or physical location. You hereby consent and submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Province of Ontario in any action or proceeding instituted under or related to this agreement.

13. Submissions

• All information submitted to PCIN via the InformationPerth Site shall be deemed and remain the property of PCIN and shall be free to use, for any purpose, any ideas, concepts, know-how or other techniques contained in information provided to PCIN through the Site or sent through e-mail. PCIN shall not be subject to any obligations of confidentiality regarding any such information submitted to it unless specifically agreed to PCIN, or required by law.

14. Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy

• This material is intended for general information purposes only and should not be distributed, copied or disclosed to anyone else. Its contents are protected by privilege, and all rights to privilege are expressly claimed and not waived. Further any information which is confidential or personal information will be subject to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FOIPP) Act and other relevant legislation.

15. Confidentiality Warning

• The InformationPerth Community Services Database is confidential and PCIN strives to ensure similar confidentiality in e-mail communication concerning community services. Nevertheless, without the use of encryption, the Internet is not a secure medium and privacy cannot be ensured. Internet e-mail is vulnerable to interception and forging. PCIN will not be responsible for any damages you or any third party may suffer as a result of the transmission of confidential information that you make to PCIN, or that you expressly or implicitly authorize PCIN to make, or for any errors or any changes made to any transmitted information.

16. Cookies

• PCIN does not use"cookies"or other tracking devices to gather data on Internet users. It does measure site visits but does not collect or maintain information on the identity of such users.

17. AIRS (Alliance of Information and Referral Systems) copyright information.

• The structure of the services index and definitions of the terms contained herein were originally published in A Taxonomy of Human Services: A Conceptual Framework with Standardized Terminology and Definitions for the Field by the Information and Referral Federation of Los Angeles County, Inc., 3035 Tyler Ave, El Monte, CA 91731; Copyright©1983, 1987, 1991. No part of this listing of human services terms and definitions may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electrical, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the Information and Referral Federation of Los Angeles County, Inc.