Terms and Conditions

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1. Confidentiality

Your privacy is important to us. When you use our services to create your account and create and add content in a LiGRE project, we collect information and content and save it for your future use. This may include information and content that you share with other users. We strive to protect all your content, information and account through our team and sophisticated technologies. Read our Confidentiality and General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) Policy to get further information about our data protection measures.

2. Sharing your content and information

The content and information you enter in LiGRE belong to you and you can control how we share your content with your account settings. Furthermore :

For content protected by intellectual property rights, such as information, documents, and projects that you import into LiGRE or create with LiGRE, you acknowledge that it is your responsibility to respect the intellectual property rights of others.
When you delete your intellectual property content, it is deleted in a manner similar to emptying the trash on a computer: however, you understand that deleted content may persist in backup copies for a period of time (but are not available).
Posting content or information on your projects’ public page using the Public setting means that you allow everyone, including people who do not use LiGRE, to access this information and use it, but also that you associate them with you (i.e., your name and profile picture).
We appreciate your comments and suggestions regarding LiGRE: however, please note that we may use them without any obligation to pay (just as you have no obligation to communicate them to us).

3. Security and privacy

We do our utmost to make LiGRE a safe service, but we cannot guarantee absolute safety. To ensure security on LiGRE, we need your help, which includes the following commitments from you:

You shall not publish unauthorized commercial communications (such as unwanted messages) on LiGRE.
You shall not get information about users or the content they publish, and shall not access LiGRE using automated methods (such as robots, spiders, etc.) without prior permission.
You shall not conduct illegal multilevel marketing, such as pyramid schemes, on LiGRE.
You shall not download any viruses or other malicious code.
You shall not ask for login information and will not access an account belonging to someone else.
You shall not intimidate or harass other people.
You shall not post content that incites hatred or violence, pornography, or that contains nudity or gratuitous violence.
You shall not develop or operate any third party applications that contain content related to alcoholic beverages, adult dating sites or other adult products and services (including advertisements) without restriction of access related to age.
You shall not use LiGRE for illegal, malicious or discriminatory purposes.
You shall not act in a manner that may disable, overburden or otherwise interfere with the operation or appearance of LiGRE (such as a denial of service or interference with the display of pages or other functionalities of LiGRE).
You shall not allow or encourage any breach of this Declaration or our terms.

4. Registration and account security

People who use LiGRE give their real name and real information about them, and we ask you to help us to make sure that this does not change. Here are a few conditions that you agree to respect regarding registration and the security of your account:

You shall not provide false personal information on LiGRE and shall not create an account for another person without his / her authorization.
You shall only create one personal account.
If we delete your account, you shall not create others without our permission.
You shall not use LiGRE primarily for commercial purposes.
You shall not use LiGRE if you are under 18 years of age.
You shall not use LiGRE if you have been convicted of sexual assault.
Your contact information shall always be accurate and up-to-date.
You shall not share your password and shall not allow anyone to access your account or to do anything that could compromise the security of your account.
You shall not transfer your account without our prior written authorization.
If you select a username or similar identifier for your account, we reserve the right to remove it if we deem it necessary (for example, where the trademark owner complains about a username that does not match the real name of the person who logs in using this username).

5. Protection of the rights of others

We respect the rights of others and ask you to do the same.

You shall not post content or undertake anything on LiGRE that could infringe the rights of others or otherwise violate the law.
We may withdraw the content or information you enter on LiGRE if we believe that it violates this Declaration or our terms.
We provide you with the means to protect your intellectual property rights on LiGRE by providing only summary information about your profile and projects.
If we remove your content due to a breach of a third party’s copyright and you believe it is a mistake, please let us know.
If you infringe the intellectual property rights of others on several occasions, we may disable your account.
You shall not use our trademarks, copyrighted content or other confusing trademarks except as expressly permitted by written permission from us.
If you collect information from users, you shall obtain their consent and shall clearly state that it is you (and not LiGRE) who collects this information, and you shall publish your privacy policy stating the information collected and its use.
You shall not post confidential identification or financial information on LiGRE.
You shall not identify people who use LiGRE and shall not send invitation e-mails to people who do not use LiGRE without their consent.
When you import or create research data in LiGRE, you have the ethical obligation to maintain the confidentiality of research participants as described in the Responsibilities of the Main Researcher section.

6. Payments

By making a payment on LiGRE, you agree to our terms of payment as outlined in the Terms of payments made by users of LiGRE unless it is stated that other separate terms apply.

7. Acceptable use

You shall not modify, create derivative works, decompile, or otherwise attempt to extract our source code.
You shall not use LiGRE, and the platform and website in any way that causes or may cause damage to LiGRE or impairment of the availability or accessibility of LiGRE; or in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.
You shall not use LiGRE to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material that consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.
You shall not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including, without being limited to, scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to LiGRE without our express written consent.
You shall not use LiGRE to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.
You shall not use LiGRE for any purposes related to marketing without our express written consent.
If you collect information from users, you shall obtain their consent and shall clearly state that it is you (and not LiGRE) who collects this information, and you shall publish your privacy policy stating the information collected and its use.
You shall not post confidential identification or financial information on LiGRE.
You shall not identify people who use LiGRE and shall not send invitation e-mails to people who do not use LiGRE without their consent.

8. Amendments

We shall notify you of any significant changes to these terms and conditions and will give you the opportunity to review and comment on the revised version before continuing to use our Services.
If we make changes to the rules, instructions, or other conditions mentioned or incorporated in this Declaration, we shall notify you in a new version of the LiGRE homepage.
Your use of LiGRE after notice of changes to our terms and conditions, rules, or instructions implies that you accept our new terms, rules, or instructions.

9. Termination

If you violate the letter or spirit of this Declaration, or otherwise create a risk of prosecution against us, we may stop providing you with any or all of LiGRE. We shall notify you by email or when you log in to your account. You can also delete your account or disable your application at any time. If applicable, this Declaration shall become null and void, but the following conditions shall remain in effect: 2.2, 3 to 5, and 9 to 13.

Also, if, under the European data protection legislation, you wish to request the removal of certain information about you or the data of your research projects carried out with LiGRE, please click here. This action is irrevocable. Once removed from the LiGRE cloud environment, the deleted content will be lost forever.

10. Disputes

You shall bring any complaint, action or dispute (“action”) relating to this Declaration or to LiGRE exclusively before a Canadian court of the judicial district of Trois-Rivières of the Province of Quebec, and agree to respect the jurisdiction of these Courts in the context of such actions. The law of the Province of Quebec governs this Declaration, as well as any action between you and us, regardless of conflict of law provisions.
In the event of action taken against us by a third party as a result of your actions, content or information about LiGRE, you shall indemnify and hold LiGRE harmless from all damages, losses and expenses, including reasonable attorney’s fees relating to this action. We do not control or direct the actions of Internet users on LiGRE and are in no way responsible for the content and information transmitted or shared by Net surfers on LiGRE. We are not responsible for the offending, inappropriate, obscene, illicit or otherwise offensive content that you may find on LiGRE. We are not responsible for the conduct, online or offline, of persons using LiGRE.
WE ARE TRYING TO PROVIDE LiGRE IN A BUG-FREE AND SAFE ENVIRONMENT, BUT YOU USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK. WE PROVIDE LIGRE “AS IS” WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT LiGRE IS ALWAYS SAFE, SECURE OR BUG-FREE, OR THAT IT ALWAYS WORKS WITHOUT INTERRUPTIONS, DELAYS OR IMPERFECTIONS. LiGRE ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY WITH RESPECT TO THE ACTIONS, CONTENT, INFORMATION OR DATA OF THIRD PARTIES, AND YOU ARE DISCLAIMING LiGRE, THE MEMBERS OF ITS MANAGEMENT, THE MEMBERS OF ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND ITS EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS OF ANY LIABILITY IN THE EVENT OF COMPLAINTS OR DAMAGES, KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, ARISING FROM COMPLAINTS OR DAMAGES AGAINST THESE THIRD PARTIES. WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFIT OR ANY OTHER CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES WHATSOEVER ARISING OUT OF THIS DECLARATION OR LiGRE, EVEN IF LiGRE IS ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. THE TOTAL AGGREGATE OF OUR LIABILITY TO YOU UNDER THIS DECLARATION OR LiGRE CAN NOT EXCEED THE AMOUNT PAID BY YOU DURING THE PREVIOUS TWELVE MONTHS OR TWENTY DOLLARS (20 CAD), THE LARGEST AMOUNT BEING TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT. GIVEN THAT THE APPLICABLE LAW MAY NOT AUTHORIZE THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY OR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION ABOVE MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH CASES, LIGRE’S LIABILITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUM PERMITTED BY THE APPLICABLE LAW.

11. Special clauses applicable to users outside Canada

We strive to create a community without borders with consistent standards for all while respecting local laws. The following clauses apply to Internet users who interact with LiGRE outside of Canada:

You agree that your personal data shall be transferred and processed in Canada.
If you are in a country that is embargoed by Canada, you cannot conduct activities on LiGRE. You shall not use LiGRE if you are prohibited from receiving products, services, or software from Canada.

12. Definition

The term “LiGRE” or “LiGRE services” includes the functionalities and services that we make available, through (a) our website at app.ligresoftware.com, from the Ex-L-Tec Software inc. website at www.ex-l-tec.com or other websites (including sub-domains of ligresoftware.com); b) our platform; and (c) other media, trademarks, products, services, software (such as a toolbar), devices or networks existing or developed in the future. LiGRE reserves the right to designate, at its sole discretion, that some of its trademarks, products, or services are governed by separate terms and not by those herein.
By “platform” we mean a set of APIs and services (for example, content) that allow users to retrieve data from LiGRE or provide us with data.
By “information” we mean the facts and other information about you.
By “content” we mean anything you, or anyone else, import, add, write, annotate, code or share on LiGRE.
By “data” or “people’s data” we mean any data, including the content or information of a person, which you or a third party can recover from LiGRE or provide to LiGRE through the platform.
By “publish” or “publication” we mean what you publish on LiGRE or otherwise make available using LiGRE.
By “use” we mean the use, execution, copying, distribution or public display, distribution, modification, translation, and creation of derivative works.
By “application” we mean any application or website that uses or accesses the platform, as well as any other device that receives or has received data from us. If you no longer access the platform but have not deleted all the data you have received from us, the term “application” will apply until the data is deleted.
By “Trademarks” we mean the LiGRE trademark.

13. Other

Whether you reside in Canada, the United States or another country with commercial rights with Canada (or if your main place of business is located there), this Declaration is an agreement between you and Logiciels Ex-L-Tec Inc., Logiciels Ex-L-Tec Inc. being the company that developed LiGRE and remains the sole author. Any reference to the terms “us” and “our” refers to Logiciels Ex-L-Tec Inc.
This Declaration constitutes the entire agreement between the parties concerning LiGRE, and supersedes all previous agreements.
If any part of this Declaration is invalid or unenforceable, the remainder shall remain in full force and effect.
Our failure to enforce this Declaration cannot be considered a waiver.
Any amendment or waiver of this Declaration must be in writing and signed by us.
You shall not transfer your rights or obligations under this Declaration to any third party without our consent.
All of our rights and obligations under this Declaration are freely transferable by us in connection with a merger, acquisition, sale of our assets, application by the courts or otherwise.
Nothing in this Declaration can prevent us from complying with the law.
This Declaration does not confer any rights on third-party beneficiaries.
We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you.
You shall comply with all applicable laws when using or accessing LiGRE.