Website User Agreement

BCBHAS may, in its sole discretion, revise these Terms at any time without advance notice to you. You are bound by such revisions by continuing to use or visit the Website after they are posted online.

Material on this website, including all images, designs, photographs, videos, and written text, is produced and/or compiled by the BCBHAS for the purpose of providing information about the achievements of people of African heritage in British Columbia and Canada. Copyright in the material may be owned by the BCBHAS or a third party, or may be in the public domain. The following conditions apply to all material reproduced from the Website:

• BCBHAS property. Except as otherwise set forth herein, BCBHAS owns all intellectual property rights, including without limitation copyright and trade-mark rights, in all materials on or comprising the Website, including, without limitation, all written, audio-visual or other materials and graphical elements on the Website, but excluding User Content defined in Section 5. Except for limited use as set forth in Section 4, fair use and other allowances under the law, republication of any of the content without express permission from the BCBHAS is prohibited.
• Third-party material. The copyright on many of the images and part of the text on the Website is held by third parties. BCBHAS requires that anyone seeking to use these items first do due diligence to determine the actual copyright owner. Photographs, videos, images and third-party text are all rights reserved, and permission from the legal copyright owner must be obtained to use this material.
• Public domain material. Some of the material on the Website is in the public domain, either because the material cannot be copyrighted under law or the copyright term of protection has expired. Other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may still apply to public domain material and may limit how the material may be used. The obligation to determine whether any material is in the public domain is the responsibility of the person desiring its use and not BCBHAS. BCBHAS does not seek to restrict use of material in the public domain or where use is permitted by an exception or limitation in the law. Nevertheless, BCBHAS requests that it be given credit for such items where they were originally sourced from the Website.

Subject to the rights of third-party copyright owners, BCBHAS grants you a limited licence to download and display on your computer monitor, or hard copy prints, the Website’s content, for non-commercial, personal or educational purposes only, providing that the Website content is not modified and this limited licence are included with, and displayed on, each printed copy of such content. A copyright notice must appear on every copy in the following form: “© BC Black History Awareness Society. All rights reserved”.

You may not:

• • use the Website’s content for commercial purposes;
  • include the Website’s content with any product or service that you or your agents create or distribute, including software or other digital products; and
  • display the Website’s content on any other website or make available the Website’s content on any file server.

Republication does not create an affiliation with or endorsement by the BCBHAS, and no representation of approval, affiliation or endorsement may be made without explicit permission to that effect.

a. You may not use the Website for any illegal or unauthorized purpose. In addition to the laws of Canada, you also agree to comply with all local laws that apply to your use of the Website.

b. You may not use the Website in any manner which could disable, overburden, damage, or impair the Website, servers or computer network, or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Website.

c. You agree that you are responsible for your own conduct and communications while using the Website and for any consequences of that use. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using the Website, you will not:

• • post or upload any inappropriate, promotional, defamatory, destructive, obscene, or unlawful content;
  • defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others;
  • post or upload any User Content that infringes any patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret or other intellectual property right of any party;
  • impersonate another person, or falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of any content;
  • use the Website in connection with surveys, contests, junk email, spamming or any duplicative messages (commercial or otherwise);
  • use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other device to retrieve or index any portion of the Website to collect information about other users or domain names;
  • upload files that contain bugs, viruses, trojan horses, worms, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of the computer or property of another; or
  • submit User Content that falsely expresses or implies that such User Content is sponsored or endorsed by any party where it is not sponsored or endorsed by such party.
  • d. While BCBHAS prohibits such conduct and User Content in connection with the Website, you understand and agree that nonetheless you may be exposed to such conduct or User Content and that you use the Website at your own risk.

e. BCBHAS reserves the right to monitor use of this Website to determine compliance with these Terms and reserves the right to remove any User Content without notice for any reason.

By accessing and/or using the Website, you may provide us with personal information as described in our Privacy Policy, which governs the collection, use, storage and disclosure of such personal information. Please see our Privacy Policy for complete details.

Please see our Privacy Policy for complete details.

If you have any questions about this User Agreement, please contact us at development@bcblackhistory.ca