Copyright Statement

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE

Salmon Tales: A Natural Living Heritage is division of the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre (VAMSC), which is a non-profit self-sustaining organisation committed to the conservation of aquatic life through its work in interpretation and display, education, research and direct action. This website at Aquanews.org is provided as one means of furthering those goals.

1. Application of these Conditions of Use

By accessing or using any part of Salmon Tales: A Natural Living Heritage you agree to be bound by the following conditions of use. If you do not wish to be bound by these conditions, you may not access or use Salmon Tales: A Natural Living Heritage.

We may change these conditions at any time without any notice to you. By your continued access and use of Salmon Tales: A Natural Living Heritage you agree to be bound by the most current version of the conditions of use. Please check these conditions periodically for any changes that have been made.

2. Copyright

Except where otherwise noted, the content of the Salmon Tales: A Natural Living Heritage Web pages (including the design, text, graphics and arrangement thereof) and the software used therein, is the property of and is owned and controlled by VAMSC, or has been licensed by VAMSC, and is the copyright material of VAMSC or its content-providers. You may not reproduce or redistribute any of the material on the website for commercial purposes without the prior written permission of VAMSC.

ALL RIGHTS ARE RESERVED.

To request permission to reproduce all or part of the material on this website for commercial purposes, please contact us at webmaster@vanaqua.org

3. Trademarks

"Salmon Tales: A Natural Living Heritage" and "VAMSC" and our logo are trademarks of VAMSC. All other trademarks, product names or logos cited anywhere on Salmon Tales: A Natural Living Heritage are the property of their respective owners.

4. No Licence

Except as expressly provided, nothing contained in these conditions or anywhere on Salmon Tales: A Natural Living Heritage shall be construed as conferring any licence under any of VAMSC's or any third party's intellectual property rights.

5. Submissions

We welcome your articles, photos, videos, and e-mail messages. We will use any personal information you send us only to respond to your message. Please review our Privacy Statement. Please note that any suggestions or ideas you submit to us will become the property of the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre and may be used by us for any purpose.

6. Disclaimer of Representations and Warranties

While every effort is made to ensure the timeliness and accuracy of the information, documents, data or material (the "Information") available on this site, the VAMSC assumes no liability or responsibility for the completeness, accuracy or usefulness of any of the Information.

Information (including any revisions and updates) at this site is provided solely for general public information purposes and is provided strictly "as is."

VAMSC makes no representation or warranty, express or implied, in respect of the Information at this site or that may be accessed through this site by way of links to other sites, including without limitation, as to:

The accuracy, adequacy, completeness or reliability of any Information howsoever stored or transmitted, which may be obtained from this site;

The merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or use with respect to any Information whatsoever included in this site or that may be accessed through this site;

The results to be obtained from using such Information.

Information may be changed or updated without notice. By making this Information available, VAMSC is not engaged in providing advice.

While every effort is made to ensure that all Information provided at this 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 of Information contained on your computer system.

7. Limitation of Liability

Under no circumstances will VAMSC or any of its officers, directors, members, employees, affiliates, agents, sponsors, licensers, or any other party involved in the creation, production, maintenance or distribution of Salmon Tales: A Natural Living Heritage be liable to any person or entity for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or other damages (including but not limited to loss of profits, business interruption, loss of programs or information, goodwill, use of data or other intangible losses) that result from any use of the Salmon Tales: A Natural Living Heritage website, even if VAMSC has been specifically advised of the possibility of such damages.

VAMSC is unable to ensure or guarantee the security of any information transmitted over the Internet. Any information or data which you transmit to or by way of VAMSC is done at your own risk and VAMSC shall not be responsible or liable for any damages or injury that may result from transmitting such information.

If any jurisdiction does not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, liability is limited to the fullest extent permitted by law.

8. Miscellaneous

These conditions and any and all documents specifically referenced herein constitute the entire agreement between you and VAMSC with respect to the use of this Website and the information contained on its pages. If any provision contained in these conditions is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable, that provision shall be severed from these conditions and the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect.

9. Jurisdiction and Governing Law

These conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of British Columbia. VAMSC controls Aquanews.org from within the Province of British Columbia, Canada. It can, however, be accessed from other places around the world. Although these places may have different laws from those of British Columbia, by accessing Aquanews.org you agree that the laws of British Columbia, without regard to rules relating to conflict of laws, will apply to all matters relating to your use of Salmon Tales: A Natural Living Heritage. You and VAMSC also agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of British Columbia, with respect to such matters. Users of Salmon Tales: A Natural Living Heritage accessing it from places outside of British Columbia acknowledge that they do so voluntarily and are responsible for complying with local laws.

This statement of Terms & Conditions is offered in association with our Privacy Statement . Agreeing all the terms contained within both statements is a pre-condition for the use of the Web Site.

PRIVACY STATEMENT

The Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre is dedicated to protecting your privacy as you use our web site. Our policy is that no personal information will be collected about you unless you choose to provide it and that any personal information which you provide us will be safeguarded to the best of our ability and not shared with others for any reason.

1. Submissions to Salmon Tales: A Natural Living Heritage

When you submit articles, photos, videos or other information to Salmon Tales: A Natural Living Heritage, you are asked to provide certain information about yourself, which you may chose to do or not do. Your information is retained by VAMSC for so long as necessary to unsure that copyright in the materials is properly protected.

2. Security

No data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be perfectly secure. Therefore, while we try to protect your personal information, VAMSC do not guarantee the security of information transmitted to or from Salmon Tales: A Natural Living Heritage.

3. Cookies

Our Website may distribute small pieces of information called "cookies" to your web browser to assist you when you return to specific areas of our site. If you have concerns about this you may adjust your browser not to accept this information or to display a warning when a cookie is about to be placed on your browser. Refusing to accept cookies may affect your ability to access some or all of some websites.

4. Links

Our site contains links to other sites, some of which are not owned or controlled by VAMSC. Please remember that our privacy policy does not apply to other sites and that we cannot be responsible for their privacy policies, if any.