Terms

Terms of use

BY VIEWING THE PAGES IN THIS WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE, YOU SHOULD NOT USE THIS WEBSITE.

General:

Plan Canada can revise the content of the website, including the Terms of Use, without notice anytime. Plan Canada is not responsible or liable for any technical problems or technical malfunction of any kind arising in connection with any of the following occurrences which may affect or interrupt the operation of the website: hardware or software errors; faulty computer, telephone, cable, satellite, network, electronic, wireless or Internet connectivity or other online communication problems; errors or limitations of any Internet service providers, servers, hosts or telephone providers.

Copyright:

Plan is an international, humanitarian, child-centred development organization working with families and their communities. Plan Canada offers its information on the Internet to continue to raise funds and awareness and meet the needs of children around the world. Plan Canada offers a youth site to continue its work with children, youth and educators in Canada and around the world. Plan Canada reserves all copyrights on material on its Web pages, including photographs and graphic designs. This means that anything you put on the website becomes the property of Plan Canada. The use of Plan Canada Internet material for any purpose, including repackaging in print, electronic or any other media, is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained. No one can use the Plan Canada name and logo without permissions and it is against provincial, national and international law and is strictly forbidden. AlertNet - humanitarian aid and disaster news Any Reuters (AlertNet) images used are subject to the © copyright Reuters Foundation. Republication or redistribution of Reuters Foundation content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters Foundation. If you want to use AlertNet images please go to http://www.alertnet.org/ for more information.

Submissions:

This section outlines what happens when you submit something on the website. a) All remarks, suggestions, ideas, graphics, or other information communicated to Plan Canada through this site (collective, the "Submission") will forever be the property of Plan Canada. Plan Canada will not be required to treat anything you submit as confidential, will not be liable for incorporating anything you submit into ideas for its business (including for example, product, service or advertising ideas but there could be more) and will not incur any liability as a result of any similarities to something you may have sent us that may appear in future Plan Canada operations. Plan Canada will be allowed to use what you submit for any commercial or other purpose whatsoever, without compensation to you or any other person sending something in. You acknowledge that you are responsible for whatever material you submit, and you, not Plan Canada, have full responsibility for the message, including its legality, reliability, appropriateness, originality, and copyright. By submitting material to any public area of this website, you automatically grant or warrant that the owner of such material has expressly granted Plan Canada the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate and distribute such material (in whole or in part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media or technology now known or hereafter developed for the full term of any copyright that may exist in such material. You also permit any other user to access, view, store or reproduce the material for that other uses. b) This website contains copyrighted material, trademarks and other proprietary information, including, but not limited to, text, software, photos, video, graphics, music and sounds belonging to Plan Canada or to certain contributors to this website. Plan Canada owns a copyright in the selection, coordination, arrangement and enhancement of such content, as well as in the content original to Plan Canada. You acknowledge that you acquire no ownership rights by downloading copyrighted material. You may not modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, make any changes in or deletion of author attribution, trademark legend or copyright notice or in any way exploit any of the content, in whole or in part, relating to the website, except as expressly stated herein. c) You shall not upload, post or otherwise make available on the website any material protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right without the express permission of the owner of the copyright, trademark or other proprietary right and the burden of determining that any material is not protected by copyright rests with you. You shall be solely responsible for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights, proprietary rights, or any other harm resulting from such a submission. d) You can’t load, post or in any other way put material on the website that is protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right to someone else unless you have their permission. You must be able to prove that you have their permission. If you don’t you will be responsible.