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EarthCARE Terms of Use Policy

You must accept the Terms of Use in order to use the www.EarthCARECanada.com website.

Copyright Information
All text and electronic images on this www.EarthCARECanada.com Website ("Website") are copyrighted materials which are either registered copyrights, unregistered common law copyrights, registered trademarks or salesmarks of EarthCARE, its suppliers or contributors. The copyright in all material provided on this Website is held by EarthCARE. Except as stated herein, none of the material may be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of EarthCARE. Permission is hereby granted to display, copy, distribute and download the materials on this Site for personal, non-commercial use only provided that you do not modify the materials and that you retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the materials. You also may not, without EarthCARE's written permission, "mirror" any material contained on this Site on any other server. This permission terminates automatically if you breach any of these terms or conditions. Upon termination, you will immediately destroy any downloaded and printed materials. Any unauthorized use of any material contained on this Website may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and communications regulations and statutes. Any attempt to infringe upon or to circumvent these copyrights or trademarks will subject the infringing individual or organization to severe criminal and civil penalties as prescribed by laws of Canada, international laws and treaty provisions.

Use of this Site is subject to a Terms of Use Agreement which constitutes a legal agreement between you and EarthCARE. Please review the Terms of Use Agreement. By using this Website, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by the Terms of Use Agreement; do not use this Website if you do not agree to the terms and conditions. Terms of Use

1. This World Wide Web site with its home page in the domain 'EarthCARECanada.com' hereinafter referred to as the Website, is an information service provided by EarthCARE, at no charge to users of the World Wide Web, with the express condition that these users agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set forth in this Terms of Use Agreement. EarthCARE reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time, and you agree to abide by the most recent version of this Terms of Use Agreement each time you view and use the Website. You are accordingly advised to consult the Terms of Use Agreement each time you view and use the Website. Do not use the Website if you do not agree to all of the following terms and conditions.

2. You acknowledge that the information on the Website is provided 'as is' for general information only. EarthCARE makes no warranties of any kind regarding this Website, including but not limited to any warranty of accuracy, completeness, currency, reliability, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, or any warranty that these pages, or the computer server which makes them available, are free of viruses or other harmful elements, and such warranties are expressly disclaimed.

3. You agree that you will hold harmless EarthCARE, Ameresco Canada , and its directors and employees from all claims arising out of or related to your access or use of, or your inability to access or use, this Website or the information contained in this Website or other websites to which it is linked, including but not limited to claims that you have found something you have heard, viewed or downloaded from this Website or any other website to which it is linked to be obscene, offensive, defamatory, or infringing upon your intellectual property rights. In no event will EarthCARE or any of the information contributors to the Website be liable to you or anyone else for any decision made or action taken by you in reliance on such information or for any consequential, special or similar damages, even if EarthCARE has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

4. EarthCARE may provide links on the Website to other websites which are not under the control of EarthCARE. In general, any website which has an address (or URL) not containing 'EarthCARECanada.com' is such a website. These links are provided for convenience or reference only and are not intended as an endorsement by EarthCARE of the organization or individual operating the website or a warranty of any type regarding the website or the information on the website.

5. You may provide hypertext links to this Website on another website, provided that: (a) the link be clearly marked 'EarthCARE’, (b) the appearance, position and other aspects of the link may not be such as to damage or dilute the goodwill associated with EarthCARE's name and trademarks, (c) the appearance, position and other aspects of the link may not create the false appearance that an entity other than EarthCARE is associated with or sponsored by EarthCARE, (d) the link, when activated by a user, must display this Website full-screen and not within a 'frame' on the linked website, and (e) EarthCARE reserves the right to revoke its consent to any link at any time at its sole discretion by amending this Terms of Use Agreement. You agree that any other hypertext links to this Website must be approved in writing by EarthCARE.

6. The works of authorship contained in this Website, including but not limited to all design, text and images, are owned or licensed by EarthCARE and contributors, and may not be copied, reproduced, transmitted, displayed, performed, distributed, rented, sublicensed, altered, stored by subsequent use or otherwise used in whole or in part in any manner without EarthCARE's prior written consent, except that the user may make such temporary copies in a single computer's RAM and hard drive as is necessary to browse the Website ('cache'), and that the user may produce one permanent printout of each page of the Website (unmodified in form, with a copy of this Terms of Use Agreement attached) to be used by the user for personal and non-commercial uses which do not harm the reputation of EarthCARE.

7. This Website (excluding linked sites) is controlled by EarthCARE which is headquartered in the Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It may be accessed from all 50 states, as well as from other countries around the world. Because each of these places has laws that may differ from those of Canada, by accessing this Website you agree that the statutes and laws of Canada, without regard to conflicts of law principles thereof, will apply to all matters arising from or relating to the use of this Website. You also agree and hereby submit to the exclusive legal jurisdiction and venues of the Courts of Canada with respect to such matters. EarthCARE makes no representation that materials on the Website are appropriate or available for use in other locations, and accessing them from territories where their contents are illegal is hereby prohibited. Individuals or organizations choosing to access this Website from other locations do so of their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.

8. EarthCARE, its logo, nameplates, and websites are trademarks and property of Ameresco Canada and are protected by international laws and treaty provisions.

9. All text and electronic images on this Website are copyrighted materials which are either registered copyrights, unregistered common law copyrights, registered trademarks or salesmarks of EarthCARE, its suppliers or contributors. Any attempt to infringe upon or to circumvent these copyrights or trademarks will subject the infringing individual or organization to severe criminal and civil penalties as prescribed by law.

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