Privacy Policy & Terms / Agreement

 
The following terms and conditions govern all use of the PeopleOrchard.ca website and all content, services and products available through the website, including, but not limited to, the client area (collectively referred to as the Site).

The Site is owned and operated by People Orchard Ltd. (collectively referred to as the Operator). The Site is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, the Operator's Privacy Policy) and procedures that may be published from time to time on this Site by the Operator (collectively, the "Agreement").

Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Site. By accessing or using any part of the web site, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the Site or use any services. The Site is available only to individuals who are at least 16 years old.


Client area account

You are responsible for maintaining the security of your client area account, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with the account. You must immediately notify the Operator of any unauthorized uses of your account or any other breaches of security. The Operator will not be liable for any acts or omissions by You, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions.


Contribution to website

Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, the Operator has the right (though not the obligation) to, in the Operator's sole discretion

i) refuse or remove any content that, in the Operator's reasonable opinion, violates any policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable, or
ii) terminate or deny access to and use of the Site to any individual or entity for any reason, in the Operator's sole discretion.

 
What information do we collect?

We may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including through online forms for ordering products and services, and other instances where you are invited to volunteer such information, including, but not limited to, when you register on our site, place an order or subscribe to our newsletter. When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number or credit card information.


What do we use your information for?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used to determine product requirements, personalize your experience, improve our website, improve customer service, process transactions, send periodic emails. The email address you provide for order processing, will only be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order. If you decide to opt-in to our mailing list, you will receive emails that may include company news, updates, related product or service information, etc. If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.


How do we protect your information?

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or access your personal information.

We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) will not be stored on our servers.


Payments and refunds

The Site offers products and services for sale. The Site does not handle payments for these products directly, but rather refers these payments to a secure third-party payment processor which handles all aspects of the payment process. Any payment issues or disputes should be resolved directly with the payment processor. Once we have been notified by the payment processor that a payment has been made, and that the payment has successfully passed a fraud review, access will be granted to the product or service being purchased as soon as possible, however we make no guarantees of timeliness or immediacy.

You may request a refund within 7 days of the payment only if your browser does not support javascript and you're not able to use our privacy policy generator, otherwise no refunds will be offered. Note that our system keeps track of your browser name, version and javascript support so we will verify each request for legitimacy.
 

Responsibility of website visitors

By operating the Site, the Operator does not represent or imply that it endorses any or all of the contributed content, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful.

You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Site may contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors.

The Operator disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Site.


Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information, except to provide products or services you've requested.

We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.


Copyright infringement and DMCA policy

As the Operator asks others to respect its intellectual property rights, it respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that material located on or linked to by the Site violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify the Operator in accordance with common DMCA policies. The Operator will respond to all such notices, including as required or appropriate by removing the infringing material or disabling all links to the infringing material. In the case of a visitor who may infringe or repeatedly infringes the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of the Operator or others, the Operator may, in its discretion, terminate or deny access to and use of the Site. In the case of such termination, the Operator will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid to the Operator. You further agree not to change or delete any proprietary notices from materials downloaded from the site. You must also retain our copyright notice in the privacy policy you create, unless you have purchased a premium membership in which case you may remove our copyright notice from your privacy statement.
 

Do we use cookies?

Yes, we use cookies (which are small pieces of information that your browser stores on your computer's hard drive) to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart, understand and save your preferences for future visits and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business
 

Third party links

Our site may contain links to third party sites. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.


Intellectual property

This Agreement does not transfer from the Operator to you any of the Operator's or third party intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with the Operator. The Operator logo, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Operator, or the Site are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Operator or the Operator's licensors. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Site may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of the Site grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any the Operator or third-party trademarks.


Changes

The Operator reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this Agreement. It is your responsibility to check this Agreement periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to the Site following the posting of any changes to this Agreement constitutes acceptance of those changes. The Operator may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the Site (including, the release of new tools and resources). Such new features and/or services shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

 
Termination

The Operator may terminate your access to all or any part of the Site at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. If you wish to terminate this Agreement you may simply discontinue using the Site. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if you have a client account, such account can only be terminated by the Operator if you materially breach this Agreement and fail to cure such breach within 14 (fourteen) days from the Operator's notice to you thereof; provided that, the Operator can terminate the Site immediately as part of a general shut down of our service. All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.


Disclaimer of warranties

The Site is provided "as is". The Operator and its suppliers and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither the Operator nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty that the Site will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. You understand that it is your responsibility to ensure that the privacy policy you create is complete, accurate, and meets your companies specific privacy needs. We are not liable or responsible for any privacy policies created using our services, and we give no representations or warranties, express or implied, that the privacy policies created using our service are complete, accurate or free from errors or omissions.


Limitation of liability

In no event will the Operator, or its suppliers or licensors, be liable with respect to any subject matter of this agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for:

i) any special, incidental or consequential damages;
ii) the cost of procurement or substitute products or services;
iii) for interruption of use or loss or corruption of data; or
iv) for any amounts that exceed the fees paid by you to the Operator under this agreement.

The Operator shall have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond their reasonable control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law. The Operator shall not be liable for any special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the services and products offered on this site, or the performance of the services and products.


General representation and warranty

You represent and warrant that

i) your use of the Site will be in strict accordance with the Operator Privacy Policy, with this Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside) and
ii) your use of the Site will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.


Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Operator, its contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys' fees, arising out of your use of the Site, including but not limited to your violation of this Agreement.
 

Miscellaneous

This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the Operator and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may only be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized executive of the Operator, or by the posting by the Operator of a revised version. Except to the extent applicable law, if any, provides otherwise, this Agreement, any access to or use of the Site will be governed by the laws of the province of Alberta, Canada, excluding its conflict of law provisions, and the proper venue for any disputes arising out of or relating to any of the same will be the state and federal courts located in Calgary, Alberta. If any part of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, that part will be construed to reflect the parties' original intent, and the remaining portions will remain in full force and effect. A waiver by either party of any term or condition of this Agreement or any breach thereof, in any one instance, will not waive such term or condition or any subsequent breach thereof. You may assign your rights under this Agreement to any party that consents to, and agrees to be bound by, its terms and conditions; the Operator may assign its rights under this Agreement without condition. This Agreement will be binding upon and will inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.


Changes to our terms and privacy policies

From time to time we may make adjustments to this policy. Changes will be made at our sole discretion. Site's users are encouraged to check this policy for such changes. This may include before going to bed.  Your continued use of this site following changes to this policy constitutes your acceptance of the changes.


Contacting us

Any questions about these terms of service and privacy policy should be addressed to us via our People Orchard contact form.

This document has been last modified on June 3, 2016