Terms of Use

PLEASE READ THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF WEBSITE USE CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE SOCIETY WEBSITE (THE "WEBSITE"). ANY USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR THE MATERIALS OR ANY PORTION THEREOF OF THE WEBSITE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE. BY USING THIS WEBSITE, YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY ALL THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE AND OUR PRIVACY CODE (privacy code). IF YOU DISAGREE OR DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE DO NOT USE OR ACCESS THIS WEBSITE. IN USING OUR WEBSITE, YOU ARE CONTRACTING WITH THE SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE SOCIETY FOR THE USE OF OUR SERVICES AND PRODUCTS MADE AVAILABLE UNDER THE DOMAIN NAME SustainIS.org.
THE SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE SOCIETY ("SIS") RESERVES THE RIGHT AT ITS SOLE DISCRETION TO AMEND OR CHANGE THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AT ANY TIME AND SUCH AMENDMENTS OR CHANGES SHALL BE EFFECTIVE AS OF THE DATE IN WHICH THEY ARE POSTED ON THE WEBSITE. YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY SUCH AMENDMENTS AND CHANGES MADE FROM TIME TO TIME AND YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THE WEBSITE SHALL CONSTITUTE AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND BY THESE REVISED TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE.
NOTE: THIS WEBSITE MAY ALSO PROVIDE OR REFERENCE OTHER TERMS OF USE OR LICENSE AGREEMENTS SPECIFIC TO THE USE OF ASSOCIATED PRODUCTS AND SERVICES (DEMONSTRATIONS OR ON-LINE). THESE PRODUCT OR SERVICE SPECIFIC TERMS OF USE OR LICENSE AGREEMENTS SHALL PREVAIL OVER ANY GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR THE WEBSITE CONTAINED HEREIN.
1. Purpose of the Website
The purpose of this is to allow you, as a user of this website, to access our products and services. This Website is controlled and operated by SIS from our offices within the Province of British Columbia, Canada. SIS makes no representation that the Website and Website Materials are appropriate or available for use in other locations. It is your responsibility to ensure that your use of the Website is in compliance with local laws and the extent to which local laws are applicable.
2. Ownership of Website and Website Materials
The Website, its design, images, and content are owned, operated and are the exclusive property of SIS and contain copyrighted material, trademarks, and other proprietary intellectual property. Copyright law, trademark law and other intellectual property and proprietary rights legislation or common law as well as international copyright treaties and multilateral and bilateral agreements protect this Website. Unauthorized reproduction of it, or any portion of it, may result in severe civil and criminal law penalties. SIS shall enforce these intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law.
3. Right to Use Website and Website Materials
You, as a user of this Website and the Website Materials, may use this Website and Website Materials for the sole purpose of accessing SIS's services and products. This right to use is a non-exclusive, world-wide license. The right to use the Website and Website Materials shall not constitute any transfer of any right, title or interest in and to the Website and Website Materials and such use shall not be considered as granting, directly or indirectly, any license to use the Website or Website Materials for any other purpose for the user's benefit or the benefit of any third party without the express written consent of SIS.
4. Restrictions on Use
(a) No information or material from the Website or Website Materials may be reproduced, redistributed, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted in any manner whatsoever except for the purpose specified in 3 above.
(b) You not use any information or material from the Website or Website Materials for any other works including any and all trademarks or copyright works and agree not to engage in activities or provide information that infringes on any third party copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy.
(c) You agree that you shall not acquire any right, title or interest in the Website and Website Materials through use of the Website and agree to abide by copyright and other proprietary notices contained therein.
(d) You agree not to copy, transfer, transmit, sublicense or assign or transmit the Website or Website Materials over a network, by telephone or electronically using any other means without the express written consent of the President of SIS.
(e) You agree not to distribute to or otherwise disseminate through the Website any material or information of any kind that is libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive or otherwise violates any law or infringes or violates any rights of any other person or entity, or contains a solicitation of funds, advertising, or solicitation for goods and services.
(f) You agree not to engage in activities or provide information that is false, inaccurate or misleading or to provide fraudulent or involve sale of counterfeit or stolen items.
(g) You agree not to provide information or participate in activities that will result in the transfer to our Website of any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, easter eggs and other computer programming routines that may damage, harm, interfere or expropriate any of our Website's systems, programs, content, information or applications.
(h) You agree not to bypass any measures that we have taken to restrict access to our Website without our express written consent and you shall not engage in activities that would interfere with the operation of our Website or Website activities.
(i) You agree not to use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access our Website for any other purpose than set out in 3 above without our express written consent.
(j) You agree not to impose an unreasonable load on our Website infrastructure that would affect the operation of our Website.
5. Warranties and Representations
THE WEBSITE AND WEBSITE MATERIALS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, STATUTORY OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND SUITABILITY FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR ARISING FROM ANY COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. THE ENTIRE RISK OF USE OF THE WEBSITE OR WEBSITE MATERIALS IS WITH YOU. SIS DISCLAIMS ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY THAT THE WEBSITE AND WEBSITE MATERIALS WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR OPERATE IN THE COMBINATION THAT YOU MAY SELECT FOR USE, THAT THE OPERATION OF THE WEBSITE OR WEBSITE MATERIALS WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE, OR THAT IN THE WEBSITE OR WEBSITE MATERIALS DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED. NO ORAL OR WRITTEN STATEMENT BY SIS OR BY A REPRESENTATIVE OF SIS SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY OR INCREASE THE SCOPE OF THIS WARRANTY. SIS DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OR THE RESULTS OF THE USE OF THE MATERIALS IN THE WEBSITE IN TERMS OF CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY OR OTHERWISE. YOU ASSUME THE ENTIRE COST OF ALL NECESSARY REPAIRS OR CORRECTION. SOME STATES OR PROVINCES DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON HOW LONG AN IMPLIED WARRANTY LASTS, AND SOME STATES OR PROVINCES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF SUCH IMPLIED WARRANTIES.
SIS DOES NOT WARRANT THE WEBSITE OR WEBSITE MATERIALS AGAINST INFRINGEMENT OR THE LIKE WITH RESPECT TO ANY COPYRIGHT, PATENT, TRADE SECRET, TRADEMARK OR OTHER PROPRIETARY RIGHT OF ANY THIRD PARTY AND DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE WEBSITE AND WEBSITE MATERIALS DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY VIRUS TO PERMIT UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, TO DISABLE, ERASE OR OTHERWISE HARM SOFTWARE, HARDWARE OR DATA, OR TO PERFORM ANY OTHER SUCH ACTIONS.
SIS SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURACY, CONTENT OR AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION FOUND ON WEBSITES THAT LINK WITH THIS WEBSITE OR FROM THIRD PARTIES WEBSITES.
6. Limitation of Liability
By using our Website and Website Materials, you assume all liability and risk for use and absolve SIS of any liability for use of the Website and Website Materials. SIS's entire liability and the user's entire remedy shall be to discontinue use of the Website and Website Materials. In no event will SIS's liability to you extend to any lost of profits, lost data, lost savings or other special, incidental, economic, indirect or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use the Website or Website Materials, or for any claim by any other party, even if SIS has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NEGLIGENCE, SHALL SIS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING FROM THE USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THIS WEBSITE. SOME STATES AND PROVINCES DO NOT ALLOW FOR THE LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR ECLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
7. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify SIS from and against all claims, liability and expenses, including legal fees and costs arising from any unauthorized use of the Website and Website Materials or from your breach of the Terms and Conditions of Use. You agree to notify SIS immediately upon becoming aware of any unauthorized use of the Website or Website Materials and take all reasonable steps to prevent subsequent unauthorized use. SIS reserves the right, in its sole discretion and at its own expense, to defend any such action or claim and you agree to co-operate fully with any such defense.
8. Third Party Websites

This Website may contain links to third party websites. SIS has no control over any third party websites and therefore any use by you, the end-user, is at your sole discretion and risk. SIS assumes no responsibility or obligations for any such use of third party websites.

9. User Information and Privacy

SIS does collect and retain information regarding your use of the Website. Specifically, our Website's statistical logs track (a) information regarding traffic which includes the number of sessions, pageviews, hits, and bytes; (b) requested pages, downloads, page query terms, posted forms, status, and errors; (c) navigation information such as entrance pages, exit pages, bounce rate, click path, click to and from, length of pageview, depth of session, and length of session; (d) referrals including search terms, search engines, referral errors and referral drilldowns;(e) domains, countries, IP addresses, and usernames when provided for session management; and (f) browsers, platforms, and robots. Our Website may also use "cookies" for the purposes of maintaining proper process sequencing and information but SIS will not use "cookies" to surreptitiously gather information from a user's computer. None of the information contained in the logs or the cookies, by themselves, personally identifies any person. SIS does not sell, rent or distribute information collected by the Website to any other third party.

Please review our Privacy Code to review how SIS handles privacy issues (privacy code) within our organization and on our Website.

By using the Website, you are authorizing SIS to collect such information described above. To the extent that information is collected regarding your use of the Website, you authorize SIS to use such information for any purpose whatsoever related to the business of SIS. Should you not wish to give such authorization, then do not use our Website and you must notify SIS to the contrary by emailing us at (info@WaterBC.ca ). Notwithstanding such notification, SIS reserves the right at all times to disclose such information about your use of our Website necessary to meet any law, regulation, government request or court order.

You acknowledge and agree that SIS cannot ensure or guarantee your secure access or privacy on our Website given that no transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure and as result any use of the Website shall be at your sole risk.

10. Survival of Obligations
The obligations pursuant to the provisions of 2, 4, 6 and 7 survive the termination of these Terms and Conditions of Use.
11. Termination
Your right to use this Website and Website Materials is subject to your continued compliance with these Terms and Conditions. This right shall terminate automatically without notice should you breach of these Terms and Conditions. In the event that these Terms and Conditions are terminated, you agree to destroy all materials obtained by you from the Website and any and all copies thereof.
12. General Terms
Any disputes under these Terms and Conditions of Use shall be governed by the laws of the Province of British Columbia and laws of Canada where applicable, without giving effect to any conflict of laws principles. You expressly consent to the exclusive forum, jurisdiction and venue of the courts of British Columbia and the Federal Court of Canada, or any other jurisdiction or courts as may be determined by SIS.
In the event of a dispute
These Terms and Conditions of Use and any directions, policies, rules or guidelines posted on the Website shall constitute the entire agreement between you and SIS.
Should SIS waive a provision or right under the Agreement, such waiver does not constitute a waiver of any other provision of the Agreement or any subsequent waiver of a right or provision under this Agreement.
If any provision of this Agreement or any part of any provision of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction, after appeals therefrom have been exhausted, to be unenforceable then the remainder of this Agreement shall continue to be of full force and effect.