TERMS OF USE
IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU CAREFULLY READ AND UNDERSTAND ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AS OUTLINED ON THIS PAGE. The Norfolk Historical Society (referred to as NHS in the remainder of this page) owns and operates this website which resides on the following domains (www.norfolkhistoricalsociety.ca and www.norfolklore.com ). This ‘Terms of Use Agreement’ states the terms and conditions under which you may access and use this website. By accessing and using this website, you are indicating your acceptance to be bound by the terms and conditions of this ‘Agreement’. If you do not accept these terms and conditions, you must not access or use this website. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH THE TERMS, CONDITIONS, RULES, POLICIES AND GUIDELINES OF THIS WEBSITE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING IT.
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
All materials displayed or otherwise accessible on this website, including, without limitation, news articles, written content, paintings, photographs, and images, are protected under Canadian and foreign copyright or other laws, and are owned by the artist the party accredited as the provider of the content (i.e. all copyrights, trademarks, service marks, and logo’s are the respective property of their holders). In addition, this website is protected under copyright law as a collective work and/or compilation pursuant to Canadian and foreign laws. No part of this website may be copied without written consent from the NHS. If you detect any issues with the legality of this site in any way, shape, or form, problems are always unintentional and will be corrected with notification.
In such a case, please submit your concerns using the NHS contact us forms on the NHS site and/or info@norfolkhistoricalsociety.ca e-mail link.
LIABILITY NOTICE YOU AGREE TO DEFEND, INDEMNIFY AND HOLD NHS, IT’S BOARD MEMBERS, STAFF, AND MEMBERSHIP, WEBMASTER AND WEBHOSTING PROVIDER HARMLESS FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, LOSSES, LIABILITY COSTS AND EXPENSES (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ATTORNEY’S FEES) ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF OUR WEBSITE, AND/OR VIOLATION OF THIS AGREEMENT AND/OR YOUR VIOLATION OF ANY THIRD-PARTY’S RIGHTS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO INFRINGEMENT OF ANY COPYRIGHT, VIOLATION OF ANY PROPRIETARY RIGHT AND INVASION OF ANY PRIVACY RIGHTS. THIS OBLIGATION SHALL SURVIVE ANY TERMINATION OF THIS AGREEMENT.
PRIVACY POLICY
Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, the NHS website located at www.norfolkhistoricalsociety.ca provides this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, every page on our website contains a link to this ‘Terms of Use Agreement’. This website takes every precaution to protect our users’ private information. When users submit sensitive information via the web site, your information is protected both online and off-line.
COOKIES
To help you better understand ‘Cookies’, here’s a brief description and an example use. Cookies are generally used to make it more convenient for users to move around websites. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user, which isn’t necessarily linked to any personally identifiable information. For instance, if you choose, cookies may be used to ‘remember’ details like your password and keep you logged into certain website enhancements like calendars, and forums. These types of cookies are encrypted to make the information in the cookies unreadable to anyone except the organization (website) with which you are dealing. Once you close your web browser, the cookie simply terminates.
LOG FILES
When you visit web pages on this website, a cookie is created that logs your IP address. We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the website, track user’s movement to determine visitors’ favorite pages and/or articles, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. The information we collect is used to improve the content and service provided by our website.
SHARING
We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our website and to share with our partners, members and sponsors. For example, we may tell a sponsor that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our website, or that Y number of men and Z number of women answered our online poll, which was designed to give feedback on a local event or show. The NHS and this website will not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals.
EXTERNAL WEBSITES
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that the NHS is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site, and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website.
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
This website, www.norfolkhistoricalsociety.ca may revise this ‘Agreement’ at any time by updating this posting. Use of the website, after such changes are posted, will signify your agreement to these revised terms. You should visit this page periodically to review this ‘Terms of Use Agreement’. This ‘Terms of Use Agreement’ last updated on April 9, 2018.
SUBMITTED MATERIAL
NHS does not claim ownership of any materials you provide to use on our website, including, without limitation, any written and/or published content, photographs, images and any information gathered from visitors via user polls and questionnaires. However, by posting, uploading, providing or submitting your personal material (“Submission”) you are granting NHS permission to use your material in connection with the operation of our website, including, without limitation, the license rights to: publicly display, distribute, transmit, translate, edit, resize or reformat your Submission, and the right to publish your name in connection with your Submission. Also, no monetary compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submission. In other regards NHS is under no obligation to post or use any Submission you may provide, and may remove any personal Submission at any time in her sole discretion. In addition to the warranty and representation set forth above, by posting or uploading a Submission that contain images, or photographs, you warrant that you are the copyright owner, and possess the appropriate rights to grant the website located at www.norfolkhistoricalsociety.ca permission for their public display and use free of charge, or for fundraising purposes including but not limited to paid membership access.
EXTERNAL LINKING
This website located at www.norfolkhistoricalsociety.ca may contain links to other sites, which are created and maintained by other public and/or private sector organizations. We provide these links solely for your information and convenience. When you follow a link to an outside website, you are leaving this website and our information management policies no longer apply. Also, the linking to or from this website does not imply on the part of NHS any endorsement or guarantee of any of the individual organizations or information found on their respective websites. In addition, NHS does not assume and is not responsible for any liability whatsoever for the linking of any of these external websites, the operation or content of any linked websites, nor for any of the information, interpretation, comments or opinions expressed in any of the linked websites.
ERRORS & OMMISSIONS
This website www.norfolkhistoricalsociety.ca which is owned by the Norfolk Historical Society, strives to provide you with the most accurate and up-to-date content, product and service information available. However, we are not responsible for typographical errors or technical inaccuracies on our website.
If you believe you’ve found an error, please submit such feedback using the following the NHS Contact Us online forms or the info@norfolkhistoricalsociety.ca email link.