Terms & Conditions

This version is in effect since December 1st, 2011

AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND COOKINATM (Poirier Richard inc.)

COOKINATM (Poirier Richard inc.) welcomes you to its Website. HOWEVER, YOU MUST CAREFULLY READ ALL OF THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS BEFORE PROCEEDING SINCE YOUR ACCESS TO THE WEBSITES LOCATED AT cookina.co and www.cookina.biz (COLLECTIVELY, THE “SITE”) IS SUBJECT TO THIS AGREEMENT. BY VISITING OR USING THIS SITE YOU AGREE ON YOUR OWN BEHALF, AND ON BEHALF OF ANY ENTITY ON WHOSE BEHALF YOU ACT, TO ACCEPT AND ABIDE BY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ABIDE BY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS SITE AND ITS CONTENT.

MODIFICATION OF THESE TERMS OF USE

COOKINATM (Poirier Richard inc.) reserves the right from time to time, in its sole discretion, to add, remove, modify or otherwise change any part of this Agreement without specific advance notice to you. The latest Agreement will be posted on this Site, and you are responsible for periodically reviewing the Agreement prior to using the Site. If any term, condition or any change thereto is not acceptable to you, you must discontinue your use of this Site and any of its content immediately. Access to this Site or use of this Site after any amendments have been posted shall constitute your acceptance of the amended terms and conditions. You may not modify this Agreement in any manner.

COPYRIGHTS AND TRADE-MARKS

The entire content included in this Site, including but not limited to text, design, graphics, interfaces, software or code, information, products, trade-marks, logos, trade names and any and all material contained on this Site (collectively, the “Content”) including the manner in which the Content is presented or appears and all information relating thereto, are protected under applicable copyright, trade-marks and other proprietary rights and are the property of COOKINATM (Poirier Richard inc.) or its respective owners, as the case may be. You do not acquire ownership rights or any implied right to any Content obtained through this Site.

PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL USE LIMITATION

Unless otherwise specified, the Site is for your personal and non-commercial use exclusively. You may display and, subject to any expressly stated restrictions or limitations relating to specific material, electronically copy, download and print hard copy portions of the Content from the different areas of the Site solely for your own non-commercial use. Any other use of the Content on this Site, including but not limited to the modification, reproduction, distribution, republication, display or transmission of the Content of this Site, without prior written permission of COOKINATM (Poirier Richard inc.) is strictly prohibited.

PROHIBITED USES

You may not, nor may you allow others to, directly or indirectly: (i) remove from any copy of the Content, the copyright or other proprietary notices contained in the Content; (ii) sell, modify or attempt to modify the Content in any way or reproduce, copy, publicly display, transmit, perform, distribute, create derivative work or otherwise use any Content for any public, commercial or non-personal purpose, including without limitation use of the Content on any other website; (iii) use this Site in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, impair, interfere with the security of, negatively affect the functioning of, or otherwise abuse, this Site or any products, services, system resources, accounts, servers, networks, affiliated or linked sites, connected to or accessible through this Site; iv) frame, mirror, scrap or data-mining of this Website or any of its Content in any form and by any means; or v) disrupt or interfere with any other person’s use or enjoyment of this Site or affiliated or linked sites, or any products or services thereof.

In addition, you agree that you are solely responsible for actions and communications undertaken or transmitted in the course of your usage of this Site, and that you will comply with all laws that apply or may apply to use of or activities on this Site or in respect of the Content. COOKINATM (Poirier Richard inc.) will investigate occurrences which may involve violations of such laws and may involve, and cooperate with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting users who are involved in such violations.

POSTED INFORMATION AND SUBMISSIONS

This Site may provide features that allow you to post messages and content, to interact with COOKINATM (Poirier Richard inc.) and other users through a message board and to upload files, documents or other materials (collectively, the “Submissions”). When using any of the features of the Site which allow you to post, upload or make Submissions, it is a condition of your use of this Site that you agree not to:

  • Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying this site, interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper workings of the site or do anything which in the sole discretion of COOKINATM (Poirier Richard inc.) imposes an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the COOKINATM (Poirier Richard inc.) website infrastructure;
  • post or transmit any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libellous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane or indecent information of any kind, including, without limitation, any submission constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, provincial, national or international law or regulation;
  • post or transmit any submission, including, without limitation, articles, images, stories, software or other material, which violates or infringes upon the rights of others, including material which is an invasion of privacy or publicity rights or which is protected by any intellectual property rights, including, without limitation, copyright, patent, trade secret, trademark or other proprietary rights herein, or derivative works with respect thereto, without first obtaining permission from the owner or rights holder;
  • post or transmit any submission that promotes racism, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual, could be harmful to minors, harasses or advocates harassment of another person, provides material that exploits people under the age of 18 (or under the legal age in your jurisdiction if greater than 18 years of age) in a sexual or violent manner, provides instructional information about illegal activities;
  • delete or revise any content posted by any other person or entity;
  • post or submit any submission which solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users;
  • post or transmit any submission which contains a virus or other harmful component, or provides or creates computer viruses;
  • post or transmit junk mail, chain letters, unsolicited mass mailing or spam; or
  • use the site for commercial purposes, including, without limitation, posting, uploading or transmitting any submissions which contain advertising or which engage in commercial activities and/or sales, or which involve contests, sweepstakes, barter and/or advertising.

By posting or uploading Submissions to this Site, you grant COOKINATM (Poirier Richard inc.) a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive, irrevocable, unrestricted, worldwide license to use, reproduce, store, adapt, translate, modify, make derivative works from, transmit, distribute, publicly perform or display such Submissions for any purpose. In addition, you hereby (i) agree to waive all moral rights in any Submission in favour of COOKINATM (Poirier Richard inc.); (ii) consent to your name, address and e-mail appearing as the contributor of any Submission, where applicable, and to the disclosure and/or display of such information and any other information which appears in or is associated with a Submission; (iii) acknowledge and agree that COOKINATM (Poirier Richard inc.) is not responsible for any loss, damage, or corruption that may occur to your Submissions; and (iv) acknowledge and agree that any Submissions you provide for display on this Site will be considered non-confidential.

COOKINATM (Poirier Richard inc.). may review Submissions before they are posted and may refuse to post any Submission to this Site. COOKINATM (Poirier Richard inc.) reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to edit or remove any Submission. You acknowledge and agree that COOKINATM (Poirier Richard inc.) may, in its sole discretion, monitor this Site periodically and disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or other governmental or Court request, to operate this Site properly or to protect itself or other users of the Site. Any such disclosure shall be in accordance with COOKINATM (Poirier Richard inc.)’s Privacy Policy.

COOKINATM (Poirier Richard inc.) is not responsible for the content of any Submission. Submissions represent the views and opinions of the person(s) posting the Submission and do not represent the views or opinions of COOKINATM (Poirier Richard inc.), its directors, officers or employees.