Terms of Use

RateMyNaturopath.com is owned and operated by RateMyNaturopath.com Inc. (the “Owner”). RateMyNaturopath.com reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any time and you agree that each visit you make to RateMyNaturopath.com shall be subject to the current terms and conditions as published on our website at RateMyNaturopath.com (the “Website”).

This Terms of Use Agreement (the “Agreement”) sets forth the legally binding terms for your use of the Website.  By using the Website, you agree to be bound by this Agreement.  You are only authorized to use the Website if you agree to abide by all applicable laws and to this Agreement.  Please read this Agreement carefully and save it.  If you do not agree with it, you should leave the Website immediately.  If you wish to post comments you must read this Agreement and indicate your acceptance during the account registration process.

This Agreement includes Owner’s policy for acceptable use of the Website and content posted on the Website, your rights, obligations and restrictions regarding your use of the Website, and the Owner’s privacy policy.  You may receive a copy of this Agreement by contacting us at our email address as listed on our “Contact Us” page.

The Owner may modify this Agreement from time to time and such modification shall be effective upon posting by on the Website.  You agree to be bound to any changes to this Agreement when you use the Website after any such modification is posted.  It is therefore important that you review this Agreement regularly to ensure you are updated as to any changes.

Please choose carefully the information you post on the Website and that you provide to other users of the Website.  Your profile may not include the following items:  telephone numbers, street addresses, and any obscene, lewd, excessively violent, harassing, sexually explicit or otherwise objectionable subject matter.  Despite this prohibition, information provided by other Website users (for instance, in their profile or reviews) may contain inaccurate, inappropriate, offensive or sexually explicit material, products or services, and the Owner assumes no responsibility or liability for this material.  If you become aware of misuse of the Website by any person, please contact us at our email address as listed on our “Contact Us” page.

The Owner reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject, refuse to post or remove any posting by you, or to restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice, and without liability.

1. Eligibility.
   By using the Website, you represent and warrant that

   (a) all registration information you submit is truthful and accurate;
   (b) you will maintain the accuracy of such information;
   (c) you are of the age of majority in British Columbia; and
   (d) your use of the Website does not violate any applicable law or regulation.
   Your profile may be deleted and your membership may be terminated without warning, if we believe that you are under the age of majority.

2. Term. 

   This Agreement shall remain in full force and effect while you use the Website.

3. Password. 

   When you sign up to become a user, you will also be asked to choose a password.  You are entirely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password.  You agree not to use the account, username, or password of another user at any time or to disclose your password to any third party.  You agree to notify the Owner immediately if you suspect any unauthorized use of your account or access to your password.  You are solely responsible for any and all use of your account.

4. Non-commercial Use by users. 

   The Website is for the personal use of the Website users only and may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavours except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by the Owner.  Illegal and/or unauthorized use of the Website, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of other users by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email, unauthorized framing of, or linking to the Website is prohibited.  Commercial advertisements, affiliate links, and other forms of solicitation may be removed from user’s posts without notice and may result in termination of Website privileges.  Appropriate legal action will be taken for any illegal or unauthorized use of the Website.

5. Proprietary Rights in Content on Website.

   (a)  The Owner does not claim any ownership rights in the text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively, the “Content”) that you post to the Website. After posting your content to the Website, you continue to retain all ownership rights in such content, and you continue to have the right to use your content in any way you choose.  By displaying or publishing (“posting”) any content on or through the Website, you hereby grant to the Owner a license to use, modify, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such content.Without this license, the Owner would be unable to provide the Website services.  For example, without the right to modify user content, the Owner would not be able to format content to satisfy technical requirements.  The license you grant to the Owner is non-exclusive (meaning you are free to license your content to anyone else in addition to the Owner), fully paid and royalty free (meaning that the Owner is not required to pay you for the use the content that you post), sublicensable (so that Owner is able to use its affiliates and subcontractors such as Internet content delivery networks to provide the Website services), and worldwide (because the Internet and the Website are global in reach).  This license will terminate at the time you remove your content from the Website.  The license does not grant the Owner the right to sell your content.

   (b)  You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the content posted by you on or through the Website or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth in this section, and (ii) the posting of your content on or through the Website does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights or any other rights of any person.  You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies owing any person by reason of any content posted by you to or through the Website.

   (c)  The Website contains content of the Owner (“Owner’s Content”). The Owner’s Content is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret and other laws, and the Owner owns and retains all rights in the Owner’s Content.  The Owner hereby grants you a limited, revocable, non-sublicensable license to reproduce and display the Owner’s Content (excluding any software code) solely for your personal use in connection with viewing the Website.

   (d)  The Owner’s Services contain content of users and other licensors of the Owner. Except for content posted by you, you may not copy, reproduce, mirror, frame, scrape, extract, wrap, create derivative works or, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, modify, translate, publish, broadcast, transmit, distribute, perform, display, or sell any content appearing on or through the Website or any part or aspect of this Website.

6. Content Posted.

   (a)  The Owner may delete any content that in the sole judgment of the Owner violates this Agreement or which may be illegal or violate the rights, harm, or threaten the safety of any person. The Owner assumes no responsibility for monitoring the Website for inappropriate content or conduct.  If at any time the Owner chooses, in its sole discretion, to monitor the Website, the Owner nonetheless assumes no responsibility for the content, no obligation to modify or remove any inappropriate content, and no responsibility for the conduct of any user submitting any such content.

   (b)  You are solely responsible for the content that you post on or through the Website, and any material or information that you transmit to other users and for your interactions with other users. The Owner does not endorse and has no control over the content.  Content is not necessarily reviewed by the Owner prior to posting and does not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of the Owner.  The Owner makes no warranties, express or implied, as to the content or to the accuracy and reliability of the content or any material or information that you transmit to other users.

7. Content/Activity Prohibited.

   (a)  The following is a partial list of the kind of content that is illegal or prohibited to post on or through the Website.  The Owner reserves the right to investigate and take appropriate legal action against anyone who, in the Owner’s sole discretion, violates this provision, including without limitation, removing the offending communication from the Website and terminating the usage of such violators.  Prohibited content includes, but is not limited to content that, in the sole discretion of the Owner:

   (i)  is patently offensive and promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;

   (ii)  harasses or advocates harassment of another person;

   (iii)  exploits people in a sexual or violent manner;

   (iv)  contains offensive subject matter or contains a link to an adult website;

   (v)  solicits personal information from anyone under the age of majority;

   (vi)  provides any telephone numbers, street addresses, last names, URLs or email addresses;

   (vii)  promotes information that you know is false or misleading or promotes illegal activities or conduct that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory or libellous;

   (viii)  promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person’s copyrighted work, such as providing pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;

   (ix)  involves the transmission of “junk mail”, “chain letters” or unsolicited mass mailing, instant messaging, “spimming” or “spamming”;

   (x)  contains restricted or password only access pages or hidden pages or images (those not linked to or from another accessible page);

   (xi)  further or promotes any criminal activity or enterprise or provides instructional information about illegal activities including, but not limited to, making or buying illegal weapons, violating someone’s privacy, or providing or creating computer viruses;

   (xii)  solicits passwords or personal identifying information for commercial or unlawful purposes from other users;

   (xiii)  involves commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, or pyramid schemes;

   (xiv)  criminal or tortious activity, including child pornography, fraud, trafficking in obscene material, drug dealing, gambling, harassment, stalking, spamming, spimming, sending of viruses or other harmful files, copyright infringement, patent infringement, or theft of trade secrets;

   (xv)  advertising to, or solicitation of, users to buy or sell any products or services through the Website. You may not transmit any chain letters or junk email to other users.  It is also a violation of these rules to use any information obtained from the Website in order to contact, advertise to, solicit, or sell to any user without their prior explicit consent.  If you breach this Agreement and send unsolicited bulk email, instant messages or other unsolicited communications of any kind through the Website, you acknowledge that you will have caused substantial harm to the Owner, but that the amount of such harm would be extremely difficult to ascertain.  As a reasonable estimation of such harm, you agree to pay the Owner $500 for each such unsolicited email or other unsolicited communication you send through the Website;

   (xvi)  covering or obscuring the banner advertisements on your personal profile page, or any page of the Website via HTML/CSS or any other means;

   (xvii)  any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to add friends or send comments or messages;

   (xviii)  interfering with, disrupting, or creating an undue burden on the Website or the networks or services connected to Website;

   (xix)  attempting to impersonate another user;

   (xx)  using the account, username, or password of another user at any time or disclosing your password to any third party or permitting any third party to access your account;

   (xxi)  selling or otherwise transferring your account;(xxii)  using any information obtained from the Website in order to harass, abuse or harm another person; or

   (xxiii)  using the Website in a manner inconsistent with any and all applicable laws and regulations.

   (b)  Without limiting the foregoing, you agree not to transmit, distribute, post, communicate or store information or other material on, to or through the Website that: is copyrighted, unless you are the copyright owner or valid licensee to such materials; infringes on any other intellectual property rights or others or on the privacy or publicity rights of others reveals trade secrets, unless you own them or you are the valid licensee to such material.

   (c)  If you believe that a work has been copied and is accessible on this website in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide the Owner with the following information by written notice by email to us at our email address as set out on our “Contact Us” page; identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed; identification of the allegedly infringing material on this website that is requested to be removed; your name, address and daytime telephone number, and an email address, so that someone from the Owner can contact you if necessary; a statement that you in good faith belief that the use of the copyrighted work is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the signatory is the owner or is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive copyright right that is allegedly infringed; and an electronic or physical signature of the copyright owner or someone authorized on the owner’s behalf to assert infringement of copyright and to submit the statement.  The Owner reserves the right to remove any posted submission which infringes the copyright of any person under the laws of Canada upon receipt of such statement.

8. Member Disputes.

   You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users.  The Owner reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other users and to delete objectionable posts.

9. Privacy. 

   Use of the Website is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into this Agreement by this reference.  You agree and consent to the terms of the privacy policy by use of the Website.

10. Disclaimers. 

    The Owner is not responsible for any incorrect or inaccurate content posted on the Website whether caused by users of the Website or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Website.  Profiles created and posted by users on the Website may contain links to other websites.  The Owner is not responsible for the content, accuracy, or opinions expressed on such websites, and such websites are in no way investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy or completeness by the Owner.  Inclusion of any linked website on the Website does not imply approval or endorsement of the linked website by the Owner.  When you access these third-party sites, you do so at your own risk. 

    The Owner takes no responsibility for third party advertisements which are posted on the Website, nor does it take any responsibility for the goods or services provided by its advertisers.The Owner is not responsible for the conduct, whether online or offline, of any user of the Website.  The Owner assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction, unauthorized access to or alteration of any user communication.  The Owner is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any email or players due to technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or on the Website or combination thereof, including any injury or damage to users or to any person’s computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading materials in connection with the Website.  Under no circumstances shall the Owner be responsible for any loss or damage, including personal injury or death, resulting from use of the Website, from any content posted on or through the Website, or from the conduct of any users of the Website, whether online or offline. 

    The Website is provided “AS-IS” and as available.  The Owner makes no representations or warranty of any kind whatsoever to you or any other person relating in any way to the Website, including any part thereof.  The Owner disclaims to the maximum extent permitted by law, any and all such representations and warranties without limiting the generality of the foregoing,The Owner disclaims to the maximum extent permitted by law any and all

    (i) warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose,

    (ii) warranties against infringement of any third party intellectual property or proprietary rights,

    (iii) warranties relating to delays, interruptions, errors, or omissions in the Website or any part thereof,

    (iv) warranties relating to the transmission or delivery of the Website, and

    (v) warranties relating to performance, non-performance, or other acts or omissions by the Owner or any third party.  Further, and without limiting the generality of any of the foregoing, there is no warranty that the Website will meet your needs or requirements or the needs or requirements of any other person.

    The Owner makes no warranties or representation, express or implied, that the information provided through the Website will be free from error, omission, interruption, defect, or delay in operation.  Any information provided through the Website is subject to change without notice, and we disclaim all responsibility for these changes, including, but not limited to, changes to prices, discounts, and hours of operation.  If a practitioner wishes to correct or edit its information it should advise us by written notice directly from the practitioner by email to our address  as  set out on our “Contact Us” page.

    Nothing contained on or offered by or through the Website should be construed as medical advice and should not be relied upon for medical diagnosis or treatment.  No information provided should be used without consulting a physician.  The Owner does not recommend or endorse any particular healthcare provider whose information or ratings appear on the Website.

11. Limitation on Liability. 

    In no event shall the Owner be liable to you or any third party for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages, including lost profit damages arising from your use of the services.The Owner reserves the right to alter the content of the Website in any way, at any time, for any reason, without prior notification, and will not be liable in any way for possible consequences of such changes.The limitations of liability apply whether the alleged liability is based on contract, tort, negligence, strict liability, or any other basis, even if the Owner or any third party have been advised of the possibility of such damage.

12. Software. 

    No software may be downloaded from the Website or otherwise exported or re-exported in violation of Canada or U.S. export laws or in violation of any other applicable laws.  Downloading or using the software is at your sole risk.

13. Disputes.

    If there is any dispute about or involving the Website, you agree that the dispute shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of British Columbia, Canada, without regard to conflict of law provisions and you agree to submit and attorn to the courts of the Province of British Columbia, Canada in all disputes arising or relating to the use of the Website.  You hereby waive any right to commence or participate in any class action against the Owner or its affiliates or any third party relating to the Website these terms and conditions or any related matter.  The Owner, at its option, may demand that any dispute between the Owner and you about or involving the Website must be settled by arbitration utilizing the dispute resolution procedures of the Commercial Arbitration Act of British Columbia, provided that the foregoing shall not prevent the Owner from seeking injunctive relief in a court of competent jurisdiction.

14. Indemnity. 

    You agree to indemnify and hold the Owner, its subsidiaries, and affiliates, and their respective officers, agents, partners and employees, harmless from any loss, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable lawyer’s fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Website in violation of this Agreement and/or arising from a breach of this Agreement and/or any breach of your representations and warranties set forth above and/or if any content that you post on the Website causes the Owner to be liable to another.

15. Waiver. 

    The failure of the Owner to enforce any provisions of the terms and conditions or respond to a breach by you or other parties shall not in any way waive its right to enforce subsequently any of the terms or conditions or to act with respect to similar breaches.

16. No Professional Advice. 

     Any information supplied by any employee or agent of the Owner whether by telephone, email, letter, facsimile or other form of communication, is intended solely as general guidance on the use of the Website and does not constitute legal, tax, accounting or other professional advice and may not be relied on to base any claim or action.  Individual situations and provincial laws vary and users are encouraged to obtain appropriate advice from qualified professionals in the applicable jurisdictions.  The Owner makes no representations or warranties concerning any course of action taken by any person following or otherwise using the information offered or provided within or through the Website.

17. Copyright.

    All copyright rights in the text, images, photographs, graphics, user interface, and other content provided on the Website, and the selection, coordination, and arrangement of such content, are owned by the Owner, or its third-party licensors, to the full extent provided under the Canadian copyright laws and all international copyright laws. Under applicable copyright laws, you are prohibited from copying, reproducing, modifying, distributing, displaying, performing, storing in any retrieval system or transmitting any of the contents of the Website for any purposes. Nothing stated or implied on the Website confers on you any license or right under any copyright of the Owner or any third party.

    The Website and the information contained therein are for informational purposes only. Any reproduction, distribution, display, performance, copying, or redistribution for commercial purposes of any materials or design elements of the Website is strictly prohibited, without the prior written consent of the Owner. Systematic retrieval of data or other content from the Website to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database or directory without written permission from the Owner is prohibited.

18. Trade and Service Mark Rights. 

    All rights in the product names, company names, trade names, logos, product packaging and designs of the Owner or third-party products or services, whether or not appearing in large print or with the trademark symbol, belong exclusively to the Owner or their respective owners, and are protected from reproduction, imitation, dilution or confusing or misleading uses under national and international trademark and copyright laws, as applicable. The use or misuse of these trademarks or any materials, except as permitted herein, is expressly prohibited and nothing stated or implied on this Website confers on you any license or right under any patent, copyright or trademark of the Owner or any third party.

19. Other. 

    This Agreement is accepted upon your use of the Website.  This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between you and the Owner regarding the use of the Website.  The failure of the Owner to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Agreement shall not operate as a waiver of such right or provision.  The section titles in this Agreement are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect.  RateMyNaturopath.com.com is a trademark of the Owner.  This Agreement operates to the fullest extent permissible by law.  If any provision of this Agreement is unlawful, void or unenforceable, that provision is deemed severable from this Agreement and does not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

Please contact us as listed on our “Contact Us” page with any questions regarding this Agreement.

I have read this Agreement and agree to all of the provisions contained above.