The following rules govern the use by you of TVOKids.com. The rules set forth herein apply to all materials, online communications and other information that is or becomes available on TVOKids.com. BY SIGNING ON AND USING TVOKids.com, YOU SPECIFICALLY AGREE TO ABIDE BY THESE RULES AND ANY MODIFICATIONS THERETO.

Ownership of Web Site and Content

TVO either owns the Content contained on this site (including all text, images, photographs, illustrations, art work, graphics audio and video clips and computer software) or is an authorized Licensee.

This site is subject to intellectual property laws. Any copying, reproducing, altering, modifying, public performing or displaying, uploading, posting or transmitting of Content other than as permitted herein, is strictly prohibited. TVO does permit you to copy or upload site Content provided that your goal be for personal non-commercial purposes and that corresponding proprietary notices, where applicable, remain intact.

Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability

This site may contain material that is trade-marked by a third party. It may also include links to third party web sites. In neither case shall TVO be construed as endorsing the products or services of such other parties.

The visitor/user accepts this web site as is, and browses at his or her own risk.

TVO assumes no liability for content posted by others to this site, and visitors/users of this site acknowledge that the postings contained herein do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of TVO.

TVO does not warrant that the functions and/or materials contained on this site shall be error-free or uninterrupted, or that defects will be corrected. As such, TVO assumes no liability for any loss of data or other damage or problems sustained by your computer that may arise from your use of this site.

All opinions, advice or other comments appearing on tvokids.com are those of the specific expert providing them and do not necessarily represent the opinions, advice or views of TVO. Before acting upon any opinion, advice or comment provided by any expert appearing on tvokids.com, the viewer should seek informed advice from their own expert or professional.

User Conduct and Rules of Netiquette

As a visitor/user of this site, you represent and warrant that you have either: a) reached the age of majority and possess the legal capacity to enter into this agreement, and that you have all necessary rights in and to the postings you submit; or b) are under the age of majority and that you have informed your parents and they have approved of your use of this Website.

You further warrant and represent that:

  1. you will not misrepresent your identity;
  2. you will refrain from posting material intended to further commercial ends and/or to promote a business or generate revenue;
  3. you will not post or link to any material that violates the rights of others, be they their privacy, publicity, intellectual property or proprietary rights;
  4. you will not post, transmit or direct one to content which is libelous, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, indecent, pornographic, threatening, hateful, abusive or harassing;
  5. you will not post content that instructs one to commit a crime, or that is otherwise unlawful or in contravention of any law;
  6. you will not post content that may contain or trigger a computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, time bomb, junk or chain mail, spam, or comparable device; and
  7. you will not collect information about other users of this site, including their e-mail addresses.

Reservation of Rights

While TVO reserves the right to monitor content posted to this site, it is under no positive duty to do so. Notwithstanding the foregoing, TVO may remove content which it deems, in its sole discretion, to be inappropriate according to the User Conduct and Rules of Netiquette and/or to suspend or terminate any session or posting which unduly taxes its information technology infrastructure.

TVO reserves the right to disclose the details of any posting to law enforcement authorities where such disclosure may be legally required, to alter any feature of this site and to make use of visitor/user submissions as described below.

Submissions

This site contains interactive components which enable visitors/users to post comments and submit stories, artwork, photographs or other content (referred to in the Privacy Policy as Kids Content) and hereinafter referred to as Submission(s). You hereby agree that you will only submit Submissions that you have all the rights to and that are original to you.

You hereby grant TVO a royalty-free, perpetual, unrestricted, irrevocable and worldwide licence to use, copy, publicly perform or display, transmit or distribute, translate, adapt and create derivative works from any Submission(s) that you provide as well as the right to sublicense any or all such rights to third parties.

You waive all moral rights in your Submission(s) in favour of TVO, and acknowledge that there is no expectation of confidentiality vis-a-vis your Submission(s). As such, you consent to TVO's identifying you as the contributor of the Submission(s).

Indemnity

You indemnify, fully discharge and forever hold TVO, its directors, officers, employees and agents harmless for (a) your breaches of the terms and conditions contained herein, (b) your violations of the law or illegal conduct as manifested by your Submission(s), (c) your access or inability to access this web site or the entirety of its features, (d) any loss of data you may sustain as a result of your accessing this site, and/or (e) your reliance on any posting contained herein.