Website Terms of Use

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User Agreement

1. Every person who accesses the DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers website consents, as a User, to the terms of use stated in the present document and to the fact that the DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers reserves the right to amend these terms from time to time.

Privacy Protection

2. DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers abides by Canadian and international standards with regard to user privacy protection. DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers does not collect personal information about Users without their consent, and has set up means to keep personal information confidential. The DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers website’s management of personal information is described more fully on the Privacy Policy page.

Reproduction and Copyright

3. DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers, reserves the intellectual property rights pertaining to the DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers website’s graphic, navigation and search tool design and content.

4. Subject to the following paragraph and the below conditions pertaining to prohibited use, legal materials published on the DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers website, such as legislation, regulations, and decisions, including editorial enhancements inserted into the documents by DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers, such as hyperlinks and information in headers and footers, can be copied, printed and used by Users free of charge and without any other authorization from DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers, provided that DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers is identified as the source of the document and the user of the documents notes that it is for information purposes only and cannot be taken as legal advice.

5. Use of legal materials published by DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers can be subject to additional conditions set by courts and government bodies claiming intellectual property rights relating to the documents. DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers makes an effort to indicate the existence of additional conditions. Users remain responsible for checking whether the intended use of the documents is authorized.

Prohibited Uses

6. Notwithstanding the reproduction rights granted in the preceding section, the following uses of DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers’ website are prohibited unless the DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers Editor has provided prior written consent:

a.    Incorporating published documents into another website but masking their origin or source through framing, re-use of search processes, or any other means of creating confusion and misrepresenting the fact that the documents come from the DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers website;

b.    External indexing of published documents by Web robots when such use is not authorized by the instructions in the robots exclusion file at or in a META tag in the HTML code of a published document in compliance with the Robots Exclusion Protocol;

c.    Use of the DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers website’s resources and services via automated mechanisms, in particular for bulk downloading of documents.

7. DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers reserves the right to block, at their discretion and without prior notice, any User from accessing its website if the User misuses the website or uses it for illegal purposes.

Disclaimer of Warranty

8. DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers puts considerable effort into maintaining its website and documents they publish so as to provide a reliable source of legal information. However, DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers and the DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers website’s partners provide no warranty and make no representations as to the reliability, accuracy, or integrity of the website’s content or functioning.

Disclaimer of Liability

9. The documents published on the DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers website have been collected and prepared for Users’ convenience and are for informative purposes; they are in no way legal advice. Despite the care taken in preparing and maintaining its website, DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers, its partners, and their employees, managers, and other officers can in no way be held responsible for damages caused directly or indirectly by use of the DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers website or by its non-availability.

Applicable Law

10. Use of the DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers website is governed by the federal and provincial legislation in force in the Province of Manitoba, Canada. Any legal action against DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers with regards to DD West LLP/Western Canadian Municipal Lawyers website use shall be brought before the courts of Queen’s Bench in the Province of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.