Introduction

These terms of use govern your use of this website; by using this website, you accept these terms of use in full. If you disagree with these terms of use or any part of these terms of use, you must not use this website.

License to Use Website

Unless otherwise stated, Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary, and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights in the website and material on the website. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms of use.

You must not:

•  Republish material from this website (including republication on another website);

•  Sell, rent or sub-license material from the website;

•  Show any material from the website in public

•  Reproduce, duplicate, copy, or otherwise exploit material on this website for a commercial purpose

•  Edit or otherwise modify and material on the website; or

•  Redistribute material from this website except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution

Acceptable Use

You must not use this website in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the availability or accessibility of the website; or in any way which is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan Horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to this website without Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary’s expressed written consent.

You must not use this website to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

You must not use this website for any purposes related to marketing without Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary’s expressed written consent.

Restricted Access

Access to certain areas of this website is restricted. Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary reserves the right to restrict access to areas of this website, or indeed the entire website, at Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary’s discretion.

If Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary provides you with a user ID and password to enable you access to restricted areas of this website or other content or services, you must ensure that the user ID and password are kept confidential.

Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary may disable your user ID and password at Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary’s sole discretion without notice or explanation.

User Content

In these terms of use, “your user content” means material (including without limitation text, images, audio material, video material and audio-visual material) that you submit to this website, for whatever purpose.

You grant Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your user content in any existing or future media. You also grant to Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary the right to sub-license these rights, and the right to bring an action for infringement of these rights.

Your user content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any third party’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action whether against you or Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary or a third party (in each case under any applicable law).

You must not submit any user content to the website that is or has been the subject of any threatened or actual legal proceedings or other similar complaint.

Disclaimer of Warranty and Limitations of Liability

Your use of this website is at your own risk, Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary does not warrant the accuracy, completeness, quality, adequacy, availability or content of any information or services on this website. The information and services, the website and its contents are provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis, and without any representations, warranties or conditions of any kind, whether express or implied, and including without limitation, implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement of third party rights or those arising by law, statute, usage or trade or course of dealing. Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary does not warrant that the website or any files or software downloaded from this website are free of computer viruses or other harmful elements.

Neither Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary nor any information provider shall be liable for any damages, whether direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive or exemplary damages and any other damages whatsoever (collectively “damages”), arising out of or in any way connected with your use or inability to use this website, services or information contained on this website, including but not limited to loss of revenue, trading losses, potential profits, loss of data, damage as a result of viruses, errors, inaccuracy of data, even if caused by Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary or an information provider or if Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary is advised of the possibility of such damages or such damages are reasonably foreseeable.

No Advice

Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind.

Other Parties

You accept that, as a non for profit organization, Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary has an interest in limiting the personal liability of its officers and employees. You agree that you will not bring any claim personally against Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with this website.

Unenforceable Provisions

If any provision of this website disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of this website disclaimer.

Indemnity

You hereby indemnify Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary and undertake to keep Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary’s legal advisors) incurred or suffered by Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms of use, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms of use.

Breaches of These Terms of Use

Without prejudice to Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary other rights under these term of use, if you breach these terms of use in any way, Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary may take such action as Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

Variation

Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary may revise these terms of use from time to time. Revised terms of use will apply to the use of this website from the date of publication of the revised terms of use on the website. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the current version.

Severability

If a provision of these terms of use is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provisions will continue in effect.

Entire Agreement

These terms of use, together with the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary in relation to your use of this website and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.

Law and Jurisdiction

These terms of use will be governed by and construed in accordance with the province of Alberta, law, and any disputes relating to these terms of use will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the province of Alberta, Canada.

Registration and Authorization

Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary is a not for profit organization under the laws of the Province of Alberta. You can contact Rubicon Ranch Sanctuary by using our website’s Contact Us form.