PRIVACY POLICY
VCN respects the privacy of its Service users. Please refer to VCN’s Privacy Policy (http://www2.vcn.bc.ca/policy/) which explains how we collect, use, and disclose information that pertains to your privacy. When you access or use the Service, you signify your agreement to this Privacy Policy.
ABOUT THE SERVICE
This Service allows you to receive and/or send community-wide alerts via a web-based text messaging platform. Alerts are intended to be time-sensitive messages and typically survival-based in nature. Organizations of the information are intended to be employees or approved volunteers of social service agencies in the Downtown Vancouver.
REGISTRATION; RULES FOR USER CONDUCT AND USE OF THE SERVICE
As a Client who will receive informative text messages, your registration and continued use of the system is your consent to receive the messages sent to your device.
As a Organization of informational text messages, you need to be authorized by the organization you will send messages for to use the Service.
As a Organization who signs up for the Service, you will create a personalized account, which includes your username, organization name and password to access the Service, go through VCN’s vetting process, and send messages from the StreetMessenger.
You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized use of your password/and or account. VCN will not be responsible for any liabilities, losses, or damages arising out of the unauthorized use of your user name, password and/or account.
USE RESTRICTIONS
Your permission to use the Site is conditioned upon the following Use Restrictions and Conduct Restrictions: You agree that you will not under any circumstances:
- Post any information that is false, abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory, libelous, or racially, sexually, religiously, or otherwise objectionable and offensive;
- Use the service for any unlawful purpose or for the promotion of illegal activities
- Attempt to, or harass, abuse or harm another person or group
- Use another user’s account without permission;
- Provide false or inaccurate information when registering an account
- Publish or link to malicious content intended to damage or disrupt another user’s browser or computer
POSTING AND CONDUCT RESTRICTIONS
When you create your Organization account, you may be able to provide “New Messages” which is in effect “User Content”. You are solely responsible for the User Content you post and link to or otherwise make available via the Service. You agree that we are only acting as a passive conduit for your online distribution and publication of your User Content. VCN, however, reserves the right to remove any User Content from the Service at its discretion.
VCN strives to enforce these Terms of Use; however, you may be exposed to User Content that is inaccurate. VCN reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor the materials posted in the public areas of the service or to limit or deny a user’s access to the Service or take other appropriate action if a user violates these Terms of Use or engages in any activity that violates the rights of any person or entity or which we deem false, unlawful, offensive, abusive, harmful, or malicious.
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THESE TERMS OF USE, UNDERSTAND THE TERMS OF USE, AND WILL BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS. YOU FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THESE TERMS OF USE TOGETHER WITH THE PRIVACY POLICY AT (http://www2.vcn.bc.ca/policy/) REPRESENT THE COMPLETE AND EXCLUSIVE STATEMENT OF THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN US AND THAT IT SUPERSEDES ANY PROPOSAL OR PRIOR AGREEMENT ORAL OR WRITTEN, AND ANY OTHER COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN US RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS AGREEMENT.
