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Introduction

The Circles of Strength Social Network has been provided to you by Lumara Grief & Bereavement Care Society. Our Head Office is located at 322-198 Island Hwy East, PO BOX 809, Parksville, British Columbia, Canada, V9P 2G8. Please read the terms, conditions, and policies carefully before making any further use of the Circles of Strength Network. If you have any difficulties using this network, or have any concerns please contact: joshua@lumarasociety.org

Disclaimer

The purpose of the Circles of Strength Network is to provide individuals and/or families an opportunity to support one another, to stay connected, share resources, and to remain up to date with Lumara Grief & Bereavement Care Society's (also referred to as "Lumara" and/or "the Society") events and announcements. By using this network, you agree to be bound by the terms of service, conditions and policies that are outlined below. If you do not follow these terms, Lumara reserves the right to terminate your profile without notice.

Lumara reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change these terms, conditions, and policies at any given time. Users rights are dependant on the review and acceptance of these policies. It is your responsibility to review the terms of service and policies from time to time to ensure that you are up to date on any amendments.

  • Members under the age of 16 must be supervised by a Parent/Guardian.
  • Parents/Guardians are responsible for the conduct of their child(ren) on this network and will assume all liability for their actions. Absolutely no one under the age of 13 is permitted to join this Network.
  • The Circles of Strength Network provides users with opportunities to interact with one another through various functions such as chat, forums, groups, blogs, images, videos, personal pages, and other features. Lumara accepts no responsibility, nor liability for the opinions and information posted by any user of the Network on any of these or other available interactive areas.
  • If you use an interactive area, you must realize that this is a public area, and you agree that you are solely responsible for your own communications, the consequences of posting those communications, and your reliance on any communications found in that interactive area.
  • For documents and software available from or through this web portal, Lumara does not assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, therapies, treatments, products, processes, or services disclosed.
  • The information is provided "as is" and users are urged to verify it for themselves and consult with medical experts before they rely on it. Users will not hold Lumara responsible for how they use any information provided by or through the web portal.
  • Any information available from or through this web portal may be changed at any time and without notice. Although Lumara may provide archives of any previous versions of the web portal, it has no obligation to do so.
  • Those who work or have worked on behalf of Lumara as a staff, volunteer, contractor, and/or liaison will conduct themselves in a professional manner at all times on this network, and will refrain from engaging in personal relationships with other users.
  • Although some of the members who join this network have professional counselling, nursing and other designations, Circles of Strength does not endorse the solicitation and/or provision of personal, mental health or medical advice through this site.
  • Any information contained on this site is provided for information purposes only. Always seek the advice of your physician or other health care provider with any question you may have regarding a health care matter.
  • If you are in need of emergency services, you agree to go to your nearest emergency department. Please don’t delay access to such services based on a comment or message you receive from any of the content viewed on this network.
  • Lumara is not responsible for any comments, images, videos, or any other media posted in forums, chats, blogs, posts, and the like, but does have the authority to remove any such items, or discontinue features at any given time.
  • Lumara does not endorse or recommend any information, drugs, therapies, treatments, products, processes, or services. The views and opinions of authors carried on this web portal do not state or reflect those of the Society or the Circles of Strength Network, and they may not be used for advertising or product endorsement purposes.
  • Some pages or links on this web portal provide links to other Internet sites. This is done for the convenience of users. The Society is not responsible for the availability or content of these external sites, nor does the Society endorse or guarantee the information, drugs, therapies, treatments, products, processes, or services described or offered on these other Internet sites.
  • Your use of the Circles of Strength Network and these terms are governed by the laws of the Province of British Columbia, the federal laws of Canada, the state laws of California, and the federal laws of the United States of America applicable therein. You expressly agree that the courts of British Columbia shall have sole and exclusive jurisdiction for any action, claim or demand of any nature or kind whatsoever involving this Site, the Society, any Licensor or Supplier or any of the respective directors, officers, employees, agents or other representatives.
  • The Society operates in the Province of British Columbia and it makes no representation or warranty whatsoever that the content found on the site is appropriate or available for use in any jurisdiction other than the country of Canada. If you access the Circles of Strength Network from any location outside of Canada, you are responsible for compliance with local laws.

The following Terms of Service apply to your use of this Network. You are solely responsible for your conduct and your content on the Network and compliance with these terms. By registering with us or using or browsing this Network, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these terms. This Network is not intended for children younger than 16 and is offered only to users 16 years of age or older. If you are under 16 years old, please do not use this network unless you have received a written permission (consent) from a parent or legal guardian.

You may use this Network provided that you have the power to enter a binding contract with us and are not barred from doing so under any applicable law of your country.

You agree that you will not post, email or make available any content or use this Network:

  • In a manner that infringes, violates or misappropriates any third party's intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights or contractual rights;
  • in a manner that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
  • to engage in spamming, "chain letters," "pyramid schemes", advertisement of illegal or controlled products or services, or other advertising or marketing activities that violate these Terms of Service, any applicable laws, regulations or generally-accepted advertising industry guidelines;
  • in a manner that is misleading, deceptive or fraudulent or otherwise illegal or promotes illegal activities, including engaging in phishing or otherwise obtaining financial or other personal information in a misleading manner or for fraudulent or misleading purposes;
  • in a manner that is libelous or defamatory, or in a way that is otherwise threatening, abusive, violent, harassing, malicious or harmful to any person or entity, or invasive of another's privacy;
  • in a manner that is harmful to minors in any way;
  • in a manner that is hateful or discriminatory based on race, color, sex, religion, nationality, ethnic or national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or age or is otherwise objectionable;
  • to impersonate any other person, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity, or to obtain access to this Network without authorization;
  • to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of this Network or prevent others from using this Network, or in a manner that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive number of messages (flooding attack) to this Network, or that otherwise negatively affects other persons' ability to use this Network;
  • to use any manual or automated means, including agents, robots, scripts, or spiders, to access or manage any user's account or to monitor or copy this Network or the content contained therein;
  • to facilitate the unlawful distribution of copyrighted content;
  • in a manner that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's explicit consent;
  • in a manner that employs misleading email or IP addresses, or forged headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin of content transmitted through this Network or to users; and
  • in a manner that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitation if emailed to users who have requested not to be contacted about other services, products or commercial interests.

Additionally, you agree not to:

  • "Stalk" or otherwise harass anyone;
  • Collect, use or disclose data, including personal information, about other users without their consent or for unlawful purposes or in violation of applicable law or regulations;
  • Request, solicit or otherwise obtain access to usernames, passwords or other authentication credentials from any member of this Network or to proxy authentication credentials for any member of this Network for the purposes of automating logins to this Network;
  • Post any content containing child pornography to this Network;
  • Post any content that depicts or contains rape, extreme violence, murder, bestiality, incest, or other similar content;
  • Post any content that constitutes pornography, contains nudity, or is adult in nature.
  • Use automated means, including spiders, robots, crawlers, data mining tools, or the like to download data from this Network - except for Internet search engines (e.g. Google) and non-commercial public archives (e.g. archive.org) that comply with our robots.txt file, or "well-behaved" web services/RSS/Atom clients. We reserve the right to define what we mean by "well-behaved";
  • Post irrelevant content, repeatedly post the same or similar content or otherwise impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Network's infrastructure;
  • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our computer systems or engage in any activity that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes with the performance of, or impairs the functionality of, this Network;
  • Use this Network as a generic file hosting service;
  • Take any action that may undermine the feedback or ratings systems (such as displaying, importing or exporting feedback information off of this Network or for using it for purposes unrelated to this Network); and
  • Develop, invoke, or utilize any code to disrupt, diminish the quality of, interfere with the performance of, or impair the functionality of this Network.

To provide notice of alleged copyright infringement on this Network, please see the DMCA Notification Guidelines.

You agree not to authorize or encourage any third party to use this Network to facilitate any of the foregoing prohibited conduct. You also agree that these Network Terms of Service inure to the benefit of our service providers (including our Network platform provider) and that they may take action (including the removal of your content and disabling of your account) in order to maintain compliance with these Network Terms of Service. Technology and hosting for aspects of this Network are provided by this Network's online service provider. However, the Network Creator of this Network controls the content, membership and policy of this Network, including those pages served by such service provider on behalf of this Network.