Terms & Conditions

This website is managed by Ontario Health on behalf of the Ontario Palliative Care Network.

By accessing this website, you are agreeing to these Website Terms of Use. Therefore, we suggest that you review them carefully.

If you can’t access them or any link provided as part of these Terms of Use, please contact us at info@ontariohealth.ca.

Any reference to “we”, “us” or “our” in the text below refers to Ontario Health, an agency of the Ministry of Health.

Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. If you provide any personal information to us through this website, we will handle it according to what we say in our Privacy Statement.

Acceptable use of this website

We require that you follow several simple rules when accessing or using this website. You must not:

  1. use this website in violation of any law, rule or regulation
  2. interfere with or disrupt this website or any of our computer systems, servers, networks, databases, software, hardware or equipment used by or for this website
  3. interfere with the use or enjoyment of this website by others
  4. introduce code which is disruptive or harmful
  5. attempt to gain unauthorized access to our computer systems, servers, networks, databases, software, hardware or equipment, including to: user-restricted areas of this website; logins and passwords of others; or personal information and personal accounts of others

Copyright

Unless we tell you otherwise, the content on this website is protected by Canadian and other national and international copyright, trademark and other laws. You must receive our prior authorization in writing before you use or reproduce anything from this website, unless you are using the content for personal use.

Trademark

The official symbols of the Government of Ontario and Ontario Health, whether registered or unregistered, may not be reproduced, whether for commercial or non-commercial purposes, without our prior authorization which you must receive in writing from us.

Links to other websites and social media platforms

You may see links on this website to other websites and some widely-used social media platforms. We have included them because they may be of interest to you. Just to be clear, providing a link to them does not mean that we endorse or recommend them to you.

Also, since these other websites and social media platforms are controlled and maintained by other people, we cannot be sure that the link will still work when you click on it or that the service or content is useful, appropriate, virus-free or reliable. Therefore, you need to decide for yourself whether you want to follow any link or agree to receive or rely on any service or content that is made available to you.

Your privacy and third party sites

Important Privacy Information: Any information that you provide to or through a social media platform or other website is not collected or controlled by Ontario Health or the Ontario Palliative Care Network. Social media platforms or other websites are not bound by our Privacy Statement. You should review the privacy policies of any linked website or social media platform before providing any information, personal or otherwise. Others may not comply with the same privacy laws, policies and practices that we do. Please be careful.

Links from other websites and social media platforms

Unless we tell you otherwise, other websites and social media platforms that link to this website are not associated with Ontario Health or the Ontario Palliative Care Network or endorsed by us.

Disclaimer of warranty / Limitation of liability

We cannot make this website as current, informative and interactive as possible without the important legal disclaimers of warranty and liability set out below. Please do not skip this section.

Warranty disclaimer

Use of this website and its contents is at your own risk. This website and all of its content are provided "As Is". You must not rely on any content published on or linked to this website without first making your own enquiries to verify it is accurate, current and complete. We do not make, and expressly disclaim, any representations, warranties, covenants and conditions, express or implied, arising out of operation of law, course of performance, course of dealing, usage of trade or otherwise, including any express or implied warranties and conditions of: merchantability; merchantable quality; fitness for a particular purpose; non-infringement; safety; quality; freedom from defects or that defects will be corrected; uninterrupted, virus-free or error-free use of this website; or accuracy, currency, reliability, completeness or appropriateness relating to the content of this website.

Limitation of liability

Under no circumstances will Ontario Health or the Ontario Palliative Care Network and their directors, employees, agents and independent contractors have any responsibility or liability for any loss or damage whatsoever (including without limitation direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, punitive, exemplary or other damages, and including without limitation to any loss of profit, costs, expenses, harm to business, business interruption, reputation, loss of information or programs or data, loss of savings, loss of revenue, loss of goodwill, loss of tangible or intangible property, legal fees or legal costs, wasted management or office time or damages of any kind whatsoever), whether based in contract, tort, negligence or any other legal basis, arising out of or in connection with this website, any linked website or linked social media platform (including without limitation any damages suffered as a result of the use, inability to use, failure of, or any omissions or inaccuracies in, this website, any linked websites or linked social media platforms, or any of the services or content of the foregoing), even if Ontario Health or the Ontario Palliative Care Network has been specifically advised of the possibility of such damage or loss, or if such damage or loss was foreseeable.

General

Ontario Health reserves the right to supplement, remove or modify these Terms of Use at any time without notice. Please check this website regularly for any changes. If you continue to use this website following a change to these Terms of Use, you will be deemed to have accepted the changes.

If any term or condition set out here is held to be invalid, unenforceable or illegal for any reason, the remaining terms and conditions will continue in full force.

These Terms of Use are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and deemed to be entered into by you in the Province of Ontario.