Terms of Use and Privacy

Privacy Statement

We collect general information on visits to our pages, as most sites do. This information is used only for statistical purposes. None of this information is linked back to you as an individual. In particular, for the Vote portion of our site, we recognize that your email address, name, and all other information you provide is strictly confidential. We will collect personally identifiable information only to the extent deemed reasonably necessary to appropriately serve our legitimate business purposes. The Grange Prize will take all reasonable precautions to ensure that all of your personal information remains confidential.  Your email address and other personal information will not be shared with or sold to any outside group.  If you have any questions or concerns, please contact The Grange Prize at infograngeprize@ago.net.

Terms of Use

Your use of this Website constitutes your acceptance of the following conditions.  By using this website, you agree to indemnify The Grange Prize, its officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, distributors, and affiliates for any and all claims, damages, losses, and causes of action. The materials on this site are transmitted and distributed to the best and most comprehensive of our ability and without express or implied warranties of any kind, including, but not limited to, warranties of title, implied warranties of merchantability, or fitness for a particular purpose. The Grange Prize makes no warranty as to the quality, accuracy, completeness, and validity of any material on this Website and does not warrant that the functions contained on the Website will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that defects will be corrected. Where applicable law does not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, the foregoing exclusions may not apply to you.

Copyright and Trademarks

This Website and all content provided on this Website is protected by copyright, trademark, and other applicable intellectual property and proprietary rights laws, and is owned, controlled, and/or licensed by The Grange Prize and/or its Partners and/or the Artists. Nothing contained on this Website grants, by implication, estoppels, or otherwise, any licence or right to use any trademarks, logos, or other names, including, but not limited to, those identifying The Grange Prize and/or its Partners and related companies or their respective products and services displayed on this site, without the expressed written consent of The Grange Prize or such third party that may own such trademarks, logos, and photos displayed on this site. Without the expressed written consent of The Grange Prize, no information or material from the Website may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way whatsoever except that you may download one copy of the materials onto any single computer, for your personal, non-commercial home use only, provided you keep intact all copyright and proprietary notices. You agree that you do not acquire any rights in any downloaded content. You agree to abide by all copyright notices, information, and restrictions contained in any content on this Website and any content accessed through this Website.

® Aeroplan is a registered trademark of Aeroplan Canada Inc.

Voting Conditions

Voters are permitted one vote per the voting period, which will take place between September 22, 2010 and October 31, 2010. Dates are subject to change at The Grange Prize (Aeroplan/AGO) organizers' discretion without notice.  Any change will be posted on www.thegrangeprize.com. All voting will be subject to verification and certification by an independent third party auditor.  No automatic, programmed, robotic, or similar means of voting is permitted.  Participants who do not comply with these Terms and Conditions, or who attempt to interfere with the voting process or the operation of the Website in any way, will be disqualified and their votes will not be counted. The Grange Prize organizers (Aeroplan/AGO) reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, modify, or suspend voting should any virus, bug, non-authorized human intervention, fraud, or other causes beyond their control corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, or proper conduct of the voting process. All decisions regarding the voting process shall be final and shall not be subject to challenge or appeal.

The Grange Prize organizers (Aeroplan/AGO) and media sponsor affiliates are not responsible for technical, hardware, software, telephone or other communications malfunctions, errors, or failures of any kind, lost or unavailable network connections, Website, Internet, or ISP availability, unauthorized human intervention, traffic congestion, incomplete or inaccurate capture of voting information (regardless of cause), or failed, incomplete, garbled, jumbled, or delayed computer transmissions, which may limit one's ability to vote, including any injury or damage to participant's or any other person's computer relating to or resulting from participating in the voting or downloading of any materials. The Grange Prize organizers (Aeroplan/AGO) are not responsible for lost, late, illegible, incomplete, invalid, unintelligible, technically corrupted, or misdirected votes, which will be disqualified. The Grange Prize organizers (Aeroplan/AGO) shall use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security and accuracy of all votes and the voting process (provided, however, that you acknowledge and agree that such methodologies are not infallible, and that The Grange Prize organizers (Aeroplan/AGO) make no guarantee as to their effectiveness). No purchase or payment of any kind if necessary to vote. Start dates and end dates for the voting process, while scheduled, are subject to change at The Grange Prize organizers' discretion. All decisions regarding the voting process shall be final and shall not be subject to challenge or appeal.  All voting data will be confidential.

Editing and Deletions

The Grange Prize organizers (Aeroplan/AGO) reserve the right, but undertake no duty, to review, edit, move, or delete any material provided for the advocate/artist blog placed on the Website with sole discretion and without notice.

Copyright Notice

The content contained on www.thegrangeprize.com is provided only for the purposes of browsing, viewing, listening, research, interpretation, and discussion, where such activities are limited to non-commercial, educational, and personal use only ("Permitted Uses"). The migration of content - which includes but is not limited to downloading, printing and/or the re-presentation of content in some other way - is limited to Permitted Uses only. All other uses of this content, other than the ones provided for in the Copyright Notice, are expressly forbidden and prohibited.

Links to the website

The Grange Prize organizers encourage other websites to link to The Grange Prize home page as a normal link. However, content from The Grange Prize may not be used within a frame, or by means of an in-line link.

Links to external sites

Links to third-party websites outside The Grange Prize website are provided to users as a convenience, and their inclusion in no way implies an endorsement or acceptance of the content or use of these external sites. The Gallery shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss, caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or the reliance upon any information, content, goods, or services available on or through any third-party websites or linked resources.

General

The Grange Prize organizers and webmaster may revise these Terms at any time by updating this posting.  You should visit this page from time to time to review the current Terms because they are binding.

 

Media Partner:

The Globe and Mail

Government Partner:

Canada Council for the Arts