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PRIVACY POLICY

Please read below for important information regarding our Privacy Policy and how we work with your information.

1.   Acceptance. This Agreement (the "Agreement") governs your access and use of Powder Patrol Inc.  its services, online facilities, promotions and all other elements considered to be the property of Powder Patrol Inc. (the “Company”), effectively the "Service".  In consideration for your right to access and use the Service, you are bound by and agree to the terms as follows:

2.   The Powder Patrol Policy. The Powder Patrol Membership Card Program may collect information on your browsing habits while visiting the portal.  This information is used to track which features are constantly used, problems than can occur and as a means to develop, enhance, promote and launch new products and services to meet your needs.  This information is used strictly for internal use and is never sold or traded to any outside parties.

3.   Privacy and Cookies. For all questions relating to how information is collected and stored by Powder Patrol Inc., please refer to our Privacy Policy.  This website uses two types of “cookies”.  The first, a “session-cookie” resides in your computers memory for as long as your browser window remains open.  This allows for your account information to be continually accessed by the system to save you from constantly re-entering information.  Once you end your session with Powder Patrol, through closing of your browser window, the cookie is automatically deleted.  A cookie will also be set on your system to remember preferences for your next visit to Powder Patrol.  This cookie may contain simple information such as your language of preference and quick login information.  In order for you to properly use your Powder Patrol account, you must enable the session cookies setting within your browsers’ options panel.

4.   Registration, Personal Username and Password.  Use of the Powder Patrol Portal, Membership Card Program or other products and services deemed to be the property of Patrol Patrol Inc. may require personal registration.  As a member of Powder Patrol, you agree to provide and keep accurate account information.  Furthermore, you also agree to keep confidential, the account information you provide specifically in regards to i) Membership Card Number; ii) Username; iii) Password.  You also agree to notify representatives of Powder Patrol Inc. should you suspect any fraudulent or unauthorized use of your membership card.  The Company shall not accept any responsibility or be held liable in any way for damages, loss or suffering resulting from negligence to this or any other section of the Company Terms.

5.   Rules and Conduct. You agree to use Powder Patrol’s products and services in a manner deemed acceptable, courteous and respectful of Powder Patrol, it’s affiliates, representatives, business Clients and roster of cardholders.  You agree not to use the Company products and services to:

a.   Post, transmit, link to, or otherwise distribute any information constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offense or give rise to civil liability, or otherwise use the products and services in a manner which is contrary to law in your own country or country’s where Powder Patrol carries out its services;
b.   Defame; abuse, stalk, harass or threaten any other person or violate the legal rights of any other person, including rights relating to privacy and publicity;
c.   Post, transmit, link to, or otherwise distribute any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful material or information;
d.   Post, transmit, link to, or otherwise distribute any information or software which contains a virus, cancelbot, Trojan horse, work or other harmful or disruptive component;
e.   Upload, post, publish, transmit, reproduce, link to or otherwise distribute in any way, information, software or other material obtained through the products or services of the Company, or any derivative work thereof, which is protected by copyright, or any other intellectual property right, without first obtaining permission of the copyright owner or rightholder;
f.    Impersonate or falsely represent your association with any person; and;
g.   Use, reproduce, sell, resell or otherwise exploit the products or services of the Company for any commercial purposes.

6.   Responsibility for Minors. You are fully responsible for:

a.   The online conduct of an authorized minor;
b.   Controlling the authorized minor’s access to and use of the portal and any such Services and Products; and
c.   The consequences of any misuse of the portal and any such Services and Products by the authorized minor.

7.   Monitoring.  You agree that Powder Patrol Inc. has the right to monitor the Portal or any content, products or services (collectively, “Content”), from time to time and to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or other governmental request, to operate the Portal or any of the Services properly, or to protect itself or its users in accordance with the Powder Patrol Privacy Policy.  Powder Patrol Inc. reserves the right to refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, that, in its sole discretion, are unacceptable, undesirable, or in violation of the Terms and Conditions.  By using the portal or the Services, you may have access to Content that may be offensive or objectionable to you.  Under no circumstances shall Powder Patrol Inc. be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for loss or damage of any kind as a result of any use of, or access to, any such Content.

8.   Dealings with Third Parties.  Your correspondence or business dealings with any third parties, including any Sponsors, Suppliers, merchants or advertisers, found on, or through the Portal or any of the Services, are solely between you and such third parties.  Powder Patrol Inc. is not responsible for any charges you or any user of your account incurs when conducting business in this manner.  Further, you accept responsibility for ensuring compliance with all applicable laws in connection with any such transactions.  You agree that Powder Patrol Inc. shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, in any way for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of, or in connection with, any of such dealings or transactions.

9.   Third Party Content.  The Portal search option offers access to numerous third party content and websites over the Internet.  Powder Patrol Inc. generally exercises no control over such third party content, web pages, or sites.  It is your responsibility to review and evaluate any such content, and that any and all risk associated with the use of, or reliance on, such content rests with you.  You agree that Powder Patrol Inc. shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, in any way for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of, or in connection with, any of such dealings or transactions.

10.  Search Content.  Any and all pictures, sounds, sound effects, sound recordings, musical works, performances, graphics, video, cinematic productions, audio-visual works and any other works (the “Multimedia Content”) located through any search services are protected by copyright and/or other intellectual property laws.  Powder Patrol Inc. does not authorize you to reproduce, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, communicate or create derivative works from any files containing such Multimedia Content.  Where search results link to sites outside of the Portal, all of the Multimedia Content contained on such sites is owned and server by entities other than Powder Patrol Inc.

11.  Professional Information.  Certain information provided by third parties related to various professional fields such as, without limitation, medicine, law, account and financial investments (the “Professional Information”) is provided for educational and entertainment purposes only and should not be interpreted as a recommendation for a specific treatment plan, product or course of action.  You agree that all risk associated with the use of, or reliance on, any of the Professional Information rests with you.  You agree that Powder Patrol Inc. shall not be responsible or liable directly or indirectly, in any way for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of, or in connection with, any of such dealings or transactions.

12.  User Content.  In respect of any and all content which you elect to post on the Portal which is accessible by the general public, you grant Powder Patrol Inc. a world-wide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual and unrestricted license to use, copy, adapt, transmit, publicly display and perform, limited purposes of publishing such content and promoting the Powder Patrol services and products.  Such license shall apply with respect to any form, media, or technology now known or later developed.  With respect to any and all content you elect to post or transmit using the Services, you agree that Powder Patrol Inc. may preserve and disclose any content associated with your Membership Card account where required to do so by law or where such preservation or disclosure is reasonable believed by Powder Patrol Inc. to be necessary to ensure compliance with the law, enforce the Terms and Conditions or protect the rights and interests of Powder Patrol Inc. or any other group or person.

13.  Service Modifications and Termination of Service.  You acknowledge and agree that Powder Patrol Inc. may at any time modify or discontinue the Portal or any of the Services with or without notice to you, and that Powder Patrol Inc. will not be held responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, to you or any other person in any way for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of, or in connection with, any such modifications or discontinuance.

14.  Limitations, Conditions and Rules Regarding Service.  You agree that Powder Patrol Inc. may establish, in its sole discretion, any limitations, conditions or rules concerning use of the Service, including, but not limited to, the number of participating resorts, airline agencies, car rental agencies and other business Clients. You acknowledge that Powder Patrol Inc. has the right to change these general practices and limits at any time, in its sole discretion, with or without notice.

15.  Termination.  You acknowledge and agree that Powder Patrol Inc., at its sole and absolute discretion, may, without notice to you, suspend or terminate your use of, or access to, the Portal or any of the Services, and remove and discard any information or content that you posted to or transmitted using the Portal or related to such Service.  You further agree that Powder Patrol Inc. shall not be liable to you or to any other person as a result of any such suspension or termination.  If you are dissatisfied with the Portal, or of the Services or with any terms, conditions, rules, policies, guidelines, or practices of Powder Patrol Inc. in operating the Portal and the Services, your sole and exclusive remedy is to discontinue using the Portal and the Services.

16.  Disclaimer of Warranties.  YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:  THE PORTAL AND THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS AND THAT Powder Patrol INC. MAKES NO WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS OR CONDITIONS (as used in this section “WARRANTIES”) OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT AND THAT ANY SUCH WARRANTIES ARE HEREBY EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMED; AND

a.   Powder Patrol INC. SPECIFICALLY MAKES NO WARRANTIES THAT THE PORTAL OR ANY OF THE SERVICES, INCLUDING ANY CONTENT, INFORMATION, PRODUCTS OR SERVICES OBTAINED FROM OR THROUGH THE USE OF THE PORTAL OR THE SERVICES, WILL BE PROVIDED ON AN UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE BASIS OR THAT SUCH SERVICES OR THE RESULTS DERIVED THEREFROM WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS OR EXPECTATIONS.

17.  Limitation of Liability.  YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT IN NO EVENT SHALL Powder Patrol INC., INCLUDING ITS AFFILIATES, BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, AND ANY DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, SAVINGS, GOODWILL OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER Powder Patrol INC. HAD BEEN ADVISED OF OR COULD HAVE FORESEEN THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH: (a) THE USE, INABILITY TO USE OR PERFORMANCE OF ANY OF THE SERVICES OR THE PORTAL, OR (b) ANY UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR MODIFICATION TO ANY OF YOUR CONTENT OR TRANSMISSIONS, OR (c) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE PORTAL OR ANY OF THE SERVICES, REGARDLESS OR WHETHER ANY OF THE FOREGOING IS DETERMINED TO CONSTITUTE A FUNDAMENTAL BREACH OR FAILURE OF ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

18.  Indemnity.  You agree to defend, indemnify and hold Powder Patrol Inc., its affiliates, Sponsors, Suppliers and other partners, directors, officers, employees and agents harmless from any and all liabilities, claims, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, related to or in connection with your, or any user of your account:

a.   Violation of the Terms and Conditions;
b.   Use of the Portal or any of the Services;
c.   Placement, posting or transmission of any message, information, software or other content on the Portal or through any of the Services.

19.  Official Language.  You recognize and accept that English is the official language of Powder Patrol, its product and services and any subsidiary of Powder Patrol Inc.  You further recognize that any attempt to translate the content of some or all of the services and products by Powder Patrol is purely for intended convenience to our business clients and public cardholder roster.  Powder Patrol Inc. makes no claims and shall not be held responsible for the accuracy and correctness of the translation.  Should a dispute arise, all parties agree and accept that all content to be used as reference will be the originally published English translation of such content.

20.  Intellectual Property.  Except as expressly provided, nothing herein or within the Portal or any of the Services shall be construed as conferring any license under any of the intellectual property rights of Powder Patrol Inc. or any third party, whether by implication, waiver, estoppel, or otherwise.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you acknowledge and agree that certain content available through and used to operate the Portal and Services is protected by copyright, trademark, patent, or other proprietary rights of adapt, translate, modify, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any software, applications or programs used in connection with the Portal or the services.

21.  Trademarks.  Powder Patrol (word mark), e-Discounts™, e-LiftTix™, the Powder Patrol logo and “All Things Alpine” and any other related trademarks of Powder Patrol Inc. are the sole property of Powder Patrol Inc. and may not be reproduced in any way unless prior written authorization has been grated by licensed Powder Patrol representatives.  All other product, brand, company names, trademarks, logos or other intellectual property used or displayed on the portal or through other products or services are the intellectual property of their respective owners. 

22.   Ownership of Content.  Powder Patrol is a Canadian company residing in Canada.  Powder Patrol Inc. makes no claim or validation as to the content controlled by our business clients that is available through the Powder Patrol portal.  Powder Patrol, it’s name, logo and other trademarks are all the sole property of Powder Patrol Inc.  Reproduction of these properties is strictly prohibited unless proper written authorization has been received by licensed Powder Patrol representatives.  You agree not to modify, alter, or deface any of the Content available through the portal.

23.  General.  Powder Patrol, its products and services, originate in Canada.  The Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement between Powder Patrol Inc. and you pertaining to your use of said products and services.  This agreement supercedes any and all prior agreements between you and Powder Patrol Inc.  Failure of Powder Patrol Inc. to insist upon or enforce strict performance of any right or provision of the Terms and Conditions are determined to be void, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, such determination shall not affect the remaining provisions (or parts thereof) contained herein.  The Terms and Conditions shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein.  The parties have required that the Terms and Conditions and all documents relating thereto be drawn up in English.  Les parties ont demande que cette convention ainsi que tous les documents que s’y rattachent soient rediges en anglais.

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