• ARC Institute

    Terms of Use


    This website is offered to you conditionally upon your acceptance of the terms and conditions set out below, as well as any amendments or additional terms, policies or procedures published on this website from time to time by Artists Raising Consciousness, Inc. ("ARC"). You should check these terms and conditions from time to time to keep informed of any such amendments or additions. By accessing and using this website, you are deemed to have agreed to these terms and conditions. ARC shall have the right at any time to change or discontinue any aspect or feature of this website, including, but not limited to, content, hours of availability, and equipment needed for access or use.

    1. Copyright © 2010 Artists Raising Consciousness, Inc. All rights reserved.

      ARC either owns the intellectual property rights in the underlying HTML, text, audio clips, video clips and other content on our website (including the organization and layout of this site), or has obtained the permission of the owner of the intellectual property in such content to use the content on our website. No reproduction, distribution, or transmission of the copyrighted materials at this site is permitted without the prior written permission of ARC.
    2. Limited Licence

      ARC grants to you a strictly limited licence to display on your computer, print, download and use a single copy of the underlying HTML, text, audio clips, video clips and other content on our website, for non-commercial (personal or educational) purposes only, provided that:
      • you do not modify any such content; and
      • you include with and display on each copy of such content the associated copyright notice and this limited license.

        No other use is permitted. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, you may not:
      • make any commercial use of such content;
      • include such content in or with any product that you create or distribute;
      • copy such content onto your or any other person's website; or
      • distribute it to anyone whatsoever.

      Notwithstanding the above, nothing contained in this licence shall be construed as conferring any right under any copyright of ARC or any other person who owns the copyright in content provided on our website.
    3. Trade-Marks

      ARC are trade-marks of Artists Raising Consciousness, Inc.. This website contains various other ARC trade-marks. The names of all products and services mentioned on our website are the trade-marks of their respective owners. The display of trade-marks or trade-names on this website does not convey or create any licence or other rights in these marks or names. Any unauthorized use of them is strictly prohibited.
    4. Liability Disclaimer

      You use this website and any content you choose to download at your own risk. If your use of this website or the materials therein results in any loss or damage to data or in the need for servicing or replacing property, material or equipment, or any other damage whatsoever, ARC is not responsible for those costs. ARC DOES NOT WARRANT THE QUALITY, ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF ANY CLAIMS, STATEMENTS OR INFORMATION ON OUR WEBSITE. FURTHER, ARC MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF ANY OF THE INFORMATION OR PRODUCT CONTAINED OR OFFERED ON THIS WEBSITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. ALL INFORMATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND. THIS WEBSITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. IN NO EVENT SHALL ARC BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, WHETHER DIRECT OR INDIRECT DAMAGES, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THIS WEBSITE, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES OBTAINED THROUGH THIS WEBSITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF THERE IS A FUNDAMENTAL BREACH OR IF ARC HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES
    5. Links to Third Party Sites

      This website contains hyperlinks to websites operated by parties other than ARC. Such hyperlinks are provided for your reference only. ARC does not control such websites and is not responsible for their content. No endorsement of any third-party products or services is expressed or implied by any information, material or content referred to or included on, or linked from or to this website. Your access and use of such sites, including information, material, products and services therein, are solely at your own risk. Furthermore, our privacy policy statement is applicable only when you are on our website. Once linked to another website, you should read that site's privacy policy before disclosing any personal information.
    6. Submissions

      ARC welcomes your comments regarding this website. Unfortunately, ARC will not accept or consider creative ideas, suggestions or materials other than those it has specifically requested. Accordingly, we ask that you do not send us any such materials. If, despite this request, you do send us creative materials or other information, you agree not to assert any ownership right or legal right to or control over your submission (including, but not limited to, copyright, trade mark, moral rights, or implied contractual rights) and you waive the right to receive any financial or other consideration in connection with such unsolicited submission including, but not limited to, an acknowledgment or credit.
    7. Use of Bulletin Board, Chat Site, etc.

      You agree to use any bulletin board or other forum for communication solely to send and receive messages and material that are related to the particular forum. You acknowledge that chats, postings, conferences, and other communications by you or any other person are not endorsed by ARC, and such communications should not be considered to have been reviewed, screened, or approved by ARC. If you rely on information posted by other users, you do so solely at your own risk. You agree that upon posting material on the ARC website, you grant ARC and its successors and assigns a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual right and licence under your copyright to use, adapt, publish, distribute, translate, reproduce and create works derived from or based upon such material in any and all media, without any duty to account to you. In addition, you irrevocably waive all of your moral rights as author in respect of such information, however arising. You shall use this website for lawful purposes only. You shall not use this website to do any of the following:
      • post, store, transmit, download or distribute any threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, obscene, or legally objectionable materials of any kind, including anything constituting or encouraging a criminal offense, giving rise to civil liability, or otherwise violating any laws;
      • post any non-public information about companies without the proper authorization to do so;
      • provide false information on your registration, or impersonate someone else;
      • post, transmit or otherwise distribute any materials that contain a virus, trojan horse, worm, or other harmful or disruptive component; or
      • upload, post, transmit or otherwise distribute or reproduce any information, software or other material protected by copyright, or other intellectual property right, without the permission of the copyright owner or the holder of the right.
      • ARC reserves the right for any reason to remove without notice any content of this website received from you, including without limitation bulletin board postings. ARC reserves the right to deny, in its sole discretion, any person access to this website or any portion thereof without notice. ARC reserves the right to edit any notices of postings for clarity and length.
      • Due to the sensitive subject matter of certain episodes in The Tragedy series, and the healing of the families involved, please keep all comments thoughtful and respectful in that thread. Any comments perceived as offensive or insensitive to the families involved, will be erased. Thank you for your words and insights. Discussions or opinions of an alternate nature of that described above, can be voiced and are encouraged on other, more appropriate sections of this site.
    8. Indemnification

      You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless ARC, its affiliates and partners, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against all claims and expenses, including lawyers' fees, arising out of your use of this website.
    9. Monitoring

      ARC shall have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor the content of this website, including chat rooms and forums, to determine compliance with these terms of use and any operating rules established by ARC and to satisfy any law, regulation or authorized government request. ARC shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to edit, refuse to post or remove any material submitted to or posted on this website. Without limiting the foregoing, ARC shall have the right to remove any material that it, in its sole discretion, finds to be in violation of the provisions hereof or otherwise objectionable.
    10. Termination

      Without limiting the foregoing, ARC shall have the right to immediately terminate your access to this website in the event of any conduct by you which ARC, in its sole discretion, considers to be unacceptable, or in the event of any breach by you of any of these Terms of Use.
    11. Governing Law

      This site is created and controlled by ARC in the Province of Ontario, Canada. As such, the laws of the Province of Ontario, and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein, shall govern these disclaimers, terms and conditions, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law. ARC reserves the right to make changes to its site and these disclaimers, terms and conditions at any time.

    The parties have required that this agreement and all documents related here to be prepared in English. Les parties ont demandé que cette convention ainsi que tous les documents qui s'y rattachent soient rédigés en anglais.