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General conditions of use of the site and the proposed services

The use of the site www.rpq-qpn.ca implies full acceptance of the general conditions of use described below. These conditions of use may be modified or completed at any time. Users of the www.rpq-qpn.ca site are therefore invited to consult them regularly.

This site is normally accessible to users at all times. However, Quebec Parkinson Network may decide to interrupt the site for technical maintenance purposes. In such a case, Quebec Parkinson Network will make every effort to inform users of the dates and times of the intervention beforehand.

The website Quebec Parkinson Network – www.rpq-qpn.ca is regularly updated by Clotilde Degroot. In the same way, the legal mentions can be modified at any time: they are nevertheless binding to the user who is invited to refer to them as often as possible to read them.

Description of the services provided

The website www.rpq-qpn.ca aims to provide information concerning all the activities of the Quebec Parkinson Network.

Quebec Parkinson Network tries to provide on the website www.rpq-qpn.ca information that is as precise as possible. However, it cannot be held responsible for omissions, inaccuracies and deficiencies in the updating, whether they are of its own making or of the making of third-party partners who provide this information.

All the information indicated on the site www.rpq-qpn.ca is given as an indication and is likely to evolve. In addition, the information on the site www.rpq-qpn.ca is not exhaustive. It is subject to modifications made since it was put online.

Contractual limitations on technical data

The website cannot be held responsible for any material damage related to the use of the site. In addition, the site user undertakes to access the site using recent equipment, free of viruses and updated with the last-generation browser.

Intellectual property and counterfeiting

Quebec Parkinson Network is the owner of the intellectual property rights or holds the rights of use on all the elements accessible on the site, particularly the texts, images, graphics, logos, icons, sounds, and software.

Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication, or adaptation of all or part of the elements of the site, whatever the means or the process used, is prohibited, except prior written authorization of Quebec Parkinson Network.

Any unauthorized exploitation of the site or of one of its elements will be considered an infringement and will be prosecuted in accordance with the provisions of the Intellectual Property Code.

Limitations of resposibility

Quebec Parkinson Network cannot be held responsible for any direct or indirect damage caused to the user’s equipment when accessing the site www.rpq-qpn.ca and resulting from the use of equipment that does not meet the specifications indicated in point “Contractual limitations on technical data” or from the appearance of a bug or an incompatibility.

Quebec Parkinson Network cannot be held responsible for indirect damages resulting from using the site www.rpq-qpn.ca.
It is possible to ask questions in the contact space available to users. Quebec Parkinson Network reserves the right not to respond to any content posted in this space that would contravene the legislation applicable in Canada, particularly the provisions relating to data protection. If need be, Quebec Parkinson Network also reserves the possibility of calling into question the user’s civil and/or penal responsibility, particularly in the event of messages of a racist, insulting, defamatory or pornographic nature, whatever the medium used (text, photograph…).

Management of personal data

During the use of the website www.rpq-qpn.ca, the following information may be collected: the URL of the links through which the user has accessed the website www.rpq-qpn.ca, the user’s access provider, the user’s Internet protocol (IP) address.

In any case, Quebec Parkinson Network only collects personal information about the user for certain services offered by the www.rpq-qpn.ca website. The user provides this information with full knowledge of the facts, mainly when they proceed to enter it. It is then specified to the user of the site www.rpq-qpn.ca the obligation or not to provide this information.

By the legal provisions, any user has the right to access, rectify and oppose any personal data concerning them by making a written and signed request, accompanied by a copy of the identity document with the signature of the holder of the document, specifying the address to which the reply should be sent.

No personal information of the user of the site www.rpq-qpn.ca is published without the user’s knowledge, exchanged, transferred, ceded or sold on any medium to third parties. Only the hypothesis of the repurchase of Quebec Parkinson Network and its rights would allow the transmission of the information above to the eventual purchaser, who would be, in turn, held to the same obligation of conservation and modification of the data with respect to the user of the site www.rpq-qpn.ca.

Hypertext links and cookies

The website www.rpq-qpn.ca contains a certain number of hypertext links to other websites, set up with the authorization of Quebec Parkinson Network. However, Quebec Parkinson Network cannot verify the content of the sites thus visited and consequently will not assume any responsibility for this fact.

Browsing the site www.rpq-qpn.ca may cause the installation of cookie(s) on the user’s computer. A cookie is a small file, which does not allow the identification of the user, but which records information relating to the navigation of a computer on a site. The data thus obtained are intended to facilitate subsequent navigation on the site and are also intended to allow various measures of frequentation.
Refusing to install a cookie may make it impossible to access certain services. However, the user can configure his computer in the following way to refuse the installation of cookies:

  • Under Firefox: at the top of the browser window, click on the Firefox button, then go to the Options tab. Click on the Privacy tab. Set the Retention Rules: use the custom settings for history. Finally, uncheck it to disable cookies.
  • In Safari: Click on the menu icon (symbolized by a cog) in the top right corner of the browser. Select Settings. Click on Show advanced settings. In the “Privacy” section, click on Content Settings. In the “Cookies” section, you can block cookies.
  • In Chrome: Click on the menu icon (symbolized by three horizontal lines) at the top right of the browser. Select Settings. Click on Show advanced settings. In the “Privacy” section, click on preferences. In the “Privacy” tab, you can block cookies.

Applicable law and jurisdiction

Any dispute concerning using the site www.rpq-qpn.ca is subject to Canadian law. It is made exclusive attribution of jurisdiction to the competent courts of Quebec.