CAPTURE Terms of Use Agreement

Effective Date: September, 2011

Welcome to www.thecaptureplatform.ca website (the “Site”). The Site is comprised of web pages containing information, resources, and services, provided by Simon Fraser University’s Capture Project (the “SFU Capture Project”).

Please read these terms and conditions of use (the “Terms”) carefully before using the Site and any services provided by the SFU Capture Project through the Site (the “Services”).

By using the Site, including by accessing, browsing, or subscribing to the Site, you agree, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by the Terms. If, at any time, the Terms are no longer acceptable to you, you must immediately cease your use of the Site.

The SFU Capture Project reserves the right to change, modify, or remove portions of the Site and the Terms at any time, and you agree to be bound by such changes, modifications, additions, or deletions. In the event of a conflict or inconsistency between the terms or conditions of any other agreement you may have with the SFU Capture Project for any other products or services, the other terms and conditions between you and the SFU Capture Project shall govern and take priority over the Terms.

  1. Additional terms

    Additional terms may be presented to you on the Site. You agree to comply with any additional terms, including any terms that require you to expressly accept them (whether through a click-through or otherwise), and then these terms are incorporated in the Terms by reference.

  2. User Profiles

    • You may register with your email address and password to create a user profile. When you register, you may, at your option provide the SFU Capture Project with information, including your name, contact information, and profile image. You represent and warrant that such information is current, complete, and accurate. You will not permit any other person to use your password, and you will not divulge, share, or compromise your password.
    • You bear responsibility for maintaining the confidentiality of your password, and you acknowledge and agree that if your e-mail address and password is used for logging into the Site, the SFU Capture Project will attribute that use to you and you will be legally bound and responsible for any activities performed under your user account. You will notify the SFU Capture Project immediately of any unauthorized use of your user account or any other breach of security.
    • You acknowledge and agree that you consent to the SFU Capture Project’s use and disclosure of your user profile and all personal information made available by your selections.

  3. Intellectual Property

    The Content (as defined below) is protected by copyright and other intellectual property laws, and is owned or licensed by the SFU Capture Project or the party credited as the provider of the Content (a “Contributor”). CAPTURE, the CAPTURE logo, and all other distinguishing words or logos relating to the SFU Capture Project and used on the Site are trade-marks of the SFU Capture Project, and you may not use such marks or any marks confusingly similar in any manner whatsoever, except with the express prior written consent of the SFU Capture Project. All other trade-marks, official marks, trade names and/or other marks referred to on the Site are the property of their respective owners.

  4. Use of the Site

    The Site, including all web pages, content, sounds, software, images, site design, text, graphics, the arrangement of such materials, and other data or information contained on the Site (the “Content”) is provided for informational purposes and non-commercial use only. You may view and print out certain Content from the Site for personal, informational, and non-commercial use but may not otherwise copy, reproduce, modify, collect, republish, process, or catalogue any of the Content, without the SFU Capture Project’s or, as applicable, the Contributor’s consent.

  5. Prohibited Use of the Site

    • Except as expressly permitted under the Terms, you agree that you may not use the Site to engage in any unlawful activity or to infringe the rights of any party. You further agree that you will and you will not allow your employees or agents to:

      • modify, republish, upload, post transmit, sell or distribute in any way the Content, without the prior written permission of the SFU Capture Project or the applicable Contributor;
      • translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble the Content;
      • remove any proprietary notices or labels on the Content;
      • violate, plagiarize or infringe on the rights of any third party, including trade-secrets, copyright, trade-mark, privacy or publicity, contract or other personal or proprietary rights;
      • compromise, alter, render, or interfere with the operation of the Site, in any way or interfere with anyone’s use of the Site or use the Site to gain unauthorized access to other computer systems;
      • transmit any unlawful, harassing, libellous, defamatory, abusive, threatening, or harmful material of any kind or nature or transmit any material that encourages conduct that could constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any applicable local, provincial, state, national or international law or regulation;
      • impersonate any person or entity on or through the Site;
      • upload, post, or otherwise make available content that may be considered threatening, abusive, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable;
      • copy, reproduce, modify, sell, lease, scrape content from or aggregate, sublicense, market, or otherwise change or commercially exploit in any way the Site other than as may be expressly permitted in writing by the SFU Capture Project or a Contributor or as permitted pursuant to any fair use, fair dealing, or similar provisions of applicable laws;
      • harvest or collect email address or contact information of users other than for the purpose of knowledge sharing and networking on the Site;
      • post or otherwise make available any unauthorized form of solicitation; or
      • otherwise violate the Terms or any applicable local, state, provincial, federal, or international law, order, or regulation.

    • Any unauthorized use of any Content may subject you to civil liability and criminal prosecution under applicable laws. You agree that any copy of the Site or the Content which you are permitted to make under the Terms shall retain all copyright and other proprietary notices in the same form and manner as on the original. These prohibitions do not require the SFU Capture Project to monitor, police or remove any Submissions (as defined below) or other information submitted by you or any other user.

  6. User Submissions

    • The SFU Capture Project provides services on the Site which enable you to communicate with or otherwise share information, including, without limitation, comments, messages, photos, videos, reports, documents (such as summaries of completed and in-progress interventions, and evaluation reports), and other content or materials, with others through the submission, uploading, posting, or otherwise making available of such information on or to the Site (each a “Submission”).
    • Without limiting the generality of Section 5, you will not submit, publish, display, disseminate or otherwise communicate any libellous, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, threatening, offensive or illegal material in any Submission. Inclusion or transmission of such material or any material that violates any federal, provincial, or local law or regulations in Canada or the laws of any other jurisdiction where the Site may be accessed from as part of any Submission, shall constitute a material breach of the Terms, entitling the SFU Capture Project to terminate your rights to access or otherwise use the Site.
    • You, and not the SFU Capture Project, have full responsibility for each such Submission you make, including its legality, reliability, appropriateness, and trade-mark, copyright and other intellectual property ownership. YOU ARE THE DATA STEWARD WITH RESPECT TO ANY DATA CONTAINED IN YOUR SUBMISSION. The SFU Capture Project does not and cannot review every Submission and is not responsible for, nor does it endorse, any content of the Submissions. You remain solely responsible for the content of your Submissions.
    • By providing Submissions to any part of the Site, including, without limitation, message boards, document repositories, messaging system, and discussion forums, you grant to the SFU Capture Project and sublicensees a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, worldwide, non-exclusive right to access, view, copy, use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, backup, distribute, store, communicate to the public, process, perform and display the Submission (in whole or in part) in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed for the SFU Capture Project’s administration and operation of the Site and the provision of the Services for the full term of any rights that may exist in such Submission.
    • Subject to the license rights you granted to the SFU Capture Project and any sublicensees under the Terms, you retain ownership of any copyrights or other intellectual property rights in your Submissions, and the SFU Capture Project does not claim any ownership rights in your Submissions.
    • You represent and warrant that:
      • you own or have secured all necessary licenses, rights, consents and permissions to use, and to authorize the SFU Capture Project to use, any trade-marks, copyrighted material or other intellectual property and/or proprietary material contained in your Submission;
      • you have the written consent, release and/or permission of every identifiable individual person appearing or referenced in your Submission to use his/her name, likeness, or any other personally identifiable information, or if you do not have such consent, you have anonymized or de-identified all information in your Submission such that the content of the Submission cannot be analyzed, reverse engineered, or otherwise used to identify a specific individual;
      • you have complied with all regulations, statutes, laws, orders, and code of ethics, to which you are bound, including, without limitation, any privacy or data protection legislation, in your creation, development, collection, use, or disclosure of any content in any Submission;
      • your Submission does not and will not infringe or otherwise violate the rights of any party in copyright, trademark or other intellectual property right recognized in any jurisdiction; and
    • the holder of any rights in such Submission, including any moral rights, has completely and effectively waived all such rights and validly and irrevocably granted to you the right to grant the license stated in Section 6(d) above.
    • You agree to pay for all royalties, fees, damages and any other monies owing to any person by reason of any Submissions posted by you to or on the Sites.
    • Unless otherwise explicitly stated herein or in the Privacy Policy, you agree that any Submission provided by you to the Site is provided on a non-proprietary and non-confidential basis.
    • The SFU Capture Project takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any Submissions posted or uploaded by you or any third party, or for any mistakes, defamation, slander, libel, omissions, falsehoods, obscenity, pornography or profanity you may encounter. As a provider of interactive services on the Site, the SFU Capture Project only provides an information repository and networking platform and is not liable for any statements, representations, or Submissions provided by any of its users.
    • You acknowledge and agree that the SFU Capture Project may remove any Content from the Site at any time for any reason whatsoever, including, without limitation, due to the presence of any personal information that may be used to identify any specific individual in any Content.

  7. Disclaimers

    • Accuracy of the Content. All Content is provided on an "as is", "as available", and “with all faults” basis for informational purposes only and is subject to change without notice. While the Site is regularly updated, the Content may be inaccurate, out-of-date, or otherwise incorrect.
    • Specific Disclaimer. Any Submissions, including, without limitation, any information relating to medical conditions and the treatment or prevention of such conditions, are the views of the Contributors and are not the views of the SFU Capture Project. The SFU Capture Project does not endorse or recommend any Submission, and the Content is not intended to substitute for your own judgment.
    • Liability Disclaimer.
      • THE SFU CAPTURE PROJECT PROVIDES THE SITE, THE CONTENT, AND THE SERVICES ON AN “AS IS”, “AS AVAILABLE”, AND “WITH ALL FAULTS” BASIS. TO THE MAXIMUM AS PERMITTED BY LAW,
      • THE SFU CAPTURE PROJECT DISCLAIMS ALL REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, AND CONDITIONS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH REGARD TO THE CONTENT AS PROVIDED ON THE SITE INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES REGARDING CURRENCY, FREEDOM FROM ERRORS, TITLE, OMISSIONS, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, MERCHANTABILITY, MERCHANTABLE QUALITY, RELIABILITY, TRUTHFULNESS, NON-INFRINGEMENT, EFFECTIVENESS OF TREATMENT PROTOCOLS OR PROGRAMS, AND TIMELINESS OF ANY PRODUCT OR SERVICE.
      • THE SFU CAPTURE PROJECT DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE, ITS SERVERS, THE CONTENT, AND ANY COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE SITE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES, MALICIOUS CODE, UNAUTHORIZED PROGRAMS OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SITE AND ANY CONTENT CONTAINED THEREIN IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.

  8. Limitation of Liability

    • YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT THE SFU CAPTURE PROJECT, ITS SPONSORS, FUND PROVIDERS, AFFILIATES, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, REPRESENTATIVES, LICENSORS AND LICENSEES SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIMS WHATSOEVER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF USE, DATA, PROFITS, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, RELATED TO, OR ARISING FROM, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY:

      • YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE OR THE SERVICES;
      • YOUR USE OF OR RELIANCE ON THE CONTENT CONTAINED IN OR THROUGH THE SITE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, COMPLETENESS, CORRECTNESS, OR TIMELINESS OF ANY CONTENT; OR
      • ANY OTHER MATTER RELATED TO THE SITE.
    • YOU AGREE THAT THE SFU CAPTURE PROJECT, ITS SPONSORS, FUND PROVIDERS, AFFILIATES, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, REPRESENTATIVES, LICENSORS AND LICENSEES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES WHATSOEVER AND HOWSOEVER CAUSED, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR MISUSE OF THE SITE OR THE SERVICES OR IN RELIANCE OF THE CONTENT AVAILABLE ON THE SITE, INCLUDING ANY BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, UNAVAILABILITY OR NON-PERFORMANCE OF THE SITE, ERRORS, OMISSIONS, VIRUSES, MALICIOUS CODE, LOSS OF USE, LOST DATA, LOST PROFITS OR ANY OTHER PECUNIARY LOSS, WHETHER IN ACTION OF CONTRACT, CIVIL LIABILITY, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTUOUS ACTION, EVEN IF THE SFU CAPTURE PROJECT HAS BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR SUCH DAMAGES ARE REASONABLY FORESEEABLE.
    • THE SFU CAPTURE PROJECT’S MAXIMUM, AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO YOU, AND YOUR EXCLUSIVE REMEDY UNDER THE TERMS FOR ANY AND ALL DAMAGES, INJURY, DEATH, PROPERTY DAMAGE AND LOSSES ARISING FROM ANY AND ALL CLAIMS AND CAUSES OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF, BASED ON, RESULTING FROM OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO THE TERMS, THE SITE, THE SERVICES, THE CONTENT, THIRD PARTY SITES OR YOUR USE OF THE SITE, THE SERVICES, THE CONTENT, AND THIRD PARTY SITES WILL BE FIVE DOLLARS ($5.00). The existence of multiple claims or suits under or related to the Terms, the Site, the Services, Content, or Third Party Sites will not enlarge or extend the maximum amount for which the SFU Capture Project is liable.
    • The damage exclusions and limitations of liability in this Section 8 of the Terms will apply even if any remedy fails of its essential purpose. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitations or exclusions of damages may not apply to you.

  9. Your Personal Information

    The SFU Capture Project collects, uses, discloses, and safeguards your personal information in accordance with the Privacy Policy of the Site. The Privacy Policy is incorporated into the Terms and is available at [NTD: Insert link to Privacy Policy]. By providing your personal information to the SFU Capture Project through the Site or otherwise, you consent to the use of your personal information in accordance with the Privacy Policy.

  10. Indemnity

    You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the SFU Capture Project, its sponsors, fund providers, affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, employees, representatives, licensors and licensees, from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorney's fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your breach of the Terms, your use of the Site, the Services, or the Content, your Submissions, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party. The SFU Capture Project reserves the right, at its own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, and you shall cooperate as fully as reasonably required in the defense of any such claim.

  11. Third Party Websites

    • The Site may contain links or references to other websites (the “Third Party Sites”) which, unless otherwise indicated, have been independently developed by third parties. Because the SFU Capture Project has no control over such Third Party Sites, access to any such sites is at your own risk. Such Third Party Sites are in no way investigated, monitored or checked by the SFU Capture Project, and the Third Party Sites may contain terms, conditions and policies, including privacy policies, confidentiality provisions and ownership provisions that differ from the Terms.
    • The SFU Capture Project assumes no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the content, accuracy, reliability or opinions expressed in a third party site and disclaims all representations and warranties, express and implied, including, without limitation, implied representations or warranties of merchantability, durability, merchantable quality, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, security, or accuracy, with respect to the products, services, and content obtained from a third party site.

  12. Suspension and Termination

    The SFU Capture Project may, in its sole discretion, terminate the Terms with you and terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Site, or any portion thereof, at any time without notice and for any reason, including and without limitation, breach of the Terms or transmission of any illegal or offensive content or unsolicited advertising to the Site. Sections 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 survive termination.

  13. Jurisdictional Restrictions

    The SFU Capture Project makes no representation that materials on the Site are appropriate or available for use in all locations and may be void where prohibited by law. Those who choose to access the Site do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.

  14. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

    The Terms are governed by and are to be construed in accordance with the laws of British Columbia and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein, without regard to its conflict of law provisions. You agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located in British Columbia for any and all disputes, claims, and actions arising from or in connection with the Site and the Terms.

  15. Severability

    If any provision of the Terms shall be deemed unlawful by a court of law, then the impugned provision shall be deemed severed and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.

For questions or comments, please contact the SFU Capture Project at:


  • The CAPTURE Project
  • Simon Fraser University
  • 8888 University Drive
  • West Mall Complex, Room 2805
  • Burnaby, BC
  • Canada V5A 1S6
  • Phone: 778-782-6707
  • Fax: 778-782-3055
  • Email: info@thecaptureplatform.ca