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VIA Rail Canada will provide administrative services, (i.e. their servers and basic services) for visitors to and bloggers on Canada Travel Blog (and Blogue voyage Canada for the French version).
Canada Travel Blog (and it's French-language counterpart, Blogue voyage Canada) will provide bloggers with a web page (your blog), which the blogger alone must administer, and allow bloggers to: publish texts and images on the Internet; incorporate links in their pages to other blogs or external sites; and, visit and leave comments on other blogs on the site. This blog is accessible at: www.canadatravelblog.com/(yourblogname).
Published texts remain the sole and full responsibility of the blogger. Blogs on Canada Travel Blog must not contain any information that violates public order or good moral values. Regardless, considering the potential volume of information, Canada Travel Blog can only exercise a limited amount of control over blog content. Canada Travel Blog cannot guarantee the veracity, probity or authenticity of the blog content. Consequently, Canada Travel Blog cannot be held responsible for false declarations made by a blogger and is released of all responsibility in the event that visitors and/or bloggers meet in person as a consequence of using this service.
As to content, bloggers agree to solely publish texts and photos that reflect the site's theme of "Canada". More precisely, as the name of the portal indicates, the blogger must address travel undertaken within Canadian borders. However, it is acceptable if the blogger makes occasional reference to other world destinations in their texts. Bloggers must also avoid discussing politics or judicial matters as visitors have been promised travel stories, and good tips for where to go and what to do.
To create a blog, visit the Canada Travel Blog site and follow the instructions. The blogger must post messages in English on the Canada Travel Blog, and in French on Blogue voyage Canada. The service is free of charge. The blogger must however, provide a valid e-mail address when completing the registration process.
All texts belong to the author, who is solely responsible for what is published in those texts. Therefore, reproducing or distributing blog texts without the express consent of the author goes against the intellectual property laws adopted by the grand majority of world countries. Also, a blog text must not have copyright in order to be protected: once it is written, it is protected. If you wish to reproduce a blog text published on the Canada Travel Blog site, you must contact the blogger (through their web page) to obtain permission. Please describe your intentions in detail, and thank the blogger in advance. Also, remember your "Net-iquette": assure the blogger that you will cite the source of the text.
As the CanadaTravelBlog.ca and BlogueVoyageCanada.ca web sites belong to VIA Rail Canada, VIA and its respective agents reserve the right to use excerpts from blogs published on CanadaTravelBlog.ca and BlogueVoyageCanada.ca as testimonials in advertising or publicity to be used on the VIA Rail web site and its satellite web sites without any further compensation or notice.
The blogger understands that Canada Travel Blog administrators may read their posts before or after publication; furthermore, Canada Travel Blog reserves the right to refuse, modify or withdraw any content, at its sole discretion, if that content violates the conditions of use, current laws and regulations, and/or good moral values.
Canada Travel Blog - responsibilities: Canada Travel Blog provides its servers and services in good faith. Therefore, it cannot be held responsible for consequences arising from a third party accessing the storage space made available for bloggers. Canada Travel Blog cannot be held responsible for third-party conduct or content that is threatening, libellous, obscene, aggressive or illegal, or for any infringement of third party rights, including intellectual property rights. The reproduction, distribution, modification or the making available to the public of certain properties such as trademarks, illustrations, photos or texts that are protected by intellectual property rights, without obtaining permission from the holders of said rights, constitutes a violation subject to punishment by law.
If blatantly unlawful material is brought to the attention of Canada Travel Blog, the portal may suspend access to or terminate — without prior notice — the concerned blog and its illegal content. Although Canada Travel Blog generally undertakes all measures necessary to maintain the proper functioning of the site, the portal cannot be held responsible for published texts and comments that are lost or modified. We strongly recommend that bloggers keep a copy of their texts on the hard drive of their computer.
Blogger - responsibilities: In creating a blog, the user accepts the terms and conditions of use. The blogger understands that they retain sole responsibility for the texts and photos they publish on the blog. The blogger also accepts to restrict their blog content to Canada Travel Blog's general theme: travel in Canada. The blogger agrees to not disclose any information that would name and precisely identify other members of the community without their permission (which we discourage in any case), most notably last names, postal or e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers. It is also forbidden to use Canada Travel Blog for professional or commercial purposes, or to distribute under any form, content that violates third-party rights or is defamatory, libellous, obscene, offensive, violent or that incites violence, racism, xenophobia, or that in any way violates the portal's main objective, current laws and regulations, and good moral values.
The blogger may, at any time, terminate their profile and withdraw their blog from the Canada Travel Blog portal. To do so, the blogger must contact administrators by mail, telephone or e-mail at webmaster@viarail.ca.
The storage space allotted for the blog will remain available to the blogger for a maximum of one week after the termination date. It is the blogger's responsibility to save their data on their hard drive or through any other means available to them.
Moreover, any blog remaining inactive for more than one year may be terminated by Canada Travel Blog if after 30 days it does not receive a reply to the alert e-mail sent to the blogger (thus the importance of providing a valid e-mail address). Any blog that does not have a single posting or comment will be considered inactive.
Your privacy is a vital concern to the Canada Travel Blog team, especially as it relates to the Internet network and in particular, to sites such as Canada Travel Blog that allow Internet users to publish posts, photos and other writings in an immediate fashion. We are aware of the fact that despite the good intentions of most bloggers, false information may be published. Canada Travel Blog cannot be held in any way responsible for any disclosure of personal information (as is or that may create third-party prejudice) in its pages. To find out more about our privacy policies, click here.
The blogger is registered for an indeterminate period of time. The blog is active from the moment that the blogger's information has been officially received.
Canada Travel Blog reserves the right to modify, without prior notice, either in whole or in part, the conditions of use. In short, they may be modified at any moment in accordance with new technical tools, evolution of the law, or the introduction of new services. The user must check the conditions of use in a regular fashion and may terminate membership should the terms no longer suit their needs. In case of litigation, the current conditions of use will be used as legal authority. The blogger accepts the overall stipulations for the present conditions of use, as well as all other modifications that Canada Travel Blog may eventually make. We strongly recommend that the blogger reread these conditions on a regular basis.
