TERMS OF SERVICE

The Rainbow Party Of Canada and services that enable people to connect with each other, build communities, and gain public trust. These Terms govern your use of the website, and other products, features, apps, services, technologies, and software we offer (except where we expressly state that separate terms (and not these) apply. These Terms are provided to you by the Rainbow Party Of Canada.

Businesses, organizations, and persons may pay us to show you ads for their products and services.
These businesses can be found on our Directory Of Queer Businesses Webpage. By using our Products, you agree that we can show you ads/links that we think may be relevant to you and your interests or needs.

We don’t sell your personal data to advertisers, and we don’t share information that directly identifies you (such as your name, email address or other contact information) with advertisers unless you give us specific permission. Instead, advertisers can tell us things like the kind of audience they want to see their ads, and we show those ads to people who may be interested. We provide advertisers with reports about the performance of their ads that help them understand how people are interacting with their content. 

Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect and use your personal data to determine some of the ads you see and provide all of the other services described below.
 

1. The services we provide

Our mission is to give people the power to build community and bring Canadians closer together. To help advance this mission, we provide the Products and services described below to you:

Provide a personalized experience for you:

Your experience on our website is unlike anyone else's: from the posts, stories, events, ads, and other content you see.  

Connect you with people and organizations you care about:

We help you find and connect with people, groups, businesses, organizations, and others that matter to you across the nation. We use data to make suggestions for you and others - for example, groups to join, events to attend. Stronger ties make for better communities, and we believe our services are most useful when people are connected to people, groups, and organizations they care about.

Empower you to express yourself and communicate about what matters to you:

There are many ways to express yourself on our forum to communicate with others about what matters to you, as well as showing you insights on how others engage with your content. 

Promote the safety, security, and integrity of our services, combat harmful conduct and keep our community of users safe:

People will only build community on our website if they feel safe and secure. We work hard to maintain the security (including the availability, authenticity, integrity, and confidentiality) of our Products and services. We employ dedicated teams across Canada, work with external service providers, partners and other relevant entities and develop advanced technical systems to detect potential misuse of our Products, harmful conduct towards others, and situations where we may be able to help support or protect our community, including to respond to user reports of potentially violating content. If we learn of content or conduct like this, we may take appropriate action based on our assessment that may include - notifying you, offering help, removing content, removing or restricting access to certain features, disabling an account, or contacting law enforcement.
RPOC may access, preserve, use and share any information it collects about you where it has a good faith belief it is required or permitted by law to do so. For more information, please review our Privacy Policy.

In some cases, the Oversight Board may review our decisions, subject to its terms and bylaws. Learn more here.

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Research ways to make our services better:

We engage in research to develop, test, and improve our Party. This includes analyzing data we have about our users and understanding their needs, for example by conducting surveys and testing and troubleshooting new features. Our Privacy Policy explains how we use data to support this research for the purposes of developing and improving our services.

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2. Your commitment to our rainbow community

We provide these services to you and others to help advance our mission. In exchange, we need you to make the following commitments:

1. Who can use our services?

When people stand behind their opinions and actions, our community is safer and more accountable. For this reason, you must:

• Provide for your account the same name that you use in everyday life.

• Provide accurate information about yourself.

• Create only one account (your own) and use it for personal purposes.

• Not share your password, give access to your account to others, or transfer your account to anyone else (without our permission).

We try to make our community broadly available to everyone, but you cannot use our community if:

• You are under 13 years old.

• You are a convicted sex offender.

• We've previously disabled your account for violations of our Terms or the Community Standards, or other terms and policies that apply to your use of our rainbow community. If we disable your account for a violation of our Terms, the Community Standards, or other terms and policies, you agree not to create another account without our permission. Receiving permission to create a new account is provided at our sole discretion, and does not mean or imply that the disciplinary action was wrong or without cause.

• You are prohibited from receiving our products, services, or software under applicable laws.

2. What you can share and do within our rainbow community.

We want people to use our rainbow community to express themselves and to share content that is important to them, but not at the expense of the safety and well-being of others or the integrity of our rainbow community. You therefore agree not to engage in the conduct described below (or to facilitate or support others in doing so):

1. You may not use our rainbow community to do or share anything:

   • That violates these Terms, the Community Standards, or other terms and policies that apply to your use of our Community.

   • That is unlawful, misleading, discriminatory or fraudulent (or assists someone else in using our Community in such a way).

   • That you do not own or have the necessary rights to share.

   • That infringes or violates someone else's rights, including their intellectual property rights (such as by infringing another’s copyright or trademark, or distributing or selling counterfeit or pirated goods), unless an exception or limitation applies under applicable law.

2. You may not upload viruses or malicious code, use the services to send spam, or do anything else that could disable, overburden, interfere with, or impair the proper working, integrity, operation, or appearance of our services, systems, or Products.

3. You may not access or collect data from our Products using automated means (without our prior permission) or attempt to access data you do not have permission to access.

4. You may not proxy, request, or collect Product usernames or passwords, or misappropriate access tokens.

5. You may not sell, license, or purchase any data obtained from us or our services, except as provided in the Platform Terms.

6. You may not misuse any reporting, flagging, dispute, or appeals channel, such as by making fraudulent, duplicative, or groundless reports or appeals.

We can remove or restrict access to content that is in violation of these provisions. We can also suspend or disable your account for conduct that violates these provisions. If we remove content that you have shared in violation of the Community Standards, we’ll let you know and explain any options you have to request another review, unless you seriously or repeatedly violate these Terms or if doing so may expose us or others to legal liability; harm our community of users; compromise or interfere with the integrity or operation of any of our services, systems or Products; where we are restricted due to technical limitations; or where we are prohibited from doing so for legal reasons. For information on account suspension or termination. To help support our community, we encourage you to report content or conduct that you believe violates your rights or our terms and policies, if this feature exists in your jurisdiction. We also can remove or restrict access to content features, services, or information if we determine that doing so is reasonably necessary to avoid or mitigate misuse of our services or adverse legal or regulatory impacts to our rainbow community.

The permissions you give us

We need certain permissions from you to provide our services:

Permission to use content you create and share: Some content that you share or have us upload, such as photos or videos, may be protected by intellectual property laws. You retain ownership of the intellectual property rights (things like copyright or trademarks) in any such content that you create and share on our platforms. Nothing in these Terms takes away the rights you have to your own content. You are free to share your content with anyone else, wherever you want. However, to provide our services we need you to give us some legal permissions (known as a "license") to use this content. This is solely for the purposes of providing and improving our Products and services. Specifically, when you share, post, or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights on or in connection with our Platforms, you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, and worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content (consistent with your privacy and settings).


Date of Last Revision: October 22 2024