Terms and Conditions

1. Ontario Abandoned Places (herein referred to as 'OAP') uses reasonable effort to include accurate and up-to-date content in the Site. OAP gives no warranties, representations or conditions as to its accuracy, completeness, quality, reliability, timeliness, legality or suitability of the contents. OAP assumes no liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content or with respect to any links from the Site. The site is intended to assist the reader with information about abandoned locations and historic sites. OAP is not responsible for any loss or damage caused by your reliance on information obtained on the Site or a hyper linked site.

Example: If you visit a location and are caught trespassing, you cannot claim that OAP told you that it was safe to trespass on the property. OAP provides information about locations on an "as is" basis, information found on OAP should not be considered legal advice. You should never trespass on locations without first seeking permission from the property owner.

2. Your use and browsing of the site is at your risk. Neither OAP nor any other party involved in creating, producing or delivering the site is liable for any direct, incidental, special consequential, indirect or punitive damages arising out of or relating to your access to, or use of, the site. Without limiting the foregoing, everything on the site or accessible through the site and your use of the site is provided to you "as is" without representation, guarantee, warranty or condition of any kind, either expressed or implied.

OAP also assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable for, any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing the site or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images, video or audio from this site.

In plain English… use of this site is at your own risk. Visiting any location found on this website is at your own risk.

3. OAP has not reviewed all of the sites linked to the Site and is not responsible for the access to or contents of any off-site pages or any other sites linked to the Site. Your linking to any other off-site pages or other sites is at your own risk.

4. OAP assumes no responsibility or liability arising from the content of any such location on the site nor for any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission, falsehood, obscenity, pornography, profanity, danger, or inaccuracy contained in any information within such locations on the Site. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane material or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate the law. OAP will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities * ONLY * under court order requesting or directing OAP to disclose the identity of anyone posting any such information or materials. For more information on what information is retained, see Member Privacy.

OAP does not actively monitor all areas of the site but will remove any content defined in section 4 (above) upon request.

5. OAP may at any time revise these Terms and Conditions by updating this posting. You are bound by any such revision and should therefore periodically visit this page to review the then current Terms and Conditions to which you are bound.

6. It is the express will of the parties that these Terms and Conditions have been drawn up in English. C'est la vonante expresse des parties que la presente convention soit redigee en anglais.

7. "Content" includes without limitation any and all information, material, recommendations, reports, web pages, graphics, data, text, video, audio, databases, files and images used or embodied in this Site, including the manner in which the information is presented or appears and all information relating thereto.

Member Privacy

8. OAP retains logs of visitors for a limited period only after which they are automatically deleted. Your user information is not, and will not, be sold or exchanged with any third-party. Private messages between users are not monitored by OAP but may be opened in the event of misuse.

Photography

Photographs appearing on this webpage are either provided by OAP, have been uploaded by visitors, or have been obtained from archives. These photgraphs may be protected under Canadian Copyright Law.

For photographs taken by the OAP (Ontario Abandoned Places), permission must be obtained to duplicate or publish these photographs. As this web page is a non-profit service, OAP does not charge any fee to use our photographs.

Permission to use photographs uploaded by other members must be obtained from the photographer as OAP cannot grant permission on their behalf. OAP cannot and will not be responsible for members uploading copyrighted photos. Members are expected to own the copyright for all images which they upload to the site.

Photographs taken from archives shall have their source indicated (if known). If a photograph should appear that originated from your archive, please contact OAP. Every effort has been taken to credit proper sources.

On pages where vintage photographs are used, per sections 6.0 and 10(1) of the Copyright Act, these copyrights may have expired.

If you encounter a photograph that is your intellectual property, please let us know so that we may remove it or credit your work.