The Personal Information Protection Act (“the Act”) regulates the way private sector organizations within British Columbia, Canada collect, use, keep, secure and disclose personal information. “Personal Information” means all information about an identifiable individual. buysellbusinesses.com Inc recognizes the importance of privacy and recognizes the sensitivity of personal information received by us in the course of offering our service.
We recognize our professional obligation to maintain the confidentiality of our clients’ information, and recognize our obligations concerning the personal information of all individuals that we collect, use or disclose in our practice. This policy has been developed with those obligations in mind.
buysellbusinesses.com Inc may also use third-party companies to provide various services when you visit this website. buysellbusinesses.com Inc is not responsible for the privacy practices of external websites linked to this site. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these other websites when you leave our website.
If we change our privacy policy, we will notify you.
If you have any questions with respect to our policies concerning the handling of your personal information, or if you wish to request access to, or correction of, your personal information under our care and control, please contact our Privacy Officer at: info@buysellbusinesses.com
By issuing this website you acknowledge that:
(a) we cannot ensure the security or privacy of information you provide through the Internet and your email messages, and you release us from any and all liability in connection with the use of such information by other parties;
(b) we are not responsible for, and cannot control, the use by others of any information which you provide to them and you should use caution in selecting the personal information you provide to others through the Service; and
(c) we cannot assume any responsibility for the content of messages sent by other users of the Service, and you release us from any and all liability in connection with the contents of any communications you may receive from other users. We cannot guarantee and assume no responsibility for verifying the accuracy of the information provided by other users of the Service.
You may not use the Service for any unlawful purpose. If you use this service unlawfully we will pass along all information to law enforcement. We may refuse to grant you an ID or nickname that impersonates someone else, is protected by trade-mark or proprietary law, or is vulgar or otherwise offensive, as determined by us in our sole discretion.
We do not share any personal information with third parties, and we do not send advertising to our members.
(a) Customer acknowledges that:
(i) buysellbusinesses.com Inc maintains all right, title or interest in and to all intellectual property relating to the Services mentioned above, the buysellbusinesses.com Inc website and this Agreement or any part thereof, including, without limitation, all patent and industrial design rights, integrated circuit topography rights, copyright, commercial know how, trade secrets, trade names and trademarks (the “Intellectual Property”); and
(ii) Any improvements to the Services and the Intellectual Property, even if specifically adapted by buysellbusinesses.com Inc for use by the user in connection with the Services, are and shall remain the exclusive property of buysellbusinesses.com
(b) User shall not:
(i) Without written permission from buysellbusinesses.com Inc display or use any of buysellbusinesses.com Inc trademarks and any such display or use does not grant to User any rights in such trademarks; and
(ii) Copy, replicate, store, reverse-engineer, publicly disclose or use any Intellectual Property for any purpose other than as expressly permitted by this Agreement.
(c) User agrees that buysellbusinesses.com Inc shall not be responsible or liable to any User and agrees to indemnify buysellbusinesses.com Inc for any loss, cost (including lawyers and court costs), damage, injury, liability, claim, penalty, fine, interest or any cause of action whatsoever resulting howsoever from or in connection with: (i) the Agreement; (ii) the provision of any of the Services; (iii) any interruption of any of the Services howsoever caused; (iv) any Services provided by a third party provider.
(d) For greater certainty and in no event shall buysellbusinesses.com Inc be liable for any indirect, special, incidental or consequential damages in connection with or arising out of the performance or non-performance of this Agreement howsoever caused including, without limitation, any business or economic loss whatsoever even if buysellbusinesses.com Inc has been advised of the possibility thereof.
(e) buysellbusinesses.com Inc makes no representations or warranties to Customer or any other person or entity, whether express, implied, or statutory, as to description, quality, merchantability, completeness or fitness for any purpose of any service provided hereunder or described herein or as to any other matter, all of which warranties by buysellbusinesses.com Inc are hereby excluded and disclaimed.
Privacy and Confidentiality
Obligations. Each Party acknowledges that all Confidential Information is confidential or proprietary and that disclosure of such Confidential Information to third parties may cause the other Party to suffer considerable damages. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, each Party agrees that, for the Term of this Agreement and at all times following its expiration or termination for any reason whatsoever, it shall:
(i) Not use any Confidential Information for any purposes other than in furtherance of this Agreement;
(ii) Maintain the secrecy of the Confidential Information using the same means that it uses, or would reasonably be expected to use, to protect its own confidential and proprietary information;
(iii) Not disclose any Confidential Information to a third party without the prior written consent of the other Party;
(iv) Only disclose the Confidential Information to the other Party’s representatives who have a need to know the information in order to carry out their duties and obligations pursuant to this Master Agreement; and
(v) Require that all such representatives of the other Party understand and acknowledge their obligation and willingness to preserve and hold such Confidential Information in confidence consistent with the terms of this section 8, and all such representatives must be bound by confidentiality provisions substantially to the same effect as the confidentiality provisions of this Agreement.
to Disclosing Party. The Receiving Party acknowledges that the Confidential Information supplied to it by the Disclosing Party shall remain the exclusive property of the Disclosing Party subject to any licences granted hereunder both before and after the completion of the Party’s obligations pursuant to this Agreement.
No Representations. Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, no Party makes any representations or warranties to another Party about the adequacy, accuracy or suitability of the Confidential Information for any purpose.
Remedies:
(vi) Any breach of the provisions of this section 8 entitles the aggrieved Party to seek equitable relief, including such injunction or injunctions as may be required to prevent any further breach of any of the provisions of this section 8 and an order for specific performance of the provisions hereof.
(vii) The specific remedies set out herein are in addition and without prejudice to any other remedy to which either Party may be entitled under this Master Agreement, at law or in equity.
Privacy.
(viii) The Parties acknowledge that certain information collected, used and disclosed pursuant to this Agreement may constitute personal information pursuant to applicable federal or provincial privacy legislation (the “Privacy Laws”) and may be regulated by the Privacy Laws and other Applicable Laws. The Parties agree that any such information will:
(1) Be collected, used and disclosed in accordance with Applicable Laws, including the Privacy Laws, and
Be used and disclosed in connection with the Services provided hereunder.
(2) Be used and disclosed in the course of an actual or potential sale, reorganization, consolidation, merger or amalgamation of the buysellbusinesses.com Inc business.
(ix) In the event that Customer directs buysellbusinesses.com Inc to disclose to a third party certain personal information collected by the Customer and disclosed to buysellbusinesses.com Inc pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, Customer:
(1) Represents and warrants that Customer has the authority, including but not limited to the necessary consents, to authorize the disclosure of personal information by buysellbusinesses.com Inc to the third party; and
(2) Shall indemnify, defend and hold buysellbusinesses.com Inc, its directors, officers, employees, agents, and representatives harmless from and against all claims, demands, penalties, fines, losses, liabilities, damages and other expenses arising from such use or disclosure of the personal information.
Effects of Termination. In addition to any other rights and obligation set out herein, upon termination of this Agreement and/or any Schedule:
(x) Each Party shall, in respect of Confidential Information, return the Confidential Information that it has received to the other Party on or before any date as may be specified by the other Party in writing, in a timely manner, and if so requested by the other Party, ensure that all copies of the Confidential Information have been destroyed;
(xi) User shall pay to buysellbusinesses.com Inc all outstanding amounts due and payable under this Agreement up to the termination or expiry date;
(xii) buysellbusinesses.com Inc shall, upon the Users prior written request, make available to User upon the date of termination and not thereafter, certain data contained in the Database Data in a form and in a format as determined by buysellbusinesses.com Inc in its sole discretion;