Terms & Conditions

In General:

The Council of Atlantic Ministers of Education and Training (CAMET) owns and operates the Website www.atlanticcompetencies.ca or www.competencesatlantiques.ca called the “Website.” This document governs your relationship with the Website. Access to and use of this Website and the products available through this Website are subject to the following terms, conditions and notices (the “Terms and Conditions”). By using the Website, you are agreeing to all of the Terms and Conditions, as may be updated by us from time to time. You should check this page regularly to take notice of any changes we may have made to the Terms and Conditions.

Intended Use:

This website, including all its tools and resources, has been developed to provide non-commercial resources to help citizens of Atlantic Canada develop their career development plan. These resources can be used and distributed by any type of organization or institutions.

You may display, print, copy, store or distribute the content supplied by this Website as long as you:

If you have any questions regarding the use of these resources, please communicate with CAMET.

Disclaimer:

The information contained in all the resources on this Website is not legal advice. These materials are intended to provide additional resources to institutions.

The opinions and interpretations in this publication are those of CAMET.

Intellectual Property:

The intellectual property rights of all the content (including videos, photographic images, PDF documents, and all other content) on this Website, remains fully the property of CAMET and are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved by this Website and its licensors.

Linking to this Website:

You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists. You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you. This Website must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of this Website other than the home page of competencyframework.ca. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

Prohibitions:

You must not misuse this Website. You will not: commit or encourage a criminal offense; transmit or distribute a virus, trojan, worm, logic bomb or any other material which is malicious, technologically harmful, in breach of confidence or in any way offensive or obscene; hack into any aspect of the Terms and Conditions; corrupt data; cause annoyance to other users; infringe upon the rights of any other person's proprietary rights; send any unsolicited advertising or promotional material, commonly referred to as spam; or attempt to affect the performance or functionality of any computer facilities of or accessed through this Website. Breaching this provision would constitute a criminal offense. CAMET will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and disclose your identity to them.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of this Website or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.

Disclaimer of Liability:

The material displayed on this Website is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. Unless expressly stated to the contrary to the fullest extent permitted by law, CAMET and its suppliers, content providers and advertisers hereby expressly exclude all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity and shall not be liable for any damages whatsoever, including but without limitation to any direct, indirect, special, consequential, punitive or incidental damages, or damages for loss of use, profits, data or other intangibles, damage to goodwill or reputation, or the cost of procurement of substitute goods and services, arising out of or related to the use, inability to use, performance or failures of this Website or the Linked Sites and any materials posted thereon, irrespective of whether such damages were foreseeable or arise in contract, tort, equity, restitution, by statute, at common law or otherwise.

Disclaimer as to ownership of trademarks, images of personalities and third party copyright:

Except where expressly stated to the contrary all persons (including their names and images), third party trademarks and content, services and/or locations featured on this Website are in no way associated, linked or affiliated with this Website and you should not rely on the existence of such a connection or affiliation. Any trademarks/names featured on this Website are owned by the respective trademark owners. Where a trademark or brand name is referred to it is used solely to describe or identify additional tools and resources and is in no way an assertion that such products or services are endorsed by or connected to this Website.

Indemnity:

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless this Website, its directors, officers, employees, consultants, agents, and affiliates, from any and all third party claims, liability, damages and/or costs (including, but not limited to, legal fees) arising from your use this Website or your breach of the Terms and Conditions.

Links on this Website:

This Website may contain links to other websites (the Linked Sites), which are not operated by this Website. CAMET has no control over the Linked Sites and accepts no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them. Your use of the Linked Sites will be subject to the terms of use and service contained within each such site.

Variation:

Access to this Website is permitted for free. We reserve the right to withdraw or amend without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason this Website is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts or all of this Website.

This Website shall have the right in its absolute discretion at any time and without notice to amend, remove or vary the Terms and Conditions and/or any page of this Website.

Invalidity:

If any part of the Terms and Conditions is unenforceable (including any provision in which we exclude our liability to you) the enforceability of any other part of the Terms and Conditions will not be affected all other clauses remaining in full force and effect. So far as possible where any clause/sub-clause or part of a clause/sub-clause can be severed to render the remaining part valid, the clause shall be interpreted accordingly. Alternatively, you agree that the clause shall be rectified and interpreted in such a way that closely resembles the original meaning of the clause /sub-clause as is permitted by law.

Waiver:

If you breach these conditions and we take no action, we will still be entitled to use our rights and remedies in any other situation where you breach these conditions.

Entire Agreement:

The above Terms and Conditions constitute the entire agreement of the parties between you and this Website (www.atlanticcompetencies.ca or www.competencesatlantiques.ca). Any waiver of any provision of the Terms and Conditions will be effective only if in writing and signed by the Secretary to CAMET.