The following describes the terms on which LIS offers Users access to the eManifest Website.
1.1. In the Terms and Conditions:
2.1. The Terms and Conditions govern your relationship with LIS and your use of the eManifest Website.
2.2. Your use of the eManifest Website is voluntary and subject to the Terms and Conditions, which may be amended from time to time.
2.3. You agree to be legally bound by the Terms and Conditions by:
2.4. If you do not agree to be legally bound by the Terms and Conditions you must stop using the eManifest Website and cancel your Account.
2.5. By agreeing to be legally bound by the Terms and Conditions you also agree that you are legally bound by and will comply with any information or additional documents available on the eManifest Website.
Back to top3.1. LIS may make changes to any part of the Terms and Conditions at any time. When a change is made, LIS will post the amended and restated Terms and Conditions on the eManifest Website. You understand that the most recent version of the Terms and Conditions will be located on the eManifest Website.
3.2. Any changes to the Terms and Conditions are effective immediately upon posting. You understand and agree that if you use the eManifest Website after the date on which the Terms and Conditions have changed, LIS will treat your use as acceptance of the amended Terms and Conditions and you agree that the amended Terms and Conditions will apply to you.
Back to top4.1. To create an Account with LIS you must:
5.1. The eManifest Website is an internet based option for use by persons transporting Livestock in Alberta for Transport Only and replaces the printed Livestock Manifest prescribed by the Act and Regulations for this purpose only.
5.2. You acknowledge and agree that LIS does not monitor, review, verify or otherwise certify the information entered by you on the eManifest Website. You are solely responsible for the validity of the information entered on the eManifest Website.
5.3. You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for observing all applicable laws and regulations in Alberta and that your use of the eManifest Website will comply with those laws and regulations.
Back to top6.1. The eManifest Website is accessible only by Users. If you are not a User, you are not eligible to use the eManifest Website.
6.2. Any specific limitations on the use of the eManifest Website can be found on the eManifest Website. Applicable Alberta and federal laws may further limit your use of the eManifest Website.
6.3. LIS reserves the right, without prior notice, to restrict access to the eManifest Website or subject the use of the eManifest Website to other conditions that LIS may impose in its discretion.
6.4. LIS may launch, change, upgrade, impose conditions to, suspend or stop any use of the eManifest Website without prior notice.
6.5. LIS may suspend or terminate your access to the eManifest Website at any time and for any reason without liability to you.
6.6. Except as warranted by the risk to the security, privacy or integrity of the eManifest Website, LIS will attempt to provide you with prior notice of the suspension or termination of access to the eManifest Website by sending you an e-mail, but LIS is not obligated to do so.
Back to top7.1. LIS shall use commercially reasonable efforts to make the eManifest Website available to you at all times but LIS shall not, in any event, be liable for interruptions or down-time of the eManifest Website.
7.2. LIS is constantly innovating in order to provide the best possible User experience. You acknowledge and agree that the eManifest Website may change from time to time without prior notice to you.
7.3. LIS further reserves the right to introduce new features, functionalities or applications to the eManifest Website or to future versions of the eManifest Website. The Terms and Conditions shall govern all new features, functionalities, applications, modifications, upgrades and alterations.
7.4. As part of this continuing innovation, you acknowledge and agree that LIS may stop (permanently or temporarily) providing access to the eManifest Website (or any features within the eManifest Website) to you or to Users generally at LIS’s sole discretion, without prior notice to you.
7.5. LIS reserves the right to change, upgrade, modify, limit or suspend the use of the eManifest Website or any of its related functionalities or applications at any time temporarily or permanently without prior notice.
7.6. You acknowledge and agree that LIS may set fixed upper limits, at any time, on the number of eManifests you may have on the eManifest Website or on the amount of storage space used for your eManifests.
7.7. The eManifest Website is not a substitute for your own records. You agree to have your own printed and/or electronic copies and back-ups of all information entered on the eManifest Website. You further understand and agree that the eManifest Website cannot be used or relied on nor is it intended to be used or relied on to record and maintain your information for your own purposes, including for any governmental, regulatory or court filings or proceedings to which you are subject.
7.8. You agree that LIS shall not be liable or responsible to you or to any third party for any damages, claims, liabilities, costs, harms, inconveniences, business disruptions or expenditures of any kind that may arise a result of or in connection with your use of the eManifest Website.
Back to top8.1. You will need an Account to use the eManifest Website. You can create an Account by signing up online. Only one individual may be assigned to an Account.
8.2. To create an Account you must provide such personal information as may be required by the eManifest Website. You agree not to use any false, inaccurate or misleading information when signing up for your Account.
8.3. You will be unable to create an Account if you do not provide the required personal information.
8.4. The personal information you provide to create your Account will be used by LIS to verify any information LIS has about you in the LIS Database.
8.5. If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate or incomplete or, if LIS has reasonable grounds to believe that such information is untrue, inaccurate or incomplete, LIS may refuse to create an Account for you or may suspend, delete or deactivate your Account and refuse all current or future use of the eManifest Website.
8.6. To create an Account you must accept the Terms and Conditions. By accepting the Terms and Conditions, you agree that the Terms and Conditions will apply when you use the eManifest Website or when you use the tools available to interact with the eManifest Website.
Back to top9.1. You are the only person authorized to use your Account.
9.2. You must sign-in at least once in every two-year period to keep your Account active.
9.3. The e-mail address used to create your Account is your username. An e-mail address can only be associated with one Account.
9.4. The eManifest Website must only be accessed using your username and password.
9.5. You agree that you will:
9.6. You agree that you shall be responsible for all use and misuse of your username and password and that all activities that occur under your username will be deemed to have been authorized by you. Accordingly, you agree that you will be responsible for all activities that occur under your username.
9.7. LIS may suspend access to the eManifest Website, without notice, by deactivating usernames if LIS reasonably suspects that a username and password are being used to obtain unauthorized access to the eManifest Website or if a username and password are being used in any other inappropriate manner. These suspensions will be for a period necessary to permit the thorough investigation of such activity.
Back to top10.1. You may cancel your Account at any time and for any reason. To cancel your Account go to the User Information page under My Account on the eManifest Website.
10.2. LIS may cancel your Account if:
10.3. If your Account is cancelled:
11.1. Subject to paragraph 11.2 you may edit and delete your User Information, Contact Information and Location Information at any time.
11.2. Editing or deleting your Contact Information or Location Information:
11.3. You may edit or delete any of your Complete eManifests or Incomplete eManifests at any time. Editing or deleting your Complete eManifests and Incomplete eManifests will change or remove the Complete eManifest or Incomplete eManifest on both your Account and the eManifest Website.
11.4. You may delete any of your Archived eManifests from your Account but deleting an Archived eManifest from your Account does not delete the Archived eManifest from the eManifest Website or the LIS Database.
11.5. You may only delete your Archived eManifests from the eManifest Website and the LIS Database by submitting a deletion request to LIS for review and processing.
11.6. You may only edit eManifest Information on an Archived eManifest by submitting a change request to LIS for review and processing.
11.7. All eManifest Information associated with an Archived eManifest is copied from the eManifest Website to the LIS Database.
Back to top12.1. By creating an Account and using the eManifest Website you are authorizing LIS to:
12.2. By creating an Account you agree that LIS:
13.1. The official method of communication between you and LIS shall be the e-mail address supplied by you as your username. All communications shall be deemed to have been sent and received on the date they were sent by LIS.
13.2. If for any reason you are unable to gain access to the eManifest Website after your Account is created you may contact LIS by one of the means of contact set out on the eManifest Website.
Back to top14.1. You agree to receive e-mails and calls from LIS at the e-mail address and any of the telephone numbers that LIS has on file for you, including telephone numbers, you have provided us, or that we have obtained from third parties or through our own efforts. If the telephone number that LIS has on file is a mobile telephone number, you consent to receive text messages at that number or on that mobile device. Standard telephone minute and text charges may apply if LIS contacts you at a mobile number or device, and you are responsible for these charges.
14.2. You agree that LIS may contact you in the manner described above at the e-mail address and telephone numbers LIS has on file for reasons relating to your use of the eManifest Website or as authorized by applicable law.
14.3. You understand and agree that LIS may, in its discretion, monitor or record telephone conversations you have with LIS for quality control, training purposes, for LIS’s own protection, or as may be required by law. You acknowledge and understand that, while your communications with LIS may be overheard, monitored, or recorded, not all telephone lines or calls may be recorded by LIS.
Back to top15.1. You represent, warrant and agree that:
16.1. You further represent, warrant and agree that you shall:
17.1. If you breach the Terms and Conditions or LIS has reasonable and probable grounds to believe that you are in breach of the Terms and Conditions, LIS may, without being required to investigate such breach or obtain confirmation and without any liability to you, do one or more of the following:
18.1. You acknowledge and agree that LIS (or LIS's licensors) own all legal right, title and interest in and to the eManifest Website, including any Intellectual Property Rights which subsist in the eManifest Website (whether those rights happen to be registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist).
18.2. With respect all of the eManifest Information collected by LIS as a result of your use of the eManifest Website, you hereby grant to LIS a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, unlimited, royalty-free, sub-licensable and transferable right and license to:
18.3. LIS may elect to not display eManifest Information (or any portion thereof), in its sole discretion. Additionally, LIS reserves the right to remove any eManifest Information from any media on which it is displayed at any time.
18.4. LIS reserves the rights to manage, use, and publish the eManifest Information for statistical or scholarly study or research purposes. In doing so, LIS will ensure that your identity and that of your Contacts cannot be associated with or linked to any individual or aggregate eManifest Information. LIS further reserves the right to grant other parties’ access to the eManifest Information for the same purposes and on the same condition.
18.5. LIS owns all eManifest Information and any general benchmark and reporting statistics, indices and reports derived from the eManifest Information, which may include, without limitation, all details in respect of any Livestock but shall not include your identity as a User or the identity of any Contact you enter into the eManifest Website. LIS may disclose this information, including any general Livestock information, benchmark and reporting statistics, indices and reports in any fashion to you and any other person, as LIS deems appropriate.
Back to top19.1. While you are a User, you have a non-transferable, non-exclusive, revocable right, and only for your own commercial and business purposes, to electronically view, copy, download and print those portions of the eManifest Information and other information made available from time to time to you on the eManifest Website.
Back to top20.1. You agree to indemnify LIS and its members, directors, officers, employees, contractors, agents, representatives and assigns, and to hold them harmless, from any and all losses, damages, actions, claims and liabilities (including legal costs on a full indemnity basis) which may arise, directly or indirectly, from:
21.1. You expressly understand and agree that your use of the eManifest Website is at your sole risk and that the eManifest Website is provided "as is", "as available" and “with all faults”.
21.2. No advice or information, whether oral or written, you obtain from LIS or from the eManifest Website shall create any warranty not expressly stated in the Terms and Conditions.
21.3. In particular, LIS does not represent or warrant that:
21.4. LIS further expressly disclaims all warranties and conditions of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including, but not limited to any and all implied warranties of title, condition, quality, performance, accuracy, timeliness, completeness, reliability, results of use, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement of third party rights or those arising by law, statute, usage of trade or course of dealing. All such warranties, representation, conditions and undertakings are hereby excluded.
Back to top22.1. You expressly understand and agree that LIS shall not be liable to you, whether in contract, tort or under any other legal theory, for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, exemplary or statutory damages, which may be incurred by you, howsoever caused, including but not limited to:
22.2. The limitation of liability set out in paragraph 22.1 shall include, but not be limited to, any loss of profits or revenue (whether incurred directly or indirectly), any loss of goodwill, business reputation or business opportunities, any loss of data suffered, or other intangible loss whether in contract, tort, negligence, equity or otherwise.
22.3. The limitations on LIS's liability to you shall apply even if LIS has been advised of or should have been aware of the possibility of any such losses arising.
22.4. Should the exclusion of liability not apply to you, the aggregate liability of LIS and its members, directors, officers, employees, contractors and agents, with respect to each User for all claims arising from the use of the eManifest Website during any calendar year, shall be limited to $100.00 CDN.
22.5. Paragraph 22.4 above shall not preclude the requirement that you prove damages.
Back to top23.1. The eManifest Website may include hyperlinks to other websites or content or resources. LIS may have no control over any websites or resources that are provided by companies or persons other than LIS.
23.2. You acknowledge and agree that LIS is not responsible for the availability of any such external websites or resources, and does not endorse any advertising, products or other materials on or available from such websites or resources.
23.3. You agree and acknowledge that the eManifest Website may use session cookies, log IP addresses and utilize technical analytic services, which use cookies. Personal information is not linked to your IP addresses or cookies.
23.4. You acknowledge and agree that LIS is not liable for any loss or damage which may be incurred by you as a result of the availability of those external websites or resources, or as a result of any reliance placed by you on the completeness, accuracy or existence of any advertising, products or other materials on, or available from, such websites or resources.
Back to top24.1. The Terms and Conditions, together with any information posted on the eManifest Website constitutes the entire (whole legal) agreement between you and LIS with respect to your use of the eManifest Website.
24.2. You agree that if LIS does not exercise or enforce any legal right or remedy which is contained in the Terms and Conditions (or which LIS has the benefit of under any applicable law), that will not be taken to be a formal waiver of LIS's rights and that those rights or remedies will still be available to LIS with respect to subsequent or similar breaches.
24.3. If any arbitrator or court of law, having the jurisdiction to decide on this matter, rules that any provision of the Terms and Conditions is invalid or unenforceable, then that provision will be removed from the Terms and Conditions without affecting the rest of the Terms and Conditions. The remaining provisions of the Terms and Conditions will continue to be valid and enforceable.
24.4. Headings are included in the Terms and Conditions for convenience only and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of the Terms and Conditions.
Back to top25.1. All notices or demands to or upon LIS with respect of a dispute with LIS shall be made as prescribed on the eManifest Website.
25.2. All notices or demands to or upon you shall be effective if e-mailed to the e-mail address you provided in creating your Account.
25.3. You agree that all agreements, notices, demands, disclosures and other communications that LIS sends to you electronically satisfy the legal requirements that such communication should be in writing.
Back to top26.1. The laws of the Province of Alberta and the laws of Canada in force in Alberta govern the interpretation of these Terms and Conditions, your relationship with LIS, claims for their breach and all other claims, regardless of conflict of laws principles. You and LIS irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts in the Province of Alberta for all disputes arising out of or relating to these Terms and Conditions or your use of the eManifest Website.
26.2. You agree that LIS may apply for injunctive relief in your jurisdiction or may bring an action against you in your jurisdiction to collect any money or damages owing by you for breach of the Terms and Conditions.
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