Terms of use

The NorQuest College website is made up of all the content under the norquest.ca domain and all related sub-domains (such as student.norquest.ca). These terms of use apply to the entire website and the college’s official social media websites which will be referred to collectively as the “NorQuest College website” throughout these terms.

By using the NorQuest College website, you agree to the following terms of use. The terms of use may be subject to revision at any time without notice. Read these terms often. If you do not agree with the terms of use, do not use the website. Continued use of the NorQuest College website implies you agree to any changes.

General

NorQuest College owns the intellectual property rights, including but not limited to copyright, trademark, and proprietary rights, for and to the NorQuest College website and its content, including but not limited to text, photographs, video, audio and graphics, or has acquired permission to display materials on the NorQuest College website. Any unauthorized downloading, retransmission, reproduction, re-dissemination or other copying or modifications of trademarks and /or the contents of the NorQuest College website without prior written consent of NorQuest College is prohibited.

As a user you can print and copy information contained in the NorQuest College website for your own personal, non-commercial use only, provided you do not change the material in any way. Any other use is prohibited. If you use content from the NorQuest College website, you must keep all copyright, trademark and other proprietary notices and you must acknowledge NorQuest College as the sole owner of such information.

Disclaimer of warranty

All materials and information provided on the NorQuest College website are for informational or educational purposes only. All information on the NorQuest College website is considered accurate and reliable when posted, and the college makes every effort to verify the information is correct at that time. However, the NorQuest College website may contain written mistakes, factual, or other errors. Users cannot assume content is error free or that information is complete. The college reserves the right to change or cancel any information or material on the NorQuest College website without notice or prejudice.

NorQuest College assumes no liability or responsibility and offers no warranties of any kind, either express or implied, for any errors or omissions, or use of the information published on the NorQuest College website. NorQuest College (including its directors, employees, agents and contractors) are not be liable or responsible to you for direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive or exemplary damages arising from use or inability to use our website or any links or items therein.

Access

Only authorized users of the NorQuest College website may have access to and use of password-protected and/or secure areas of the website. Unauthorized visitors attempting to access these areas of the NorQuest College website may be subject to legal action.

By using the NorQuest College website, you agree that you will not use any device, software, or routine to interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper functioning of the website. You further agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other automatic device or manual process that disrupts the normal use of the systems, websites, or secured websites accessible through the NorQuest College website, and will follow college policy or policies for Computer and Internet Acceptable Use and Remote Access.

Third-party websites and links

The NorQuest College website may contain links to other websites. These links are for convenient information purposes only and as resource references. Because NorQuest College does not operate these websites, we take no responsibility or liability for their privacy practices, content, opinions, accuracy, appropriateness and administration. NorQuest College is not acting as a publisher of the material contained on other sites and does not have or seek any type of control of the content of these sites, nor does NorQuest College monitor or endorse these websites. Read the privacy policy, terms of use, and other relevant information on third party websites before you use them.

NorQuest College does not enter into reciprocal link agreements. We may provide links to external websites that is like the content on the NorQuest College website. Any website may link to any page on the NorQuest College website. From time to time, we may change the content or location of any page on our website. In this case it is up to the third-party website to verify and update the page addresses linked.

Internet and email security

NorQuest College recommends the use of appropriate security, antivirus and other protective software. While there is every effort to ensure that all information provided on the NorQuest College website does not contain computer viruses, this does not warrant that the NorQuest College website is free of errors or viruses and is not liable for any damage you may suffer as a result of such destructive features.

Unprotected email communications are not confidential and could be lost, intercepted or altered. To protect yourself, do not send sensitive information such as passwords, banking information, credit card number, or personal information to NorQuest College via email. The college is not liable for damages in connection to an email you sent to us or an email the college has sent to you.

Governing law

These terms of use and the relationship between you and NorQuest College shall be governed by the laws of the province of Alberta without regard to its conflicts of law provisions. You agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located within the province of Alberta.

NorQuest College makes no representation that the NorQuest College website is appropriate or legal in all jurisdiction. If you are accessing the NorQuest College website from outside of Canada, you do so at your own risk and you are responsible for ensuring that applicable laws are complied with.

If any provision of the terms of use is held by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, void or unenforceable in any respect, the remainder of that provision in every other respect and the Terms of Use shall continue in full force and effect and will in no way be affected, impaired, or invalidated. Furthermore, in lieu of such illegal, invalid or unenforceable provision, there shall be added automatically as part of the terms of use a provision similar in its terms to such illegal, invalid and unenforceable provisions as may be possible and be legal, valid and enforceable.