Legal Information

1. Presentation of the Site

Under Article 6 of Law No. 2004-575 of June 21, 2004, for confidence in the digital economy, users of the site www.sookaring.com are informed of the identity of the various stakeholders involved in its creation and monitoring:

The publication manager is a natural person or a legal entity.

2. General Conditions of Use of the Site and the Proposed Services

The use of the site www.sookaring.com implies full and complete acceptance of the terms and conditions of use described below. These terms of use are subject to change or modification at any time, so users of the site www.sookaring.com are therefore invited to consult them regularly.

This site is normally accessible to users at any time. However, an interruption for technical maintenance reasons may be decided by SooKaring, which will then endeavor to inform users in advance of the dates and times of the intervention.

The site is regularly updated by SooKaring. In the same way, the legal notices can be modified at any time: they are nevertheless binding on the user who is invited to refer to them as often as possible in order to become familiar with them.

3. Description of the Services Provided

The purpose of the site www.sookaring.com is to provide information about all the company's activities.

SooKaring strives to provide information on the site www.sookaring.com that is as accurate as possible. However, it cannot be held responsible for omissions, inaccuracies, and shortcomings in updates, whether they are due to its own actions or the actions of third-party partners who provide this information.

All the information indicated on the site www.sookaring.com is for informational purposes only and is subject to change. Furthermore, the information on the site are not exhaustive. They are provided subject to modifications made since their publication.

4. Contractual Limitations on Technical Data

The site uses JavaScript technology. The website cannot be held responsible for material damages related to the use of the site. Moreover, the user of the site agrees to access the site using recent equipment, free of viruses, and with an updated latest generation browser.

5. Intellectual Property and Counterfeiting

SooKaring owns the intellectual property rights or holds the usage rights for all elements accessible on the site, including texts, images, graphics, logos, icons, sounds, software.

Any reproduction, representation, modification, publication, adaptation of all or part of the elements of the site, by any means or process whatsoever, is prohibited, except with prior written authorization from SooKaring.

Any unauthorized use of the site or any of its elements will be considered as constituting infringement and will be prosecuted in accordance with the provisions of Articles L.335-2 and following of the Intellectual Property Code.

6. Limitations of Liability

SooKaring cannot be held responsible for direct and indirect damages caused to the user's equipment during access to the site www.sookaring.com, and resulting either from the use of equipment that does not meet the specifications indicated in point 4, or from the occurrence of a bug or incompatibility.

Interactive spaces (possibility to ask questions in the contact area) are available to users. SooKaring reserves the right to delete, without prior notice, any content posted in this space that violates applicable legislation in Canada, particularly the provisions related to data protection. If applicable, SooKaring also reserves the right to pursue civil and/or criminal liability of the user, particularly in the case of racist, abusive, defamatory, or pornographic messages, regardless of the medium used (text, photograph...).

7. Management of Personal Data

Canada protects personal data through federal and provincial laws, primarily the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) for private-sector commercial activities and the Privacy Act for federal public sector institutions. These laws establish rules for obtaining consent, collecting, using, and disclosing personal information, and give individuals rights to access and challenge their data. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) oversees compliance with these rules.

On the occasion of using the site www.sookaring.com, the following can be collected:

• The URL of the links through which the user accessed the site
• The Internet Protocol (IP) address

In any case, SooKaring only collects personal information related to the user for the purpose of certain services offered by the site www.sookaring.com. The user provides this information with full knowledge, particularly when they enter it themselves. It is then specified to the user of the site www.sookaring.com the obligation or not to provide this information.

No personal information of the site user www.sookaring.com is published without the user's knowledge, exchanged, transferred, assigned, or sold on any medium to third parties. Only the hypothesis of the acquisition of SooKaring and its rights would allow the transmission of said information to the potential buyer who would in turn be bound by the same obligation of conservation and modification of the data with respect to the user of the site www.sookaring.com.

Databases are protected by the provisions of the law of July 1, 1998, transposing Directive 96/9 of March 11, 1996, on the legal protection of databases.

8. Hypertext Links and Cookies

The site www.sookaring.com contains a number of hypertext links to other sites, set up with the permission of SooKaring. However, SooKaring does not have the ability to verify the content of the sites thus visited, and will consequently assume no responsibility for this.

Navigation on the site www.sookaring.com is likely to cause the installation of cookie(s) on the user's computer. A cookie is a small file that does not allow the user to be identified, but records information related to a computer's navigation on a site. The data thus obtained aims to facilitate subsequent navigation on the site and is also intended to allow for various attendance measurements. The refusal to install a cookie may result in the inability to access certain services. The user can, however, configure their computer in the following way to refuse the installation of cookies:

Firefox

Safari

Chrome

9. Applicable Law and Jurisdiction

Any dispute related to the use of the site www.sookaring.com is subject to Canada law. Exclusive jurisdiction is conferred upon the competent courts.

10. The Main Laws Concerned

The Privacy Act also gives individuals the right to request access to personal information about themselves held by federal government institutions. If individuals feel that the information is incorrect or incomplete, they also have the right to ask that it be corrected.

PIPEDA, for its part, sets out ground rules for the management of personal information in the private sector. It aims to strike a balance between an individual's right to the privacy of personal information and the need of organizations to collect, use or disclose personal information for legitimate business purposes. PIPEDA applies to organizations engaged in commercial activities in all provinces except those that have "substantially similar" private-sector privacy laws and to organizations under federal jurisdiction (e.g., banks and telecommunications firms) anywhere in Canada. PIPEDA also protects employee information, but only in federally regulated sectors.

This paper provides an overview of the federal landscape with respect to privacy laws, their legislative history and the need for modernization to make them better suited to the digital era.

Responsibilities Established by the LEN

The Constitutional Council made its ruling on 13 June 2004, on the Law on confidence in the digital economy. It reaffirmed the principle of legal responsibility of providers in cases where the illegal content has been drawn to their attention.

11. Vocabulary

User: Internet user connecting, using the aforementioned site.

Personal Information: Information that allows, in any form whatsoever, directly or indirectly, the identification of the natural persons to whom it applies.