Legal Terms & Conditions

This web page represents a legal document that serves as our Terms and Conditions and it governs the legal terms of our website, www.the Grandbridge Group Inc./Netoptiks.ca, sub-domains, and any associated web-based and mobile applications (collectively, “Website”), as owned and operated by the Grandbridge Group/Netoptiks.

Capitalized terms, unless otherwise defined, have the meaning specified within the Definitions section below. The Terms and Conditions, along with our Privacy Policy, any mobile license agreement, and other posted guidelines within our Website, collectively “Legal Terms”, constitute the entire and only agreement between you and the Grandbridge Group/Netoptiks., and supersede all other agreements, representations, warranties and understandings with respect to our Website and the subject matter contained herein. We may amend our Legal Terms at any time without specific notice to you.

The latest copies of our Legal Terms will be posted on our Website, and you should review all Legal Terms prior to using our Website. After any revisions to our Legal Terms are posted, you agree to be bound to any such changes to them. Therefore, it is important for you to periodically review our Legal Terms to make sure you still agree to them.

By using our Website, you agree to fully comply with and be bound by our Legal Terms. Please review them carefully. If you do not accept our Legal Terms, do not access and use our Website. If you have already accessed our Website and do not accept our Legal Terms, you should immediately discontinue use of our Website.

The last update to our Terms and Conditions was posted on March 27, 2023.

 

Definitions

The terms “us” or “we” or “our” refers to the Grandbridge Group/Netoptiks, the owner of the Website.

A “Visitor” is someone who merely browses our Website, but has not registered as Member.

A “Member” is an individual that has registered with us to use our Service.

Our “Service” represents the collective functionality and features as offered through our Website to our Members.

A “User” is a collective identifier that refers to either a Visitor or a Member.

All text, information, graphics, audio, video, and data offered through our Website are collectively known as our “Content”.

 

Legal Compliance

You agree to comply with all applicable domestic and international laws, statutes, ordinances, and regulations regarding your use of our Website. The Grandbridge Group/Netoptiks reserves the right to investigate complaints or reported violations of our Legal Terms and to take any action we deem appropriate, including but not limited to canceling your Member account, reporting any suspected unlawful activity to law enforcement officials, regulators, or other third parties and disclosing any information necessary or appropriate to such persons or entities relating to your profile, email addresses, usage history, posted materials, IP addresses and traffic information, as allowed under our Privacy Policy.

 

Intellectual Property

Our Website may contain our service marks or trademarks as well as those of our affiliates or other companies, in the form of words, graphics, and logos. Your use of our Website does not constitute any right or license for you to use such service marks/trademarks, without the prior written permission of the corresponding service mark/trademark owner. Our Website is also protected under international copyright laws. The copying, redistribution, use or publication by you of any portion of our Website is strictly prohibited. Your use of our Website does not grant you ownership rights of any kind in our Website.

 

 

Links to Other Websites

Our Website may contain links to third-party websites. These links are provided solely as a convenience to you. By linking to these websites, we do not create or have an affiliation with, or sponsor such third-party websites. The inclusion of links within our Website does not constitute any endorsement, guarantee, warranty, or recommendation of such third-party websites. The Grandbridge Group/Netoptiks has no control over the legal documents and privacy practices of third-party websites; as such, you access any such third-party websites at your own risk.

 

General Terms

Our Legal Terms shall be treated as though it were executed and performed in Ontario, Canada, and shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Ontario, Canada, without regard to conflict of law principles. In addition, you agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction and venue of such courts. Any cause of action by you with respect to our Website, must be instituted within one (1) year after the cause of action arose or be forever waived and barred.

Should any part of our Legal Terms be held invalid or unenforceable, that portion shall be construed consistent with applicable law and the remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect. To the extent that any Content in our Website conflicts or is inconsistent with our Legal Terms, our Legal Terms shall take precedence. Our failure to enforce any provision of our Legal Terms shall not be deemed a waiver of such provision nor of the right to enforce such provision. The rights of the Grandbridge Group/Netoptiks under our Legal Terms shall survive the termination of our Legal Terms.

 

ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

These terms are subject to change from time to time. Please visit www.netoptiks.com for the most current Terms of Use.

1. By using THE GRANDBRIDGE GROUP INC./NETOPTIKS’s Internet Services and such other services provided by THE GRANDBRIDGE GROUP INC./NETOPTIKS, its partners and associates, (collectively the “Supplier”) you agree to the following terms of this Acceptable Use Policy. These terms and conditions are in addition to THE GRANDBRIDGE GROUP INC./NETOPTIKS’s applicable Terms of Service.
2. This Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) constitutes the agreement between THE GRANDBRIDGE GROUP INC./NETOPTIKS and you, subscribing to the Services. This Acceptable Use Policy governs your use of the Services and any devices and/or equipment used to support the Services including without limitation the modem and software which is provided to you and used in conjunction with the Services (the “Equipment”). By activating the Services, you expressly acknowledge that you have read, understand and agree to this Acceptable Use Policy and with THE GRANDBRIDGE GROUP INC./NETOPTIKS’s Terms of Service (collectively referred to as the “Agreement”). If you do not wish to be bound by this Agreement, or any revisions made by THE GRANDBRIDGE GROUP INC./NETOPTIKS, from time to time, do not activate or use the Services and contact THE GRANDBRIDGE GROUP INC./NETOPTIKS.
3. Use of the Services is subject to the following rules and guidelines. You are responsible for ensuring that the use of the Services complies with this Agreement.
4. The Service and Equipment that THE GRANDBRIDGE GROUP INC./NETOPTIKS provides in connection with the Services are for consumer use and not to be used to operate a telecommunications service provider or advertising business.
5. It is prohibited for you to send unsolicited telecommunications that do not comply with anti-spam and Unsolicited Telecommunications Rules of the Canadian Radiotelevision and Telecommunications (“UTRs”), including the Canadian Anti Spam legislation known as CASL; or, in our sole judgment, cause significant disruption or elicit complaints from other users. The sending of bulk unsolicited commercial email, and the use of automated diallers to make unsolicited promotional voice calls, are examples of such prohibited use.

ILLEGAL ACTIVITY 6. THE GRANDBRIDGE GROUP INC./NETOPTIKS prohibits the use of our Services for, and may interrupt, suspend or terminate your Services, if the Services are used to post, transmit, distribute, publish, disseminate, upload or download or otherwise make available in any way howsoever anything which: • Harasses others in any way such as bullying, defaming, stalking, threatening or otherwise violating their legal rights; • Is abusive, profane, obscene, libellous, slanderous, advocates terrorist acts, fraudulent, deceptive or otherwise offensive or objectionable; • contains child pornographic material; 2 • contains a virus, lock, key, bomb, worm, cancelbot, Trojan horse or other harmful, limiting, debilitating, disruptive or destructive feature; • contains, participates in, or incites or encourages hate speech, • Is a criminal offence or gives rise to civil liability; • is confidential to the party who originated the content; • violates copyright or intellectual property rights. The customer assumes all risk regarding whether material is in the public domain; • is a pyramid or other soliciting scheme; • violates any municipal, provincial, federal or international law, order, rule or regulation, including those of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunication Commission applicable to the Services, THE GRANDBRIDGE GROUP INC./NETOPTIKS or the Customer;

 ELECTRONIC MAIL & MESSAGES 7. It is also a violation of this AUP to engage in any of the following activities: •sending unsolicited e-mail (spamming), bulk or commercial messages. This includes but is not limited to bulk mailing of commercial advertising, charity requests, petitions for signatures, political and religious messages. Such messages may only be sent to those who have explicitly requested them, in accordance with CASL; •forging or removing electronic mail headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any content transmitted through the Services or for any other purpose; • sending messages that disrupt another Internet user’s equipment, software, hardware or user display; • sending large quantities of unwanted or unsolicited e-mail or VoIP messages (mail bombing or voicecasting); •Sending multiple copies of the same or substantially similar messages, or sending very large messages to a recipient with the intent to disrupt a server or an account. The transmission of chain messages is prohibited.

SECURITY 8. It is strictly prohibited under this AUP to do or attempt to do the following: • to invade another person’s privacy; to appropriate or impersonate another person’s identity (engage in “identity theft”); misrepresent or falsely state your relationship with another person or entity; unlawfully collect or store personal data about other persons or entities; or to forge any person’s digital or manual signature; to forge, alter or obscure your identity (other than using a nickname) while using the Services; 3 • disrupt or otherwise interfere howsoever with the Supplier’s network or the nodes or services thereof; • gain unauthorized access to, alter or destroy any account, information or computer resource not belonging to the Customer (engage in “hacking”, “spoofing”, “phishing”, “carding” or “pharming”) by any means, device or tools (such as “packet sniffers”) designed to facilitate the foregoing; • disrupt the provision by the Supplier of any of its Services to any of its customers; • disrupt computer networking telecommunications service to or from any Internet user, host, provider or network; • improperly seizing or abusing operator privileges (“hacking”); • overloading a system or deliberately repeating actions in quick succession in order to fill the screens of other Internet users with text or other content (flooding); • engage in broadcast attacks; • attempting to “crash” a host; • engage in counterfeit, fraudulent, subterfuge or malicious activities (splogging); • unauthorized linking or framing or otherwise denying service (“denial of service attack”) or otherwise denying, disrupting or misdirecting service to or use of service by any customer or end-user of the Supplier; • using any device connected through the Services to maintain more than two simultaneous chat connections including, the use of automated programs such as “bots” or “clones”. Automated programs may not be except when a representative of the Customer is physically present at the device; • port scan a person’s computer or wireless device without that person’s consent, or use any tools designed to facilitate these scans; • analyze or penetrate the Supplier’s security mechanisms or do anything that may compromise the security of the Supplier’ networks or systems in any way; • use the Services to restrict, inhibit or otherwise interfere with the ability either of the Supplier to deliver or monitor the services provided by the Supplier or of any other person to use or enjoy the use of the products or services of the Supplier or the Internet; • violating or circumventing any system or network security measures including engaging in unauthorized access or use of the Supplier’s or a third party’s network, data or information; • use the Services for simultaneous sessions using the same User ID or password; • alter, reproduce, or tamper with the Services or any function, component or identifier of Supplier’s equipment;

9. Furthermore, it is strictly prohibited under this AUP to engage in any activity which the Supplier advises the Customer is, in the sole and unfettered discretion of the Supplier, similar to any of the foregoing or is reasonably and generally regarded in 4 the industry to be an unacceptable use of telecommunications services or is otherwise unacceptable use of the Services;

DETERMINATION BY SUPPLIER 10. The Customer accepts that the Supplier shall have the sole and unfettered right to decide if the Customer is in compliance with the requirements of this Acceptable Use Policy and the Customer unconditionally agrees that any decision by the Supplier in such regards shall be binding on the Customer until any such decision is proven to be incorrect.

11. The supplier is not responsible to forward email sent to any account that has been suspended or terminated. Such email may be returned to the sender, deleted or stored temporarily, at Supplier’s sole discretion.

NO RESALE OR SHARING OF SERVICES WITHOUT PERMISSION 12. Unless permitted by the Service Agreement, sell, resell or make, directly or indirectly howsoever, any of the products or services received from the Supplier available to any third party.

13. If the Customer is at any time in breach of the requirements of this Acceptable Use Policy, the Customer agrees that the Supplier may immediately and without notice, and in addition to all other rights and remedies under the Service Agreement and at law and in equity, suspend the supply of any or all Services to the Customer pursuant to the Service Agreement. Any such suspension of the supply of the Services to the Customer shall not constitute a termination of the Service Agreement and shall not excuse the Customer from liability to make the payments to the Supplier required by the Service Agreement during the period that the provision of the Services to the Customer is suspended. The supply pursuant to the Service Agreement of any Services suspended pursuant to this Section shall resume upon the Customer no longer being in breach of any of the requirements of this Acceptable Use Policy and the Service Agreement and the payment by the Customer to the Supplier of any and all costs of the Supplier to suspend and restore service to the Customer and a $500 reinstitution charge. Breach of the requirements of this Acceptable Use Policy may result in termination of the Service Agreement pursuant to the Terms of Service comprising part of the Service Agreement.
14. In the event that any network with which the Supplier connects, directly or indirectly, or any regulatory or any industry oversight body of whatever nature or constitution advises of a system or use abuse originating with the Customer and as a consequence service to the Customer or to other customers of the Supplier or to the Supplier may be suspended then, regardless of whether or not the Customer is in fact the source of the advised abuse, the Customer agrees that the Supplier may immediately and without notice, and in addition to all other rights and remedies under the Service Agreement and at law and in equity, suspend the supply of the affected Services to the Customer pursuant to the Service Agreement. Any such suspension of the supply of the Services to the Customer shall not constitute a termination of the Service Agreement and shall not excuse the Customer from liability to make the payments to the Supplier required by the Service Agreement 5 during the period that the provision of the Services to the Customer is suspended. The supply of Services pursuant to the Service Agreement of any Services suspended pursuant to this Section shall resume upon the Customer no longer being or being regarded as the source of the advised abuse. If the Customer was not the source of the advised abuse, then the resumption of the provision of the Services to the Customer shall be made without any charge therefor by the Supplier to the Customer and the Supplier will not charge the Customer for the suspended Services for the period of suspension. If the Customer was the source of the advised abuse, then the resumption of the provision of the Services to the Customer shall be conditional upon the payment by the Customer to the Supplier of any and all costs of the Supplier to suspend and restore service to the Customer and a $500 reinstitution charge. If the Customer is the source of the advised abuse, then the Supplier may terminate the Service Agreement pursuant to the Terms of Service comprising part of the Service Agreement. INTERNET TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT POLICIES (“IMTPs”)
15. THE GRANDBRIDGE GROUP INC./NETOPTIKS may in its sole discretion, use reasonable traffic management policies to ensure equitable access to its network for all of THE GRANDBRIDGE GROUP INC./NETOPTIKS’s Internet customers. THE GRANDBRIDGE GROUP INC./NETOPTIKS may employ IMTPs, in the event of significant network congestion due to network failure, a force majeure event, or other transport network constraint that impacts its customers’ use of the Internet. IMTPs are not intended to impact customers’ activities such as on-line banking, on-line shopping, or the use of VoIP services. In most cases, the customer experience should not be affected by the employment of Internet Traffic Management Policies.
16. THE GRANDBRIDGE GROUP INC./NETOPTIKS does not routinely monitor the activity of its customers for violation of this AUP. However, THE GRANDBRIDGE GROUP INC./NETOPTIKS may take action in the event that it becomes aware of suspected AUP violations. THE GRANDBRIDGE GROUP INC./NETOPTIKS may monitor bandwidth usage and other metrics in order to identify AUP violations and to protect its network and its customers.
17. In the course of investigation of AUP violations, THE GRANDBRIDGE GROUP INC./NETOPTIKS may suspend the account of a customer, which violates the AUP, and may delete from its servers, any material which violates the AUP.

LAW ENFORCEMENT REQUIREMENTS 18. THE GRANDBRIDGE GROUP INC./NETOPTIKS may be required to cooperate with law enforcement officials, in the investigation of criminal activity. You hereby acknowledge that THE GRANDBRIDGE GROUP INC./NETOPTIKS may cooperate with law enforcement authorities in the investigation of suspected criminal activity, and/or system administrators at other Internet Service Providers or network operators, in order to enforce this AUP. Such cooperation may include but is not limited to the provision of the username, IP address or other identifying information about a customer, in accordance with the guidelines set out in THE GRANDBRIDGE GROUP INC./NETOPTIKS’s Privacy Policy.