Last Updated: May 19, 2024

Your Acceptance of these Terms of Use

Please read these terms of use (“Terms of Use”) carefully before using the Website as they represent a binding agreement between Soul Thrillers (referred to as “Soul Thrillers”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) and you (“you”, “your”) in using our website found at www.soulthrillers.com, including:

1. All webpages forming part of that website (“Webpages”); and

2. Any other websites, digital properties, audio offerings, mobile applications, and/or mobile-enabled sites that are owned and/or operated by Soul Thrillers and that do not have separate terms and conditions;

(collectively, the “Website”).

Webpages may contain policies or terms that are specific to their content (e.g. payment terms), and, unless expressly stated otherwise, such policies and/or terms are in addition to and not a substitution for these Terms of Use. If you wish to access and use the Website, you must accept and agree to be bound by and comply with these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, then you must not access or use the Website.

You agree that these Terms of Use, and any related information, communications, and agreements between you and us, may be made available or occur electronically.

These Terms of Use were last updated on the “Last Updated” date indicated above. We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify these Terms of Use at any time. Such modifications shall become effective immediately upon the posting thereof. You must review these Terms of Use on a regular basis to ensure you are aware of the then-current terms of use. You can find the most recent version of these Terms of Use at: www.soulthrillers.com/website-terms.

Use of the Website

We require you to follow the following simple rules when accessing or using the Website. You must not:

1. Use the Website in violation of any applicable laws, rules, or regulations. The Website is only intended for access and use by users located within Canada. If you access the Website from outside of Canada, you are solely responsible for ensuring compliance with the laws of your specific jurisdiction;

2. Interfere with or disrupt the Website or any of our computer systems, servers, networks, databases, software, hardware, or equipment used by or for the Website;

3. Interfere with the use or enjoyment of the Website by others;

4. Introduce code which is disruptive or harmful to the Website or otherwise; or

5. Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our computer systems, servers, networks, databases, software, hardware, or equipment, including to: user-restricted areas of the Website; logins and passwords of others; or personal information and personal accounts of others.

   
   

Soul Thrillers grants you (as a permitted user of the Website) a limited, revocable, non-exclusive license to access the Website for your own personal use and in compliance with applicable law. Use of the Website beyond the scope of authorized access granted to you by these Terms of Use immediately terminates that license.

Access and use of the Website may be subject to limitations, delays, and other problems inherent in the use of the Internet and electronic communications. Soul Thrillers is not responsible for any delays, delivery failures, or other damage resulting from such problems, or from the unavailability of the Website for any reason.

All rights not expressly granted by these Terms of Use are reserved to us, or, if applicable, our licensors.

Notwithstanding anything else contained herein, we reserve the right to refuse to provide access to the Website to anyone at any time for any reason, without any notice or liability.

Your Privacy

We respect your right to privacy. Please refer to our Website privacy policy available at www.soulthrillers.com/web-privacy-policy. If you sign-up to receive paid services from Soul Thrillers, an additional privacy policy (available at www.soulthrillers.com/privacy-policy) will apply to such services. Such privacy policies will be referred to collectively as the “Privacy Policies” in these Terms of Use.

Trademark and Copyright Information

Our Website contains content including, but not limited to, text, audio, images, and other materials or elements (collectively “Content”). Content displayed on or through the Website is protected by copyright as a collective work and/or compilation, pursuant to copyright laws and international conventions. Any reproduction, modification, creation of derivative works from or redistribution of the Website or the collective work, and/or copying or reproducing the Website or any portion thereof to any other server or location for further reproduction or redistribution is prohibited without our express written consent.

You agree not to reproduce, duplicate or copy content from the Website without the express written consent of Soul Thrillers, and agree to abide by any and all copyright notices displayed on the Website. You may not decompile or disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to discover any source code contained in the Website. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any aspect of the Website.

Cookies

A cookie is a small data file that websites often store on a computer's hard drive when their sites are visited. A cookie may contain information (such as a unique user ID) that is used to track the pages of the Website visited. Soul Thrillers may use cookies to enhance your experience while navigating our Website by storing and tracking your preferences. Your browser is probably set to accept cookies. However, if you would prefer not to receive cookies, you can change your browser settings to refuse them. If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it is possible that some areas of the Website will not function properly when you view them, and you may have to enter personal information every time you use the Website.

Infringement Claims

If any content posted on the Website infringes on your copyright, please provide notice of same by email to: contact@soulthrillers.com.

Soul Thrillers investigates notices of alleged infringement and takes appropriate actions under applicable law.

Your notice of claimed infringement must include: (a) Physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or authorized agent; (b) Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed; (c) Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing and that is to be removed from the site, as well as information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material; (d) Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the copyright owner, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address; (e) A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or applicable law; and (f) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner. Claimants who make misrepresentations concerning copyright infringement may be liable for damages incurred as a result of the removal or blocking of the material, court costs, and lawyer’s fees.

User Contributed Content

The Website may allow you and others to submit content to the Website. In submitting content, you must be civil and respectful of others. In particular, you must not:

1. Mislead us or anyone else as to your identity or the origin of the submitted content, or falsely claim to represent a person, organization, or entity; or

2. Post or transmit any message, content or link to content that: a. You either do not own or do not have the necessary rights to post or transmit; b. Is in violation of any applicable law, rule, or regulation or any third party right, or promotes illegal activity or conduct that would contravene applicable law, rule, or regulation or third party right; c. Is abusive, hateful, homophobic, discriminatory, malicious, aggressive, threatening, violent, sexist, harassing, inflammatory, indecent, tortious, defamatory, knowingly false, misleading, deceptive, vulgar, obscene, offensive, scandalous, sexually explicit, profane, offensive or otherwise objectionable; d. Incites hatred, racism, bigotry or physical harm of any kind; e. Is unsolicited or unauthorized, such as unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional material, “chain letter”, “spam”, “junk mail”, “pyramid scheme” or any other form of solicitation (whether or not commercial in nature); f. Is in breach of any confidence; g. Includes personal data or information about others; and h. May result in us being liable to anyone else under any intellectual property rights law.

   
   

By submitting your content, you agree that Soul Thrillers may use the content that you submit and to permit others to do the same; in both cases, without the need to give you notice, acknowledgment or payment (except in the case of personal information, in which case Soul Thrillers’ rights will be subject to the terms of the Privacy Policies, as applicable). You also agree to waive your moral rights as an author under copyright law in the submitted content.

While we may moderate certain interactive portions of the Website, we are not required to, nor should you expect that we will, take action in response to any content posted on the Website. The views expressed by others represent their own views and are not endorsed or approved by us, nor do we endorse or approve any events or other activities posted by a user.

We reserve the right not to post any content that you submit, and to remove, edit or move, at any time, any content submitted and posted on the Website which does not comply with these Terms of Use or for any other reason that we determine appropriate.

We will cooperate with law enforcement officials and comply with any court order with respect to any claim or investigation due to any content posted or activity that you undertake on our website and will provide such content and provide information regarding your identity as well as other relevant information.

Third Party Websites & Social Media Platforms

Links to websites and social media platforms not under Soul Thrillers’ control are provided for your convenience only (“Third Party Websites”). Soul Thrillers disclaims any and all liability for Third Party Websites. We are not responsible for the accuracy or reliability of the content of Third Party Websites. We do not offer any guarantee and are not responsible for the information found through the Third Party Websites. We also do not endorse the Third Party Websites or their content. Neither these Terms of Use nor the Privacy Policies apply to any Third Party Websites. You should review the terms of use and privacy statement of any Third Party Websites before providing any personal or other information.

Disclaimer of Warranties and Liability

YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. YOU AGREE THAT THE WEBSITE AND WEBPAGES, ALONG WITH THE CONTENT AND ARTICLES PROVIDED ON THE WEBSITE AND WEBPAGES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND ARE NOT TO BE CONSIDERED, OR USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR, MEDICAL ADVICE, DIAGNOSIS, OR TREATMENT. SOUL THRILLERS IS NOT A HEALTHCARE PROVIDER. IF YOU ARE IN NEED OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE/TREATMENT, OR YOU OR SOMEONE IS IN CRISIS OR DANGER OF HARM, CALL 911 OR PROCEED TO YOUR NEAREST EMERGENCY ROOM. THE WEBSITE AND WEBPAGES (INCLUDING ALL CONTENT AND ARTICLES PROVIDED ON SAME) ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL SOUL THRILLERS OR ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES, OR THEIR RESPECTIVE DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, SHAREHOLDERS, AGENTS, CONTRACTORS, SUCCESSORS OR ASSIGNS, HAVE ANY RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY, OR OTHER DAMAGES, AND INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION TO ANY LOSS OF PROFIT, COSTS, EXPENSES, HARM TO BUSINESS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, REPUTATION, LOSS OF INFORMATION OR PROGRAMS OR DATA, LOSS OF SAVINGS, LOSS OF REVENUE, LOSS OF GOODWILL, LOSS OF TANGIBLE OR INTANGIBLE PROPERTY, LEGAL FEES OR LEGAL COSTS, WASTED MANAGEMENT OR OFFICE TIME OR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER), WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE OR ANY OTHER LEGAL BASIS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE WEBSITE OR WEBPAGES, ANY THIRD PARTY WEBSITE (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY DAMAGES SUFFERED AS A RESULT OF THE USE, INABILITY TO USE, FAILURE OF, OR ANY OMISSIONS OR INACCURACIES IN, THE WEBSITE OR WEBPAGES, ANY THIRD PARTY WEBSITES, OR ANY OF THE SERVICES OR CONTENT OF THE FOREGOING), EVEN IF SOUL THRILLERS HAS BEEN SPECIFICALLY ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE OR LOSS, OR IF SUCH DAMAGE OR LOSS WAS FORESEEABLE.

You will be solely responsible and liable for any and all loss, damage, and additional costs that you, Soul Thrillers or any other person may incur as a result of your submission of any information on or through this Website.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold Soul Thrillers, its subsidiaries and affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, employees, shareholders, agents, contractors, successors and assigns, harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable legal fees and court costs, made by you or any third party due to or arising out of content you submit or make available through the Website, your use of the Website, your violation of these Terms of Use, your breach of any of the representations and warranties herein, or your violation of any rights of another person.

General Matters

These Terms of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and Soul Thrillers regarding your use of the Website, superseding any prior agreements between you and Soul Thrillers. These Terms of Use and the relationship between you and Soul Thrillers under these Terms of Use shall be governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario (and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein) without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Soul Thrillers agrees and you also agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located in Toronto, Ontario. The failure of Soul Thrillers to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of these Terms of Use is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of these Terms of Use remain in full force and effect.