AGREEMENT BETWEEN USER AND EMPIRE GROUP PHOTOGRAPHY, INC.
The Empire Group Photography, Inc. ("Empire Group Photography, Inc.") website (the "Website") is offered to you ("you," "your" or "user") conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions and notices contained herein. Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions and notices. Additionally, the Website may contain additional terms that govern particular features or offers such as promotions, forums, chat services or other features. Except as expressly provided in such promotional terms, these terms of use shall be binding between you and Empire Group Photography, Inc..

MODIFICATION OF THESE TERMS OF USE
Empire Group Photography, Inc. reserves the right to change the Website as well as the terms, conditions and notices under which the Website is offered, including but not limited to any charges associated with the use of the Website. You are responsible for regularly reviewing these terms and conditions. Your use of the Website shall be conclusively deemed an acceptance of these terms.

PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL USE LIMITATION
Unless otherwise agreed in writing by Empire Group Photography, Inc., the Website is for your personal and non-commercial use. Empire Group Photography, Inc. grants you a limited, revocable and nonexclusive license to access and make personal use of the Website. You may not modify, copy, distribute, transmit, display, perform, reproduce, publish, license, create derivative works from, transfer exploit for any commercial purpose, or sell any content, information, software, products or services obtained from the Website without express written consent from Empire Group Photography, Inc.. You may not create a hyperlink to the Website on any other website or location on any computer network without express written consent from Empire Group Photography, Inc..

If you use the Website, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password.

TRADEMARKS AND COPYRIGHTS
All content on Website, including but not limited to text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations and software, together with the compilation of all content on the site, is the exclusive property of Empire Group Photography, Inc. or its content suppliers and protected by United States and international copyright laws. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of these laws, and may subject you to civil and criminal penalties.

Empire Group Photography, Inc. and other marks indicated on the website are registered trademarks of Empire Group Photography, Inc. or its affiliates, in the United States and other countries. Empire Group Photography, Inc. graphics, logos, page headers, button icons, scripts and services names are trademarks and trade dress of Empire Group Photography, Inc. or its affiliates. Empire Group Photography, Inc.'s trademarks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any other party's product or service, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among consumers, or in any manner that disparages, dilutes or is harmful to the Empire Group Photography, Inc.. All other marks not owned by Empire Group Photography, Inc. or its affiliates are the property of their respective owners.

You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo or other proprietary information of Empire Group Photography, Inc. or its affiliates without express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilizing Empire Group Photography, Inc.'s name or trademarks without Empire Group Photography, Inc.'s express written consent.

NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
Empire Group Photography, Inc. respects the intellectual property rights of others, and we ask our users to do the same. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright or trademark infringement, please mail the following information to Copyright Infringement Department, Empire Group Photography, Inc. 1315 Lawrence Avenue East, Suite 310, North York, Ontario, CANADA phone: 416-651-0014, fax: 416-651-0013, email: legal@empiregroup.net.

An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest;

A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed;

A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site;

Your address, telephone number and email address;

A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law; and

A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner's behalf.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES
The Website may contain links to other websites ("Linked Sites").

The Linked Sites are not under the control of Empire Group Photography, Inc., and Empire Group Photography, Inc. is not responsible for the content of any Linked Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Site or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. Empire Group Photography, Inc. is not responsible for webcasting or any other form of transmission received from any Linked Site. Empire Group Photography, Inc. is not responsible for the privacy policy, terms of use or use of your information which may be made by Linked Sites. You should carefully review any terms of use or privacy statements on these Linked Sites. Empire Group Photography, Inc. is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Empire Group Photography, Inc. of the Linked Site or any association with the Linked Site's operators. You should carefully review the Linked Site's privacy statements and other conditions of use on these Linked Sites.

NO UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE
As a condition of your use of the Website, you warrant to Empire Group Photography, Inc. that you will not use the Website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions and notices. You may not use Website in any manner, which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Website or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Website. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the Website.

USE OF COMMUNICATION SERVICES
The Website may contain bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or with a group (collectively, "Communication Services"). Your use of the Website constitutes your agreement to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are related to the particular Communication Service and not illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a Communication Service, you will not: Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others; Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information; Upload files that contain software or other material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy of publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents; Upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another's computer; Advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose, unless such Communication Service specifically allows such messages; Conduct, send or forward surveys, contests, pyramid schemes, chain letters, mass mailings or any form of "spam"; Download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner; Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded; Use a false email address, impersonate any person or entity or otherwise mislead anyone as to the origin of any communication or content; Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication Services; Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any particular Communication Service; Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses, without their consent; or Violate any applicable laws or regulations.

If you post or submit any content or material to the Website and/or through the Communication Services, you thereby grant Empire Group Photography, Inc. and its agents and affiliates a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable and fully sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute and display such content or material throughout the world in any media. You also grant Empire Group Photography, Inc. and its agents, affiliates and sub-licensees the right to use the name under which you submitted such content or material. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content or material that you post or submit, that the content is accurate, that use of the content does not violate these Terms of Use and will not cause injury to any person or entity, and that you will indemnify Empire Group Photography, Inc. or its agents or affiliates for all claims resulting from content you supply. Empire Group Photography, Inc. has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However, Empire Group Photography, Inc. reserves the right to review materials posted to a Communication Service and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. Empire Group Photography, Inc. reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever.

Empire Group Photography, Inc. reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in Empire Group Photography, Inc.'s sole discretion.

WARRANTY, RISK OF LOSS & PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS
All items purchased from Empire Group Photography, Inc. are made pursuant to a shipment contract. This means that the risk of loss and title for such items passes to you upon our delivery to the carrier.

Empire Group Photography, Inc. and its affiliates try to be as accurate as possible in describing products offered for sale to users. However, Empire Group Photography, Inc. does not warrant that product descriptions or other content of Website are accurate, complete, reliable, current or error-free. If a product offered by Empire Group Photography, Inc. is not as described, your sole and exclusive remedy is to return the product, postage or shipping prepaid, in unused condition.

Your shipment may contain warranty terms and conditions for any product offered on this Website, which shall be controlling. Subject to the inclusion of such warranty terms and conditions, all products offered on this Website are sold AS IS, and you assume the risk of use of any such products and Empire Group Photography, Inc. expressly disclaims all express and implied warranties INCLUDING ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR USE. You agree that Empire Group Photography, Inc.'s sole and exclusive liability for the breach of any warranty, or for any contractual claim, shall be limited to a refund of products purchased on this Website. Certain States may not allow the disclaimer of implied warranties, and this disclaimer may not apply to you and you may have additional rights.

LIABILITY DISCLAIMER
THE CONTENT, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH WEB SITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION IN THESE TERMS OF USE AND TO THE CONTENT ON THE WEB SITE. Empire Group Photography, Inc. AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE WEB SITE AT ANY TIME. ADVICE RECEIVED VIA THE WEB SITE SHOULD NOT BE RELIED UPON FOR PERSONAL, MEDICAL, LEGAL OR FINANCIAL DECISIONS AND YOU SHOULD CONSULT AN APPROPRIATE PROFESSIONAL FOR SPECIFIC ADVICE TAILORED TO YOUR SITUATION.

Empire Group Photography, Inc. AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND ABOUT THE OPERATION OF THE WEB SITE OR THE SUITABILITY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, TIMELINESS AND ACCURACY OF THE CONTENT, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS CONTAINED ON THE WEB SITE. ALL SUCH CONTENT, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, AND YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE "CLIENT" WEB SITE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. Empire Group Photography, Inc. DOES NOT WARRANT THAT ITS SITES, ITS SERVERS, OR EMAIL SENT FROM Empire Group Photography, Inc. ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, Empire Group Photography, Inc. AND/OR ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH REGARD TO THE CONTENT, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

IN NO EVENT SHALL Empire Group Photography, Inc. AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF, OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE WEB SITE, WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE WEB SITE OR RELATED SERVICES, THE PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS OBTAINED THROUGH THE WEB SITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE WEB SITE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF Empire Group Photography, Inc. OR ANY OF ITS SUPPLIERS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES.

IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THE WEB SITE, OR WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS OF USE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE WEB SITE. BECAUSE SOME STATES/JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES, SOME OR ALL OF THE ABOVE DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS OR LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU, AND YOU MAY HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS.

APPLICABLE LAW
By visiting the Website, you agree that the laws of the Province of Ontario, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern these Terms of Use and any dispute arising between you and Empire Group Photography, Inc. or its affiliates.

DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Any dispute relating in any way to the Website or to products you purchase through the Website shall be submitted to confidential arbitration in Toronto, Ontario, except that, to the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate Empire Group Photography, Inc.'s intellectual property rights, Empire Group Photography, Inc. may seek injunctive relief or other appropriate relief in any state or federal court in the province of Ontario, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts. Arbitration under this agreement shall be conducted under the rules then prevailing of the Canadian Arbitration Association. the arbitrator's award shall be binding and may be entered as a judgment in any court of competent jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by law, no arbitration under this agreement shall be joined to an arbitration involving any other party subject to the agreement, whether through class arbitration proceedings or otherwise.

SEVERABILITY
If any of the terms or conditions in these Terms of Use shall be deemed invalid, void or for any reason unenforceable, then that term or condition shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining condition.

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