Get the App

Terms of Use

TradesLink Inc.

Terms & Conditions

Hello there! TradesLink is an application dedicated to the people who build and maintain our world – the trades. We bring together the professionals of the industry. Through TradesLink, people can create a digital professional profile and connect with others in the industry.

‍Acceptance of the Terms of Use

Please read the Terms of Use carefully before you start to use the Application. By using the Application, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy, incorporated herein by reference. If you do not want to agree to these Terms of Use or the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Application. These terms of use are entered into by and between You and TradesLink (“Company,” “we,” or “us”). The following terms and conditions govern your access to and use of TradesLink including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through TradesLink (the “Application”). This Application is offered and available to users who are 18 years of age or older, and reside in Canada, the United States or any of their territories or possessions. By using this Application, you represent and warrant that you meet all of the foregoing eligibility requirements. If you do not meet all of these requirements, you must not access or use the Application.

Fostering a positive, inclusive, and safe community environment

We develop and use tools and offer resources to our community members that help to make their experiences positive and inclusive. Our team works to combat abuse and violations of our Terms of Use and policies, as well as harmful and deceptive behavior. We use all the information we have-including your information-to try to keep our platform secure. We will not tolerate objectionable content and will remove it from our platform when reported and confirmed by our team. Additionally, we may ban any user who displays harmful behavior that’s not conducive to our community. We also may share information about misuse or harmful content with law enforcement.

‍

‍Changes to the Terms of Use

We may revise and update these Terms of Use from time to time in our sole discretion. All changes are effective immediately when we post them. However, any changes to the dispute resolution provisions set out in Governing Law and Jurisdiction will not apply to any disputes for which the parties have actual notice on or before the date the change is posted on the Application. Your continued use of the Application following the posting of revised Terms of Use means that you accept and agree to the changes. You are expected to check this page from time to time so you are aware of any changes, as they are binding on you.

‍Accessing the Application and Account Security

We reserve the right to withdraw or amend this Application, and any service or material we provide on the Application, in our sole discretion without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason all or any part of the Application is unavailable at any time or for any period. From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of the Application, or the entire Application, to users, including registered users.

You are responsible for both:

  • Making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to the Application.

  • Ensuring that all persons who access the Application through your internet connection are aware of these Terms of Use and comply with them.

To access the Application or some of the resources it offers, you may be asked to provide certain registration details or other information. It is a condition of your use of the Application that all the information you provide on the Application is correct, current, and complete. You agree that all information you provide to register with this Application or otherwise, including, but not limited to, through the use of any interactive features on the Application, is governed by our Privacy Policy, and you consent to all actions we take with respect to your information consistent with our Privacy Policy.

If you choose, or are provided with, a user name, password, or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any other person or entity. You also acknowledge that your account is personal to you and agree not to provide any other person with access to this Application or portions of it using your user name, password, or other security information. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized access to or use of your user name or password or any other breach of security. You also agree to ensure that you exit from your account at the end of each session. You should use particular caution when accessing your account from a public or shared computer or phone so that others are not able to view or record your password or other personal information.We have the right to disable any user name, password, or other identifier, whether chosen by you or provided by us, at any time in our sole discretion for any or no reason, including if, in our opinion, you have violated any provision of these Terms of Use.

‍Intellectual Property Rights

‍The Application and its entire contents, features, and functionality (including but not limited to all information, software, text, displays, images, video, and audio, and the design, selection, and arrangement thereof) are owned by the Company, its licensors, or other providers of such material and are protected by Canadian and international copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights laws.These Terms of Use permit you to use the Application for your use only. You must not reproduce, distribute, modify, create derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, republish, download, store, or transmit any of the material on our Application, except as follows:

  • Your computer may temporarily store copies of such materials in RAM incidental to your accessing and viewing those materials.You may store files that are automatically cached by your Web browser for display enhancement purposes.

  • You may print or download one copy of a reasonable number of pages of the Application for your own use and not for further reproduction, publication, or distribution (except as otherwise expressly authorized by us). If we provide desktop, mobile, or other applications for download, you may download a single copy to your computer or mobile device solely for your own personal, non-commercial use, provided you agree to be bound by our end user license agreement for such applications.

  • If we provide social media features with certain content, you may take such actions as are enabled by such features.

You must not:

  • Modify copies of any materials from this site, except as expressly authorized by us.

  • Delete or alter any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary rights notices from copies of materials from the Application.

If you wish to make any use of material on the Application other than that set out in this section, please address your request to: info@gettradeslink.com.

If you print, copy, modify, download, or otherwise use or provide any other person with access to any part of the Application in breach of the Terms of Use, your right to use the Application will stop immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made. No right, title, or interest in or to the Application or any content on the Application is transferred to you, and all rights not expressly granted are reserved by the Company. Any use of the Application not expressly permitted by these Terms of Use is a breach of these Terms of Use and may violate copyright, trademark, and other laws.

‍Trademarks

The Company name, the term TradesLink, the Company logo, and all related names, logos, product and service names, designs, and slogans are trademarks of the Company or its affiliates or licensors. You must not use such marks without the prior written permission of the Company. All other names, logos, product and service names, designs, and slogans on this Application are the trademarks of their respective owners.

‍Prohibited Uses

There are rules of conduct that all Users are required to follow when using the Application.

  • You may use the Application only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms of Use. You agree not to use the Application:In any way that violates any applicable federal, provincial/state, local, or international law or regulation (including, without limitation, any laws regarding the export of data or software to and from Canada, the US, or other countries).

  • For the purpose of exploiting, harming, or attempting to exploit or harm minors in any way by exposing them to inappropriate content, asking for personally identifiable information, or otherwise.

  • To transmit, or procure the sending of, any advertising or promotional material, including any “junk mail,” “chain letter,” “spam,” or any other similar solicitation.

  • To impersonate or attempt to impersonate the Company, a Company employee, another user, or any other person or entity (including, without limitation, by using email addresses associated with any of the foregoing).

  • To engage in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits anyone’s use or enjoyment of the Application, or which, as determined by us, may harm the Company or users of the Application, or expose them to liability.

  • To ‘harvest,’ ‘scrape’ or collect information from the Application using an automated software tool or manually on a mass basis (unless we have given you separate written permission to do so). This includes, for example, information about other users of the Application and information about the offerings, products, services and promotions available on or through the Application.

  • To use unauthorized automated means to access the Application, or otherwise gain unauthorized access to the Application or to any account or computer system connected to the Application.

  • To “streamcatch” (download, store or transmit copies of streamed content).

  • To obtain, or attempt to obtain, access to areas of the Application or our systems that are not intended for access by you.

  • To “flood” the Application with requests or otherwise overburden, disrupt or harm the Application or its systems (e.g., perform a Denial of Service attack). Attack the Application via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.

  • To circumvent or reverse engineer the Application or its systems.

  • To restrict or inhibit another User or Users from using and enjoying the Application.

  • To manipulate or forge identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any information posted on the Application or otherwise provided to us or our employees.

  • To engage in or promote spamming, chain letters or other unsolicited communications.

  • To provide inaccurate, misleading or false information to us.

  • To post any content or take any action that may create a risk of harm, loss, physical or mental injury, emotional distress, death, disability, disfigurement, or physical or mental illness to you, any other person or any animal.

  • To post any content or take any action that seeks to harm or exploit children by exposing them to inappropriate content or behavior, asking for personally identifiable details or otherwise.

  • To post any content or take any action that contains any information, content or behavior that is vulgar, obscene, unlawful, harmful, abusive, racially or ethnically offensive, defamatory, infringing, invasive of personal privacy or publicity rights, harassing, high-pressure sales tactics, humiliating to other people (publicly or otherwise), libelous, threatening, profane, or otherwise harmful (to TradesLink or any User).

  • To post any content or take any action that contains any information that you know is not correct or current.

  • To post any content or take any action that is fraudulent, unlawful, threatening or harassing.

  • To post any content or take any action that contains any information (such as inside, proprietary or confidential information) that you do not have a right to make available due to contract, fiduciary duty or operation of law.

  • To post any content or take any action that advertises or solicits business for products or services other than those that are offered and promoted on the Application.

  • To post any content or take any action that contains or distributes any virus, malware, spyware or other malicious or harmful content or code.

  • To post any content or take any other action that violates any law, rule or regulation, or contains any information or content that is illegal or encourages criminal or other unlawful conduct.

  • To engage in any fraudulent activities, terror or money laundering activity, or any other activity which violates any policy of TradesLink (including these Terms of Use).

Additionally, you agree not to:

  • Use the Application in any manner that could disable, overburden, damage, or impair the Application or interfere with any other party’s use of the Application, including their ability to engage in real time activities through the Application.

  • Use any robot, spider, or other automatic device, process, or means to access the Application for any purpose, including monitoring or copying any of the material on the Application.

  • Use any manual process to monitor or copy any of the material on the Application, or for any other purpose not expressly authorized in these Terms of Use, without our prior written consent.

  • Use any device, software, or routine that interferes with the proper working of the Application.

  • Introduce any viruses, Trojan horses, worms, logic bombs, or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful.

  • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to, interfere with, damage, or disrupt any parts of the Application, the server on which the Application is stored, or any server, computer, or database connected to the Application.

  • Attack the Application via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack.

Otherwise attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Application.

‍Monitoring and Enforcement; Termination

‍We have the right to:

  • Disclose your identity or other information about you to any third party who claims that material posted by you violates their rights, including their intellectual property rights or their right to privacy.

  • Take appropriate legal action, including without limitation, referral to law enforcement, for any illegal or unauthorized use of the Application.

  • Terminate or suspend your access to all or part of the Application for any violation of these Terms of Use.

Without limiting the foregoing, we have the right to cooperate fully with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity or other information of anyone posting any materials on or through the Application. YOU WAIVE AND HOLD HARMLESS THE COMPANY AND ITS AFFILIATES, LICENSEES, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS FROM ANY CLAIMS RESULTING FROM ANY ACTION TAKEN BY ANY OF THE FOREGOING PARTIES DURING, OR TAKEN AS A CONSEQUENCE OF, INVESTIGATIONS BY EITHER SUCH PARTIES OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES.We have no liability or responsibility to anyone for performance or nonperformance of the activities described in this section.

‍Copyright Infringement

‍We take claim of copyright infringement seriously and will respond to notices of alleged copyright infringement that comply with applicable law. If you believe any materials accessible on or from the Application infringe your copyright, you may request removal of those materials (or access to them) from the Application by submitting written notification to our copyright agent designated below. In accordance with the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. § 512) (“DMCA”), the written notice (the “DMCA Notice”) must include substantially the following:

(a) your physical or electronic signature;

(b) identification of the copyrighted work you believe to have been infringed or, if the claim involves multiple works on the Application, a representative list of such works;

(c) identification of the material to be infringing in a sufficiently precise manner to allow us to locate that material;

(d) adequate information by which we can contact you (including your name, postal address, telephone number, and, if available, email address);

(e) a statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the copyrighted material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;

(f) a statement that the information in the written notice is accurate; and

(g) a statement, under penalty of perjury, that you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner. Our designated copyright agent to receive DMCA notices is: Alex Stieda / info@gettradeslink.com.  If you fail to comply with all of the requirements of Section 512(c)(3) of the DMCA, your DMCA Notice may not be effective.  Please be aware that if you knowingly materially misrepresent that material or activity on the Application is infringing your copyright, you may be held liable for damages (including costs and attorneys’ fees) under Section 512(f) of the DMCA.

‍Reliance on Information Posted

The information presented on or through the Application is made available solely for general information purposes. We do not warrant the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of this information. Any reliance you place on such information is strictly at your own risk. We disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by you or any other visitor to the Application, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.This Application may include content provided by third parties, including materials provided by other users, bloggers, and third-party licensors, syndicators, aggregators, and/or reporting services. All statements and/or opinions expressed in these materials, and all articles and responses to questions and other content, other than the content provided by the Company, are solely the opinions and the responsibility of the person or entity providing those materials. These materials do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Company. We are not responsible, or liable to you or any third party, for the content or accuracy of any materials provided by any third parties.

‍Changes to the Application

We may update the content on this Application from time to time, but its content is not necessarily complete or up-to-date. Any of the material on the Application may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.

‍Information About You and Your Visits to the Application

All information we collect on this Application is subject to our Privacy Policy. By using the Application, you consent to all actions taken by us with respect to your information in compliance with the Privacy Policy.

‍Linking to the Application and Social Media Features

You may link to our homepage, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval, or endorsement on our part. This Application may provide certain social media features that enable you to:

  • Link from your own or certain third-party websites to certain content on this Application.

  • Send emails or other communications with certain content, or links to certain content, on this Application.

  • Cause limited portions of content on this Application to be displayed or appear to be displayed on your own or certain third-party websites.

You may use these features solely as they are provided by us and otherwise in accordance with any additional terms and conditions we provide with respect to such features.

Subject to the foregoing, you must not:

  • Establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.

  • Cause the Application or portions of it to be displayed on, or appear to be displayed by, any other site, for example, framing, deep linking, or in-line linking. Link to any part of the Application other than the homepage.

  • Otherwise take any action with respect to the materials on this Application that is inconsistent with any other provision of these Terms of Use.

You agree to cooperate with us in causing any unauthorized framing or linking immediately to stop. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. We may disable all or any social media features and any links at any time without notice, at our discretion.

‍Geographic Restrictions

The owner of the Application is based in the Province of Alberta in Canada. We provide this Application for use only by persons located in Canada and the United States. We make no claims that the Application or any of its content is accessible or appropriate outside of Canada and the United States. Access to the Application may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If you access the Application from outside Canada or the United States, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws.

‍Disclaimer of Warranties

You understand that we cannot and do not guarantee or warrant that files available for downloading from the internet or the Application will be free of viruses or other destructive code. You are responsible for implementing sufficient procedures and checkpoints to satisfy your particular requirements for anti-virus protection and accuracy of data input and output, and for maintaining a means external to our site for any reconstruction of any lost data. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PROVIDED BY LAW, WE WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY A DISTRIBUTED DENIAL-OF-SERVICE ATTACK, VIRUSES, OR OTHER TECHNOLOGICALLY HARMFUL MATERIAL THAT MAY INFECT YOUR COMPUTER EQUIPMENT, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, DATA, OR OTHER PROPRIETARY MATERIAL DUE TO YOUR USE OF THE APPLICATION OR ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE APPLICATION OR TO YOUR DOWNLOADING OF ANY MATERIAL POSTED ON IT, OR ON ANY WEBSITE LINKED TO IT.

YOUR USE OF THE APPLICATION, ITS CONTENT, AND ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE APPLICATION IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE APPLICATION, ITS CONTENT, AND ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE APPLICATION ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. NEITHER THE COMPANY NOR ANY PERSON ASSOCIATED WITH THE COMPANY MAKES ANY WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION WITH RESPECT TO THE COMPLETENESS, SECURITY, RELIABILITY, QUALITY, ACCURACY, OR AVAILABILITY OF THE APPLICATION. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, NEITHER THE COMPANY NOR ANYONE ASSOCIATED WITH THE COMPANY REPRESENTS OR WARRANTS THAT THE APPLICATION, ITS CONTENT, OR ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE APPLICATION WILL BE ACCURATE, RELIABLE, ERROR-FREE, OR UNINTERRUPTED, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, THAT OUR SITE OR THE SERVER THAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS, OR THAT THE APPLICATION OR ANY SERVICES OR ITEMS OBTAINED THROUGH THE APPLICATION WILL OTHERWISE MEET YOUR NEEDS OR EXPECTATIONS.TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PROVIDED BY LAW, THE COMPANY HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND FITNESS FOR PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

THE FOREGOING DOES NOT AFFECT ANY WARRANTIES THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.

‍Limitation on Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PROVIDED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL THE COMPANY, ITS AFFILIATES, OR THEIR LICENSORS, SERVICE PROVIDERS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, OFFICERS, OR DIRECTORS BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, UNDER ANY LEGAL THEORY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE, OR INABILITY TO USE, THE APPLICATION, ANY WEBSITES LINKED TO IT, ANY CONTENT ON THE APPLICATION OR SUCH OTHER WEBSITES, INCLUDING ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PERSONAL INJURY, PAIN AND SUFFERING, EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, LOSS OF REVENUE, LOSS OF PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS OR ANTICIPATED SAVINGS, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF GOODWILL, LOSS OF DATA, AND WHETHER CAUSED BY TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), BREACH OF CONTRACT, OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF FORESEEABLE.

‍Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless the Company, its affiliates, licensors, and service providers, and its and their respective officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, licensors, suppliers, successors, and assigns from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, awards, losses, costs, expenses, or fees (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) arising out of or relating to your violation of these Terms of Use or your use of the Application, including, but not limited to, your User Contributions, any use of the Application’s content, services, and products other than as expressly authorized in these Terms of Use, or your use of any information obtained from the Application.

‍Governing Law and Jurisdiction

All matters relating to the Application and these Terms of Use, and any dispute or claim arising therefrom or related thereto (in each case, including non-contractual disputes or claims), shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the Province of Alberta without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision or rule (whether of the Province of Alberta or any other jurisdiction).

Any legal suit, action, or proceeding arising out of, or related to, these Terms of Use or the Application shall be instituted exclusively in the federal courts of Canada or the courts of the Province of Alberta, in each case located in the City of Edmonton, although we retain the right to bring any suit, action, or proceeding against you for breach of these Terms of Use in your country of residence or any other relevant country. You waive any and all objections to the exercise of jurisdiction over you by such courts and to venue in such courts.

‍Waiver and Severability

No waiver by the Company of any term or condition set out in these Terms of Use shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or a waiver of any other term or condition, and any failure of the Company to assert a right or provision under these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.

If any provision of these Terms of Use is held by a court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable for any reason, such provision shall be eliminated or limited to the minimum extent such that the remaining provisions of the Terms of Use will continue in full force and effect.

‍Entire Agreement

The Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy constitute the sole and entire agreement between you and TradesLink regarding the Application and supersede all prior and contemporaneous understandings, agreements, representations, and warranties, both written and oral, regarding the Application.

‍Your Comments and Concerns

‍This Application is operated by TradesLink.  All feedback, comments, requests for technical support, and other communications relating to the Application should be directed to: info@gettradeslink.com.

Effective Date: February 1, 2024