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Terms of Use

Welcome to www.metroactive.org (“MetroActive Corporation”). These Terms of Use, the Privacy Policy, the Mobile Devices Terms and all policies posted on our site set out the terms on which we offer you access to and use of our site, services, applications and tools (collectively “Services”). All policies, the Mobile Devices Terms, and the Privacy Policy are incorporated into these Terms of Use. You agree to comply with all the above when accessing or using our Services.

MetroActive is provided to you by MetroActive Corporation, Toronto, Ontario.

Your Account. In order to access and use some or a portion of the Services, you may be required to register with us and set up an account with your email address and a password (referred to as your “Account”). The email address you provide will be your email address, and you are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password. Furthermore, you are solely responsible for all activities that occur under your Account. Therefore, you should protect your password and make your password difficult for others to guess.

You may connect to the Services with a third-party service and you give us permission to access, store, and use your information from that service as permitted by that service and as may be described in our Privacy Policy. If at any time you believe your Account may have been compromised or misused, contact us immediately by email to info@metroactive.org.

While Using the Services. You will post in the appropriate category or area and will not do any of the following bad things:

  • be false or misleading;
  • infringe any third-party right;
  • violate any laws or our Prohibited Content Policy below;
  • distribute or contain spam, chain letters, or pyramid schemes;
  • distribute viruses or any other technologies that may harm MetroActive or the interests or property of MetroActive users;
  • impose an unreasonable load on our infrastructure or interfere with the proper working of the MetroActive website;
  • copy, modify, or distribute any other person’s content;
  • use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access MetroActive and collect content for any purpose without our express written permission;
  • harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including email addresses, without their consent;
  • bypass measures used to prevent or restrict access to MetroActive.

Abusing MetroActive Services. Please tell us about any problems or offensive content so that together we can keep the Services site working properly. We may limit or terminate our Services, remove hosted content and take technical and legal steps to keep users off MetroActive if we think that they are creating problems or acting inconsistently with the letter or spirit of our policies. However, whether we decide to take any of these steps, remove hosted content or keep a user off MetroActive or not, we do not accept any liability for monitoring MetroActive or for unauthorized or unlawful content on MetroActive or use of MetroActive by users.

Fees and Services. Using the Services is generally free. We may charge fees for certain Services. If the service you use charges a fee, you will be able to review and accept that charge. Our fees are quoted in Canadian Dollars, and we may change them from time to time. We will notify you of changes to our fee policy by posting such changes on the site. We may choose to temporarily change our fees for promotional events or new services; these changes are effective when we announce the promotional event or new service. Our fees are non-refundable, and you are responsible for paying them when they’re due. If you don’t, we may limit your ability to use the Services. If your payment method fails or your account is past due, we may collect fees owed using other collection mechanisms (for accounts over 180 days past due, you permit us to instruct PayPal to deduct the amount owed from your PayPal account balance).

Canadian taxes associated with our Services will be collected when applicable. You agree to provide accurate address information necessary for MetroActive to comply with its obligations under applicable law. To the extent that such information is not provided, MetroActive will in its discretion determine and collect appropriate taxes.

You are solely responsible to collect and remit any applicable taxes resulting from the sale of your items or services listed on MetroActive.

While many features of the Services are available across the MetroActive websites and their associated mobile applications, some features and functionality may vary depending on which website and/or which mobile device you use to access the Services.

Content. The Services contains stuff from us, you, and other users (as well as from our third party service providers). You agree not to copy, modify, resell or distribute the Services, our copyrights or trademarks. When you give us content, you are granting us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable right to exercise the copyright, publicity, and database rights to that content. If you believe that your rights have been violated, please notify MetroActive and we will investigate the matter. We reserve the right to remove content where we have grounds for suspecting the violation of these terms or the rights of any other party.

Reporting Intellectual Property Infringements (Verified Rights Owners – VeRO). Do not post content that infringes the rights of third parties. This includes, but is not limited to, content that infringes on intellectual property rights such as copyright and trademark (e.g. offering counterfeit items for sale). Do not post content that contains any reference to or likeness of any identifiable third parties, unless consent has been obtained from each such individual as may be required. We reserve the right to remove content where we have grounds for suspecting the violation of these terms, our policies or of any party’s rights. The following steps are for reporting a listing to MetroActive that you believe to be infringing on your intellectual property rights. Only the intellectual property rights owner can report of potentially infringing items or listings through MetroActive’s VeRO Program. If you have a good faith belief that a listing on any of the Services infringes your copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights, contact us for a copy of Notice of Claimed Infringement (NOCI) form, fill it out, and email it to MetroActive at the email address provided on the form. After we receive your first NOCI, MetroActive will confirm your enrolment in our program. We reserve the right to share, in accordance with applicable law, the completed NOCI form with the third party that originally posted the potentially infringing listing.

Disclaimers and Limitations of Liability. The Services are provided “as is” and “as available”. You agree not to hold us responsible for things other users post or do. You also agree not to hold us responsible for the payment processing of other service providers such as PayPal (each a “Third Party Payment Processor”. For greater certainty, as applicable, if you link a Third Party Payment Processor account to your MetroActive Account, you acknowledge and agree that by making payments through MetroActive with that Third Party Payment Processor, you are bound by that Third Party Payment Processor’s applicable terms and conditions, and we are not liable for any loss, claims or damages howsoever arising in connection with that third party’s services). As most of the stuff on the Services comes from other users, we do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficacy or timeliness of any postings or user communications or the quality, safety, or legality of what is offered. We also cannot guarantee continuous or secure access to our Services. Notification functionality in our Services may not occur in real time. Such functionality is subject to delays beyond our control, including without limitation, delays or latency due to your physical location or your wireless data service provider’s network. Accordingly, to the extent legally permitted we expressly disclaim all warranties, representations and conditions, express or implied, including those of quality, merchantability, merchantable quality, durability, fitness for a particular purpose and those arising by statute. We are not liable for any loss, whether of money (including profit), goodwill, or reputation, or any special, indirect, or consequential damages arising out of your use of MetroActive, even if you advise us or we could reasonably foresee the possibility of any such damage occurring. Some jurisdictions do not allow the disclaimer of warranties or exclusion of damages, so such disclaimers and exclusions may not apply to you.

Despite the previous paragraph, if we are found to be liable, our liability to you or any third party (whether in contract, tort, negligence, strict liability in tort, by statute or otherwise) is limited to the greater of (a) the total fees you pay to us in the 12 months prior to the action giving rise to liability, and (b) 100 Canadian Dollars.

Indemnification. You will indemnify and hold harmless MetroActive and its affiliates and our and their respective officers, directors, agents and employees (each an “Indemnified Party”), from any claim made by any third party, together with any amounts payable to the third party whether in settlement or as may otherwise be awarded, and reasonable legal costs incurred by any of the Indemnified Parties, arising from or relating to your use of the Services, any alleged violation by you of the applicable terms, and any alleged violation by you of any applicable law or regulation. We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, but doing so will not excuse your indemnity obligations.

Personal Information. By using Services, you agree to the collection, transfer, storage and use of your personal information by MetroActive Canada Ltd. (the “data controller”) on servers located in the United States and in the European Union as further described in our privacy policy.

General. These terms and the other policies posted on the Services constitute the entire agreement between us and you, superseding any prior agreements. This agreement is governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein. We both submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of the Province of Ontario. This will not affect your statutory rights if you are a consumer and applicable consumer law requires application of another law for certain topics. If we don’t enforce any particular provision, we are not waiving our right to do so later. If a court strikes down any of these terms, the remaining terms will survive. We may automatically assign this agreement in our sole discretion in accordance with the notice provision below (our assignment to an affiliate will not require notice). Except for notices relating to illegal or infringing content, your notices to us must be sent by E-mail to info@metroactive.org.

We will send notices to you via the email address you provide, or by registered mail. Notices sent by registered mail will be deemed received five days following the date of mailing. We may update this agreement at any time, with updates taking effect when you next use the site or after 30 days, whichever is sooner. No other amendment to this agreement will be effective unless made in writing, signed by users and by us. Send questions, comments or complaints to info@metroactive.org.

Mobile Devices Terms

If you’re accessing the Services from a mobile device using a MetroActive mobile application (the “Application”), the following terms and conditions (“Mobile Devices Terms”) apply to you in addition to the applicable Mobile Privacy and Legal Notice or End User License Agreement, as the case may be. Your use of the Application confirms your agreement to these Mobile Devices Terms.

Application Use. MetroActive grants you the right to use the Application pursuant to the following restrictions: you may not (a) modify, copy, publish, license, sell, or otherwise commercialize this Application or any information or software associated with this Application; (b) rent, lease or otherwise transfer rights to this Application; or (c) use this Application in any manner that could impair the Application or interfere with any party’s use or enjoyment of the Application. You must comply with all applicable laws and third party terms of agreement when using the Application (e.g. your wireless data service agreement). The Application may not contain the same functionality available on the MetroActive website (and certain functionality may not be available depending on which Application and/or mobile device you are using). Your download and use of the Application is at your own discretion and risk, and you are solely responsible for any damages to your hardware device(s) or loss of data that results from the download or use of the Application.

Intellectual Property – Applications. MetroActive owns, or is the licensee to, all right, title, and interest in and to its Applications, including all rights under patent, copyright, trade secret, trademark, and any and all other proprietary rights, including all applications, renewals, extensions, and restorations thereof. You will not modify, adapt, translate, prepare derivative works from, decompile, reverse-engineer, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive source code from any Application and you will not remove, obscure, or alter MetroActrive’s copyright notice, trademarks or other proprietary rights notices affixed to, contained within, or accessed in conjunction with or by any Application.

Prohibited Countries Policy and Foreign Trade Regulation – Applications. The Application or its underlying technology may not be downloaded to or exported or re-exported: (a) into (or to a resident or national of) any country subject to United States embargo; (b) to anyone on the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s list of Specially Designated Nationals or on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Denied Party or Entity List; and (c) to any prohibited country, person, end-user, or entity specified by U.S. export laws. When using the Application, you are responsible for complying with trade regulations and both foreign and domestic laws (e.g., you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. government as a “terrorist supporting” country, and you are not listed on any U.S. government list of prohibited or restricted parties).

Additional Terms. Additional terms and conditions that apply to you based on the mobile device the Application is installed on:

iOS – Apple

  • These terms are an agreement between you and us, and not with Apple. Apple is not responsible for the Application and the content thereof.
  • We grant you the right to use the Application only on an iOS product that you own or control and as permitted by the Usage Rules set forth in Apple’s then-current App Store Media Services Terms and Conditions.
  • Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support services with respect to the Application.
  • Apple is not responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, and discharge of any third party intellectual property infringement claim.
  • Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims by you or any third party relating to the Application or your possession and/or use of the Application, including but not limited to: (a) product liability claims; (b) any claim that the Application fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement; and (c) claims arising under consumer protection or similar legislation.
  • In the event of any failure of the Application to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple may refund the purchase price, if applicable, for the Application to you; and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Apple will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the Application.
  • Apple and Apple’s subsidiaries are third party beneficiaries of these terms, and, upon your acceptance, Apple as a third party beneficiary thereof will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these terms against you.

Android – Google

  • These terms are an agreement between you and us, and not with Google. Google is not responsible for the Application and the content thereof.
  • Your use of the Application must comply with Google’s then-current Google Play Store Terms of Service;
  • Google is only a provider of the Google Play Store where you obtained the Application;
  • Google has no obligation or liability to you with respect to the Application or these terms; and
  • You acknowledge and agree that Google is a third-party beneficiary to these terms as it relates to the Application.

Prohibited Items and Services List

The list below details what can’t be posted on MetroActive:

  • Adult
    • Including pornography, nude photos, videos, articles, or erotic products
    • Including prostitution, escort, or accompanying services
  • Alcohol
    • Including the delivery of alcohol and related beverages
    • Note: Selling empty bottles, labels, or caps as collectibles is permitted.
    • Note: Recruitment of personnel such as bartender, front desk, or salesman is permitted in the Jobs category.
  • Baby Walkers
  • Baby Nests
  • Blood, Bodily Fluids, and Body Parts
    • Including organs
    • Including surrogacy, fertility, and donor requests (including sperm)
  • Burglary Tools
  • Cannabis and Cannabis-based Products
    • Including extracts, edibles, and oils
    • Note: Hookahs, pipes, bongs, and vaporizers are permitted.
  • Car Seats and Booster Seats (manufactured prior to January 1st, 2013)
  • Child Adoption services (seeking and offering)
  • Combustible Items (including flares)
    • Note: Emergency and distress flares are permitted only if they are designed and intended for signaling purposes.
    • Note: No offers of shipping.
  • Counterfeit Items and Distribution of Copyrighted Material
    • Including currency, stamps, and coins
    • Including e-books
  • Digital Items or Accounts
    • Including gaming accounts, accounts with multiple device allowances, and digital copies of movies, books, or software
  • Embargoed Goods
  • Event Tickets
    • Note: Certain community events tickets are permitted if the event is small and focused on the local community, such as: Charity fundraising events; Events held at, and operated by, a school, college, university or other post-secondary institution, a church or other place of worship, or a building owned or operated by a municipality, school board or community organization; or Other local lifestyle events, such as food or street festivals, and local community tournaments. Any tickets for the above noted events must be sold at face value or less and have a low monetary value.
  • Government Issued IDs, Badges, Uniforms and Licenses
    • Including transit, military, police, postal, etc.
  • Hazardous Materials
    • Including chemicals, restricted, suspended or cancelled pest control products, and fireworks
  • High-Powered Laser Pointers
  • Illegal Drugs and Drug Paraphernalia (or any mention of related items or activities)
    • Including narcotics, steroids, etc.
  • Illegal Items and Services
    • Including any device that is primarily useful for the covert interception of private communications
    • Including listings or products that promote the use of photographic devices to covertly view or record individuals for sexual purposes
  • Illegal or Unauthorized Wildlife Products
    • Including bear traps (regardless of size)
  • Ivory or Bone
    • Including fossilized mammoth tusks
    • Note: Antiques that contain 5% or less of real ivory and were made before the year 1900, specifically musical instruments and furniture, are permitted. The year the item was manufactured as well as an image must be included in the ad.
    • Note: Bone, including fossilized teeth or bone, from non-ivory producing animals is permitted. The species must be indicated in the ad.
  • Identity Documents, Personal Financial Records, and Personal Information
    • In any form, including mailing lists
  • Knives
    • Note: Collectable knives and swords (unsharpened, fantasy/antique) and kitchen utensils and cutlery are permitted.
  • Lottery Tickets, Sweepstakes Entries, and Coin Operated Slot Machines
  • Massage Services
    • Ad images are to be limited to head shots or photographs of the facility (no full body images)
    • Note: Ads posted by a Registered Massage Therapist (RMT) who is able to provide insurance receipts for customers is permitted.
    • Note: Massage as part of an aesthetics package by a registered Aesthetician, but not offered on its own, is permitted.
  • Offensive and Obscene Material
    • Including Nazi related artifacts and collectibles
    • Note: This excludes stamps, letters, and envelopes with the Nazi symbol, currency issued by the Nazi government, military scripts, and historically accurate WWII military model kits that have Nazi symbols.
  • Prescription Drugs and Devices
    • Note: Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP), Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure (BiPAP) devices, and Variable Positive Airway Pressure (VPAP) devices and accessories require a prescription and are therefore not permitted. Over the counter (OTC) versions of these devices and accessories are permitted.
  • Products That Are Unauthorized by Health Canada
  • Radio Equipment or Other Devices That Violate the Radiocommunication Act
  • Recalled Items
  • Restricted Food Products
    • Including, but not limited to:
      • Unpasteurized dairy products
      • Fruit or vegetable juice that hasn’t been heat pasteurized
      • Wild mushrooms
      • Ackee fruit (including seeds)
      • Food items that are subject to recall by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency
      • Expired food items and baby formula
      • Food items or baby formula that has been opened or tampered with
      • Meals Ready to Eat (MREs) that have been expired for more than 3 years
      • Government assistance benefits including, but not limited to:
        • Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
        • Supplemental foods such as infant formula and baby food
        • Cash-value vouchers
        • Food instruments such as vouchers, checks, electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards, and coupons
    • Note: Perishable items are permitted; however, the sale of food items is highly regulated by the federal and provincial government. When you list any food products, you’re certifying that the item may be sold and complies with all health, safety, and labelling requirements. For more information please visit Health Canada’s website.
  • Stocks and Other Securities
    • Including binary options
    • Note: On September 28th, 2017 the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) announced a complete ban on the advertisement, offer, sale, or trade of binary options.
  • Stolen Property
  • Tobacco and Other Nicotine Products
    • Including e-cigarettes, e-juice, herbal blends, etc.
  • Traditional Drop-Side Cribs
  • Used Cosmetics
  • Weapons (or any mention of related items, services or activities)
    • Including, but not limited to:
      • Firearms
      • Firearm parts and magazines
      • Ammunition
      • BB and pellet guns
      • Replica weapons
      • Tear gas
      • Stun guns
      • Crossbows
      • Martial arts weapons
    • Including Airsoft guns, parts, and ammunition
    • Note: Archery and paintball equipment are permitted.

Last Modified: October 27, 2019