User Submissions and Site Content Standards

  1.  Submission Content Terms

All Comments or Tweets or any other content whatsoever (collectively the “Commentary”) that is submitted to the Grigoras Law website or any of its social media pages (the “Grigoras Law Sites”), posted on the Grigoras Law Sites’ Blog or Facebook or Twitter page(s) or posted or published anywhere else by the person submitting or posting the Commentary (the “Participant”) must not contain any material that:

  1. Violates or infringes another person’s copyright, trademark or any other intellectual property rights, or privacy, personality or any other right.

  2. Contains any material that promotes bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against any group or individual on the basis of race, sex, gender, political beliefs, religion, nationality, sexual orientation or age.

  3. Contains or displays any commercial/corporate advertising other than that of the Grigoras Law Sites, including, but not limited to, corporate logos, brand names, trademarks, slogans, political or religious statements.

  4. Contains indecent, violent or unsafe behaviour or situations, profanities or obscenities, including but not limited to nudity or pornography, or is otherwise inappropriate, indecent, profane, obscene, hateful, tortuous, defamatory, slanderous or libelous.

  5. References or depicts public buildings, locations or organizations without their written permission.

  6. Disparages any persons or organizations.

  7. Includes threats to any person, place, business or group.

  8. Is unlawful, in violation of any federal, provincial, territorial, municipal or local laws or regulations.

  9. Refers, depicts or in any way reflects negatively upon Grigoras Law, its affiliates, its brand or anyone involved in the operation and administration of the Grigoras Law Sites.
  1. Submission and Posting Terms

By participating in commentary, Participants agree to all of the following:

  1. Grigoras Law may determine, in its sole discretion, whether or not to accept any comment or posting submitted to the Grigoras Law Sites, posted on any of the Grigoras Law’s websites, social media pages or elsewhere or whether any content posted or published by a Participant complies with the terms of this promotion and whether any such content submitted, posted or published by a Participant will be used for any purpose, including for Commentary or in any marketing or publicity.

  2. To warrant that nothing in their Commentary infringes on any copyrights, trademarks, confidential information, trade secrets or any intellectual property rights belonging to any person or entity other than the Participant unless a suitable licence, clearance or permission has been obtained by the Participant, proof of which may be required by the Grigoras Law Sites.

  3. To indemnify and hold harmless the Grigoras Law Sites, and each of Grigoras Law Sites’ affiliates and all parties involved in the operation and administration of the Grigoras Law Sites and each of their respective owners, officers, directors, shareholders, employees and agents, contractors, permitted successors and permitted assigns, from and against any and all claims, demands, damages, losses, costs, liabilities, deficiencies, causes of action, suits, actions, proceedings, judgments, settlements, interest, awards, penalties, fines or expenses of any kind whatsoever, including reasonable legal fees, disbursements and charges that result from, are based upon, arise out of or relate to any breach by a Participant of the Content Terms or the Submission and Posting Terms, including without limitation, any third-party claim, suit, action or proceeding that Participant’s Commentary infringes or misappropriates such thirty-party’s copyrights, trademarks, confidential information, trade secrets or any intellectual property rights.

  4. To fully and forever release and discharge the Grigoras Law Sites and each of the Grigoras Law Site’s affiliates, licensees, and all parties involved in the operation and administration of the Grigoras Law Sites and each of their respective owners, directors, officers, shareholders, employees and agents, contractors, permitted successors and permitted assigns (the “Released Parties“) from and against any and all claims, demands, damages, losses, costs, liabilities, deficiencies, causes of action, suits, actions, proceedings, judgments, settlements, interest, awards, penalties, fines or expenses of any kind whatsoever, including reasonable legal fees, disbursements and charges which Participant or Participant’s heirs, representatives, executors, administrators, or any other person’s action on Participant’s behalf or on behalf of Participant’s estate, have or may have by reason of:

    1. The Grigoras Law Sites’ exercise of any rights granted by the Participant under these Submission and Posting Terms; or

    2. Claims based on violation of any law or third-party right, including but not limited to, infringement of any intellectual property right, including, but not limited to, copyright or trademark, or violation of any privacy or personality rights.
       
  5. To covenant not to make or bring any such claim against the Grigoras Law Sites or any of the other Released Parties, and forever release and discharge the Grigoras Law Sites and all other Released Parties from liability under such claims.

The failure of any Participant to comply with any of the above Content Terms or Submission and Posting Terms, as determined by the Grigoras Law Sites in their sole discretion whose decisions shall be final, may result in the disqualification of the Participant to participate in the Commentary.  The Grigoras Law Sites may also disqualify a Participant from participating in the Commentary if the Grigoras Law Sites receive notification about any potential infringements of any law or intellectual property right, regardless of whether any claimed intellectual property right has been proven or any violation of any law or infringement or misappropriation of any intellectual property right has been established.