Terms And Conditions

In using this website you are deemed to have read and agreed to the following terms and conditions:

Privacy Statement
We are committed to protecting your privacy. Authorized employees within the Fraser Institute on a need to know basis only use any information collected from individual customers. We constantly review our systems and data to ensure the best possible service to our customers.

Confidentiality
We will not sell, share, or rent your personal information to any third party or use your e-mail address for unsolicited mail. Any emails sent by this Fraser Institute will only be in connection with the provision of agreed services and products.

Disclaimer
Exclusions and Limitations
The information on this web site is provided on an "as is" basis. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Fraser Institute:

  • excludes all representations and warranties relating to this website and its contents or which is or may be provided by any affiliates or any other third party, including in relation to any inaccuracies or omissions in this website and/or the Fraser Institute’s literature; and
  • excludes all liability for damages arising out of or in connection with your use of this website. This includes, without limitation, direct loss, loss of business or profits (whether or not the loss of such profits was foreseeable, arose in the normal course of things or you have advised this Fraser Institute of the possibility of such potential loss), damage caused to your computer, computer software, systems and programs and the data thereon or any other direct or indirect, consequential and incidental damages.

The Fraser Institute does not however exclude liability for death or personal injury caused by its negligence. The above exclusions and limitations apply only to the extent permitted by law. None of your statutory rights as a consumer are affected. 

Availability
You are solely responsible for evaluating the fitness for a particular purpose of any downloads, programs and text available through this site. Redistribution or republication of any part of this site or its content is prohibited, including such by framing or other similar or any other means, without the express written consent of the Fraser Institute. The Fraser Institute does not warrant that the service from this site will be uninterrupted, timely or error free, although it is provided to the best ability. By using this service you thereby indemnify the Fraser Institute, its employees, agents and affiliates against any loss or damage, in whatever manner, howsoever caused.

Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyse trends, administer the site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. Additionally, for systems administration, detecting usage patterns and troubleshooting purposes, our web servers automatically log standard access information including browser type, access times/open mail, URL requested, and referral URL. This information is not shared with third parties and is used only within the Fraser Institute on a need-to-know basis. Any individually identifiable information related to this data will never be used in any way different to that stated above without your explicit permission.

Cookies
Like most interactive web sites the Fraser Institute’s website uses cookies to enable us to retrieve user details for each visit. Cookies are used in some areas of our site to enable the functionality of this area and ease of use for those people visiting.

Links to this website
Feel free to link to any page on this website. However, you do so at your own risk and the exclusions and limitations set out above will apply to your use of this website by linking to it.

Links from this website
We do not monitor or review the content of other parties’ websites which are linked to from this website. Opinions expressed or material appearing on such websites are not necessarily shared or endorsed by us and We should not be regarded as the publisher of such opinions or material. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices, or content, of these sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site & to read the privacy statements of these sites. You should evaluate the security and trustworthiness of any other site connected to this site or accessed through this site yourself, before disclosing any personal information to them. The Fraser Institute will not accept any responsibility for any loss or damage in whatever manner, howsoever caused, resulting from your disclosure to third parties of personal information.

Copyright Notice
All text relating to the Fraser Institute's services and the full content of this website is subject to copyright and other relevant intellectual property rights. The Fraser Institute's logo is a registered trademark of the Fraser Institute. Nevertheless, all material on this website is provided free of charge under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) licence and we encourage you to copy, share and make use of it in classrooms, workshops, seminars or for any other educational purposes. The CC BY-NC-SA licence permits you to copy, modify, build upon, and redistribute the material in any medium or format as long as you attribute the original material to the Fraser Institute and indicate if you have made changes; are not doing so for a commercial purpose; and distribute your derivative work under identical terms, that is, the CC BY-NC-SA licence. The legal text of the CC BY-NC-SA licence setting out the conditions in detail can be found here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.

Communication
We have several different e-mail addresses for different queries. These, & other contact information, can be found on our Contact Us link on our website or via the Fraser Institute literature or via the Fraser Institute's stated telephone, facsimile or mobile telephone numbers.

Notification of Changes
The Fraser Institute reserves the right to change these conditions from time to time as it sees fit and your continued use of the site will signify your acceptance of any adjustment to these terms. If there are any changes to our privacy policy, we will announce that these changes have been made on our home page and on other key pages on our site. If there are any changes in how we use our site customers’ Personally Identifiable Information, notification by e-mail or postal mail will be made to those affected by this change. Any changes to our privacy policy will be posted on our web site 30 days prior to these changes taking place. You are therefore advised to re-read this statement on a regular basis.