Last updated: December 17, 2012
Welcome to www.amazon.ca (the "Amazon.ca site"). Amazon.com.ca, Inc., and/or its affiliates ("Amazon.ca") provide website features and other products and services to you when you visit or shop at the Amazon.ca site, use Amazon.ca products or services, use Amazon.ca applications for mobile, or use software provided by Amazon.ca in connection with any of the foregoing (collectively, "Amazon.ca Services"). Amazon.ca provides the Amazon.ca Services subject to the following conditions.
By using Amazon.ca Services, you agree to these conditions. Please read them carefully.
We offer a wide range of Amazon.ca Services, and sometimes additional terms may apply. When you use an Amazon.ca Service, you also will be subject to the guidelines, terms and agreements applicable to that Amazon.ca Service ("Service Terms"). If these Conditions of Use are inconsistent with the Service Terms, those Service Terms will control.
Please review our Privacy Notice, which also governs your use of the Amazon.ca Services, to understand our practices.
When you use any Amazon.ca Services or send e-mail to us, you are communicating with us electronically. You consent to receive communications from us electronically. We will communicate with you by e-mail or by posting notices on the Amazon.ca site or through the other Amazon.ca Services. You agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures, and other communications that we provide to you electronically satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.
All content included in or made available through any Amazon.ca Service--such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, audio clips, digital downloads, data compilations, and software--is the property of Amazon.ca or its content suppliers, and is protected by Canadian and international copyright laws. The compilation of all content included in or made available through any Amazon.ca Service is the exclusive property of Amazon.ca and protected by Canadian and international copyright laws.
Click here to see a non-exhaustive list of Amazon trademarks. In addition, graphics, logos, page headers, button icons, scripts, and service names included in or made available through any Amazon.ca Service are trademarks or trade dress of Amazon.com, Inc., or its affiliates, in the United States and other countries. Amazon.com, Inc.'s trademarks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not Amazon.com, Inc.'s or its affiliates', in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among customers, or in any manner that disparages or discredits Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All other trademarks not owned by Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates that appear in any Amazon.ca Service are the property of their respective owners, who may or may not be affiliated with, connected to, or sponsored by Amazon.com or its affiliates.
One or more patents owned by Amazon.ca apply to the Amazon.ca Services and to the features and services accessible via the Amazon.ca Services. Portions of the Amazon Services operate under license of one or more patents. Click here to see a non-exhaustive list of applicable Amazon.ca patents and applicable licensed patents.
Subject to your compliance with these Conditions of Use and your payment of any applicable fees, Amazon.ca or its content providers grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable licence to access and make personal and non-commercial use of the Amazon.ca Services. This licence does not include any resale or commercial use of any Amazon.ca Service or its contents; any collection and use of any product listings, descriptions, or prices; any derivative use of any Amazon.ca Service or its contents; any downloading or copying of account information for the benefit of another merchant; or any use of data mining, robots, or similar data-gathering and extraction tools. All rights not expressly granted to you in these Conditions of Use or any Service Terms are reserved and retained by Amazon.ca or its licensors, suppliers, publishers, rightsholders, or other content providers. No Amazon.ca Service, nor any part of any Amazon.ca Service, may be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, resold, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without the express written consent of Amazon.ca. You may not frame or utilize framing techniques to enclose any trademark, logo, or other proprietary information (including images, text, page layout, or form) of Amazon.ca without express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilizing Amazon.ca's name or trademarks without the express written consent of Amazon.ca. You may not misuse the Amazon.ca Services. You may use the Amazon.ca Services only as permitted by law. The licenses granted by Amazon.ca terminate if you do not comply with these Conditions of Use or any Service Terms.
If you use any Amazon.ca Service, 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. Amazon.ca does sell products for children, but it sells them to adults who can purchase products with a credit card or other permitted payment method. If you are under the age of majority in your province of residence, you may use the Amazon.ca Services only with involvement of a parent or guardian. Amazon.ca reserves the right to refuse service, terminate accounts, remove or edit content, or cancel orders in its sole discretion.
Visitors may post reviews, comments, photos, and other content; send e-cards and other communications; and submit suggestions, ideas, comments, questions, or other information, so long as the content is not illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable, and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of "spam" or unsolicited commercial electronic messages You may not use a false e-mail address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of a card or other content. Amazon.ca reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit such content, but does not regularly review posted content.
If you do post content or submit material, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant Amazon.ca a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicencable right to use, produce, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, perform, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, communicate to the public by telecommunications and display such content throughout the world in any media. You grant Amazon.ca and sublicencees the right to use the name that you submit in connection with such content, if they choose. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all the rights to the content that you post; that the content is accurate; that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify Amazon.ca for all claims resulting from content you supply. Amazon.ca has the right but not the obligation to monitor and edit or remove any activity or content. Amazon.ca takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content posted by you or any third party.
Amazon.ca respects the intellectual property of others. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please follow our Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement.
All items purchased from Amazon.ca are made pursuant to a shipment contract. This means that the risk of loss and title for such items pass to you upon our delivery to the carrier.
Amazon.ca does not take title to returned items until the item arrives at our fulfillment center. At our discretion, a refund may be issued without requiring a return. In this situation, Amazon.ca does not take title to the refunded item. For more information about our returns and refunds, please see our Returns Center.
Amazon.ca attempts to be as accurate as possible. However, Amazon.ca does not warrant that product descriptions or other content of any Amazon.ca Service is accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free. If a product offered by Amazon.ca itself is not as described, your sole remedy is to return it in unused condition.
Except where noted otherwise, the List Price or Suggested Price displayed for products on any Amazon.ca Service represents the full retail price listed on the product itself, suggested by the manufacturer or supplier, or estimated in accordance with standard industry practice, or the estimated retail value for a comparably featured item offered elsewhere. The List Price or Suggested Price is a comparative price estimate and may or may not represent the prevailing price in every area on any particular day. For certain items that are offered as a set, the List Price or Suggested Price may represent "open-stock" prices, which means the aggregate of the manufacturer's estimated or suggested retail price for each of the items included in the set. Where an item is offered for sale by one of our merchants, the List Price or Suggested Price may be provided by the merchant. Unless otherwise provided, prices are in Canadian currency.
With respect to items sold by Amazon.ca, we cannot confirm the price of an item until you order. Despite our best efforts, a small number of the items in our catalog may be mispriced. If an item's correct price is higher than our stated price, we will, at our discretion, either contact you for instructions before shipping or cancel your order and notify you of such cancellation. Other merchants may follow different policies in the event of a mispriced item.
We generally do not charge your credit card until after your order has entered the shipping process or, for digital products, until we make the digital product available to you.
In addition to these Conditions of Use, the terms found at the bottom of thias page apply to any software (including any updates or upgrades to the software and any related documentation) that we make available to you from time to time for your use in connection with Amazon.ca Services (the "Amazon Software").
Parties other than Amazon.ca operate stores, provide services, or sell product lines through the Amazon.ca Services. In addition, we provide links to the sites of affiliated companies and certain other businesses. We are not responsible for examining or evaluating, and we do not warrant the offerings of, any of these businesses or individuals or the content of their web sites. Amazon.ca does not assume any responsibility or liability for the actions, product, and content of all these and any other third parties. You should carefully review their privacy statements and other conditions of use.
THE LAWS OF CERTAIN JURISDICTIONS, INCLUDING QUEBEC'S CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT, DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS ON IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OR THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN DAMAGES. IF THESE LAWS APPLY TO YOU, SOME OR ALL OF THE BELOW DISCLAIMERS, EXCLUSIONS, OR LIMITATIONS MIGHT NOT APPLY TO YOU, AND YOU MIGHT HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS.
THE AMAZON.CA SERVICES AND ALL INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS (INCLUDING SOFTWARE) AND OTHER SERVICES INCLUDED ON OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH THE AMAZON SERVICES ARE PROVIDED BY AMAZON.CA ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED IN WRITING. AMAZON.CA MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THE AMAZON.CA SERVICES OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS (INCLUDING SOFTWARE) OR OTHER SERVICES INCLUDED ON OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH THE AMAZON.CA SERVICES, UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED IN WRITING. YOU EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE AMAZON.CA SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK.
TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMISSIBLE BY APPLICABLE LAW, AMAZON.CA DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABLE QUALITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. AMAZON.CA DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE AMAZON.CA SERVICES, INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS (INCLUDING SOFTWARE) OR OTHER SERVICES INCLUDED ON OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH THE AMAZON.CA SERVICES; ITS SERVERS, ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS, OR E-MAIL SENT FROM AMAZON.CA SERVICES ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. AMAZON.CA WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF ANY AMAZON.CA SERVICE OR FROM ANY INFORMATION, CONTENT, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS (INCLUDING SOFTWARE) OR SERVICES INCLUDED ON OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH ANY AMAZON.CA SERVICE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, AND CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, UNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED IN WRITING.
(Not applicable to Quebec consumers) Any dispute or claim relating in any way to your use of any Amazon.ca Service, or to any products or services sold or distributed by Amazon.ca or through Amazon.ca Services will be resolved by binding arbitration, rather than in court, except that you may assert claims in small claims court if your claims qualify. The U.S. Federal Arbitration Act and U.S. federal arbitration law apply to this agreement.
There is no judge or jury in arbitration, and court review of an arbitration award is limited. However, an arbitrator can award on an individual basis the same damages and relief as a court (including injunctive and declaratory relief or statutory damages), and must follow the terms of these Conditions of Use as a court would.
To begin an arbitration proceeding, you must send a letter requesting arbitration and describing your claim to our registered agent Corporation Service Company, 300 Deschutes Way SW, Suite 304, Tumwater, WA 98051. The arbitration will be conducted by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its rules, including the AAA's Supplementary Procedures for Consumer-Related Disputes. The AAA's rules are available at www.adr.org or by calling 1-800-778-7879. Payment of all filing, administration and arbitrator fees will be governed by the AAA's rules. We will reimburse those fees for claims totaling less than $10,000 unless the arbitrator determines the claims are frivolous. Likewise, Amazon.ca will not seek attorneys' fees and costs in arbitration unless the arbitrator determines the claims are frivolous. You may choose to have the arbitration conducted by telephone, based on written submissions, or in person in the county where you live or at another mutually agreed location.
We each agree that any dispute resolution proceedings will be conducted only on an individual basis and not in a class, consolidated or representative action. If for any reason a claim proceeds in court rather than in arbitration we each waive any right to a jury trial. We also both agree that you or we may bring suit in court to enjoin infringement or other misuse of intellectual property rights.
(Not applicable to Quebec consumers) By using any Amazon.ca Service, you agree that the U.S. Federal Arbitration Act, applicable U.S. federal law, and the laws of the state of Washington, United States, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, will govern these Conditions of Use and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and Amazon.ca.
For Quebec consumers: These Conditions of Use and any dispute of any sort that might arise between you and Amazon.ca shall be governed by the laws of the Province of Quebec, without reference to its conflict of laws provisions, and the laws of Canada applicable therein, and any disputes will be submitted to the courts of competent jurisdiction of the District of Montreal (Quebec).
Please review our other policies, such as our Pricing policy, posted on the Amazon.ca site. These policies also govern your use of Amazon.ca Services. We reserve the right to make changes to our site, policies, Service Terms, and these Conditions of Use at any time. If any of these conditions shall be deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that condition shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining condition.
Amazon.com.ca, Inc.
P.O. Box 81226
Seattle, WA 98108-1226
USA
