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Terms and Conditions

www.unfc.ca is a site operated by Niagara Education Inc. (hereinafter referred to as, “University of Niagara Falls Canada”, “UNF”, or “We”). Designated Learning Institution Number O287430643972 and are located at 4342 Queen Street, Niagara Falls, ON L2E 7J7, Canada

1. Acceptance

  • By using our site you accept these terms (see below).
  • By using our site, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them.
  • If you do not agree to these terms, you must not use our site.
  • We recommend that you print a copy of these terms for future reference.

2. Amendments

  • We amend these terms from time to time. Every time you wish to use our site, please check these terms to ensure you understand the terms that apply at that time.
  • Our site is made available free of charge.
  • We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. We may suspend or withdraw or restrict the availability of all or any part of our site for business and operational reasons.

3. Accessing our site

  • Access to the University of Niagara Falls Canada site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site, to users who have registered with us.
  • If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, 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 third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use. When using our site, you must comply with the provisions of our acceptable use policy (see below).
  • You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.

4. Acceptable use and privacy policy

  • The acceptable use policy and privacy policy sets out the terms between you and us under which you may access our website www.unfc.ca (our site) and linked and associated sites operated by us. These policies apply to all users of, and visitors to, our site. Your use of our site means that you accept, and agree to abide by, all the policies in both, acceptable use and privacy policy which supplement our terms of website use (see above).
  • Links to other websites
    • Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. University of Niagara Falls Canada has no control over the contents of those sites or resources and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
  • University of Niagara Falls Canada does not endorse, authorize, approve, certify, maintain, or control these external internet addresses and does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficacy or timeliness of the information located at these addresses. Our institution is not responsible for the privacy practices of these websites. University of Niagara Falls Canada encourages users to review the privacy policies of any linked websites before navigating any website or disclosing personal information online.

5. Trademarks and official marks

  • All trademarks on this website are registered or unregistered trademarks or official marks of University of Niagara Falls Canada. Nothing on this website should be interpreted to grant any license to use any trademark or official mark without the express written permission of University of Niagara Falls Canada.
  • To inquire about obtaining permission to use trademarks, please send a request to the Marketing and Communications Department at marketing@unfc.ca

6. Terms of use – non-commercial or educational

  • We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
  • All information on this site has been posted to provide access to information about the programs and services offered by University of Niagara Falls Canada. The information has been posted with the intent that it be readily available for personal and public non-commercial or educational use and, except where otherwise prohibited, you may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others to content posted on our site., without charge or further permission from University of Niagara Falls Canada provided the following conditions are complied with:
    • Users must not modify or alter the material and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
    • Users must exercise due diligence in ensuring the material is accurately reproduced.
    • Users must identify University of Niagara Falls Canada as the source of the material with the following statement:
  • “The source of these materials is www.unfc.ca. The use of these materials by [insert user’s name] is done without any affiliation with or endorsement by University of Niagara Falls Canada. Reliance upon [insert user’s name]’s use of these materials is at the risk of the end user.”
  • If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

7. Terms of use – commercial

  • Use of material on the site, in whole or in part, for the purposes of commercial distribution is prohibited, except with written permission from the Marketing and Communications Department. To inquire about Terms of Commercial Use, please send a request to the Marketing and Communications Department at marketing@unfc.ca

8. Disclaimer

  • The content on our site is provided for general information only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action based on the content on our site. University of Niagara Falls Canada makes every effort to ensure that our websites are kept up-to-date. In doing so, we go to great lengths to ensure the accuracy of the information posted. However, it must be noted that there may be instances where information is not as current as it could possibly be, and that from time-to-time changes will be made to the website and the policies and information included on the website.
  • The material on this site is provided “as is” without warranties or conditions of any kind either expressed or implied. To the fullest extent possible under applicable law, University of Niagara Falls Canada disclaims all warranties and conditions, expressed or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties or conditions of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or other violation of rights. University of Niagara Falls Canada does not warrant or make any other representations regarding the use, accuracy, timeliness, applicability, performance, security, availability or reliability of this website or any sites linked to this site, or the results from the use of this website or any sites linked to this website, or otherwise respecting the material on this website or any sites linked to this website.

9. Limitation of liability

  • Whether you are a consumer or a business user:
    • We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors and for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.
  • If you are a business user:
    • We exclude all implied conditions, warranties, representations or other terms that may apply to our site or any content on it.
    • We will not be liable to you for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with:

a) use of, or inability to use, our site; or

b) use of or reliance on any content displayed on our site.

c) In particular, we will not be liable for:

d) loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;

e) business interruption;

f) loss of anticipated savings;

g) loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or

h) any indirect or consequential loss or damage.


If you are a consumer user:

  • Please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes, and we have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

We do not guarantee that our site will be secure or free from bugs or viruses.

You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform to access our site. You should use your own virus protection software.

10. Suspension and termination

  • You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.
  • University of Niagara Falls Canada may terminate this authorization, including any licenses contained in this authorization, at any time. Further, it may terminate the user’s access to any and all portions of this website if University of Niagara Falls Canada determines in its discretion whether there has been a breach of this acceptable use policy through the use of the site. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such actions as we deem appropriate. Failure to comply with the acceptable use policy constitutes a material breach of the terms of use.
  • On termination, the user must cease use of this website and destroy all material obtained from this website, and all related documentation and all copies of documentation, whether made under these Terms of Use or otherwise, or take any additional or alternative reasonable steps that University of Niagara Falls Canada may direct in respect of the termination of the use, or both.

11. Your concerns

  • If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact marketing@unfc.ca