PlayStation® Canada Site - Legal Jargon

We put up this site so you can learn about great PlayStation® products and other items we think you'll like. We also provide you with some interesting and helpful information. So, if you are a Canadian resident and are over the age of 13, take a good look around and enjoy our site. From time to time, we offer you goodies for downloading; feel free to download anything you find interesting, as long as it's for non-commercial, personal use. This means you can't give copies to your friends, display it publicly, or charge a fee for distribution (among other things).

Don't forget that you're legally obligated to the terms and conditions the legal team has asked us to list below as well as any other law or regulation that applies to this site, the Internet, the World Wide Web or the Province of Ontario. Don’t hang around if you're not comfortable with these rules 'cause once you're on our site (and that means anywhere on our site), you've got to follow these terms and conditions:

1. All information provided on this site relates to Canadian products and services sold or provided by Sony Computer Entertainment America.
2. We cover most of the general rules about visiting our site on this page. However, there is a lot of important information dealing with specific issues that you won't find here but will see in other places on our site. This includes information on our privacy policy, contests, promotions and stuff like that. So, even if you don't see it here, if we've included it on the site, it does apply to you! So pay attention to what we say along the way.
3. We try to avoid putting those annoying ®, © and ™ marks and loads of itty bitty type on every page, but we're telling you now that everything on this site is copyrighted and trademarked by us or one of our partners, unless we say otherwise. This means you can't use the stuff (no matter how amazing it looks) without our written permission. And we've got to be honest up front: Even if you came up with a totally cool idea that we were really excited about, it's not very likely our lawyers would let you use our stuff, even if you asked nicely. So you may want to just enjoy it while you're here.
4. Even though our friendly neighbourhood lawyers try to check everything we do here with a fine-toothed comb, we're not saying we're flawless. Sorry to have to say it, but the only promise we can make to you is that this site is totally cool and loads of fun! Anything you read, hear, look at or use, you do at your own risk. We assume no liability or responsibility for errors or omissions on this site.
5. On that note we (and any of the other very talented people who help us put together this site) are not liable for any damages you suffer when you're here. In legal speak: Sony Computer Entertainment America (“SCEA”) is not liable for any direct incidental, consequential, indirect or punitive damages arising out of your access to or use of this site. Without limiting the foregoing, everything on the site is provided to you “AS IS WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. Please note that some provinces may not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so some of the above exclusions may not apply to you. Check your local laws for any restrictions or limitations regarding the exclusion of the implied warranties." In short, we don't want to hex you but if anything happens while you're on our site (like your computer gets messed up or you get infected with some virus), we're not responsible. We definitely don't want this to happen but if it does, don't blame us.
6. Remember, if you put anything up on our site, it becomes ours―forever and everywhere. That means anything you send in, or in any way disclose to us, we can reproduce, disclose, transmit, publish, broadcast, post somewhere else and/or allow other people/sites to do the same. On top of that, we can use in any way we want any ideas, concepts or techniques that you disclose on this site, including in the developing, manufacturing and marketing of our products, or if we just make fun of them. In plain language, if you want to keep it to yourself, do that.
7. This may sound familiar but it's important, so we're going to rephrase it. Anything on this site―pictures, drawings, text, games, anything―is either our property or the property of someone who gave us permission to use it. IT'S NOT PUBLIC DOMAIN AND IT'S DEFINITELY NOT YOURS. Don't use any of it for anything other than your own personal entertainment unless we say you can (and we probably won't). If you do, you're probably violating at least one law and since we told you here, we won't feel bad about coming after you.
8. The same applies to any content you may download from our site. When downloading any of our cool stuff, keep in mind that you do not own the downloaded content―we do, including all rights in it. That means that even if you are trying to show off how smart you are, you cannot redistribute, sell, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise reduce the content to a human-perceivable form. If you cannot agree to this, it’s simple―don’t download from this site.
9. On the same note, there are plenty of trademarks and logos on this site that belong to us or someone who said it's cool for us to use them. So hands off! (That's from our legal eagles.) They also say if you fool around with any of these trademarks, they or the owner of the mark or some other lawyer whom they inform will come after you.
10. Every once in a while we hook up with someone else and set up a link to their site. We try to stick with the good ones, but just because there's a link it doesn't mean we've thoroughly checked out the site. So if there's anything on these other sites that offends your good taste or that you think provides product info that is just not right, don't jump all over us. Enjoy the links but do so at your own risk.
11. The same thing goes for our site. (Remember, this is the "World Wide Web.") Also, and even more importantly, as much as we like all of you, we've got no choice but to fully cooperate with any law enforcement authority or court that asks us to. And if you make problems for us, we guarantee that you'll have problems too.
12. Another thing our lawyers want us to mention: In the unlikely event of a dispute about these terms, the terms will be governed by laws of the Province of Ontario and the laws of Canada that are applicable within Ontario. If one section of these terms is determined to be not valid, it will not affect the validity of the rest of the terms.
13. And, finally, we reserve the right to change anything in these terms or on this site at any time. So you're definitely going to want to hop on and check out our new and exciting changes as often as possible but you may also want to visit this page just to confirm none of the rules have changed since your last visit.

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