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Terms and Conditions

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TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR THE USE OF THE SMARTER.LOANS WEBSITE

These user terms and conditions (hereinafter referred to as the “User Terms”) apply to any use of Smarter.loans’s website (hereinafter referred to as the “Website”), including – but not limited to – www.smarter.loans.

The Website is supplied by Smarter Loans Inc., a Canadian corporation situated at 1501-30 North Park Rd., Toronto, ON, Canada L4J 0G6 (“smarter.loans”). In these User Terms, the words “we”, “us” and “ours” refer to smarter.loans.

By using the Website, you accept to be subject to the User Terms. If you do not accept these User Terms, you are not permitted to use the Website and are kindly requested not to use the Website any further. The registration as a user or use of any of the available features on the Website constitutes your acceptance of these User Terms.

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Smarter Loans is not a lender and does not provide financing of any kind. Smarter Loans is an online directory of lending companies in Canada, and connects Canadians seeking financing with suitable loan providers. To facilitate this, Smarter Loans is required to share your contact and personal information with our partners. By submitting an application on Smarter Loans, you provide authorization to Smarter Loans to share this information with their partners, and for the partners to reach out to you directly via phone, email or any other method of communication that you indicated on your application.

Information is shared solely for the purpose of connecting people looking for loans with appropriate lending companies, which is the essential service provided by Smarter Loans.

 

CONSENT FOR CREDIT SCORE AND REPORTS

If you use Smarter Loans to create an account, apply for a personal or commercial loan, including a secured or unsecured personal or business loan, mortgage, auto loan, equipment financing or any other form of financing, and/or connect to a financial service provider on the website, Smarter Loans may ask for your consent to obtain your credit score and credit report from a Canadian credit bureau. 

Smarter Loans uses your credit score, information from your credit report and other information you provide in order to present you with tailored loan offers and recommendations, better understand your financial needs and credit history, and provide you with personalized financial recommendations, educational content, pre-qualified offers and tailored communication. You may receive personalized product and marketing offers from Smarter Loans and other third party companies that may be of interest to you based on your credit-related and other information. Smarter Loans is not responsible for the accuracy or completeness of any information contained in your credit report. By providing such consent, you consent to Smarter Loans using the information in your credit report to connect you with an appropriate financing provider and/or present you with personalized financial offers. 

Smarter Loans may also periodically use this information to attempt to prequalify you for credit offers such as: personal loans, business loans, mortgages, auto loans, equipment financing, insurance, investing, credit cards and other product offers. This attempt to prequalify may result in a soft inquiry from Smarter Loans with a consumer reporting agency that will not impact your credit score. Pre-Qualification offers are not guaranteed approval. Any Pre-Qualification offer is subject to change.

 

THE SERVICES ON THE WEBSITE

1  Registered User

1.1  Smarter.loans grants you the non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable, limited right to access and use the Website. In order to create reviews for lenders, you must create a profile and register as a user (hereinafter referred to as “Registered User”).

1.2  You are only permitted to register one profile per person on the Website. The profile is personal and you must not transfer it to others.

1.3  In order to become a Registered User, you need a password. You choose your own password which must be used with your email address when logging onto the Website. The password is personal and you must not transfer it or in other ways make it available to others. It is your responsibility to ensure that the password does not fall into the hands of a third party. If you become aware that the password is or may have been compromised, you are obligated to inform us hereof. We can and will change the password if there is a risk that the password has been compromised or is used in violation of the User Terms.

1.4  During the registration process, you must choose a username. The username will be shown on the Website whenever you write or comment on reviews or produce user-generated content (see 2.1 below) on the Website. Therefore, you must consider whether you wish to use a username from which you can be identified by others. The username must not (i) be offensive or in other ways insulting, (ii) contain the terms “Guest”, “Admin”, “*.dk”, “*.com”, etc. or (iii) contain characteristics which belong to a third party, including names of famous persons, or personal names to which you do not own the rights. You warrant that your username does not infringe on any rights (including any intellectual property rights) belonging to any third party and/or pertaining to the User Terms.

1.5  Changes to the username may only be made by us. If you want to change your username, please contact us at support@smarter.loans.

1.6  We are entitled at any time, without notice and without prejudice, to delete, suspend or change your profile in the event of your violation or suspected violation of these User Terms or applicable law. When deleting your profile, you will no longer have access to services on the Website which require your registration and/or login as a Registered User. When deleting your profile, we reserve the right to delete the user-generated content (see 2.1) you have made on the Website.

1.7  Furthermore, we reserve the right, at any time and without notice or explanation, to delete your profile and user-generated content (see 2.1). In this case, our disclaimer applies without limitations.

1.8  You are not permitted to gain access or attempt to gain access to the parts of the Website requiring user registration if you are not a Registered User.

2  User-Generated Content from Registered Users

2.1  You hereby grant us the worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free right and license to publish, display, reproduce, modify, create derivative works of and commercially exploit any material, information, notifications, reviews, articles or other types of communication (hereinafter referred to as the “User-Generated Content” or “UGC”) which you create on the Website as a Registered User. We may freely use and transfer the UGC and disclose the UGC to third parties.

2.2  Registered Users are liable for the UGC they publish on the Website.

2.3  Registered Users warrant that all UGC posted on the Website is correct and true (where they state facts) or genuinely held (where they state opinions).

2.4  UGC must relate to a company or organization from which the Registered User has purchased or can otherwise document using the company’s or organization’s products or services.

2.5  You may not publish UGC regarding companies to which you have personal or professional relations.

2.6  Registered Users must not, and must not allow any third party to, publish UGC on the website which

  • is of a marketing nature or has marketing purposes,
  • is unlawful, deceptive, misleading, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, libelous, defamatory, tortious, obscene, pornographic or profane,
  • has sexist, political or racial character,
  • violates other people’s rights, including any intellectual property rights, rights of privacy and/or rights of publicity,
  • is offensive or in any way breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation,
  • violates these User Terms, including the User Guidelines,
  • reveals any personal information about another individual, including another person’s name, address, phone number, email address, credit card information or any other information that could be used to track, contact or impersonate that person,
  • has a disloyal or unlawful purpose and/or content (or promotes unlawful purposes), or
  • is technically harmful (including without limitation computer viruses, logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, harmful components, corrupted data or other malicious software, harmful data or conduct).

2.7  Contributors of UGC warrant in every context that the UGC is lawful and in compliance with the User Terms. If Smarter.loans receives notice or otherwise becomes aware that UGC violates current legislation and/or the User Terms, we may delete the UGC without any notice, and we – dependent on the character of the violation – may inform the violated party and/or the authorities of the violation. Our right to delete will not be conditioned on an explanation, although we will strive to inform the Registered User about the deletion and the reason hereof.

2.8  The Registered User hereby grants us the right to initiate and take any legal actions which we deem necessary in case of infringement of the Registered User’s UGC.

The Registered User must guarantee to indemnify us for any claims which may be made against us as a consequence of the Registered User’s violation of the User Terms or current legislation. The Registered User must indemnify and hold us harmless from and against any claim or loss due to third party claims against us resulting from the UGC of the Registered User.

2.9  We may at any time request information about the UGC from the Registered User, including documentation supporting the information included in the UGC, e.g. documentation evidencing that the UGC is based on an actual buying experience in an actual customer relation to the company to which the UGC relates.

GENERAL TERMS

3  Rights

3.1  The Website and the services we offer via the Website, including all underlying technology and intellectual property rights embodied therein, are and remain our sole and exclusive property, and no license or any other right is granted to any such underlying technology. If you provide feedback, ideas or suggestions regarding the Website or the services offered on the Website (“Feedback”), we are free to fully exploit such Feedback.

3.2  The content on the Website, including but not limited to the intellectual property rights, text, characteristics, graphics, icons, photos, calculations, references and software is or will be our property or the property of a third party (other than the Registered User) and is protected by Canadian and applicable international legislation, including without limitation applicable copyright and trademark laws.

3.3  Unauthorized copying, distribution, presentation or other use of the Website or part hereof is a violation of Canadian law and may thus result in civil and/or criminal penalties.

3.4  To the fullest extent permitted by law, the rights to free use of the UGC are transferred to us irrevocably, without any time limitation and without territorial limitations, by submitting the UGC to us.

3.5  Downloading and other digital copying of the content on the Website or parts hereof are only permitted for personal non-commercial use unless otherwise agreed with us in writing or allowed under applicable mandatory law.

3.6  All company names, trademarks and other business characteristics on the Website is or will be our property or the property of a third party (other than the Registered User) and must only be used for business purposes upon prior approval from us or the third party owner, respectively.

4  Personal data

4.1  We perform different types of processing of personal data in connection with the use of the Website. Our processing of personal data takes place under observance of our Privacy Policy, which can be obtained here: http://legal.smarter.loans.com/end-user-privacy-terms.

By accepting these User Terms, you confirm to have read and accepted our Privacy Policy.

DISCLAIMERS

5.1 LIABILITY DISCLAIMER

PLEASE READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY. THIS SECTION LIMITS SMARTER.LOANS’S LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ISSUES THAT MAY ARISE IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE. IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE TERMS IN THIS SECTION OR ELSEWHERE IN THE AGREEMENT, PLEASE CONSULT A LAWYER FOR CLARIFICATION BEFORE ACCESSING OR USING THIS WEBSITE.

THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES PUBLISHED ON THIS WEBSITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR ERRORS, INCLUDING RESERVATION AVAILABILITY AND PRICING ERRORS. SMARTER.LOANS, ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND CORPORATE AFFILIATES DO NOT GUARANTEE THE ACCURACY OF, AND DISCLAIM ALL LIABILITY FOR, ANY ERRORS OR OTHER INACCURACIES RELATING TO THE INFORMATION AND DESCRIPTION OF ANY INFORMATION LISTED ON THE WEBSITE OR ANY INFORMATION IN REGARDS TO ANY LENDING INSTITUTION LISTED ON THE WEBSITE.

SMARTER.LOANS MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OF ANY KIND ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES CONTAINED ON THIS WEBSITE (SITE CONTENT) OR ANY PORTION THEROF FOR ANY PURPOSE, AND THE INCLUSION OR OFFERING OF ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES ON THIS WEBSITE DOES NOT CONSTITUTE ANY ENDORSEMENT OR RECOMMENDATION OF SUCH PRODUCTS OR SERVICES BY THE SMARTER.LOANS. ALL SUCH INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. THE SMARTER.LOANS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, CONDITIONS, OR OTHER TERMS OF ANY KIND THAT THIS WEBSITE, ITS SERVERS OR ANY EMAIL SENT FROM THE SMARTER.LOANS, ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW SMARTER.LOANS HEREBY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OR TERMS OF ANY KIND AS TO MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, QUIET POSSESSION AND NONINFRINGEMENT.

SMARTER.LOANS ALSO EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY WARRANTY, REPRESENTATION, OR OTHER TERM OF ANY KIND AS TO THE ACCURACY OR PROPRIETARY CHARACTER OF THE SITE CONTENT.

NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT SHALL EXCLUDE OR LIMIT SMARTER.LOANS’S LIABILITY FOR (I) DEATH OR PERSONAL INFURY CAUSED BY NEGLIGENCE; (II) FRAUD; (III) FRAUDULENT MISTATEMENT (IV) DELIBERATE BREACH OR GROSS NEGLIGENCE (V) ANY OTHER LIABILITY WHICH CANNOT BE EXCLUDED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.

THE THIRD-PARTY SUPPLIERS PROVIDING LENDING INSTITUTION INFORMATION, INTEREST RATES, TERMS, OR OTHER INFORMATION ARE NOT AGENTS OR EMPLOYEES OF SMARTER.LOANS. SMARTER.LOANS IS NOT LIABLE FOR THE ACTS, ERRORS, OMISSIONS, REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, BREACHES OR NEGLIGENCE OF ANY SUCH SUPPLIERS OR FOR ANY PERSONAL INJURIES, DEATH, PROPERTY DAMAGE, OR OTHER DAMAGES OR EXPENSES RESULTING THEREFROM. SMARTER.LOANS HAS NO LIABILITY AND WILL MAKE NO REFUND IN THE EVENT OF ANY DELAY, CANCELLATION, OVERBOOKING, STRIKE, FORCE MAJEURE OR OTHER CAUSES BEYOND THEIR DIRECT CONTROL, AND THEY HAVE NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY ADDITIONAL EXPENSE, OMISSIONS, DELAYS, RE-ROUTING OR ACTS OF ANY GOVERNMENT OR AUTHORITY.

SUBJECT TO THE FOREGOING, YOU USE THIS WEBSITE AT YOUR OWN RISK AND IN NO EVENT SHALL SMARTER.LOANS (OR THEIR OFFICERS, DIRECTORS AND AFFILIATES) BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSSES OR DAMAGES OR ANY LOSS OF INCOME, PROFITS, GOODWILL, DATA, CONTRACTS, USE OF MONEY, OR LOSS OR DAMAGES ARISING FROM OR CONNTECTED IN ANY WAY TO BUSINESS INTERRUPTION OF ANY TYPE ARISING OUT OF, OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH, YOUR ACCESS TO, DISPLAY OF OR USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO ACCESS, DISPLAY OR USE THIS WEBSITE (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, YOUR RELIANCE UPON REVIEWS AND OPINIONS APPEARING ON THIS WEBSITE; ANY COMPUTER VIRUSES, INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, LINKED SITES, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES OBTAINED THROUGH THIS WEBSITE; OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE ACCESS TO, DISPLAY OF OR USE OF THIS WEBSITE) WHETHER BASED ON A THEORY OF NEGLIGENCE, CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE, AND EVEN IF SMARTER.LOANS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND FOREGOING LIABLITY DISCLAIMER DO NOT AFFECT MANDATORY LEGAL RIGHTS THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.

5.2 INDEMNIFICATION

You agree to defend and indemnify Smarter.loans and its affiliates and any of their officers, directors, employees and agents from and against any claims, causes of action, demands, recoveries, losses, damages, fines, penalties or other costs or expenses of any kind or nature including but not limited to reasonable legal and accounting fees, brought by third parties as a result of:

  • (i) your breach of this Agreement or the documents referenced herein;
  • (ii) your violation of any law or the rights of a third party; or
  • (iii) your use of this Website.

 

5.3 LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY SITES

This Website may contain hyperlinks to websites operated by parties other than Smarter.loans. Such hyperlinks are provided for your reference only. We do not control such websites and are not responsible for their contents or the privacy or other practices of such websites. Further, it is up to you to take precautions to ensure that whatever links you select or software you download (whether from this Website or other websites) is free of such items as viruses, worms, trojan horses, defects and other items of a destructive nature. Our inclusion of hyperlinks to such websites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such websites or any association with their operators. In some cases you may be asked by a third party site to link your profile on Smarter.loans to a profile on another third party site. Choosing to do so is purely optional, and the decision to allow this information to be linked can be disabled (with the third party site) at any time.

5.4  THE WEBSITE, CONTENT AND SERVICES OFFERED ON THE WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED ‘AS IS’ AND AS AVAILABLE WITHOUT REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. SMARTER.LOANS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTIES OF NON-INFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE WEBSITE AND SERVICES MAY BE MODIFIED, UPDATED, INTERRUPTED, SUSPENDED OR DISCONTINUED AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE OR LIABILITY.

5.5  We make no representations or warranties with respect to any UGC published on the Website. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Smarter.loans may at all times investigate and edit (including anonymizing) UGC, e.g. if such actions are (i) prompted by third party requests, (ii) required under applicable law or (iii) necessary for the UGC’s compliance with our User Guidelines.

5.6  We disclaim all liability for the content of UGC. Our non-liability applies, without limitation, to any UGC, including UGC which has been edited by us (see 5.2). We are not liable for any links to third party websites in the UGC, including for the content of the page to which the UGC links.

5.7  Recommendations, reviews, comments, etc. of specific companies, services, e-businesses, etc. on the Website are provided by Registered Users and are not endorsements made by us. We disclaim all liability for the content of the Website. The use of our services is in any respect the sole responsibility of the Registered Users. We cannot be held liable for the availability of the Website.

5.8 smarter.loans is in no way responsible for the consequences of doing business with any of the lenders listed on smarter.loans. With extensive research and expert opinions, we are in good faith presenting only the most trusted and credible institutions, however we are not liable for any losses, damages, inconveniences or negative experiences that come as a result of dealing with any company listed on this Website.

6  Limitation of liability

6.1  WE SHALL IN NO CASE BE HELD LIABLE, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR OTHERWISE FOR DAMAGES FOR THE USE OF THE WEBSITE, EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, INCLUDING (I) LOSS OF PROFITS, CONTRACTS, TURNOVER, BUSINESS, BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, LOSS OR CORRUPTION OF DATA OR RECOVERY OF DATA, GOODWILL, SECURITY BREACH RESULTING FROM A FAILURE OF THIRD PARTY TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND/OR THE INTERNET, ANTICIPATED SAVINGS OR REVENUE (REGARDLESS OF WHETHER ANY OF THESE ARE DIRECT, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL) (II) ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE ARISING IN CONNECTION WITH LIABILITIES TO THIRD PARTIES (WHETHER DIRECT, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL) OR (III) ANY INDIRECT, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS OR DAMAGE WHATSOEVER. SOME STATES AND OTHER JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

6.2  OUR TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION LIABILITY FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT, MISREPRESENTATION (WHETHER TORTIOUS OR STATUTORY), TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), BREACH OF STATUTORY DUTY OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USER TERMS, THE WEBSITE OR OUR SERVICES WILL NEVER FOR ANY AND ALL ACTIONABLE CIRCUMSTANCES EXCEED ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100.00). YOU FURTHER AGREE THAT NO CLAIMS OR ACTIONS ARISING OUT OF, OR RELATED TO, THE USE OF OUR WEBSITE OR SERVICES OR THESE USER TERMS MAY BE BROUGHT BY YOU MORE THAN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE ACTIONABLE EVENT. NOTHING IN THE USER TERMS EXCLUDES OR LIMITS EITHER PARTY’S LIABILITY FOR MATTERS WHICH CANNOT BE EXCLUDED OR LIMITED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW.

7  Other User Terms

7.1  We may at any time, in our sole discretion, revise or change these User Terms. We will make an effort to provide reasonable advance notice of any such changes. We may at any time, in our own discretion and without notice, close, change or reorganize the Website. As a Registered User you accept to be covered at all times by the current User Terms. Any revision or change of the User Terms will be stated on the Website. We will furthermore strive to inform the Registered Users about the change of the User Terms. The Registered Users agree that the continued use of the Website after any posted modified version of the User Terms is an acceptance of the modified User Terms.

7.2  Should any of these User Terms be regarded as unlawful or without effect and therefore not to be enforced, this will not have any effect on the applicability and enforcement of the remaining part of the User Terms.

8  Term and termination

8.1 We may terminate your right to access and use the services offered on the Website at any time for any reason without liability. If we do so, or if you elect to delete your profile, any rights granted to you herein will immediately cease. Sections 2-10 will survive any termination of the User Terms.

9  Applicable law and venue

9.1  The User Terms and the relationship between you and Smarter.loans are governed by the Canadian law, without regard to the conflicts of law provisions thereof.

10  Copyright dispute policy

10.1 It is Smarter.loans’s policy to (i) block access to or remove material that it believes in good faith to be copyrighted material that has been illegally copied and distributed by any of our advertisers, affiliates, content providers or members or users; and (ii) remove and discontinue service to repeat offenders.

11  Miscellaneous

11.1  You acknowledge and agree that these User Terms constitute the complete and exclusive agreement between you and Smarter.loans concerning your use of the Website and supersede and govern all prior proposals, agreements or other communications.

11.2  Nothing contained in these User Terms can be construed as creating any agency, partnership or other form of joint enterprise between us. Our failure to require your performance of any provision hereof will not affect our full right to require such performance at any time thereafter, nor may our waiver of a breach of any provision hereof be taken or held to be a waiver of the provision itself. You may not assign any rights granted to you hereunder, and any such attempts are void.

12  CONTACT

12.1  You may contact Smarter.loans via email at support@smarter.loans or the following mailing address:

Smarter.loans Inc.,
1501 – 30 North Park Road

Thonrhill ON, L4J 8E8