These Terms & Conditions govern access to and use of the Manitoba Stinchcombe List website, database, accounts, submissions, communications, and related services. By using the site, a user agrees to comply with these terms and all applicable laws. If a user does not agree, the user should not access or use the affected service. Additional written terms may apply to paid, organizational, contributor, or specialized services.
Informational Purpose
The platform provides public information, research tools, record connections, and summaries of source material. Content is not legal advice and does not determine guilt, liability, professional discipline, admissibility, credibility, or disclosure obligations in a particular proceeding. Users must review original sources and obtain qualified advice before making consequential legal, employment, licensing, safety, or financial decisions.
Accounts & Access
Users must provide accurate account information, keep credentials confidential, and promptly report suspected unauthorized access. An account may not be shared, sold, or used to impersonate another person. Access levels, features, limits, and eligibility may differ by service. The platform may suspend or restrict access reasonably necessary to protect security, enforce these terms, investigate misuse, comply with law, or maintain service integrity.
Acceptable Use
Users may browse, search, cite, and use information for lawful research, reporting, education, accountability, and professional purposes, subject to applicable rights and restrictions. Users must not interfere with the service, bypass access controls, introduce malicious code, scrape at a harmful rate, conceal identity for fraud, harass listed people, publish unlawful threats, misuse personal information, or use the platform to discriminate unlawfully. Automated use requires any authorization stated by the service.
User Submissions
A person submitting information represents that the submission is lawful, made in good faith, and sufficiently sourced to permit responsible review. Submissions must distinguish allegations from established facts and must not knowingly include false statements, unlawfully obtained material, privileged communications, prohibited publications, or unnecessary sensitive identifiers. The submitter retains applicable ownership but grants the platform permission to review, store, reproduce, edit for clarity, classify, verify, publish, correct, and link the material for operating the service.
Editorial Review &C orrections
The platform may accept, decline, redact, classify, summarize, update, or remove material based on relevance, source quality, fairness, privacy, safety, legal restrictions, and editorial standards. Publication does not endorse a submission. People and organizations may request corrections by identifying the exact statement and providing authoritative supporting material. The platform may preserve a transparent history while displaying the current status prominently.
Intellectual Property
The website design, original text, organization, branding, and software may be protected by intellectual-property law. Third-party judgments, reports, media, trademarks, and other materials remain subject to their respective rights and permitted uses. A citation or link does not transfer ownership. Users may quote or reuse content only as allowed by law, licence, these terms, and any notice accompanying the material.
Third-Party Services & Links
The site may link to courts, regulators, government bodies, news organizations, archives, payment providers, and other third parties. Those services control their own content, availability, security, and privacy practices. A link is supplied for context or convenience and is not a guarantee, endorsement, or continuing verification of the third-party material.
Availability & Disclaimers
The platform is provided on an as-available basis. Public records can be incomplete, delayed, corrected, restricted, or differently interpreted. While reasonable efforts may be made to maintain accuracy and security, uninterrupted access, completeness, timeliness, fitness for a particular purpose, and error-free operation cannot be guaranteed to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the platform and its operators are not responsible for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive loss arising from use of, inability to use, or reliance on the service. Any limitation is subject to rights and liabilities that cannot lawfully be excluded. Users remain responsible for verifying information and for how they use it.
Changes, Termination, & Contact
These terms may be updated to reflect legal, operational, security, or service changes. The effective version should be identified on this page, and material changes may be communicated through the site or an appropriate notice. Continued use after an effective change constitutes acceptance where permitted by law. Questions about these terms should be directed through the Contact page.
