 Comments Policy
Although all comments are automatically displayed on Brother’s social platforms and applications, Brother Canada reserves the right, but not the responsibility, to, in its sole and absolute discretion, screen, modify, edit or remove any such comments or content, or to request that a person modify or edit such comments or content if a complaint or notice of allegedly infringing materials is received with respect to a person’s comment or content, or for any other reason. Brother reserves the right to participate in or to intervene in any conversation, if necessary. The views and opinions posted by Brother employees do not necessarily represent or reflect the official views of Brother, and similar to other comments, Brother reserves the right to screen, modify, edit or remove said comments or content from any of its online and/or social media platforms.
Constructive disagreements and debates may be considered to be conversations, but no insulting or offensive comment or content shall be accepted. Any comment judged, in the sole and absolute discretion of Brother Canada, to be, without limitation, illegal, abusive, defamatory, disrespectful of the private life of others or obscene will be immediately deleted even before being published. Brother Canada further reserves the right, in its sole and absolute discretion, to edit, modify or remove any comment or content that, in its sole and absolute discretion:
- Does not respect the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms or any and all provincial or federal laws in Canada;
- Is of a racist, violent, obscene, pornographic, or explicit character, as well as any abusive, hateful statement with the objective of defaming a person or an organization;
- Contains an accusation, true or false, made against a person or an organization;
- Is offensive, defamatory, trade libelous, disrespectful or injurious and/or is made against a person or organization;
- Contains any solicitation or advertising with the objective of promoting or supporting a financial or commercial enterprise, or a non-governmental organization;
- Is published by a person who is not the author or is not written in English or French;
- Is incomprehensible or unrelated to the post published at the beginning;
- Is junk mail or sent in bulk;
- Refers to, endorses, condones, encourages and/or discusses any illegal, inappropriate or risky conduct or activity;
- Contains personal information of individuals, including, without limitation, names, telephone numbers and addresses (physical or electronic);
- Contains any identifiable third party products, trade-marks, brands and/or logos;
- Infringes, or might infringe, the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, rights of publicity, or other proprietary rights of others or give rise to any claims for payment whatsoever;
- May interfere or disrupt any and all of Brother Canada’s sites, applications or social media platforms;
- May, in the sole and absolute discretion of Brother Canada, degrade, tarnish or deprecate the Brother Canada brand and/or the public image or standing in the community of Brother Canada.
All persons hereby acknowledge, agree, warrant and represent to Brother Canada that they will not communicate, post or otherwise submit or transmit, through or to any of Brother Canada’s sites, applications and/or social media platforms, any comments or content that contains any of the information listed above.
All persons hereby acknowledge, agree, warrant and represent to Brother Canada that any and all comments or content (any format or media) they communicate, post, upload or otherwise submit or transmit, through or to any of Brother Canada’s sites, applications and/or social media platforms, is original to them and that they have all necessary rights in and to the comments or content and all of its components (if applicable) to communicate, post, upload, or otherwise submit or transmit it.
By using Brother Canada’s sites, applications and/or social media platforms, you are giving Brother Canada permission to forever use any comments or content you communicate, upload, post or otherwise submit or transmit to such sites, applications and/or social media platforms. You hereby grant to Brother Canadaa world-wide, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, non-exclusive, and unrestricted license to use, copy, reproduce, adapt, transmit, publicly display, distribute, and translate any and all comments or content (in any format or media) that you communicate, upload, post or otherwise transmit or submit to Brother Canada’s sites, applications and/or social media platforms through such mediums.
Brother invites people to write their comments, their questions or their responses to other members in its social media community in order to make its social platforms interesting places where people can enjoy conversations and the information exchanged. If necessary, consumers can communicate directly with a member of the Brother team by writing to the following address: publicrelations@brother.ca.
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