conditions of use

Last Revised: April 222022 

1. Gen­er­al

a. Con­di­tions of Use – These Con­di­tions of Use con­tain a num­ber of impor­tant oblig­a­tions, restric­tions, notices and dis­claimers that apply to this Site, to the use of this Site and to any infor­ma­tion which is made avail­able on this Site. By mak­ing any use of this Site and/​or any of the pages or infor­ma­tion made avail­able on this Site, you are agree­ing to be bound by all of the pro­vi­sions of these Con­di­tions of Use and that you will com­ply with the pro­vi­sions of these Con­di­tions of Use in respect of all mat­ters regard­ing this Site. We rec­om­mend that you read the entire Con­di­tions of Use care­ful­ly. If you do not agree with these Con­di­tions of Use, do not access or view this Site.

b. Def­i­n­i­tions – In these Con­di­tions of Use:

  1. includes” and includ­ing” means includ­ing with­out lim­it­ing the gen­er­al­i­ty of the foregoing;
  1. WRHA” means WRHA and any suc­ces­sor entity;
  1. Site” means this web­site, hav­ing the URL http://​www​.street​con​nec​tions​.com;
  1. Third Par­ty Sites” means web­sites which are owned, main­tained or con­trolled by third par­ties (and not by WHRA) to which links are pro­vid­ed from this Site;
  1. use” includes access, view or copy­ing, whether in whole or in part; and,
  1. cap­tions and head­ings are insert­ed for con­ve­nience only, and are not to be used as an aid in the inter­pre­ta­tion of these Con­di­tions of Use.

c. Con­tract – These Con­di­tions of Use con­sti­tute a con­tract between the User and WRHA, and WRHA is enti­tled to rely upon and to enforce its terms.

d. Oth­er Con­di­tions – In addi­tion to these Con­di­tions of Use, your use of this Site may also be sub­ject to the terms and con­di­tions which may be post­ed on or applic­a­ble to Third Par­ty Sites. See the sec­tion below enti­tled Dis­claimer re: Third Par­ty Sites.”

e. Pur­pose – This Site pro­vides gen­er­al infor­ma­tion about WRHA and its pro­grams and activ­i­ties that may be of inter­est to readers.

f. User – These Con­di­tions of Use apply to all per­sons who use this Site, or who attempt to do so, whether or not they are autho­rized by WRHA. Such a per­son is referred to in these Con­di­tions of Use as User” or you.”

g. Changes to Con­di­tions of Use – Changes may be made by WRHA to these Con­di­tions of Use at any time by updat­ing this post­ing. We strong­ly rec­om­mend that you review these Con­di­tions of Use reg­u­lar­ly, and your con­tin­ued use of this Site means that you agree to any changes made.

h. Google Ana­lyt­ics – This Site uses Google Ana­lyt­ics, a web ana­lyt­ics ser­vice pro­vid­ed by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Ana­lyt­ics uses cook­ies,” which are text files placed on your com­put­er, to help the web­site ana­lyze how users use this Site. The infor­ma­tion gen­er­at­ed by the cook­ie about your use of this Site (includ­ing your IP address) will be trans­mit­ted to and stored by Google on servers in the Unit­ed States. Google will use this infor­ma­tion for the pur­pose of eval­u­at­ing your use of the Site, com­pil­ing reports on Site activ­i­ty for the Site’s oper­a­tors and pro­vid­ing oth­er ser­vices relat­ing to web­site activ­i­ty and Inter­net usage. Google may also trans­fer this infor­ma­tion to third par­ties where required to do so by law, or where such third par­ties process the infor­ma­tion on Google’s behalf. Google will not asso­ciate your IP address with any oth­er data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cook­ies by select­ing the appro­pri­ate set­tings on your brows­er; how­ev­er, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full func­tion­al­i­ty of this Site. By using this Site, you con­sent to the pro­cess­ing of data about you by Google in the man­ner and for the pur­pos­es set out above.

i. Prop­er Law – This Site and its con­tent are admin­is­tered by WRHA from its offices in Cana­da, and is intend­ed pri­mar­i­ly for use by res­i­dents of Man­i­to­ba. This Site, its con­tent, these Con­di­tions of Use and your use of this Site are all gov­erned by the laws of the Province of Man­i­to­ba and the laws of Cana­da as applic­a­ble there­in, with­out giv­ing effect to any con­flict of laws prin­ci­ples. You agree that all ques­tions and dis­putes regard­ing this Site and your use there­of will be decid­ed exclu­sive­ly by the courts of the Province of Manitoba.

j. More Infor­ma­tionWRHA wel­comes your ques­tions or con­cerns regard­ing this Site or these Con­di­tions of Use. Please feel free to con­tact us at:

(204) 9267000 or email 

Atten­tion: Communications

or by email at info@​wrha.​mb.​ca

2. Own­er­ship

a. Own­er­ship of Site – This Site is owned and oper­at­ed by WRHA.

b. Copy­right – © WRHA 2022. All rights reserved. Except where express­ly stat­ed otherwise:

  1. This Site and all infor­ma­tion which is avail­able on this Site are the prop­er­ty of WRHA, and are sub­ject to the exclu­sive copy­right held by WRHA; and
  1. Unless oth­er­wise spec­i­fied, no per­son has per­mis­sion to copy, redis­trib­ute, mod­i­fy, repro­duce or repub­lish in any form any infor­ma­tion found on this Site. This includes elec­tron­i­cal­ly repro­duc­ing by upload­ing” or down­load­ing” or access­ing onto the Inter­net or any oth­er local or inter­na­tion­al com­put­er sys­tem. Any infringe­ment of the rights of WRHA will result in appro­pri­ate legal action.

c. Trade­marks – Many of the trade­marks used in this Site are Offi­cial Marks pro­tect­ed under The Trade-marks Act (Cana­da). Cer­tain oth­er words, phras­es, names, designs or logos used on the Site may con­sti­tute offi­cial marks, trade­marks (reg­is­tered an unreg­is­tered), ser­vice marks or trade names of WRHA or oth­er enti­ties. Where WRHA is using trade­marks belong­ing to oth­er enti­ties, WRHA. has been giv­en a license by such own­ing enti­ty for said use. Unau­tho­rized use or exploita­tion of such marks or names is strict­ly prohibited.

d. License to view and print – You are here­by grant­ed a lim­it­ed licence to use, to dis­play on your com­put­er, to down­load and to print a sin­gle copy of the text and images which are avail­able on this Site (includ­ing any forms avail­able on this Site which are des­ig­nat­ed for print­ing and use), sole­ly for non-com­mer­cial, per­son­al or edu­ca­tion­al pur­pos­es, pro­vid­ed that the con­tents of this Site are not mod­i­fied in any way. This license is per­son­al to you, and may not be assigned, trans­ferred or sub-licensed to any oth­er per­son. Where any of the images or text on this Site are down­loaded, copied, stored or print­ed, they are still sub­ject to these Con­di­tions of Use and you will ensure that all copy­right and trade­mark notices are retained. No oth­er use is per­mit­ted. With­out lim­it­ing the gen­er­al­i­ty of the fore­go­ing, you may not make any com­mer­cial use of such con­tent, include such con­tent in or with any prod­uct that you cre­ate or dis­trib­ute, or copy such con­tent onto your, or any oth­er person’s, website.

e. Per­mis­sion to repro­duce – Advanced writ­ten autho­riza­tion is required from WRHA if you wish to repro­duce or repub­lish any mate­r­i­al locat­ed on this Site, includ­ing using or pub­lish­ing any names, logos, like­ness­es, pho­tographs, graph­ics, illus­tra­tions, video, music or sound from the Site. If WRHA is not the own­er of such mate­r­i­al, WRHA will direct you to the cor­rect own­er from whom per­mis­sion may be obtained. If you require fur­ther infor­ma­tion on a per­mit­ted use or license, con­tact WRHA Com­mu­ni­ca­tions at the address found above. Any repro­duc­tions may not be rep­re­sent­ed as an offi­cial ver­sion of the mate­ri­als repro­duced, or as hav­ing been made in affil­i­a­tion with, or with the endorse­ment of WRHA.

3. Use

a. No improp­er use – This Site and its con­tent may be used only for the lim­it­ed pur­pos­es described in these Con­di­tions of Use. You will not make or attempt to make any oth­er use there­of. You will not abuse in any way this Site and you will not, and will not attempt to, mod­i­fy this Site or any of its con­tent, or dis­rupt or inter­fere with the avail­abil­i­ty or oper­a­tion of this Site.

b. Accu­ra­cy of data – The infor­ma­tion, mate­r­i­al and con­tent post­ed on this Site are believed to be reli­able when post­ed. Although best efforts are made to ensure accu­ra­cy, there is no war­ran­ty or guar­an­tee that this infor­ma­tion, mate­r­i­al and con­tent are accu­rate, com­plete or cur­rent at all times. With­out lim­it­ing the gen­er­al­i­ty of the fore­go­ing, there may be typo­graph­i­cal errors, or inac­cu­rate or incom­plete infor­ma­tion result­ing from Inter­net soft­ware and/​or trans­mis­sion problems.

c. No health­care or med­ical advice – The infor­ma­tion on the Site, includ­ing newslet­ters, arti­cles, opin­ions, views, word­ing, graph­ics and images, is pro­vid­ed for edu­ca­tion­al or infor­ma­tion pur­pos­es only. It is not intend­ed to pro­vide med­ical, legal or pro­fes­sion­al advice what­so­ev­er or to replace con­sul­ta­tions with pro­fes­sion­al advi­sors, and should not be relied upon in that respect. The infor­ma­tion that is pro­vid­ed on the Site is not intend­ed to be health­care or med­ical advice. Many fac­tors unknown to the WRHA may affect the applic­a­bil­i­ty of any state­ment or com­ment to your par­tic­u­lar cir­cum­stances. You should not act nor refrain from act­ing based upon any infor­ma­tion con­tained on the Site with­out con­sult­ing a qual­i­fied health care professional.

If you have or sus­pect you have a health prob­lem, you should call your health care provider imme­di­ate­ly. This Site con­tains gen­er­al infor­ma­tion that is not spe­cif­ic to any indi­vid­ual per­son. If you have any ques­tions after read­ing this, ask your own physi­cian or health care pro­fes­sion­al or provider. They know you and can best answer your questions.

d. Report Errors – If any errors are noticed on this Site or in the infor­ma­tion which is acces­si­ble on this Site, you are request­ed to imme­di­ate­ly advise WRHA at the address set out above.

e. Third par­ty data – No endorse­ment or approval of any third par­ties, or of their advice, opin­ions, infor­ma­tion, prod­ucts or ser­vices, is expressed or implied. WRHA does not review or con­trol, and is not respon­si­ble for, any infor­ma­tion which is cre­at­ed or sup­plied by a third party.

f. Dis­claimer re: Third Par­ty Sites – This Site may con­tain links to Third Par­ty Sites. In addi­tion to these Con­di­tions of Use, your use of Third-Par­ty Sites may be sub­ject to the terms and con­di­tions which have been post­ed on or are applic­a­ble to the Third-Par­ty Sites. The par­ties who own, main­tain or con­trol Third Par­ty Sites are sole­ly respon­si­ble for their con­tent, and WRHA assumes no respon­si­bil­i­ty for such con­tent. Links to Third Par­ty Sites are pro­vid­ed for con­ve­nience only, and are not to be con­strued as an endorse­ment or rec­om­men­da­tion of the prod­ucts, ser­vices, advice or infor­ma­tion which may be avail­able on them. Link­ing to Third Par­ty Sites is at your own risk and WRHA is not respon­si­ble or liable for any dam­ages in con­nec­tion with linking.

g. Search­es – The results of your use of the Site search tool may auto­mat­i­cal­ly and unin­ten­tion­al­ly gen­er­ate links or ref­er­ences to objec­tion­able mate­r­i­al. Com­put­er­ized search tech­nol­o­gy does not give you search results lim­it­ed to only the infor­ma­tion that you were seek­ing. WRHA is not respon­si­ble for any search results that refer to sites and infor­ma­tion locat­ed world­wide through­out the Internet.

h. No war­ranties – All infor­ma­tion con­tained on this Site is pro­vid­ed as is, where is” with­out any war­ranties of any kind. WRHA makes no rep­re­sen­ta­tions and dis­claim all express and implied war­ranties of any kind, includ­ing rep­re­sen­ta­tions, war­ranties or con­di­tions regard­ing accu­ra­cy, time­li­ness, com­plete­ness, non-infringe­ment and mer­chantabil­i­ty of fit­ness for a par­tic­u­lar pur­pose, and assume no respon­si­bil­i­ty for the con­se­quences of any errors or omissions.

i. Sub­mis­sions – All infor­ma­tion sub­mit­ted to WRHA via the Site shall be deemed to be and remain the prop­er­ty of WRHA. WRHA shall be free to use, for any pur­pose, any ideas, con­cepts, know-how or oth­er tech­niques con­tained in infor­ma­tion pro­vid­ed to WRHA through the Site or sent through email. WRHA shall not be sub­ject to any oblig­a­tions of con­fi­den­tial­i­ty regard­ing any such infor­ma­tion sub­mit­ted to it, unless specif­i­cal­ly agreed by WRHA or required by law. You agree that any infor­ma­tion sub­mit­ted for inclu­sion at the Site does not infringe on the intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty or oth­er rights of any third par­ties and you grant WRHA the right to pro­vide access to the infor­ma­tion from the Site.

j. Lia­bil­i­ty – As a User, you assume full respon­si­bil­i­ty for risk of loss or dam­age of any nature what­so­ev­er aris­ing from or in con­nec­tion with use of this Site. You fur­ther agree that none of WRHA, its affil­i­ates, their respec­tive offi­cers, employ­ees, agents and ser­vice providers shall be liable for any loss or dam­age of any nature what­so­ev­er, aris­ing out of or in con­nec­tion with the use, or the inabil­i­ty to use, this Site or any Third Par­ty Site, regard­less of whether WRHA has been noti­fied of the pos­si­bil­i­ty there­of, and includ­ing any claims whether or not fore­see­able based on con­tract, tort, strict lia­bil­i­ty or oth­er legal or equi­table the­o­ry. WRHA is not liable for any action or deci­sion made by you in reliance on this Site or the infor­ma­tion con­tained here­in, or any unau­tho­rized use or repro­duc­tion of this Site or the infor­ma­tion herein.

k. Indem­ni­fy WRHA – As a User, you shall indem­ni­fy and save harm­less WRHA and its affil­i­ates for all claims, lia­bil­i­ties, loss­es and expens­es (includ­ing legal fees) aris­ing from use of this Site and/​or vio­la­tion of these Con­di­tions of Use.

4. Pri­va­cy and Security

a. Pri­va­cyWRHA is com­mit­ted to main­tain­ing the con­fi­den­tial­i­ty and pri­va­cy of your per­son­al infor­ma­tion in accor­dance with The Free­dom of Infor­ma­tion and Pro­tec­tion of Pri­va­cy Act (Man­i­to­ba) (FIP­PA) and of your per­son­al health infor­ma­tion in accor­dance with The Per­son­al Health Infor­ma­tion Act (Man­i­to­ba) )(PHIA). Any col­lec­tion of infor­ma­tion on this Site is in com­pli­ance with FIP­PA. If you have any gen­er­al ques­tions, please vis­it the FIP­PA web­site at http://​www​.gov​.mb​.ca/​c​h​c​/​f​i​p​p​a​/​i​n​d​e​x​.html.

b. Col­lec­tion of Infor­ma­tion – The fol­low­ing is in addi­tion to the Google Ana­lyt­ics ser­vice which is described above. When you vis­it the Site, we col­lect only infor­ma­tion that is nec­es­sary for the pur­pose of the oper­a­tion and secu­ri­ty of the Site, such as the Inter­net Pro­to­col (IP) address of the com­put­er; the oper­at­ing sys­tem and the type and ver­sion of brows­er used to vis­it the Site; the dates and times of such vis­its; the pages vis­it­ed; and the key words entered into a search engine used to vis­it the Site. This infor­ma­tion is col­lect­ed so that we know how many peo­ple vis­it our site, the geo­graph­i­cal region they are from, and which pages they view on our site. As a gen­er­al prac­tice, the infor­ma­tion is aggre­gat­ed and main­tained in sta­tis­ti­cal reports and indi­vid­u­als are not iden­ti­fied. How­ev­er, if an attempt to dam­age or dis­rupt the Site is detect­ed, we can take fur­ther action and may share the infor­ma­tion with the legal author­i­ties, who may use the infor­ma­tion to inves­ti­gate the breach of secu­ri­ty and to trace and iden­ti­fy the individual(s). This infor­ma­tion is not used for any oth­er pur­pose. This Site does not ask for nor does it col­lect any of your per­son­al health information.

c. Cook­ies – Cook­ies are text files which are placed on your com­put­er while using a web­site so as to allow the web­site to rec­og­nize your com­put­er. This Site uses cook­ies as follows:

  1. Ses­sion cook­ies are used to allow the Site to rec­og­nize your com­put­er for the dura­tion of your vis­it to the Site, and expire when you leave this Site; and
  1. Google Ana­lyt­ics installs ses­sion and per­sis­tent cook­ies on your com­put­er as is described above. The cook­ies intro­duced by Google Ana­lyt­ics are unknown to and not acces­si­ble by WRHA.

d. Inter­net – The Inter­net is not a secure medi­um. The authen­tic­i­ty and pri­va­cy of com­mu­ni­ca­tions over the Inter­net can­not be assured. You should not send any per­son­al or con­fi­den­tial infor­ma­tion to any­one over the Inter­net, and WRHA can­not assume any respon­si­bil­i­ty for any harm or dam­age you may expe­ri­ence or incur by doing so.

5. Ter­mi­na­tion

a. Ter­mi­na­tion of AccessWRHA may ter­mi­nate your access to this Site at any time with­out notice. If your access has been ter­mi­nat­ed and you have any ques­tions, please con­tact WRHA at the address found above.

b. Avail­abil­i­ty of SiteWRHA does not war­rant that this Site will be avail­able and meet your require­ments or that access to this Site will be unin­ter­rupt­ed. Inter­rup­tions of avail­abil­i­ty may occur at any time, with­out notice, includ­ing peri­ods of unavail­abil­i­ty required for main­te­nance or tech­ni­cal reasons.

c. Ter­mi­na­tion of Site – This Site may be ter­mi­nat­ed at any time by WRHA with­out notice.