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Volume V · Legal

The Poster Articles — Terms.

Terms of use for CalgaryTrail. By stepping under the marquee and using the cabinet, the visitor agrees to the short list of articles below. The trail crew has tried to keep these in plain English. The page is updated when the site materially changes.

Article 1 — Free social entertainment only.

CalgaryTrail is a free social entertainment site. There is no payment system on the site at any point. The trail-point counter on the cabinet records a count, not a value, and resets when the tab closes. Trail points cannot be exchanged for cash, gift cards, merchandise, or any other consideration. The site does not offer prizes of any kind. Any visitor who interprets the cabinet as a real-money venue is asked to stop visiting and to reach the help directory in the footer.

Article 2 — Adults aged eighteen and over only.

The cabinet does not render before the visitor confirms being eighteen years of age or older. The confirmation is stored on the visitor's device for one hundred and eighty days and is cleared when the visitor clears their cookie storage or chooses to clear it from the cookie notice. Adults supporting a younger person are asked to keep the cabinet out of casual reach for the visitor in their care.

Article 3 — This is not a gambling service.

For the purposes of the Criminal Code of Canada (R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46) and the Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Act (R.S.A. 2000, c. G-1), the cabinet does not offer a chance to win money, property, or anything of monetary value. The cabinet is not a lottery scheme, is not a gaming activity, and is not licensed as one because none is required. Adults outside Alberta should consult their provincial statute for the equivalent definition.

Article 4 — Acceptable use.

Visitors agree not to attempt to extract content from the site for republication without permission, not to scrape the cabinet animation as a product, not to attempt to reverse-engineer the cabinet's symbol pool, and not to use the site in any way that interferes with another visitor's use. Adults are welcome to take screenshots for personal reference and to share the address with friends.

Article 5 — Intellectual property.

All copy, all marquee letterforms, and all illustrations on the site are produced by the trail crew, except for the four regulator logos linked from the help directory, which are the property of their respective organisations and are reproduced under fair use as part of a help signpost. The two web fonts (Stardos Stencil and Barlow) are licensed by Google Fonts under the Open Font License. The cabinet's small illustrations are released under a Creative Commons Attribution licence and any adult who would like to reuse them can email the contact address.

Article 6 — Liability disclaimers.

The site is provided as-is. The trail crew has tried to make the cabinet stable, the placards readable, and the help directory honest. The site does not warrant that it will always be reachable, that the cabinet will always render, or that the help directory will always link to a working URL. The trail crew is not liable for any indirect harm a visitor may experience as a result of using the site beyond what cannot be excluded by the law of Alberta.

Article 7 — Privacy and cookies.

The site sets two strictly necessary entries on the visitor's device on first visit and may set additional analytics cookies if the visitor accepts non-essential cookies. The full notice is on the Banner Archive (Privacy) page and the full inventory is on the Ribbon Notes (Cookies) page.

Article 8 — A measured visit.

The Midway Pause page is the trail crew's longest placard and the page we direct the most visitors to. It explains the eighteen-or-older door, the fifteen-minute pause cadence, the small set of warning signs we watch for, and the four organisations the help directory links to.

Article 9 — Governing law and venue.

These articles are governed by the law of the Province of Alberta and the federal law of Canada applicable in that province. Any dispute arising from a visit to the site is to be brought in the courts of Alberta sitting in Calgary. Adults outside Canada accept that the site is operated from Alberta and that Alberta law applies to it regardless of the visitor's location.

Article 10 — Changes to these articles.

When the articles change materially, the version field of the consent record is incremented and the cookie banner reappears so adults can re-confirm. Small grammatical edits are made in place without re-prompting. The articles in force at the moment of a visit are the articles displayed on this page.

Article 11 — Contact.

Email [email protected]. The writer reads the inbox once a day and answers within a working week. The trail crew is reachable at the studio above the stencil shop on Stephen Avenue, Calgary, AB, Canada, T2P 1J9.