Terms of Use

1. Who may use Vinito

You must have the legal capacity to enter into a binding agreement in your province or territory. If you use Vinito for a business or other organization, you confirm that you are authorized to bind it. You may not use the Service if doing so would violate applicable law or if Vinito has previously suspended you for serious or repeated violations.

2. Accounts

Provide accurate, current information; keep your sign-in credentials confidential; and promptly update information that changes. You are responsible for activity through your account unless you promptly report unauthorized access. One person or organization may not create accounts to evade limits, enforcement, or another account’s suspension. Contact support@vinito.ca if you believe an account has been compromised.

3. Vinito’s role

Vinito provides a venue where users can publish and respond to classifieds. Except where Vinito expressly says otherwise, Vinito does not own, inspect, store, sell, hire, lease, deliver, insure, certify, or guarantee listings, users, payments, goods, services, jobs, vehicles, or properties. Vinito is not a party to agreements between users and does not act as an agent, broker, employer, landlord, dealer, or payment processor.

4. Listings and user conduct

You are responsible for your listings, messages, and conduct. You agree to:

• post only lawful, accurate, current content that you have the right to offer and display;
• place each listing in the correct category and avoid duplicate, misleading, keyword-stuffed, bait-and-switch, or unavailable listings;
• disclose material defects, total prices, required fees, commercial status, and other facts a reasonable person would consider important;
• comply with the Prohibited Items Policy and all applicable consumer, product-safety, employment, housing, vehicle, licensing, tax, and human-rights laws;
• not discriminate unlawfully in jobs, housing, services, or transactions; and
• not scrape data, distribute malware, send spam, manipulate rankings, impersonate others, harvest contact details, evade safeguards, or interfere with the Service.

5. Transactions are between users

You must independently assess the identity, authority, ownership, condition, legality, qualifications, licences, insurance, price, and payment arrangements of anyone or anything involved in a transaction. Do not rely on a listing, profile, message, badge, or the availability of the Service as Vinito’s endorsement. Review the Scam and Safe-Meeting Guide before transacting.

6. Jobs, services, vehicles, and rentals

Employers and recruiters must identify genuine opportunities and comply with employment, recruitment, wage, and human-rights requirements. Service providers must hold any required trade, professional, business, or safety credentials. Vehicle sellers must have authority to sell and must accurately disclose title, condition, mileage, liens, and dealer status where applicable. Housing providers must have authority to offer the property, disclose required costs and material conditions, and comply with tenancy and human-rights laws. Users must perform their own checks before accepting work, services, a vehicle, or a tenancy.

7. Your content

You retain ownership of content you submit. You grant Vinito a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, reproduce, format, resize, translate, and display that content only as reasonably needed to operate, secure, moderate, and promote the Service. This licence ends when the content is deleted, except where copies must be retained for legal compliance, safety, fraud prevention, backups, or dispute resolution. You confirm that your content and Vinito’s permitted use of it do not violate anyone else’s rights.

8. Messages and privacy

Vinito may route messages through masked addresses to reduce exposure of personal email addresses. Do not use messages for spam, harassment, phishing, unlawful offers, or collecting unnecessary personal information. Vinito may use automated and manual measures to deliver messages, detect abuse, investigate reports, and enforce these Terms as described in the Privacy Policy.

9. Moderation and reports

Vinito may investigate, refuse, edit, restrict, remove, or preserve content; limit features; and warn, suspend, or terminate accounts when reasonably necessary to enforce these Terms, protect users or the public, respond to reports, comply with law, or maintain the Service. Moderation is discretionary and Vinito cannot review every listing or prevent every harmful interaction. Users may report a listing through its report control or email support@vinito.ca. Knowingly false or abusive reports are prohibited.

10. Fees and paid features

Core or optional features may be free during testing. If Vinito later offers a paid feature, its price, taxes, duration, renewal terms, and any additional conditions will be shown before purchase. Unless law requires otherwise or the purchase terms say otherwise, fees for a feature already delivered are non-refundable.

11. Service availability and third-party services

Vinito may change, suspend, or discontinue all or part of the Service. Links, maps, sign-in providers, email delivery, and other third-party services are governed by their own terms and policies. Vinito is not responsible for third-party services or content merely because the Service links to or interoperates with them.

12. Disclaimers

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of accuracy, availability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, identity, title, quality, safety, or transaction outcome. Nothing in these Terms excludes a warranty, condition, remedy, or consumer right that applicable law does not permit Vinito to exclude.

13. Limits of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Vinito will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, lost profits or data, personal injury, property loss, or losses arising from user content, user conduct, or transactions between users. These limits do not apply where prohibited by law.

14. Responsibility for claims

Where permitted by law, you are responsible for losses and reasonable costs resulting from your unlawful content or conduct, your breach of these Terms, or your infringement of another person’s rights. This section does not require a consumer to indemnify Vinito for Vinito’s own negligence or conduct where such a requirement would be unlawful.

15. Suspension, termination, and survival

You may stop using Vinito at any time and may request account deletion subject to lawful retention. Vinito may suspend or terminate access for a breach, risk to users, legal requirement, or discontinuation of the Service. Provisions that by their nature should survive—including ownership, disclaimers, liability limits, and responsibility for claims—continue after termination.

16. Governing law and disputes

Applicable Canadian federal law and the law of the province or territory identified in Vinito’s final corporate details will govern these Terms, without limiting mandatory consumer protections or a court’s jurisdiction under applicable law. Before filing a claim, please contact Vinito so the parties can try to resolve the concern informally.

17. Changes to these Terms

Vinito may update these Terms to reflect changes to the Service, law, or safety practices. Material changes will be posted with a new “Last updated” date and, where required, additional notice or renewed consent. Continued use after the effective date means you accept the revised Terms.

18. Contact

Questions, notices, or concerns may be sent to support@vinito.ca.