1 When can you write a review?
1.1 You can write a review on MDG Reviews about your experience with MDG.com or MDG.ca. This should reflect your buying, service or consumer financing experience with that company, which means that:
- you have purchased a product, service or consumer financing from MDG.com or MDG.ca
- you have placed an order with the Company, or
- you can otherwise document your use of the Company's service, including via correspondence or other interaction with the Company.
(these are collectively referred to as "experience" in the following.)
1.2 You may only write about your own personal experience. You are not permitted to write a review about somebody else's experience, such as that of a family member or friend.
1.3 You may not write a review about a Company you have previously owned, currently own, or which an immediate family member currently owns, or if you are an executive or employee of that Company, or work for the Company. Similarly, you may not write a review about a direct competitor to the Company you own, are employed by or work for.
1.4 Your experience with the Company must have occurred within the last 12 months. This means within 12 months from the date on which you write the review. If you have signed up for an ongoing service, the experience begins immediately upon sign up and continues until the service is no longer provided by the Company. You are free to write a review immediately after sign up or at any point up to 12 months after the service ends.
1.5 To write a review on MDG Reviews, you need a user profile and account. You may only have one user profile and account. This must be attached to a valid email address that we can use to contact you directly.
2 What should you write about?
2.1 Your review should be about your experience.
2.2 Your review must reflect your own experience from within the last 12 months. You are encouraged to be specific and factual, and include relevant points about your experience, for example the customer service and other aspects such as the ordering process and delivery.
2.3 Our Website is to capture your experience you had with MDG. Your review should reflect your service you received, not product reviews or reviews about website layout. However, it is acceptable to evaluate the purchased product's functionality and quality, and/or the user-friendliness of the website.
2.4 If you have been offered an incentive by the Company to write a review, you should include information about this in your review. Incentives include the Company offering you a gift, reward, discount or advantage for writing a review about the Company on our Website.
5 When do we ask you to change your review?
5.1 We do not censor, monitor or moderate reviews on our Website, either before or after reviews are published. We do, however, employ safeguards:
We have integrated into the Website notification options in connection with each review: (1) we can receive notifications from users that a review doesn't meet our FAQs/Guidelines, and (2) companies can report a review that doesn't meet our FAQs/Guidelines. Collectively, we call these two options for notifying and reporting reviews "flagging".
5.2 You can be asked to change your review if it has been flagged for any of the following reasons and we agree or cannot reject the report as unfounded:
- Your review contains language that is accusatory and likely to be viewed as inflammatory, includes defamatory statements, or otherwise violates our FAQs/Guidelines or applicable laws
- Your review contains violent or coarse language, or has a sexist or racial character
- Your review includes personal information about another individual, such as a person's name, address, phone number, email address, credit card information or any other information that could be used to track, identify, contact or impersonate someone
- Your review includes promotional references (including links)
- Your review contains personal email addresses or links, or
- Your review is not a review about your experience because it exclusively describes the functionality of the purchased product or of the website's layout.
6 When do we remove your review?
As a general rule, we do not remove reviews from our Website. However, we reserve the right to remove reviews that we determine violate these FAQs/Guidelines, our Terms & Conditions and/or applicable laws or regulations, or reviews that are inappropriate for an online review community. Examples of when we may remove your review include, but are not limited to:
- We ask you to change your review and you don't do so within the specified timeframe.
- We ask you to send us documentation showing that you have had an experience with MDG.com or MDG.ca (in accordance with clause 3) and you don't provide sufficient documentation within the specified timeframe.
- Your review doesn't appear to be based on a genuine experience (e.g. it is a fabricated review, see clause 11 below).
- Your review is about an imposed tax or a fine.
- Your review violates other people's or companies' rights, including intellectual property rights, rights of privacy/confidentiality and/or personality rights.
- Your review is of a marketing nature or has marketing purposes.
- You are, or work for, a competitor to the Company you have reviewed.
- You are an employee of (or work for) the Company you have reviewed, you are or have previously been an owner of the Company, you are an executive of the Company, or an immediate family member to the Company's owner.
- You have created multiple profiles to review the same Company multiple times.
- We need to delete your user profile (see clause 8 below) which means that by default, your review(s) attached to that profile will also be deleted.
Refer to the Terms and Conditions if you need more info.
7 When do we block your account and what does that mean?
We may block your account if you are misusing our Website or services. This can include, but is not limited to, excessive use of the notification option (flagging a high number of reviews without justification), writing fabricated reviews, threatening or abusive behavior (see clause 12 below), spamming our Website with marketing material, or violating these FAQs/Guidelines or our Terms & Conditions.
If we block your account, it will not be possible for you to sign in to our Website and use our services, including writing and notifying us about reviews. Your user profile will still exist and your reviews will stay online, but you will be unable to use our services. If your account is blocked and you want to delete your profile or reviews, you can send an email to support@mdgreviews.com and we'll assist you.
8 When do we delete your profile and account?
As a general rule, we don't delete user profiles and accounts. However, we reserve the right to delete your profile and account if we believe that you are violating or have violated our Terms & Conditions, FAQs/Guidelines and/or applicable laws, or if your profile is offensive or inappropriate.
Examples of when we may delete your user profile and account include, but are not limited to:
- It is not attached to a valid email address, including if the provided email address has expired or is no longer accessible by you. We need you to sign up to our services using a permanent, personal email address because we may need to get in touch with you. This means that we do not accept the use of temporary or disposable email addresses. If you have used such an email to create an account then we will delete your user profile and account.
- Your user profile contains an offensive or inappropriate picture or username.
- Your user profile or account has been used to create fabricated reviews or otherwise misuse our Website or services.
- You have created multiple user profiles. You may only have one user profile on MDG Reviews. If you create more than one user profile we will ask you which one you want to keep and delete the other profiles. If you don't get back to us within the specified timeframe, we will remove all but one of your profiles at our discretion.
If your user profile and account is deleted, the reviews attached to that user profile and account will also be deleted.
10 When do we move your review from one company profile to another?
As a general rule, we don't move reviews from one company profile to another.
But if we are notified by the Company or another user that your review has been left on the wrong company profile, we will ask you which company you intended to review. If you left your review on the wrong company profile, we will move your review to the correct company's profile page on our Website.
We also reserve the right to move your review from one company's profile page to another in special circumstances and to avoid confusion - such as, for example, where a company is rebranded.
Our aim is to create and maintain a best-in-class online review community where you can freely share your experiences with the Company and thereby provide an informative and fair view of the Company's services.
We use customized and advanced detection software to identify fabricated reviews on our platform. To support the software, we have a dedicated Team who safeguard trust by protecting our platform from fabricated reviews or other service misuse, and combat fraudulent behavior.
We have a zero-tolerance policy against fabricated reviews. Trust is crucial to us and we cannot under any circumstances accept fabricated reviews. This includes reviews that are not an expression of a genuine experience, for example because they are created by or on behalf of the Company.
We consider the creation of fabricated reviews a material breach of the Terms & Conditions you accept when you create a user profile and account on our Website.
Reviews that we deem false, fabricated or similar will be removed and can lead to the immediate blocking of your account and filing of a report with the relevant authorities. We also reserve the right to inform our community about any domains reviewed on MDG Reviews that have attracted a high number of fabricated reviews.
If you have evidence that a review is fabricated, we encourage you to notify us through our whistleblower function by sending an email to: support@mdgreviews.com.
We take all reports of fabricated reviews seriously and investigate them. As this is not an easy task, we ask you to provide us with as much information as possible, including documentation showing why you believe a review is fabricated.