UPDATED MARCH, 2025
Website Terms
By using this website, you agree to be bound by these terms, and acknowledge the opportunity to read and understand them. Not all terms may apply to you and your level of engagement with this website or the features contained within may determine additional applicable terms as defined below:
The Candy Cane Hit is a film by Maher El Hares, and represented internationally by Crappy Doodle Production House Inc. (Maison de griffonnages merdique Inc.).
On this website; Unless otherwise specified, terms like “we/us” refer to the Production, Crappy Doodle Production House Inc. and/or the team employed by to provide a service to you on behalf of us.
“You” are the user, organization, client, customer, supporter, contributor, or otherwise described elsewhere, and consume the products and/or services we provide.
All matters regarding this website shall be governed in the jurisdiction of Canada. Due to our operations across the country and abroad, we reserve the sole & exclusive right to further determine a local jurisdiction if applicable.
You attest to be under no restrictions to access this content, and attest to the authority to bind your company or organization if acting (or determined to be acting) on their behalf.
Should a term of this site become unenforceable under law, the law shall prevail with respect to the questioned term, with the remainder of these terms in effect.
You agree to use the services herein as intended, and agree not to do anything such as copy, pirate, manipulate, hack or otherwise unknown or unnamed interference with the intended operations of this site.
This website offers a reward-point system in the form of Reward Tokens.
Your contribution towards the film’s crowdfunding campaign earns you Reward Tokens and access to exclusive film memorabilia as our way of doing crowdfunding rewards.
At this time and unless otherwise stated:
- Earn 10 Reward Tokens for every $1 spent
- Redeem 250 Reward Tokens for $1 value
- Reward Tokens expire 36 months after they’ve been earned to allow for the end of this campaign and the fulfilment of all ordered rewards.
We reserve the right to modify this program, and to make manual adjustments to Reward Token balances in our discretion.
Reward Tokens are redeemable (in whole or in part) against the purchase of physical or digital gift cards (known as eGifts or eCodes).
When redeeming Reward Tokens for gift cards, you’ll be required to pay the difference in value if you don’t have enough Reward Tokens.
Unless otherwise stated, the value of gift cards is in Canadian funds ($CAD), and subject to the terms of the given platform or service, including jurisdictions available for redemption.
Gift cards and digital eCodes are strictly non-refundable once issued.
This website enables paywalls and access control to limit unauthorized access, and to reward our backers for their contributions to the film.
Your access may be limited to the membership or access levels you have been assigned. It’s all automated y’all so if it goes wrong, please contact us and don’t get mad.
Your access to this cool stuff is privileged, and a condition of your access is to keep it exclusive to you. Don’t go about sharing it all over the internet please.
Cookies are a piece of internet magic that help websites function correctly. Small amounts of data are shared between your device and this site to offer a more seamless experience. Examples include (but are not limited to) keeping you logged-in, tracking your cart items & integrated features.
Certain features of this website require you to create an account and/or submit personal information; Although we use industry-leading security, no web traffic is ever 100% secure, and you acknowledge your responsibility in keeping your data safe, including keeping your credentials secure.
We do not sell your data, and you agree that we may share your data with our service parters for the purpose of fulfilling or offering our services to you.
You may manage your data by logging-in to your account. Where required by law, your data or transaction information may be archived for record-keeping compliance.
This production has strict policies in place to limit the use of AI technologies in place of talented humans, and we are committed to ensuring the final animation represents the best work that real humans can do.
To a limited extent, Production permits our writer to use generative AI to produce conceptual character and environmental images as a way to add visual aid to his descriptive original works.
These AI-generated conceptual images are being used for promotional purposes and demonstrate an acceptable limited use of AI technology to enhance a writer’s ability to pitch creative ideas like this one to prospective producers.
AI is not being used outside this limited case.
All content, materials, videos, photos, audio and/or otherwise undefined stuff posted to this site, either publicly, privately or restricted by a paywall, are protected under copyright law. Unauthorized reproduction, distribution, archival or use (weather for monetary or other gains or not) is strictly prohibited.
For absolute clarity, the use of the term “purchase” or “buy” does not constitute ownership, and merely refers to the technological process of which access is granted via transactional interaction, and digital material (including but not limited to streaming access, downloads, documents, media, etc.), either “purchased” for a fee, with a discount, or for free, shall be considered licensed to you for it’s intended use.
In cases of unauthorized use, and/or upon our request, you must return and/or destroy all copies made, and cease to use such content in any form.
Unless otherwise explicitly stated, the brands and/or organizations appearing on this site (i.e. branded gift or reward merchandise) are not affiliated with the Production, and should not be interpreted as an endorsement of our platform.
Third-party trademarks are property of their respective owners.
Use of any third-party product or platform is subject to the terms of that platform, and you agree that these platform terms are not affiliated with the Production.
By interacting with this website and/or the professional services offered either online or off, you agree that the sharing of privileged information may be for mutual benefit, and such information is shared in the strictest conference for the purposes of fulfilling the task(s) at hand.
Examples of privileged information include (but is not limited to) personal/private contact information, buisiness details or ideas, address, locations, proprietary systems and things that an individual or a business may deem to hold confidential as it may relate to their ability to achieve success.
You agree to maintain all privileged information shared with you in the strictest of confidences in exchange for the mutual respect of keeping your stuff private too.
We agree to keep your privileged information private, pursuant to the reasons you’ve shared them with us, and you agree to hold us harmless for any breach or suspected breach of information shared with us, howsoever caused.
Furthermore, should you breach these terms, you agree to your liability to us in pursuing recovery as we see fit, in our sole and absolute discretion.
Note: To protect the integrity of all works and prevent unintentional copyright disputes, we do not accept unsolicited submissions of content, media or ideas. By submitting unsolicited media, content or ideas, you hereby grant us an irrevocable, world-wide right to use said stuff in whole or in part, without further credit or compensation to you. You further release us from any future claims with respect to any copyright disputes or similarities in work and to enforce our copyrights.
When submitting solicited content, media or ideas to this website, you grant us the rights to use your submissions in accordance with purpose of which we’ve asked for it. You agree to allow us to use your content for the purposes of which it was submitted, and agree to be bound by the individual terms that may bind your submission, as indicated in the submissions page.
We expressly reserve the right to deny, cancel, terminate, suspend, lock, or modify access to (or control of) any Account or Services for any reason (as determined by us in our sole and absolute discretion), including but not limited to correcting mistakes made by us in offering or delivering any Services, assisting with our fraud and abuse detection and prevention efforts, to comply with court orders against you, to comply with any dispute resolution process, to defend any legal action or threatened legal action without consideration for whether such legal action or threatened legal action is eventually determined to be with or without merit, to avoid any civil or criminal liability on the part of us, but not limited to, instances where you have sued or threatened to sue us, or to respond to an excessive amount of complaints related in any way to your Account, that could result in damage to our business, operations, reputation or shareholders.
We expressly reserves the right to terminate, without notice to you, any and all Services where, in our sole discretion, you are harassing or threatening us and/or our representatives.
If for any reason we are unable to charge your Payment method for the full amount owed, or if we receive notification of a chargeback, reversal, payment dispute, or is charged a penalty for any fee it previously charged to your payment method, you agree that we may pursue all available lawful remedies in order to obtain payment, including but not limited to, immediate cancellation, without notice or liability to you, of any services registered or renewed on your behalf. We also reserve the right to charge you fees for tasks or wasted time we may perform as a result of your payment issues or noncompliance with our terms.
This website accepts secure payments via PayPal & our built-in payment processor. Most major credit cards & mobile payment options accepted.
Defective merchandise may be exchanged within 14-days; Please get in touch to process a complementary replacement or exchange before sending any merchandise back.
Please get in touch if there’s a problem with everything else. A restocking fee of 30% may apply for all other merchandise returns. We reserve the right to refuse returns for any reason.
Unless specified, payment is due upon placing an order. Pre-orders may be placed and your payment method will be charged on the published date of availability, or sooner for fulfillment purposes.
Reoccurring subscription and payments are charged as specified. Subscriptions may be cancelled in your account prior to the renewal date. No pro-rated refunds are offered for cancelled subscriptions.
One-time donations, contributions, fan-support or otherwise undefined “gratuities” to show your support are not taxed, and are strictly non-refundable.
Redeemed Reward Tokens are non-refundable in our sole discretion. We will work with you to resolve any concerns where Reward Tokens are redeemed through the purchase process.
You are responsible for selecting your preferred method of shipping. By default, a tracked service is recommended. We are not responsible for any losses or replacements once a packed item leaves our facilities for fulfillment. We will work with our logistics providers to investigate any claims of loss or damage prior to fulfilling a replacement or return, in our sole discretion.
Should you choose to use a non-tracked service for your order, you acknowledge that we will not take any responsibility for claims of “lost or stolen” shipments.
