Terms of Service

Intended Use

The Service is intended for use by professionals, businesses, and organizations for business or professional purposes. By using the Service you represent that you are using it for those purposes and not as a consumer for personal, family, or household purposes.

No Professional Reliance

The Service does not provide engineering, legal, or professional advice. Users are responsible for:

• Verifying information against official code publications
• Determining applicability to specific projects or jurisdictions

Accuracy and Coverage

While efforts are made to ensure accuracy, the Service:

• May be incomplete
• May contain errors
• Does not guarantee coverage of all amendments or jurisdictions

See our Data Sources page for what the Service covers and how the data is produced.

Ownership and Your Licence

The legislation

The statutes and regulations reproduced on the Service are public law. The King's Printer for Ontario permits any person to reproduce Government of Ontario legislation without charge, on three conditions: the reproduction must be accurate, it must carry the Crown copyright acknowledgement, and it must state that it is not an official version. We reproduce them on those conditions, and the same conditions apply to you when you reproduce them from the Service. We claim no ownership of that text.

That permission does not reach everything a regulation refers to. Where a regulation adopts a standard or a model code, the adopted document belongs to the body that publishes it. We do not reproduce those documents. If we ever do, we will identify them where they appear and publish the terms that apply to them.

Our work

Around that public text we build work of our own: the reconstruction of which amendment changed which provision and on what day, the period each version was in force, the link between a version and the regulation that produced it, our verification and editorial records, our search and comparison tools, and the selection, arrangement and presentation of all of it. We own that work and every intellectual property right in it, including copyright in it as a compilation. Those rights are ours whether or not the individual provisions it organises are public.

What your subscription allows

We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to use the Service for your own professional work while your account is in good standing. We reserve every right we do not expressly grant.

You may quote provisions, and include citations, exports and printed pages generated by the Service, in reports, opinions, submissions, drawings and other work product you deliver. This permission is perpetual and survives the end of your subscription, so work you have already delivered stays good.

You may not republish, redistribute, sublicense or sell the content or our work, and you may not use either to build, populate or train a database, model or product that substitutes for the Service.

That restriction covers our work and our copy of the text. It does not restrict what you may lawfully do with legislation you obtain from its official sources.

Limitation of Liability

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or completeness. To the maximum extent permitted by law:

• We are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, data, goodwill, or business, including any loss arising from a decision, opinion, report, or determination made in reliance on the Service — even if we were advised of the possibility of such loss; and
• Our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Service, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), or otherwise, will not exceed the greater of (a) the fees you paid us for the Service in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) CAD $100.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law — including liability for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence. These limits reflect an agreed allocation of risk that is reflected in the price of the Service, apply regardless of the form of action, and survive termination of these Terms.

Accounts

An account is for one named person. You are responsible for keeping your credentials confidential. Do not share them, and do not let another person use your account. If more than one person at your organisation needs access, each person needs their own account.

An API key belongs to the account that made it and carries that account's access. The same rule applies to a key: do not share it.

Subscriptions and Billing

Some features require a paid subscription:

• Subscriptions are billed in advance each month at the price and taxes shown at checkout
• Subscriptions renew automatically each month until cancelled
• You may cancel at any time from your account settings; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and you keep paid access until then
• We will give existing subscribers at least 30 days' notice before a price change applies to them
• Payments are processed by Stripe; we do not store your card details
• Except where required by law, fees are non-refundable

Acceptable Use

You agree not to:

• Retrieve content systematically or in bulk — through the website or the API, by a program or by people working manually, in one session or across many
• Copy the Service's content into another website or product, or present it in a way that hides where it came from
• Use the Service outside the licence in Ownership and Your Licence — in particular, to build, populate or train a substitute for the Service
• Share your account or an API key (see Accounts)
• Reverse engineer the Service, or work around its access controls or its limits
• Use the Service to violate laws or regulations

API use is subject to a daily limit, which we may change. We may revoke an API key at any time, and will tell you when we do.

A breach of these rules may cause harm that money cannot repair. In addition to any other remedy, we may apply to a court for an injunction.

Records and Review

We keep a record of what each account searches for and which provisions it opens, with the date and time. We use that record to operate and improve the Service, to bill for it, and to check compliance with the Acceptable Use rules.

Where we have reasonable grounds to believe these Terms have been breached, we may review that record, ask you to explain the activity, and suspend access while we do. We will tell you when we suspend access and why. If we do not then terminate your account for breach, we will restore access and extend your billing period by the length of the suspension.

The Privacy Policy says what we collect, how long we keep it, and how to ask for a copy or a correction.

Changes

We may modify these Terms. For a material change we will give notice by email before the change takes effect, and we will ask you to accept the new Terms the next time you sign in. For a minor change we will update this page and the date on it. If you do not accept a material change you may cancel your subscription, and we will refund the unused portion of the current billing period.

Termination

We may suspend or terminate access for breach of these Terms, including the Acceptable Use rules; termination for breach does not entitle you to a refund. If we terminate a paid subscription without cause, we will refund the unused portion of the current billing period.

When your access ends, stop using the Service and delete the copies of the content you hold. You may keep:

• content already embedded in work product you have delivered; and
• copies you must retain by law or by a professional obligation.

General

• Consumer rights. Nothing in these Terms limits any rights you have under consumer-protection legislation that cannot be waived.
• Severability. If a court finds any provision of these Terms unenforceable, that provision is limited or removed to the smallest extent necessary, and the rest stays in force.
• Survival. Ownership and Your Licence, Limitation of Liability, Records and Review, the obligations in Termination that apply after access ends, Governing Law and this section survive the end of your account.
• Entire agreement. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the whole agreement between us about the Service.
• Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them to a successor to our business.
• No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision on one occasion, we keep the right to enforce it later.

Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein. You and we attorn to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Ontario, except that we may apply for injunctive relief in any court that has jurisdiction over you.

Contact

Questions about these Terms: [email protected]