Terms of Use

1. Parties and protected persons

The applicable originator, licensor, publisher and deploying operator must be identified in the release or localization record. “Protected Parties” includes the identified rightsholders, authors, publishers, operators, affiliates, directors, officers, employees, contractors, contributors, licensors, service providers, successors and assigns. A deployment may add operator-specific parties only through accurate, conspicuous terms.

2. Research, simulation and decision-support character

The materials comprise research software, data compilations, simulations, reference implementations, methods, documentation and institutional-design tools. They do not constitute professional advice, a legal opinion, a tax position, a valuation, a funding approval, an offer or solicitation, a regulated service, a certification, a filing, transaction authority or a promise of any outcome.

3. No regulated service or external authority

The public reference edition does not provide custody, payment, exchange, brokerage, lending, insurance, investment management, legal representation, tax return preparation, medical service, employment decision authority, public power or autonomous external execution. Generated work is candidate work only.

4. Ownership and limited licence

All ungranted rights remain with the identified rightsholders. Subject to mandatory law and separate licences, a revocable, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable and non-sublicensable licence permits personal study, scholarship, good-faith research and internal institutional evaluation. Commercial exploitation, hosted redistribution, resale, white-labelling, removal of notices, competing branded publication, bulk extraction, automated scraping, commercial model training, trademark use or implied endorsement requires express written permission.

5. User responsibility and independent review

The user is responsible for facts, source currency, rights, permissions, licences, contracts, filings, taxes, workers, privacy, cybersecurity, insurance, sanctions, export controls, procurement, financing, claims and downstream consequences. No Protected Party becomes the user’s operator, adviser, fiduciary, broker, custodian, employer, agent, insurer, guarantor, reviewer, filer or counterparty merely by publishing or licensing the materials.

6. Prohibited uses

Do not use the materials to violate or evade law; sanctions; export controls; taxes; licensing; consumer, worker or privacy rights; or court, regulator or procurement requirements. Do not engage in deception, impersonation, discriminatory or exploitative decision-making, unauthorized access, security probing outside authorized scope, secret extraction, harmful surveillance, manipulation, false filings or unsupported claims.

7. AI outputs, sources and cryptographic receipts

Scores, rankings, scenarios, explanations, model outputs, hashes and receipts do not independently establish truth, legality, ownership, accuracy, eligibility, safety or compliance. Current official sources, verified facts and qualified review remain required.

8. No warranties

To the maximum extent permitted by law, the materials are supplied “as is,” “as available” and “with all faults.” The Protected Parties disclaim express, implied, statutory and collateral warranties, including accuracy, completeness, currency, merchantability, fitness, title, non-infringement, security, privacy, availability, compatibility and results.

9. Assumption of risk and non-reliance

AI, agentic systems, international law, tax, funding programmes and market conditions may change or fail unpredictably. Do not rely on the materials as the sole basis for a consequential, financial, legal, safety-critical, employment, health, infrastructure, public-policy or production decision.

10. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the Protected Parties are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, punitive, aggravated or reliance damages, or for lost profits, revenue, opportunity, goodwill, reputation, data, systems, assets or business interruption. Unless a deployment-specific signed agreement states otherwise, aggregate liability is limited to the greater of C$100 (or equivalent) and the amount actually paid to the specific Protected Party for the service giving rise to the claim during the preceding twelve months. Non-excludable liability remains unaffected.

11. Professional and organizational-user indemnity

To the maximum extent permitted by law, a business, professional, institutional or governmental user will defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Protected Parties from third-party claims arising from that user’s misuse, deployment, offering, marketing, transaction, user content, breach, rights infringement, legal violation or false representation. Mandatory consumer protections prevail.

12. No special relationship

No employment, agency, partnership, joint venture, franchise, fiduciary, advisory, custodial, brokerage, insurance, trust, beneficiary, guarantee or other special relationship is created without a separate signed instrument that truthfully establishes it.

13. Sanctions, export controls and anti-evasion

Users must screen parties, destinations, ownership, control, end users and end uses and obtain authorizations where required. The materials may support lawful compliance planning; they must not be used to conceal control, route around restrictions or facilitate prohibited transactions.

14. Third parties and changes

Third-party sites, models, data, software and services have separate terms and risks. The publisher may correct, restrict, archive, supersede or discontinue materials without undertaking a duty to maintain compatibility or update every copy.

15. Disputes and operator localization

Dispute, governing-law, forum, arbitration and notice provisions must be completed for the actual originator and operator and reviewed for the user class and jurisdiction. For claims against an identified Québec-based originator by a professional user, a deployment may require written notice, senior-level conference, confidential Montréal mediation and, where lawful, confidential arbitration in Montréal under Québec and applicable Canadian law. Regulators, non-signatories, consumers, workers, public-order matters and non-arbitrable rights are not bound.

16. Language, accessibility and mandatory-law savings

Required local-language versions, consumer disclosures and accessibility must be supplied in the legally required order and form. These terms operate only to the maximum extent permitted. They do not bind regulators, waive non-waivable rights, exclude non-excludable liability or change actual conduct through labels. Invalid provisions are narrowed and the remainder continues.