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By using this Site, you agree to follow and be bound by these Terms of Use, which govern your use of the Site. Nothing contained in these Terms of Use is intended to modify or amend any other written agreement, if any, that may currently be in effect between you and the City of Vancouver("the City") with regard to matters other than your use of the Site. The City may periodically modify these Terms of Use, and any such modifications will be effective immediately upon posting. If the City does make modifications, visitors will be notified on the Site. However, we suggest that you periodically check these Terms of Use for modifications. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, do not use this Site.
This Site is owned and operated by the City of Vancouver, and the City may modify, suspend, discontinue, or restrict the use and availability of any portion of this Site at any time, without notice or liability to you. Your use of this Site may be monitored by the City and used for internal City purposes (subject to our Privacy policy) without liability to you, as provided for by law.
The material posted on the City of Vancouver’s website is not an official statement of City policy, practice, services or procedure, and should not be construed as such. It is intended only to provide immediate and convenient access to information and so while efforts are made to provide accuracy and currency, the City cannot and does not guarantee that the information posted is always accurate or current. The City does not warrant or make any representations as to the quality, content, accuracy or completeness of the information, text, maps, graphics, links and other items contained on its web pages.
The City makes no warranties, express or implied, as to the fitness of the information for any purpose or to results obtained by individuals using the information, and is not responsible for any action taken in reliance on the information obtained by you or used by you from the Site.
The City’s bylaws, Council meeting records, and policies on the Site are electronic copies made for uploading to the Site and so are not official versions. The official format may be different and may also have plans, pictures, other graphics, or text that may be missing or altered.
These electronic copies are the copyright of the City of Vancouver and cannot be distributed or used for commercial purposes. The electronic copies may be reproduced or distributed for non-commercial purposes only if you include with them these Terms of Use or a copyright notice and the URL for these Terms of Use.
Due to copyright protections, the entire Vancouver Building Bylaw is not available electronically on our website. However, you can view some Council-mandated building bylaw policies and a list of "Unique to Vancouver" building requirements on the Site.
To get official versions of these electronic copies, contact 3-1-1.
Except where and then only to the extent expressly permitted, the City grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive, non-transferable licence to view, store, bookmark, download, and print the pages within this Site solely for your personal, informational, and non-commercial use, or as separately expressly authorized by the City in writing. You are responsible for obtaining and maintaining all equipment, services, and other materials that you need to access this Site. The City reserves all rights not expressly granted in these Terms of Use.
Except as otherwise stated in these Terms of Use or as expressly authorized by the City in writing, you may not (or enable others to):
Links to external websites posted on the City’s website contain information created, published, maintained, or otherwise posted by institutions or organizations independent of the City. The City does not endorse, approve, certify, or control external websites and does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficiency, timeliness or correctness of the information located at the sites. Reference to any specific commercial product, process or service by trade name,trademark, service mark, manufacturer or otherwise does not constitute or imply endorsement, recommendation or favouring by the City.
Communications made through this Site's email and messaging system is for convenience only and shall not be deemed to constitute legal notice to the City or any of its affiliates or their respective councillors, commissioners, officials, officers, agents, agencies, employees or representatives with respect to any existing or potential claim or cause of action or for any other purpose.
You may not link to this Site unless you comply with these linking conditions ("Linking Conditions"). The City now grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to this Site ("Link"), provided you comply at all times with the following conditions:
If you have created a Link that conforms to these Linking Conditions, then you also may include one or more Links to any internal or subsidiary page of this Site that is located one or several levels down from the homepages (known as "deep links"), provided, however, that all such deep links must be in close physical proximity to the Link that conforms to the Linking Conditions. You may not maintain numerous or pervasive Links to this Site.
The City now grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive right to view, store, bookmark, access, download, display, create hyperlinks to and use the Really Simple Syndication, video, and podcast feeds (collectively, the "Feeds") offered by the City solely for your personal, informational, and non-commercial use or as otherwise authorized by the City in writing, provided you comply at all times with the following conditions:
Any uses of the Feeds not granted are strictly prohibited. The City retains ownership of and all other rights in and to the Feeds, and any reports, data, information, content, software, files, products, services, links, trademarks, logos, or other materials used in connection with them. The City reserves the right, in its sole discretion, with or without cause, and without liability, to suspend, discontinue or modify any or all of its Feeds at any time and to immediately require you to cease accessing, displaying, or otherwise using any or all of the Feeds or the content of the Feeds. The City will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of or in connection with the Feeds.
You agree that you are solely responsible for all information, data, content, text, photographs, graphics, images, videos, messages, comments, quotations, files, documents, and any other materials that you submit, upload, post, email, transmit, or otherwise make available via the Site ("Content"). By submitting, uploading, posting, e-mailing, or transmitting ("post") content to the Site, you represent and warrant that either you own all right, title, and interest in and to the Content or have express permission from the owner to copy and use such content for all purposes related to the Site. The City does not control and is not responsible for the content uploaded via the Site, and the City neither guarantees the accuracy, quality, or appropriateness of nor endorses any Content submitted to the Site.
You agree not to use the Site to:
You grant the City and its affiliates, and their respective councillors, commissioners, officials, officers, employees, agents, licensors, and vendors a perpetual, worldwide, irrevocable, nonexclusive, fully-paid up, royalty-free, sub-licensable, and transferable right and licence to use, store, modify, adapt, translate, publish, display, broadcast, perform, disclose, distribute, sell, reproduce, and create derivative works from any Content, in whole or in part, in any medium or technology throughout the world, including any inventions, concepts, techniques, know-how, ideas, or expressions of ideas arising out of or based on the Content, for any purpose in City of Vancouver's sole discretion, without the requirement of any permission from or compensation or notice, and without liability, to you or any third party. The City will exclusively own all right, title, and interest in and to any derivative works or inventions created by or on behalf of the City that incorporate or otherwise make use of any Content, without the requirement of any permission from or compensation or notice, and without liability, to you or any third party.
The Content that you post on the Site will be subject to the Privacy Policy, as set out by the City. The City will not be liable in any way for any Content or for the use or disclosure of any Content. You acknowledge that the City and/or its agents may or may not (but are not obligated to) monitor Content, but that the City will have the right in its sole discretion to monitor, post, move, refuse, or remove any Content, in whole or in part, for any reason whatsoever, without notice and without liability.
If you have any questions or comments about your Content or other customer service issues, you can contact the City through the online feedback form or by calling 3-1-1.
Certain parts of this Site or third-party sites that provide a service to the City may be protected by passwords or require a login. Further, for authentication purposes, certain features on this Site may require you to answer a designated security question. You agree to provide the City with current, complete, and accurate information about you as prompted by the applicable registration process and agree to regularly update this information to maintain its completeness and accuracy. You agree to use this Site to access only those accounts on which you are authorized to act, and you agree to use your own user names, logins, passwords, and security questions and answers when accessing accounts on which you are authorized to act. You agree not to obtain or attempt to obtain unauthorized access to such parts of, or features on, this Site, or to any other protected Materials or information, through any means not intentionally made available to you by the City.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any account information, user names, logins, passwords, and security questions and answers that you use to access any page or feature on this Site, and for logging off of your account and any protected areas of the Site. Further, you are fully responsible for all activities occurring under your accounts, user names, logins, passwords, and security questions and answers that result from your negligence, carelessness, misconduct, or failure to use or maintain appropriate security measures. If you become aware of any suspicious or unauthorized conduct concerning your accounts, user names, logins, passwords, or security questions and answers, you agree to contact the City. The City will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this paragraph.
Services provided to you through this Site may involve the electronic transmission, including via any email address you provide to us, of information that you may consider to be personal financial information or promotional and informational materials, and you consent to such transmission and assume all risks associated with this method of transmission.
Except where expressly and then only to the extent otherwise stated, the materials on this Site are for information, education, and non-commercial purposes only. Although the City may provide data, information, and content relating to the operations of the City, you should not construe any such information or other content available through this Site as legal or tax advice. You alone will bear the sole responsibility of evaluating the merits and risks associated with the use of any Materials on this Site before making any decisions based on such Materials. In exchange for using such Materials, you agree not to hold the City or its third-party information providers liable for any possible claim for damages arising from any decision you make based on the Materials made available to you through this Site. By providing access to other websites, neither the City nor any of its affiliates is recommending the purchase or sale of the stock issued by any company, nor are they endorsing services provided by any website's sponsoring organization.
By accessing the Open Data datasets, you agree to these Terms of Use, which are intended to protect and promote the City's commitments to open data and ensure that the recipients of these datasets give back to the community the benefits they derive from these datasets. If you have any questions or comments about these Terms of Use, please contact 3-1-1. For further certainty, this Open Data section of these Terms of Use apply only to the Open Data datasets portions of this Site and apply to the exclusion of the other sections of these Terms of Use which limit your rights of use to the information on this Site. However, all other sections of this Terms of Use which protect the City from legal proceedings and limit the City’s liability apply equally to your use of the Open Data datasets.
The City now grants you a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to use, modify, and distribute the datasets in all current and future media and formats for any lawful purpose. You now acknowledge that this licence does not give you a copyright or other proprietary interest in the datasets. If you distribute or provide access to these datasets to any other person, whether in original or modified form, you agree to include a copy of, or this Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for, this Open Data section of these Terms of Use and to ensure they agree to and are bound by them but without introducing any further restrictions of any kind.
Although you are not required to credit the City for each use or reproduction of the Open Data datasets, you are entitled to do so and encouraged to conspicuously announce that these datasets are publicly available from the City under these Terms of Use. Upon the request of the City, you may be required to remove a credit from future uses or reproductions should the City decide that such credit is not in the public interest.
You may not publicly represent or imply that the City is participating in, or has sponsored, approved, or endorsed the manner or purpose of, your use or reproduction of the Open Data datasets.
By accessing the VanMap and VanMapLite ("VanMap") information on this Site, you agree to these Terms of Use. For further certainty, this VanMap section of these Terms of Use apply only to the VanMap portions of this Site and apply to the exclusion of the other sections of these Terms of Use which limit your rights of use to the information on this Site. However, all other sections of this Terms of Use which protect the City from legal proceedings and limit the City’s liability apply equally to your use of the VanMap information.
VanMap represents a one-time capture of information as its exists at the time the information is transferred to VanMap. VanMap may not include ongoing updates or corrections to the source information maintained by the City or other agencies and included for the City's internal purposes.
You can use VanMap only for your own internal business and personal purposes. You cannot re-sell, sub-licence, or operate a service bureau using VanMap, or otherwise reproduce, publish or disseminate VanMap for commercial purposes without the prior written consent of the City.
All right, title, and interest (including all copyright, patent, and other intellectual property rights) in VanMap remain vested in the City at all times. The City's original copyright and other proprietary notices included with VanMap must remain intact at all times.
On completion of each transaction for which the VanMap data is acquired, you will erase the VanMap data from your computer system, including any cache copies, or such other storage device where such data may reside and will, upon the City's written request, provide written confirmation of compliance to the City's Director of Information Technology.
You may make a request through this Site to speak to Council. Information provided in relation to your request becomes part of the public record and your name is included in the minutes of the meeting.
The City makes every effort to ensure that the zoning, development, and building information given out via your use of this Site is accurate and complete. However, such information cannot be guaranteed to be complete, even when combined with in person meetings, in the absence of a full and complete technical evaluation of an application, and a full determination by City staff of compliance or non-compliance with zoning and development bylaws or the Vancouver Building Bylaw. Pre-application information can only be a treated by you as a speculative opinion of the probable outcome of each application. All applicants must conduct their own research, and are solely responsible to submit applications that comply with all applicable bylaws, regardless of any pre-application consultations communications, or meetings with City staff and all applicants are responsible to comply with such bylaw requirements regardless of the basis on which any permit has been issued.
All official marks, trademarks, service marks, and logos appearing on this Site are the exclusive property of their respective owners.
All City graphics, logos, page headers, and service names are official marks, emblems, or trademarks of the City. The City's official marks, emblems and trademarks may not be used in connection with any product or service that is not the City's, in any manner that is likely to cause confusion among members of the public, or in any manner that disparages or discredits the City. Nothing contained on this Site should be construed as granting any licence or right in or to any of the City’s official marks, emblems or trademarks.
Because of the global nature of the Internet, you agree to comply with all local rules with respect to your account and your online conduct, including all laws, rules, codes, and regulations of any jurisdiction to which you are subject and from which you access this Site, including without limitation, all laws, rules, codes, regulations, decrees, acts, orders, directives, legislation, bills, and statutes pertaining to tax, contracts, intellectual property, securities, e-commerce, banking, technology, computers, fraud, and privacy. In addition, you agree to comply with all applicable laws, rules, codes, and regulations regarding the transmission of technical data exported from Canada.
Data and other materials appearing on this Site that are provided by third parties are believed by the City to be obtained from reliable sources, but the City cannot guarantee and is not responsible for their accuracy, timeliness, completeness, or suitability for use. The City is not responsible for, and does not prepare, edit, or endorse, the content, advertising, products, or other content on or available from any website owned or operated by a third party that is linked to this Site via hyperlink. The fact that the City has provided a link to a third party's website does not constitute an implicit or explicit endorsement, authorization, sponsorship, or affiliation by the City with respect to such website, its owners, providers, or services. You will use any such third-party content at your own risk and you agree that the City is not liable for any loss or damage that you may suffer by using third-party websites or their content.
All content on this Site is presented only as of the date published or indicated, and may be superseded by subsequent events or for other reasons. In addition, you are responsible for setting the cache settings on your browser to ensure you are receiving the most recent data.
The rights granted to you here terminate immediately on any violation by you of these Terms of Use. The City, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to temporarily or permanently terminate your access to and use of this Site at any time and for any reason whatsoever, without notice or liability. The City will not be liable to you or any third party for any termination of your access to or use of this Site.
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If any provision of these Terms of Use is deemed unlawful, void, or unenforceable, then that provision will be deemed severable from these Terms of Use and will not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions. These Terms of Use represent the entire agreement between you and the City of Vancouver relating to this Site.
The laws of British Columbia, Canada, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, govern these Terms of Use and any dispute that might arise between you and the City. If you take legal action relating to these Terms of Use, you irrevocably agree to only take such action within British Columbia and only to a court of competent jurisdiction within British Columbia and in no other jurisdiction or venue, and you now irrevocably consent and submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of British Columbia for this purpose.