Terms of Service (Draft)
Last updated: Stage 7 Draft · Governing jurisdiction: Canada
1. The Service
Geo Service provides a self-hosted Canadian geocoding, suggestion, routing, distance-table, and bulk address lookup API for developers and businesses. Access requires an active account, a valid key, and compliance with your selected plan's usage allowances and rate limits.
2. Accounts, Keys & Plans
You are responsible for safeguarding your account credentials and server keys (sk_...). Server keys must never be embedded in client-side code or sent in URL query strings. Browser keys (pk_...) may only be used on lookup endpoints from exact origins registered to your account. Usage is measured by numeric counters per key, per day, and per call kind against your plan.
3. Billing & Subscriptions
Paid plans are billed monthly in Canadian dollars (CAD) via Stripe, or by invoice for approved invoiced accounts. Unpaid invoices or inactive subscriptions pause key access until payment resumes.
4. Data Attribution & Open Data Licences
Results are derived from OpenStreetMap (licensed under the Open Database Licence, ODbL) and Statistics Canada's Open Database of Addresses (ODA) (licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada and municipal open-data licences). Where you display results to end users, you must include the attributions specified in the API Documentation and comply with the OSMF Geocoding Guideline.
5. Service Availability
The service is provided on a best-effort basis from single-region Canadian infrastructure without an uptime guarantee unless a separate written service-level agreement is executed.