TERMS OF USE
Canadian Data Solutions
Last updated: October 9, 2026
These terms apply to all software and online services that Canadian Data Solutions offers, free or paid. That includes plugins, add ons, hosted services, web applications and mobile applications, and the websites they run on. By downloading, installing, buying or using any of them, you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, do not use the software or service.
“We”, “us” and “our” mean Canadian Data Solutions, a registered business name in British Columbia, Canada. “You” means the person or business using the software or service. “The software” means any of our products: the code, the hosted service, the files it produces and the website it runs on.
1. WHAT OUR SOFTWARE DOES
Our software products each do different jobs. What a product does is described on its own page on our website. Some products rely on services run by other companies, and their results depend on those services.
2. LICENCES
How you may use a product depends on how it is offered:
Free software. Our free software is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. You may use, copy and change it under that licence. It comes with no warranty, as the licence states.
Paid software. Our paid software is licensed to you, not sold. Your licence covers the number of websites and the term shown at the time of purchase. You may not copy, share or resell it, or remove any licence key, notice or ownership marker.
Hosted services. Hosted services are provided for the term you subscribe to, within the limits of your plan.
Licence keys are personal to your order. Do not share, publish or resell them. We may revoke a key that is shared, resold or used beyond its limits. Each copy of our paid software carries a marker tied to the order it came from.
3. UPDATES AND SUPPORT
• Free software in a public directory updates through that directory.
• Paid software includes updates and support for the period shown on your order, usually one year. After that period the software keeps working as it is; new versions and support need a renewal.
• Hosted services are updated by us while your subscription is active.
• Support means help by email with installing, configuring and using the software. It does not include custom development, consulting or work on your website or systems.
• We may change, add or remove features in any version. We will not remove a feature a current licence was offered with without offering an equivalent.
4. YOUR ACCOUNTS AND KEYS WITH OTHER PROVIDERS
Where a product uses your own accounts or keys with other providers, such as AI providers, search data providers, analytics platforms or camera systems, the following applies.
• Every call made with your keys is charged to your account with that provider, under that provider’s prices and terms.
• Our cost estimates and spending caps are aids, not promises. Estimates can be wrong and providers change their prices without notice.
• You are responsible for all charges on your provider accounts, for keeping your keys private, and for setting spending limits with the provider as a backstop.
• Keys you enter into software installed on your own server stay on your server. We do not receive them.
Where a hosted service uses our keys, the plan price covers the usage included in the plan and usage above the limits is charged as shown in your plan.
5. CHANGES THE SOFTWARE MAKES FOR YOU
Where a product makes changes to your website for you, by generating content, code, settings or files and publishing them when you tell it to, the following applies.
• You decide what to publish or apply. Review everything the software generates before it goes live.
• You are responsible for the accuracy of the information you enter and for what the generated material says about your business.
• Changes to search settings, indexing, titles, descriptions, robots files and structured data can affect your search rankings and traffic. The software asks you to confirm such changes; the result is yours.
• Keep a backup of your website or systems before applying changes, as you would with any software.
6. NO GUARANTEE OF RESULTS
Where a product reports on rankings, traffic or other results, it measures, reports and suggests. It does not control search engines, AI engines, traffic, customers, equipment or any third party system, and we do not promise that using it will improve your visibility, rankings, traffic, sales, safety or any other outcome. Suggestions and content written by the software, including AI written material, are starting points for your own judgement, not professional advice.
7. THIRD PARTY SERVICES
Our software depends on services we do not control: AI and search providers, data providers, WordPress, hosting companies, payment providers, device and camera manufacturers and others. We are not responsible for their availability, accuracy, prices, terms or changes. If a provider blocks, limits or changes its service, a feature that relies on it may stop working until we can adapt the software.
8. YOUR DATA
• Software installed on your own server keeps your data on your server and in your own database. We do not receive it. Paid software sends only the licence key, your website address and the version to our server to confirm the licence and offer updates.
• Hosted services store your data on our servers in Canada, use it only to run the service for you, and never sell or share it. You can export it or ask us to delete it at any time.
• You are responsible for the content you enter and upload, for having the right to use it, and for any personal information about other people that you choose to put into the software.
• Our privacy policy describes how we handle personal information.
9. REFUNDS
• Paid software: a refund within 14 days of the order, less the payment processing fee, which the card processor keeps and we cannot recover. When a refund is issued the licence is revoked, the key stops working and the software returns to its free limits or stops. After 14 days the purchase is final.
• Hosted services and subscriptions: billed in advance and cancellable at any time. Cancellation stops the next charge; the current period is not refunded.
• To ask for a refund, reply to your order email.
10. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
To the fullest extent the law allows:
• Our software and services are provided as is and as available, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy or uninterrupted operation.
• We are not liable for anything you do with the software or with what it produces. This includes what you publish or apply to your website or systems, changes to your search presence, charges on your provider accounts, business or operational decisions made from the software’s reports, suggestions or alerts, and the content of answers or data supplied by third party services.
• We are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, including lost profit, lost revenue, lost data, lost business or personal injury, even if we were told it was possible.
• Our total liability for any claim connected to a product or service is limited to the amount you paid us for it in the twelve months before the claim. For free software, that amount is zero.
Your website. You install and use our software on your own website at your own risk. To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any damage to your website, for loss of data or content, for downtime, for loss of speed or search ranking, or for conflicts with your theme, your other plugins or your hosting, however they arise. Always keep a current backup of your website before you install, update or remove any software.
Some places do not allow some of these limits. Where that applies, our liability is limited as far as that law allows.
11. YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO US
You agree to cover us against claims, losses and costs that arise from your use of the software in breach of these terms, from content you publish or apply with it, or from your use of third party services in breach of their terms.
12. ACCEPTABLE USE
Do not use our software or services to track, collect or publish content that is unlawful, misleading or infringes anyone’s rights; to monitor people without a lawful basis; to overload or abuse any provider’s service; or to take apart a licence check or marker. We may end a licence or account used in these ways.
13. ENDING
You can stop using installed software at any time by deactivating it, and a hosted service by cancelling. We may end a licence or account for breach of these terms. Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 10 and 11 continue to apply afterwards.
14. CHANGES TO THESE TERMS
We may update these terms. The date at the top shows the current version. Continued use after a change means you accept the new terms. For hosted services we will email account holders about material changes.
15. GOVERNING LAW
These terms are governed by the laws of British Columbia and the laws of Canada that apply there. Disputes are heard in the courts of British Columbia.
16. CONTACT
Canadian Data Solutions
www.candat.com
Reply to your order email, or use the contact page on www.candat.com.