End-use licence agreement for Statistics Canada's Postal Code Conversion File (PCCF)

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Copyright

The Government of Canada (Statistics Canada) is the owner or a licensee of all intellectual property rights (including copyright) in this data product. With your payment of the requisite fee, you (hereinafter referred to as 'the Licensee') are granted a non-exclusive, non-assignable and non-transferable licence to use this data product subject to the terms below. This licence is not a sale of any or all of the rights of the owner(s).

Terms of use

1. All copyright and proprietary notices, as well as all conditions of use associated with the data product, must be communicated to all users of the data product.

2. The Licensee shall not transfer this data product to, or store the data product in, any electronic network for use by more than three (3) regular users unless the Licensee obtains prior written permission from Statistics Canada and pays any additional fees.

3. The Licensee shall not lend, rent, lease, sublicense, transfer or sell any part of the data product nor any right granted under this agreement to any person outside the licensed organization or to any other organization.

4. The Licensee shall not disassemble, decompile or in any way attempt to reverse engineer any software provided as part of the data product.

5. The Licensee shall not use any part of the data product to develop or derive any other data product or data service for external distribution or commercial sale.

6. The Licensee is granted reasonable rights of use of the content of this data product only for personal, corporate or public policy research, as well as for educational purposes. This permission includes the use of the content in analyses and in the reporting of results and conclusions, including the citation of limited amounts of supporting data, extracted from the data product, in such documents. In such cases, the source of the data must be acknowledged in all such documents and communications by providing the following source citation at the bottom of each table and graph:

7. The Licensee shall obtain approval from Statistics Canada before publishing any significant volume of material, in any medium, that is extracted from the data product.

8. The Licensee agrees not to merge or link the data product with any other databases in such a fashion that gives the appearance that the Licensee may have received, or had access to, information held by Statistics Canada about any identifiable individual, family, household, organization or business.

9. Any violation of this licence renders it void and of no effect. This agreement will terminate automatically without notice if the Licensee fails to comply with any of the terms of this agreement. In the event of termination, the Licensee must immediately return the data product to Statistics Canada or destroy it and certify this destruction in writing to Statistics Canada.

Warranties and disclaimers

This data product is provided 'as-is', and Statistics Canada makes no warranty, either express or implied, including but not limited to, warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event will Statistics Canada be liable for any direct, special, indirect, consequential or other damages, however caused.

Acceptance of terms

It is your responsibility to ensure that your use of this data product complies with these terms and to seek prior written permission from Statistics Canada for any uses not permitted or not specified in this agreement. Any infringement of Statistics Canada's rights may result in legal action.

Any use whatsoever of this data product shall constitute your acceptance of the terms of this agreement. Any violation of these terms may result in termination of this licence.

For further information please contact:

Licensing Services
Client Services Division, Statistics Canada
9^th Floor, R.H. Coats Building
100 Tunney's Pasture Driveway
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0T6, Canada
E-mail: licensing@statcan.gc.ca
Telephone: 613-951-1122
Fax: 613-951-1134

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