Terms of Service

1. What Cartulary is

Cartulary parses Ontario parcel registers, matches and reads registered instruments, and drafts working notes for a lawyer's review. It is software, not a law firm, and it does not practise law or provide legal advice.

2. Who may use it

Cartulary is offered to lawyers, paralegals, law clerks and their firms. It is not intended for members of the public, self-represented parties, or anyone relying on it in place of a lawyer.

3. Assist, never certify

Every output is a machine reading awaiting your review. Analyses are corroborated against the parcel register where possible and link to the source page, but they are not a title opinion, a certificate of title, or a substitute for examining the instrument yourself.

Where the system cannot read a document, it reports an abstention. An abstention means the document could not be read — never that nothing is there.

4. Your professional responsibility is unchanged

You remain solely responsible for the title work you deliver, for verifying every finding you rely on, and for compliance with your obligations to your client, your regulator and your insurer. Using Cartulary does not transfer any part of that responsibility to us.

5. Your content

You keep ownership of everything you upload. You grant Cartulary a limited licence to store and process it in order to provide the service. You confirm that you are entitled to upload each document and that doing so does not breach any licence governing your access to the land registry.

6. The shared library

Verified knowledge about public registered instruments may be retained and reused across subscribers. This never includes your documents, your filenames, your matters, your clients, or any record of what your firm searched. See the Privacy Policy.

7. Plans, metering and fees

• Register parsing and library recalls are unlimited on every plan.
• Novel instrument analyses are metered against your plan's monthly allowance.
• Reaching an allowance never blocks work in progress; additional analyses are billed at the published per-matter rate.
• Rates are published and changed only on notice.

8. Availability

We aim for continuous availability but do not warrant it. Analysis depends on third-party infrastructure that may be interrupted. Do not schedule a closing around the availability of this service.

9. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, and except in cases of gross negligence, wilful misconduct or fraud:

• Cartulary's total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the service is limited to the fees you paid in the twelve months preceding the event giving rise to the claim.
• Cartulary is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost business, or professional liability claims made against you.

You are a sophisticated commercial party engaging software as an aid to your own professional judgment. That allocation of risk is a fundamental term of this agreement and is reflected in the price.

10. No warranty of accuracy

The service is provided "as is". We do not warrant that any reading is complete or accurate, and we expressly disclaim implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose to the extent the law allows.

11. Suspension and termination

You may cancel at any time. We may suspend an account for non-payment, for use that endangers the service or other subscribers, or for uploading material you are not entitled to upload. On termination you may export your matters and analyses.

12. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable in it, and the parties attorn to the courts of Ontario.