Terms of use
The rules for using the service, including permitted outreach: addressed mail and door-knocking, yes; emailing or texting homeowners, no.
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1. The service
LesChantiersPro (leschantierspro.ca) is a service of Veillea (PO Box 311, Hudson, QC J0P 1H0). It sends subscribing contractors and suppliers alerts about building permits that municipalities publish as open data (currently the City of Montréal and the City of Longueuil).
2. Data as published
Permit information (work address, area, permit type, work description, issue date, and the declared value and listed business name when published) is reproduced as published by the municipalities. We sort it by trade using automatic rules that can be wrong. We do not guarantee that the data is accurate, complete or current, or that any project will lead to work. Some data is licensed under CC-BY 4.0: “Contains data from the City of Montréal.”
3. No enrichment
We add no owner names, phone numbers, email addresses or other personal information to permits. You agree not to do so using the service either (no owner lookups, no cross-matching with other databases to identify or reach individuals).
4. Outreach: anti-spam law (CASL) and telemarketing
A public permit is not consent to receive electronic messages. You agree to:
- not send commercial emails, texts or other electronic messages to owners or occupants of permit addresses based on the service's data;
- follow CRTC telemarketing rules and the National Do Not Call List if you make calls;
- use only permitted channels such as addressed mail to the work address or respectful door-knocking (honour “no solicitation” signs and municipal peddling by-laws).
You alone are responsible for your outreach and for complying with the laws that apply to it. CASL violations can carry large penalties.
5. Personal information (Quebec Law 25)
An address paired with a work description may be personal information. You agree to use the data only to offer services related to the described work, to protect it, not to resell or publish it, and to delete it when you no longer need it. On our side, we keep permits for at most 24 months. Privacy officer: Joshua Almaleh, bonjour@leschantierspro.ca. See our privacy policy.
6. Account, trial and billing
Plans, prices and the free trial are described on the Pricing page. The 14-day free trial applies to the Pro plan, starts when your access opens and requires no credit card. Subscriptions are monthly and renew automatically until cancelled. Taxes extra.
7. Prohibited use
Reselling or redistributing the data, automated scraping, harassment, discrimination, any unlawful use.
8. Liability
The service is provided “as is”. To the extent the law allows, our liability is limited to the amounts paid in the last 3 months.
9. Termination
We may suspend accounts that breach these terms, especially sections 3 to 5.
10. Governing law
Laws of Quebec and applicable federal law. Courts of the district of Montréal.