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Rent Guideline

Terms of use

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Rent Guideline is a free information site about rent increases for tenants and landlords in Ontario, British Columbia and Nova Scotia. Nothing is sold here, nothing is asked of you, and nothing on the site is legal advice. These terms identify the operator, set out what you may do with the content and say plainly what the site does not promise.

1. Who operates this site

Operator
Sergio Padilla, a natural person.
Country of residence, and the place from which the site is operated
Mexico. The operator has no establishment, office, branch or agent in Canada.
Contact
hello@rentguideline.com. This is the site's only contact channel and the address for every communication, including those about privacy and about intellectual property.
Domain name
rentguideline.com, registered with Cloudflare Registrar in the operator's name.
Hosting and network services
Cloudflare, Inc. (United States), which provides the hosting of this static site on Cloudflare Pages, the content delivery network, the DNS and the forwarding of the site's email. Replies sent from the contact address go out through Resend, Inc. (United States).
Readers
The site is written in Canadian English for tenants and landlords in Ontario, British Columbia and Nova Scotia.
Activity
Free publication of information about rent limits, rent increase notices and rents published by Statistics Canada, with tools that run in the reader's own browser. No products or services are sold, no advice is given, and nothing is arranged, referred or brokered for anyone.

The content of Rent Guideline is general information. It is not legal, tax or financial advice, and it cannot replace advice about your own situation. The site reports the published limits and rules, with the official source beside each figure. Whether they apply to your unit, and what follows from your particular facts, is decided by someone else.

The editor is not a lawyer. Reading the site, using its tools and exchanging email with the contact address create no solicitor-client relationship and no professional relationship of any kind.

The full statement, including who decides a rent dispute and where to get help, is on its own page: Disclaimer.

3. What the service is

Access to the site is free and open. There is no registration, no account, no newsletter, no comments and no form of any kind.

The tools are part of the information, not a service. They run entirely inside your browser: the figures you type never leave your device, they are not sent to any server, they are not stored anywhere and they do not appear in the page's address. Their results apply a published limit or rule to what you type, and they bind no landlord, no tribunal, no government office, no court and no one else.

The site is offered as it is. Its availability is not guaranteed, the operator may change, suspend or withdraw any part of it at any time, and technical errors are possible.

4. Acceptable use

By using this site you agree to use it lawfully, in good faith and in accordance with these terms, and in particular not to:

5. Intellectual property

The text, the structure, the design, the source code, the tools and the selection and arrangement of the content of Rent Guideline are the operator's own work and are protected by copyright. The name Rent Guideline and the domain rentguideline.com belong to the operator.

What you may do without asking: read, print, save and share the pages for your own use; link to any page of the site; and quote short passages for information, teaching or research, as long as you name Rent Guideline as the source and link to the page the quotation came from.

What you may not do without written permission: reproduce or republish the content substantially on another site or in another medium, even with attribution; create derivative works from it; extract it systematically by automated means; or use the name of the site in a way that suggests a relationship, an endorsement or a partnership that does not exist.

What is not the operator's property: the statutes, the regulations, the guideline percentages and the other official figures the site reports, and the rent data published by Statistics Canada. Those texts and numbers are public, and their origin is cited on every page and explained in Methodology. Statistics Canada data are used under the Statistics Canada Open Licence and carry its attribution where they appear. What is the operator's own work is the checking, the organization, the explanation and the tools built on top of them.

Facts taken from a statute or from a government page are restated in the site's own words, with the source linked. Government web pages and forms are linked, not copied.

If you believe that content on this site infringes your rights, write to hello@rentguideline.com identifying the content and the right affected. It will be reviewed and, where appropriate, removed.

This site links to third-party pages, especially to official sources: provincial and federal legislation sites, the tribunal or branch that handles tenancy disputes in each province, and Statistics Canada. Those links exist so that you can check the rule or the figure for yourself.

The operator does not control those pages and is not responsible for their content, their availability, their terms of use or their privacy practices. When you follow one of those links you leave rentguideline.com and the terms of the destination site apply to you.

You may link to any page of this site without asking, as long as the link opens the page as it is, without framing it or reproducing it inside another page, and without suggesting a relationship, a sponsorship or an endorsement that does not exist.

7. No warranty

The site is published as it is and as it is available. The operator does not warrant that the content is complete, that it is current at the moment you read it, that the site will be available without interruption, or that it is free of technical error. Limits and rules change, and there is always a gap between the day an official figure changes and the day the site is corrected.

What the site does promise is method, not outcome: every figure is read in an official source and published with that source and the date it was checked. How that works is described in Methodology.

8. Limitation of liability

The operator is not liable for the decisions you make on the basis of this site or for their consequences: giving or not giving a notice, paying or refusing to pay an increase, filing or not filing an application, letting a deadline pass, signing a lease, or any other act or omission. Deciding is yours; advising is a lawyer's.

Nor is the operator liable for loss arising from errors or omissions in the content, from the site being unavailable, from a figure being out of date between the change and its correction, or from the use you make of the results of the tools.

Nothing in these terms removes or limits any right you have as a consumer under the law of your province. Consumer protection legislation in Canada sets out rights and remedies that a website's terms cannot waive, and this section applies only to the extent that the applicable law allows. It does not exclude liability for anything that cannot lawfully be excluded.

9. Governing law and disputes

The operator is a natural person resident in Mexico and this site is directed at readers in Canada. The operator does not ask you to accept the law or the courts of another country as a condition of reading the site.

Where the law of your province applies to you on mandatory terms, that law applies, and you keep the right to bring a matter before the courts of your own place of residence. Mexican law binds the operator because of the operator's residence, which is why the privacy page carries a second part written under that law. If any clause of these terms is held to be invalid, the remaining clauses stay in force.

10. Advertising

As of the site shows no advertising and earns nothing. What the operator intends and how any change would be handled are set out in section A.4 of the privacy policy.

11. Privacy and cookies

How personal information is handled is described in the privacy policy, which contains both the information Canadian privacy law requires and the privacy notice required by the Mexican law that binds the operator. Cookies and similar storage are covered in the cookie policy.

What you type into the tools does not leave your browser: it is processed on your own device and is not sent to any server.

12. Changes to these terms

These terms may change to follow a change in the law, a change in how the site works, or the activation of advertising. Each version carries its date of last update at the top of this page, and substantial changes are flagged visibly for a reasonable time.