Welcome and thank you for visiting the Land Owner Transparency Registry (LOTR) website, operated by the Land Title and Survey Authority of British Columbia (LTSA). If you are accessing myLTSA through this website, your myLTSA Customer Agreement applies to and governs any myLTSA transactions.

Our Website Terms and Conditions of Use
The LTSA provides this website to you subject to the following terms and conditions, which may be amended by the LTSA from time to time without notice. Your use of this website constitutes acceptance of these terms and conditions. The use of the word “our” in these terms and conditions refers to the LTSA.

Disclaimers
This website, its organization and design, and all information, images, artwork, text, video, audio, pictures, apps, applets, programs, data and any other materials on this website (together, “Content”) and any services available via this website (“Services”) are provided on an “as is” basis. Save for Surveyor General Forms, Surveyor General Practice Bulletins, Land Title Forms, Land Title Practice Bulletins, Land Title Practice Notes, and Director Requirements, The Content, the Services and the website may not be accurate, complete or current. The LTSA expressly disclaims all representations, warranties, guarantees and assurances of any kind, express or implied, in relation to the Content, the Services or the operation of this website, including but not limited to any warranties of merchantability, title, quality, non-infringement of third-party rights, or fitness for a particular purpose or any purpose. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the LTSA does not provide any warranty, promise, representation, guarantee or assurance that the Content, the Services or the website will be error free, uninterrupted or free from loss, corruption, attack, viruses, interference, hacking or other security intrusion.

In addition, you acknowledge and agree that the display, presentation or provision of information in ParcelMap BC or via any other part of the website or the Services is not authoritative and is not intended to replace confirmation with authoritative sources and the due diligence of a professional.

Systems
You are responsible for your own internal systems, including hardware, software, network infrastructure, communications systems, internet access and any ancillary services needed to access and use the website, the Content or the Services. The LTSA is not responsible for any system compatibility issues.

Restrictions on Use
You agree that you will not do any of the following:

1. 1. transmit, disseminate or upload to, on or through the website or the Services any harassing, libelous, abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory, embarrassing, distressing, annoying, unlawful, tortious, harmful, vulgar, racially or ethnically offensive, hateful or otherwise objectionable materials
   2. access the Content or the Services for the purposes of redistributing any of the Content or Services or for purposes of providing a service bureau, cloud service or any other commercial service;
   3. access the website, the Content or the Services for the purposes of monitoring availability, performance, or functionality, or for any other benchmarking or competitive purpose; or
   4. engage in practices such as “screen scraping”, “database scraping” or “automated form filling” to retrieve, test or obtain information generated or processed by or stored through the the Services or the website.

Not Legal Advice
The Content and Services are not legal advice. Do not use or otherwise rely upon any of the Content or Services without first seeking independent legal advice.

Limitation of Liability and Indemnity
The LTSA, its directors, officers, employees, agents and other representatives will not be liable to you or any other party for any damages of any kind including, without limitation, indirect, special, consequential or incidental damages, lost profits, business interruption losses or other damages arising directly or indirectly from your use of this website, the Content or the Services.

You will save and hold harmless the LTSA and its directors, officers, employees, agents and other representatives against any and all liabilities, losses, claims, damages, actions, causes of action, costs and expenses that any person may sustain, incur, suffer, or be put to by reason of any use by or on behalf of you of this website, the Content or the Services.

Copyright and Proprietary Rights
The website contains proprietary information and material that is owned or controlled by the LTSA, its subsidiaries, affiliates and/or licensors, and is protected by applicable intellectual property and other laws, including but not limited to copyright and trademarks. Without limiting the foregoing, the Content and the Services are protected under applicable copyright, trademark and other proprietary (including but not limited to intellectual property) rights. You acknowledge and agree that you will not use such proprietary information, materials or Content in any way except for use of the Services and website in compliance with these terms and conditions. All rights in the website, the Content and the Services are reserved worldwide and the copying, redistribution, use or publication by you of any of same beyond the scope of the limited license hereunder is strictly prohibited. The website contains trademarks, service marks, logos, icons and trade names that are the property of the LTSA, or such other party as is indicated with respect to that trademark, service mark, logo, icon, or trade name (collectively, “Trademarks”). No license is granted to any such Trademarks. You will not remove any proprietary notices marked on, contained within or accompanying any Content or Services.

Third-Party Content
The website, Content or Services may contain information and materials provided to the LTSA by third parties (collectively, “Third-Party Content”). Third-Party Content may be copyrighted work of its owner, who retains all right, title and interest in and to the Third-Party Content, including, without limitation, all intellectual property rights therein and thereto. Any and all Third-Party Content will be subject to these terms and conditions to the same extent as the Content. In addition to being subject to these terms and conditions, Third-Party Content may also be subject to different and/or additional terms of use and/or privacy policies of such third parties.

Limited Right to Use
You may view, download and print the information made available as Content via the Services for your personal, non-commercial viewing, but you may not otherwise copy, reproduce, republish, post, transmit, display, alter, sell, offer, market, rent, lease, lend, frame in another web page, perform, distribute, modify or create derivative works from the website, the Content or the Services without our prior written approval. You must also not use the website, Content or the Services to collect, use or disclose any personal information except in compliance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act or to obtain names, addresses or telephone numbers for solicitation purposes, whether the solicitations are made by telephone, mail or any other means or to harass an individual or an entity.

Linking
All links to third-party sites are provided for your convenience only; they are not an endorsement or referral by the LTSA, the LTSA does not control these sites and does not assume any responsibility or liability for any communications or materials available at those linked sites. If you wish to provide a link to our website from your website, you may only link to our home page at www.landtransparency.ca, without deleting any frames, structure or any other elements of how our home page is presented and displayed through normal use. You may not use any LTSA trademarks, icons or logos on your website without our express written consent, and you may not, without our permission, use the link to suggest that the LTSA sponsors, endorses, approves of, or is affiliated with, you or your website.

Availability
The LTSA may at any time suspend the operation of this website, the Services or all or any of the Content for any period of time without any prior notice, whether for the purposes of website updating and upgrading or system maintenance or otherwise. This site, the Services and the Content may be modified, deleted, edited or withdrawn by the LTSA at its absolute discretion and at any time without prior notice.

Jurisdiction, Governing Law and Severability
These terms and conditions, your access to and use of this website and the Services, and any claims made at law or in equity against the LTSA, its directors, officers, employees, agents and other representatives, arising out of such access or use or otherwise, will be governed by and construed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of British Columbia (without regard to conflict of law principles) and any legal proceedings will be brought solely in the courts of the Province of British Columbia. Should any part of these terms and conditions or the application thereof to any person or circumstances be held invalid or unenforceable, that portion will be modified so as to be enforced to the fullest extent permitted at law and the remaining portions will not be affected and each part of these terms and conditions will be separately valid and enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Other Agreements
If there is any conflict between this agreement and any other written agreement between you or your business and the LTSA, the latter agreement will prevail.

General
The LTSA may amend these terms and conditions at any time without notice. Accordingly, you should periodically re-visit these terms and conditions to review the then current terms and conditions governing your use of this website.

LTSA’s failure to enforce or insist upon strict compliance with any provision of these terms and conditions will not be deemed a waiver of such provision nor of the right to enforce such provision.