Terms and Conditions

Who we are

fyiCanada.ca is operated by Southern East Inc., a corporation incorporated federally in Canada and operating from Ontario. In these terms, “we”, “us” and “fyiCanada” mean Southern East Inc. “You” means anyone using the site.

Acceptance

By using the site you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, stop using the site. If you are agreeing on behalf of a company, you confirm you have the authority to bind it. If you create an account, these terms apply to that account as well.

Accounts

You can read the site without an account. Sign-in is optional, and it is not an age check. Creating an account does not let you buy alcohol from us, and it does not change a score or give you editorial control over a page.

If you create an account, you agree that:

• The email address is yours, or you are allowed to use it.
• You will keep your password to yourself if your sign-in uses one, and you will tell us if you think someone else has used the account.
• You are responsible for what happens through the account until you tell us it is no longer under your control.
• You will not create an account for anyone under 13, or let them use yours.

We may refuse, suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, or that we reasonably believe is being misused. You can ask us to close yours through the contact form. Closing an account does not refund a published submission, and it does not delete records we are required to keep. What we store, and for how long, is in our privacy policy.

What this site is

fyiCanada is an independent information service about Canadian products. We research, aggregate and publish information about where products come from. We do not sell the products we write about, we do not test them, and we do not inspect the facilities that make them.

Nothing on this site is legal, regulatory, financial, medical, dietary or purchasing advice. Information about ingredients, allergens, nutrition, warnings and certifications is reproduced from third party sources and can be incomplete, out of date or wrong. Never rely on this site for a decision that affects health or safety. Read the product packaging, and speak to a qualified professional.

Canadian origin information and scores

The full rubric is published on our methodology page. In short: we score seven signals from public sources, we cap the score when evidence is thin, and we show the quote and link behind every signal so you can check it.

Where we display a claim like “Made in Canada” attributed to a company, we are reporting what that company says about its own product. We are not adopting the claim, verifying it, or confirming that it meets any legal threshold.

You may not use our scores, labels or verdicts on packaging, in advertising, or in any marketing material in a way that suggests official approval, third party certification, or that a product meets a regulated origin standard. If you want to reference a score, attribute it to fyiCanada, link to the product page, and make clear it is our assessment. We can withdraw permission to use our name or scores if they are being used misleadingly.

Accuracy and currency

We work hard to get this right and we still get things wrong. Supply chains change, companies are acquired, production moves, and sources go stale without telling us. We make no representation or warranty that anything on the site is accurate, complete, current or fit for any purpose. Any reliance you place on it is at your own risk.

Found a mistake? Tell us. We fix errors for free and we do not charge anyone to correct a score.

Third party content, links and trademarks

Product images, logos, brand names, descriptions and specifications come from manufacturers, retailers and other public sources. They remain the property of their owners and appear here to identify the products we write about. We claim no ownership of them and no affiliation with their owners.

Outbound links are provided for convenience. We do not control those sites, we do not endorse them, and we are not responsible for their content, their prices, their availability or their privacy practices.

If you own rights in something published here and want it removed, send us a request identifying the material and your rights in it. We review takedown requests promptly.

Alcohol and other restricted products

Pages about wine, beer, cider, spirits and similar drinks are editorial. They report origin, ownership and sourcing. We are not a liquor manufacturer, a liquor sales licensee or a retailer, and we do not sell alcohol. Nothing on those pages is an offer to sell liquor, and ordinary coverage is not an advertisement placed for a brand.

We do not ask you to confirm your age before you read them. A link such as Buy Now leaves this site and opens a retailer. That retailer decides whether to sell to you, including any age check at its own checkout. We are not a party to that sale.

A paid product submission for an alcohol product pays for research and a page, the same as any other submission. It does not buy a score, a ranking, a featured placement, or copy that promotes drinking. See our disclosure page.

If we ever take payment for a featured spot, a sponsored listing, or any other promotion of liquor or its availability, that content is advertising by the brand that paid for it. In Ontario it has to follow the Registrar’s advertising guidelines administered by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario. Equivalent provincial rules apply wherever that content is shown. We will not publish paid alcohol promotion that encourages consumption, is aimed at youth, or shows people drinking, and we will label it as advertising before it goes live.

We do not describe alcohol as healthy. That includes claims about heart health, antioxidants or similar benefits. Copy on those pages stays with ownership, origin and sourcing.

Cannabis, tobacco and vaping products are not covered by the paragraphs above. The Cannabis Act and the Tobacco and Vaping Products Act restrict promotion of those products, including content that states a brand preference or could appeal to youth. We do not publish categories for them. If we ever do, we will update these terms first.

We do not buy ads on Google, Meta or similar platforms that point at alcohol pages. If we do, those ads will follow that platform’s alcohol rules, including any age targeting the platform requires.

Product submissions and fees

You can pay a per product fee to submit products for research. Prices are shown before checkout, in Canadian dollars, plus applicable Canadian taxes. Payment is processed by Stripe. We do not receive or store your card details.

By submitting a product, you confirm:

• The information you give us is accurate and not misleading, and you have the right to give it to us.
• You grant us a non exclusive, worldwide, royalty free licence to use, store, adapt and publish that information and any images you send, for the purpose of running and promoting the site.
• You understand the fee pays for research and editorial work, not for a result. See our disclosure page for the full breakdown.

We may decline to publish any submission, at our discretion, including where we cannot verify the product or where what we find contradicts what was submitted. Where we decline to publish, we refund that product’s fee. Once a page is published, the fee is non refundable, but corrections remain free for as long as the page is live.

We may edit, re-score, update, unpublish or remove any page at any time, including a paid one, if new evidence warrants it.

Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• Scrape, crawl at scale, bulk download or systematically extract the catalogue or the score data, or use it to build a competing database, without our written permission.
• Reproduce substantial portions of our content, including scores, verdicts and breakdowns, as if it were your own.
• Submit false, misleading or infringing information, or someone else’s product without authority.
• Interfere with the site, probe it for vulnerabilities, or attempt to access anything you are not authorised to access.
• Use the site for anything unlawful.

Reasonable personal use, sharing links, and normal search engine indexing are all fine. If you are a researcher or a journalist and want the data, just ask.

Our content

The scoring rubric, written verdicts, editorial copy, site design and the compiled database are ours and are protected by copyright. Nothing in these terms transfers any of it to you.

No warranties

The site is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. To the fullest extent the law allows, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non infringement. We do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted, secure or error free.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, lost goodwill or business interruption, arising out of your use of the site, whatever the cause of action.

Our total aggregate liability to you for all claims connected to the site is limited to the greater of the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose, or one hundred Canadian dollars.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law, including for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, or death or personal injury caused by negligence.

Your consumer rights

If you are a consumer, you may have rights under provincial consumer protection law, including the Ontario Consumer Protection Act and the Quebec Consumer Protection Act, that cannot be waived by contract. Nothing in these terms takes those rights away, and where a term here conflicts with a mandatory protection in your province, that protection wins and the rest of these terms still applies.

Indemnity

If you submit content to us or use the site in breach of these terms, you agree to indemnify us against claims, losses and reasonable legal costs arising from that, including third party claims that your submitted content infringes their rights or is misleading. This does not apply to a consumer acting outside a business, trade or profession.

Changes to the site and these terms

We may change, suspend or discontinue any part of the site at any time. We may also update these terms. When we make a material change we will update the date at the top of this page. Continuing to use the site after that means you accept the change. If you do not, stop using the site.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. The courts of Ontario have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, and you consent to their jurisdiction. If you are a consumer resident in another province, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory consumer law of your own province, or of the right to bring proceedings there where that law gives it to you.

Severability and entire agreement

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force. These terms, together with our privacy policy, disclosure and methodology, are the whole agreement between us about the site.

Contact

Questions, corrections, takedown requests and refund requests all go through the same place. Use our contact form or email hello@fyicanada.ca.