Terms of use
Query is a free information site. The data it shows belongs to the agencies that publish it and may be late or change. Check the agency's own notice before making a decision, and call the agency's line in an emergency.
This text is a draft
Draft. This text has not been through legal review yet and will be updated once it has.
The service
Query is run by Wiozen. It is free and needs no sign-in. It gathers outage, earthquake, weather and duty pharmacy information from sources that official agencies publish openly. Query is not a public body and makes no announcements on behalf of agencies.
Accuracy
The source agency owns the records and is responsible for their accuracy. Query reads the agency's list at intervals, so a page can lag behind for a while after the agency changes it. Fault end times are estimates. Earthquake magnitudes are first solutions and may change.
Information on Query does not replace the agency's official notice. If the two differ, the agency's notice applies; tell us at [email protected] and we will fix it.
Emergencies
Query is not an emergency service. In an emergency call 112; for a power fault call 186, for a gas smell call 187, and for a water fault call your province's water utility.
Using the site
You may read the pages, link to them and quote them with the source named. For bulk data, use the open API at /api/v1 instead of crawling the pages; it needs no key and is limited to 60 requests per minute per IP address.
Reuse of the data depends on the source's terms. Query cannot license data it does not own. The terms of openly licensed sources are listed on the data sources page.
Do not send requests that would harm the site or the API or go past its limits.
Accounts
Signing in is optional and uses a Wiozen account. The account itself is covered by Wiozen's account terms. What data is kept is described on the privacy page.
Changes and contact
These terms may change; changes are published on this page with a date. Questions: [email protected].
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