These Terms of Service (the “Terms”) are a binding agreement between you and the Canadian Chinese Construction Association (“CCCA”, “we”, “us”). They govern your use of cccaonline.ca and every service on it — your account, membership, the Business Directory, the job board, events and tickets, advertising, and anything you buy or publish here.
Please read section 13 (no endorsement or verification), section 17 (disclaimer of warranties) and section 18 (limitation of liability) carefully. They limit our legal responsibility to you.
01Agreement to these terms
By using this website, creating an account, applying for or renewing membership, submitting a directory listing or job posting, buying a ticket, placing an advertisement, or making any purchase, you agree to these Terms and to our Privacy Policy, which forms part of this agreement.
If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use this website.
If you are using this website on behalf of a company or organisation, you confirm that you have authority to bind that organisation, and “you” means both you and that organisation.
02Who we are and what this site does
CCCA is a not-for-profit industry association serving the Chinese-Canadian construction community in Ontario. This website is an information and networking platform. Through it we:
- Publish a Business Directory of construction-related companies;
- Host a job board where employers post positions;
- Announce and sell tickets to association events;
- Display advertising and sponsorship placements;
- Publish association news and industry information;
- Administer membership accounts.
CCCA is not a contractor, employer, employment agency, broker, insurer, licensing body, or party to any transaction between users of this site. We provide a place to publish and find information. We do not perform, supervise, guarantee or insure the work, services, employment or transactions that may follow.
03Eligibility and your account
You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live, to create an account or make a purchase.
When you register, you agree to give accurate, current and complete information, and to keep it up to date. You are responsible for everything that happens under your account.
- Keep your password confidential and do not share your login;
- Do not transfer, sell or lend your account to anyone else;
- Do not create an account using someone else’s identity or a company you are not authorised to represent;
- Tell us immediately if you believe your account has been used without your permission.
We may refuse, suspend or close an account that contains false information, is used by an unauthorised person, or is used in breach of these Terms.
04Membership
Membership is offered at the levels and fees published on this website from time to time. Registering an account does not by itself make you a member.
- Approval is at our discretion. We may accept or decline any membership application. We are not required to give reasons.
- Membership runs for the term stated at the time of purchase and does not renew automatically unless the checkout page says so.
- Membership benefits — including directory placement, posting rights and event pricing — are those published at the time, and we may change them on reasonable notice.
- Membership is personal to the member company or individual and cannot be transferred, shared or resold.
- We may suspend or terminate membership for breach of these Terms, non-payment, or conduct that harms CCCA, its members or the public.
- When membership ends or is suspended, we may remove or unpublish your directory listing, job postings and other member-only content.
Membership does not create a partnership, joint venture, agency or employment relationship between you and CCCA, and does not entitle you to represent CCCA or to use our name or logo except as we expressly permit in writing.
05Fees, payment and taxes
Prices for membership, tickets, advertising and other services are shown on this website in Canadian dollars, and applicable taxes are added at checkout.
Payments are processed by Stripe. By paying, you also accept Stripe’s terms. You confirm that you are authorised to use the payment method you provide.
We may change our prices at any time. A price change does not affect an order you have already paid for.
Refunds and cancellations are governed by our Refund Policy, which forms part of these Terms.
If a payment fails, is reversed, or is charged back, we may suspend the related service until the amount is paid, and we may recover reasonable costs of collection.
06Business Directory
The Business Directory lets members publish a listing for their company. If you submit a listing, you agree that:
- Every detail you publish — company name, contact information, address, description, service categories, licences, certifications and credentials — is true, accurate, current and lawful;
- You are authorised to publish the company’s information, and you own or have permission to use every image, logo and text you upload;
- You will keep your listing up to date, and correct or remove information that becomes out of date — including phone numbers, addresses, services and credentials;
- You will not claim a licence, certification, insurance, membership, award or qualification that your company does not actually hold;
- You will not publish a listing for a company you do not own or represent;
- You will not submit duplicate listings, keyword-stuffed listings, or listings for a business that has no genuine construction-related activity.
Listings may be reviewed before or after publication. Listing placement, category, ranking and display format are determined by us and by the features of the software we use, and may change.
A directory listing is not a certification. Appearing in the Directory does not mean CCCA has verified the company’s licences, insurance, qualifications, workmanship or financial standing, and does not mean CCCA recommends it. See section 13.
07Job board
If you post a job
You may only post a genuine, currently available position that you are authorised to advertise. You agree that:
- The posting is accurate — the employer, role, location, duties, and any stated compensation are real and not misleading;
- The posting complies with the Ontario Human Rights Code and does not express a preference, limitation or qualification based on race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital or family status, disability, or any other protected ground — except where a bona fide occupational requirement applies;
- The posting complies with the Employment Standards Act, 2000 and all other applicable employment, immigration and privacy laws;
- You will not charge a job seeker any fee — for the position, for training, for placement, for equipment, or for anything else — as a condition of applying for or obtaining the job;
- The posting is not a scheme to collect personal information, sell products or services, recruit for unpaid work misdescribed as employment, or advertise a multi-level marketing opportunity;
- You will remove or update the posting once the position is filled or withdrawn;
- You will handle applicant personal information lawfully, use it only to assess the application, and not sell or misuse it.
The employer is the employer. CCCA is not the employer, is not an employment agency or recruiter, and takes no part in hiring decisions, interviews, offers, contracts, wages or working conditions.
If you apply for a job
You are responsible for evaluating any employer and any position before you apply, share personal information, attend an interview, or accept an offer. Information you send through the job board goes to the employer, and the employer handles it under its own practices — not ours.
Never pay a fee to obtain a job, and never send banking details, SIN, or identity documents to an employer you have not verified. If a posting on this site asks you for money or for sensitive personal documents up front, do not respond — report it to us at once.
08Events and tickets
Event details, dates, venues, speakers, programmes and prices are subject to change. We will make reasonable efforts to notify registered attendees of material changes.
- A ticket admits the named holder and is not transferable unless we say otherwise in writing;
- You must follow the venue’s rules and any conduct requirements we announce; we may refuse admission or remove anyone whose behaviour is unsafe, unlawful or disruptive;
- Events may be photographed, recorded or livestreamed. By attending, you agree that your image and voice may appear in CCCA’s coverage of the event. If you do not want to appear, tell us in advance and we will make reasonable efforts to accommodate you;
- Cancellation, postponement and refunds are handled under our Refund Policy.
You attend events at your own risk. Where an event involves a site visit, tour or physical activity, additional waivers or safety requirements may apply.
09Advertising and sponsorship
Advertising and sponsorship placements are sold at the tiers, positions, rotations and durations set out in the applicable order or sponsorship agreement.
- You are responsible for the accuracy and legality of your advertisement, and for holding all rights to its images, text and marks;
- Advertising must comply with the Competition Act and all other applicable advertising and consumer protection laws — no false or misleading claims;
- We may refuse, remove or reposition any advertisement that we consider inaccurate, unlawful, unsafe, offensive, or inconsistent with CCCA’s purpose, and we will refund the unused portion of the placement if we do so for reasons other than your breach;
- We do not guarantee impressions, clicks, leads, enquiries, ranking or any commercial result. Placement is displayed on a rotating basis and exact impression counts are not warranted;
- Sponsorship does not give the sponsor editorial control over CCCA’s content, membership decisions or association business.
Advertisements are the advertiser’s own statements. Publishing an advertisement is not an endorsement by CCCA of the advertiser or of anything advertised.
10Your content and the licence you grant
“Your content” means anything you submit, upload or publish through this website — directory listings, job postings, event submissions, advertisements, articles, comments, images, logos, videos and documents.
You keep ownership of your content.
By submitting it, you grant CCCA a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to host, store, reproduce, adapt for formatting and display, publish, and distribute your content, for the purpose of operating and promoting this website and the association’s activities. This licence lasts as long as your content is published on the site, and continues afterwards only to the extent needed for backups, archival records, and material already distributed (for example, a newsletter that was already sent).
You confirm that:
- You own your content, or have all the rights and permissions needed to submit it and to grant this licence;
- Your content does not infringe anyone’s copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other rights;
- You have consent from every identifiable individual appearing in any photo or video you submit;
- Your content is not confidential and you accept that anything you publish may be seen by anyone and indexed by search engines.
We may credit your content to you and may display it alongside other content, including advertising.
11Content standards and prohibited conduct
You must not submit, publish or transmit anything that is:
- False, misleading, fraudulent, or a misrepresentation of a business, credential, licence or job;
- Unlawful, defamatory, harassing, threatening, hateful, or discriminatory;
- Obscene, sexually explicit, or otherwise inappropriate for a professional industry platform;
- Infringing of copyright, trademark or any other right;
- Spam, chain messages, or unsolicited commercial messaging;
- A virus, malware, or code intended to damage or interfere with any system.
You must not:
- Scrape, crawl, harvest, copy or extract the Business Directory, job listings, member lists or any other data from this site, in whole or in part, by automated means or otherwise, whether for a competing directory, a marketing list, an AI training set, or any other purpose;
- Use contact details obtained from this site to send unsolicited commercial messages;
- Resell, sublicense or commercially exploit any part of this site or its content;
- Attempt to gain unauthorised access to any account, server or system, probe or test our security, or bypass any access control or rate limit;
- Interfere with the operation of the site, or place an unreasonable load on it;
- Impersonate any person, company or CCCA itself, or misrepresent your affiliation with anyone;
- Use this site for any purpose that is unlawful or that these Terms prohibit.
12Our right to review, edit and remove
We may, but are not obliged to, review content before or after it is published.
At our discretion and without prior notice, we may refuse, edit, reformat, recategorise, relocate, unpublish, suspend or delete any content or account — for breach of these Terms, for a legal or safety reason, following a complaint, or because content is inaccurate, out of date, or inconsistent with the purpose of the site.
We are not responsible for content submitted by users. The fact that content appears on this site does not mean we have checked it, approved it, or agree with it.
If we remove your content, we will make reasonable efforts to tell you why, unless we are legally prevented from doing so or the circumstances make it inappropriate.
13No endorsement, no verification, no guarantee
This section is important. Please read it.
The Business Directory, the job board and all user content on this site are provided for information only.
CCCA does not:
- Verify the licences, insurance, bonding, WSIB coverage, certifications, qualifications, financial standing, safety record or workmanship of any company listed in the Directory;
- Verify the identity, legitimacy, solvency or employment practices of any employer posting a job, or the qualifications of any applicant;
- Verify the accuracy of any description, image, credential or claim published by a user or an advertiser;
- Recommend, endorse, certify, approve, guarantee or vouch for any listed company, employer, advertiser, sponsor, product, service or job;
- Guarantee any outcome — including directory ranking, page views, enquiries, customers, hires, business results, or the quality, timeliness, cost or safety of any work performed.
Membership in CCCA is not a licence, certification, accreditation or quality assurance of any kind. It means the member has applied, been accepted, and paid the applicable fee — nothing more.
Before you hire a contractor, engage a service provider, accept a job, or enter into any transaction with anyone you find through this site, do your own due diligence: confirm licences and insurance directly with the issuing authority, check references, get written quotes and contracts, and take independent professional advice where appropriate.
14Dealings with other users and third parties
Any contract, transaction, hiring, engagement, payment, dispute or relationship between you and another user of this site — a contractor, supplier, employer, job applicant, advertiser or sponsor — is solely between you and that person.
CCCA is not a party to it, is not an agent or broker for either side, and has no obligation to become involved in, mediate, investigate or resolve any dispute between users. We may, entirely at our discretion, take action on our own platform (such as removing content or an account), but that is not an adjudication of your dispute and creates no liability for us.
This website also links to and embeds third-party websites and services — payment pages, maps, videos, social media and others. We do not control them, and their own terms and privacy policies apply to your use of them. We are not responsible for their content, availability or practices.
15CCCA’s intellectual property
The website itself — its design, layout, code, graphics, compiled directory data, and CCCA’s articles, photographs, event materials and publications — is owned by CCCA or its licensors and protected by copyright and other laws.
The names “Canadian Chinese Construction Association”, “CCCA”, “加中建筑协会”, and the CCCA logo are our marks. You may not use them without our prior written permission, including in advertising, on a website, in a company profile, or in a way that suggests sponsorship, endorsement or affiliation that does not exist.
Members in good standing may state that they are a member of CCCA, and may use any member badge we supply, in the form and for the period we permit. That right ends when membership ends.
You may view and print pages of this site for your own personal or internal business use. Any other use — copying, republishing, distributing, or creating derivative works — requires our written permission.
16Copyright complaints
If you believe content on this site infringes your copyright, contact us using the details in section 24 with:
- Your name and contact information;
- Identification of the work you say is infringed;
- The exact location (URL) of the content on our site;
- A statement of why you believe it is infringing, and confirmation that you are the rights holder or authorised to act for them.
We will handle your notice in accordance with the notice regime under Canada’s Copyright Act, and we may remove or disable access to the content while we look into it. We may forward your notice to the user who posted the content.
If you are a member and we repeatedly receive well-founded infringement complaints about your content, we may suspend or terminate your account.
17Disclaimer of warranties
This website and all services on it are provided “as is” and “as available”.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, CCCA disclaims all representations, warranties and conditions of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, accuracy, or non-infringement.
We do not warrant that this site will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or free of viruses; that defects will be corrected; or that any content on it — including user content, directory listings, job postings and advertisements — is accurate, complete, current, lawful or reliable.
18Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law:
- CCCA, and its directors, officers, volunteers, employees, contractors and agents, are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or punitive damages, or for any loss of profit, revenue, business, opportunity, goodwill, data, or anticipated savings — however caused, and even if we were told such damages were possible;
- We are not liable for any loss or damage arising out of your dealings with another user, an employer, a job applicant, a listed company, an advertiser or a sponsor; out of any work performed or not performed; out of any hiring decision; out of your reliance on any content published on this site; or out of any act or omission of a third party.
Total liability cap. If we are found liable to you for any reason, our total aggregate liability for all claims is limited to the greater of (a) the total amount you paid CCCA in the twelve (12) months before the event giving rise to the claim, and (b) CAD $100.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited by law, including liability for fraud, and nothing limits any right you have under the Consumer Protection Act, 2002 (Ontario) or other applicable consumer protection law that cannot be waived. If any part of this section is held unenforceable, the rest of it continues to apply.
19Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless CCCA, and its directors, officers, volunteers, employees, contractors and agents, from any claim, demand, action, loss, liability, damage, fine, cost or expense — including reasonable legal fees — arising out of or connected with:
- Your content, including any claim that it is inaccurate, misleading, defamatory or infringing;
- Your use of this website or any service on it;
- Your breach of these Terms or of any applicable law;
- Any dispute between you and another user, employer, applicant, customer or third party;
- Any work, service, employment or transaction arising from a connection made through this site.
We may take over the defence of any claim you are required to indemnify us against, at your expense, and you will cooperate with us if we do.
20Suspension and termination
You may stop using this site at any time, and may ask us to close your account under section 14 of our Privacy Policy.
We may suspend or terminate your account, membership or access — with or without notice — if you breach these Terms, if payment fails, if we are required to by law, or if we reasonably believe your use of the site harms CCCA, its members, other users or the public.
When access ends, your right to use the site stops immediately, and we may unpublish your listings, postings and other content. Sections 10, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 22 and 23 survive termination. Termination does not by itself entitle you to a refund; see the Refund Policy.
21Changes to the site and these terms
We may change, suspend or discontinue any part of this website or any service on it, at any time.
We may also amend these Terms. The amended Terms are posted on this page with a new effective date. If a change is material, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you — by website notice, email, or a notice at login.
Continuing to use the site after the effective date of an amendment means you accept the amended Terms. If you do not accept them, stop using the site and, if you are a member, contact us.
22Governing law and disputes
These Terms and any dispute arising out of them or out of your use of this website are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply in Ontario, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules.
You and CCCA agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the Province of Ontario, and you waive any objection to venue there. Nothing in this section prevents you from bringing a claim in the small claims court of your local jurisdiction where the law gives you that right.
Before starting a proceeding, we ask that you contact us and give us a reasonable opportunity to resolve the matter.
23General
- Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, the Refund Policy, and any membership, advertising or sponsorship agreement you sign with us, are the whole agreement between you and CCCA on this subject.
- Order of precedence. If a signed sponsorship or advertising agreement conflicts with these Terms, that agreement prevails for the matters it covers.
- Severability. If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, it is severed and the remaining provisions continue in full force.
- No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision, that is not a waiver of our right to enforce it later.
- Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them as part of a merger, reorganisation or transfer of our operations.
- No third-party beneficiaries, except that our directors, officers, volunteers, employees, contractors and agents may rely on sections 17, 18 and 19.
- Notices. We may give you notice by email to the address on your account, or by posting on this website. You give us notice using the contact details in section 24.
- Force majeure. We are not liable for any failure to perform caused by events beyond our reasonable control.
24Contact and language
Questions about these Terms, complaints about content, or notices to CCCA:
Canadian Chinese Construction Association
- Address
- 3445 Kennedy Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M1V 4Y3
- Phone
- 647-906-2638
- info2.ccca@gmail.com
Language. These Terms are published in English and Chinese. The English version is the official version and governs. The Chinese version is provided for convenience only. If there is any difference between them, the English version prevails.