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Canadian Additional Terms: Plinth Data

These terms add to the terms of use, which govern the whole service. How we handle information about Canadian directors and trustees is in the Canadian privacy addendum.
Contents · 4 sections
  1. 1. Source and its limits
  2. 2. Rights
  3. 3. Attribution
  4. 4. What you may not do

Applies to: Canadian data in the Service, meaning information drawn from the Canada Revenue Agency's List of Charities, wherever it is accessed: the /ca pages, the Grants API with jurisdiction=ca, the Ask chat at /analyze, ad-hoc SQL and the Plinth × Claude connector.

Effective: 2 October 2026 · Version: 1.0

These terms supplement the Terms of Use, which continue to apply in full. Words defined there have the same meaning here.

1. Source and its limits

This supplements section 3 of the Terms of Use. For Canadian data, the public source the Service reads is the Canada Revenue Agency's List of Charities as published on open.canada.ca.

  • Canadian figures are as filed, and unverified. The CRA publishes the T3010 information a registered charity gives it, and states that it does not verify that information. Canadian fiscal periods run 2017 to 2024, amounts are Canadian dollars exactly as filed, and no figure converts or mixes the two currencies.

2. Rights

This supplements section 6 of the Terms of Use.

Canadian data is not public domain. The Canada Revenue Agency's List of Charities is Crown copyright, made available under the Open Government Licence – Canada, which permits commercial reuse on conditions. Those conditions bind you as they bind us: attribute it as section 3 of these terms requires, do not use it in a way that suggests official status or that the Government of Canada or the CRA endorses you or your use, and do not present it as though the CRA had verified it. We claim nothing in the Crown information itself.

3. Attribution

This supplements section 8 of the Terms of Use.

Canadian data carries a second, licensed attribution. Where you use a figure drawn from the CRA's List of Charities, reproduce this statement: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada). Unlike the credit to us, this one is a condition of the license the information reaches you under, not a request. Do not use the Canada wordmark, the CRA's logo, or anything else that suggests official status or endorsement.

4. What you may not do

This supplements section 9 of the Terms of Use.

Crown information is carved out of 3 and 4. Items 3 and 4 of section 9 of the Terms of Use do not restrict what you do with unmodified Crown information obtained from us, meaning the CRA's List of Charities as the Government of Canada published it. That information reaches you under the Open Government Licence – Canada, which permits you to copy, publish and distribute it, and we do not narrow that license. What items 3 and 4 protect is the part that is ours: the compilation, the entity resolution and matching, the derived measures and classifications, the schema, and any Canadian record we have altered, combined, enriched or re-keyed. The attribution condition at section 3 of these terms still applies, as does section 10 of the Terms of Use, which restricts what may be done with information about people whatever its license.