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Terms of use

Last changed 15 November 2026

Draft: these terms apply now. A lawyer hasn't reviewed them yet, and they may change.

Park or Not is a free map of where you can park in Toronto. It's run by Yuya Iwabuchi ("we", "us"). By using the map or its data you agree to these terms.

1. Always check the posted sign

Park or Not is a guide, not legal advice. Its answers are a best guess from City of Toronto by-laws and other public data, and they can be wrong, out of date or incomplete. They can miss temporary signs, film shoots, snow declarations, special events and newly posted signs.

Before you park, read the posted signs. Where a sign and the map disagree, the sign governs, and you are responsible for where you park.

2. Independent

Park or Not is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by the City of Toronto, the Toronto Parking Authority (Green P) or the TTC. It isn't a City service, and nothing on it is a statement by any of them.

3. What you may do

As long as you follow these terms, you may:

4. What needs a licence

Park or Not's own work is its curb-by-curb answers, the reasons and references it gives, and the curb data files the map loads, as we compile them. The City's data itself, the base map and the satellite imagery aren't part of it (section 5). We claim every right the law gives in that work. Even where the law gives none, using Park or Not means you agree not to do the following without a written licence from us:

We may block, limit or end anyone's access to Park or Not, including automated access, at any time and without notice.

If your business wants to use the data, see Data licensing.

5. City open data and other sources

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto.

The City's open data that Park or Not reads is open to anyone: get it from the City's Open Data portal and use it under that licence. Nothing in these terms limits what you may do with the City's data when you get it from the City.

The base map is © OpenStreetMap contributors, drawn with Protomaps and MapLibre. Place search is by Photon. The satellite view is Esri World Imagery, powered by Esri (Source: Esri, Vantor, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community). Each keeps its own licence and terms, and these terms grant no rights in them.

The Green P car park file includes OpenStreetMap data, © OpenStreetMap contributors, in its car park outlines and entrances. That file is a database under the Open Database Licence, section 4 doesn't apply to it, and we'll send it to anyone who asks.

6. No warranty

Park or Not is provided "as is" and "as available", without any warranty, express or implied, including any warranty of accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose or uninterrupted service. To the fullest extent the law allows, we aren't liable for any loss arising from using, relying on or being unable to use it, or from changes to it, including parking tickets, fines, towing, or damage to or loss of a vehicle.

7. Changes

We may change these terms; change, correct, withhold or remove any part of the map, its data or these pages; or stop running Park or Not, at any time. The date at the top shows which version of these terms you're reading. Using Park or Not after a change means you accept the changed terms. We may transfer Park or Not and these terms to a company we control or to anyone who takes over the map.

8. Privacy

Park or Not has no accounts and doesn't ask who you are. If you let the map use your location, your exact position stays in your browser, though the map then loads data for the area around you. Your settings stay in your browser too.

To learn whether the map helps, the site counts how it's used. Your browser keeps a random number made for this alone, drawn from nothing about you or your device, and makes a new one after 390 days. The page sends that number with a few fixed words about each visit: that the map opened, online or offline; the kind of answer on a curb you opened, but not which curb; that you opened a Green P car park, changed the time, switched the permit view, or that the map began following your location live; that you searched, and whether you picked an address, a place from the list or the map centre, or the search found no address, but never what you typed or where it was; whether finding your location worked, or found you outside Toronto, but never the location; whether the map is installed as an app; how many days old the number is; which version of the curb data the page used; which load failed, if one did; and whether the browser was online. Cloudflare adds the country the request came from. Nothing in these counts says where you are or which places you looked at. Each record is kept for up to 3 months, and daily totals, which hold no number, after that. Each count also reaches the site as a request, so for the 30 days the request logs above are kept, a count can be matched by its time to the log of that request, and so to its IP address and user agent.

To turn counting off, open About the data (tap the logo) and untick "Count this browser's visits": this browser then forgets its number and sends nothing until you tick it again. That choice is kept in the browser's storage for this site, so clearing the site's data, or Safari deleting it after 7 days without a visit (which it does unless the map is installed as an app), turns counting back on, with a new number. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control, the page counts nothing for as long as that setting is on, whatever the switch says.

To keep the service running and to detect abuse and bulk copying of its data, the site may record each request it receives: the time, your IP address, the network and country it comes from, the page or file asked for, your browser's user agent, the page that linked to it, and how the site answered. These request logs are kept for up to 30 days. A weekly review made from them shows each address only as its network (the first three parts of an IPv4 address, the first 48 bits of an IPv6 one) and is kept for up to 90 days. We keep particular records longer when we need them to deal with abuse or to enforce these terms.

Our host, Cloudflare, handles every request and keeps some records of its own under its own privacy policy, including requests its security rules block, for about a month. Its Web Analytics, which our pages load from Cloudflare, measures page loads, the page that linked to them and how fast they load, without cookies. Other parts of the map come from other services, which see your IP address and what was asked for: place searches go to Photon, the satellite view comes from Esri, and code, fonts and map symbols come from jsDelivr and GitHub. Each has its own privacy policy.

We don't sell any of this. We use it to run the site, to learn how it's used, to detect abuse and to enforce these terms. Our service providers hold it for us. We may share it with our advisers, in legal proceedings and with whoever takes over Park or Not (section 7). We may also share it with the police or other authorities where the law requires or allows it. Where we need to deal with abuse or enforce these terms, we may share it with them or with the provider of the network the abuse comes from.

9. Law

These terms are governed by the laws of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, and the courts of Ontario may decide any dispute about them. If any part of these terms can't be enforced, the rest still applies.