Terms of use

1. Acceptance of Conditions and Legal Capacity

By accessing this website, browsing its pages or using its tools (in particular secure messaging or the AI ​​search assistant), you acknowledge having read these Conditions of Use as well as the Privacy Policy, and agree to be bound by them without reservation. ↗

If you do not agree to all of these stipulations, you must immediately cease all use of the site.

2. Independence and Lack of Official Governmental Status

Formal disclaimer: This website is an independent citizen initiative edited by William Guindon, submitter of communication SEM-26-003. It is in no way the official portal of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), the Secretariat of the Canada–United States–Mexico Agreement (ACEUM), the Government of Canada, the Government of Quebec or the Ville de Blainville (City of Blainville).

Official documents from the CCE (Commission for Environmental Cooperation) public register are reproduced or linked for the purposes of public information, democratic transparency and citizen research.

3. Protection of Public Interest Debate and Anti-SLAPP Clause (Anti-SLAPP)

All publications, field surveys, documentary analyses, photographs, extracts from registers and positions published on this site fall strictly within the framework of the legitimate exercise of freedom of expression and freedom of the press protected by:

• Article 3 of the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms (RLRQ, c. C-12);
• Section 2 b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms;
• Articles 51 to 54 of the Code of Civil Procedure of Quebec (RLRQ, c. C-25.01) severely punish abusive prosecutions, judicial intimidation procedures and strategic prosecutions against public mobilization (SLAPP suits or SLAPPs).

Any attempt at judicial intimidation or proceedings aimed at obstructing the communication of verified information of public interest on environmental health and international registries will be vigorously contested and will expose its perpetrators to the sanctions and damages provided for by law.

4. Intellectual Property and Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Unless explicitly stated otherwise relating to official documents in the public domain or emanating from public authorities, all original content published on this site (texts, blog articles, survey summaries, original field photographs and infographics) is made available under the international license:

Creative Commons Attribution - No Commercial Use - No Modification 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). ↗

4.1. Conditions of use by media, researchers and citizens

You are expressly authorized to share, copy and redistribute this content on any medium or format subject to strict compliance with the following cumulative conditions (also detailed on the official License, Graphic Charter & Official Photos page): ↗

• Mandatory attribution (BY): You must credit William Guindon by clearly mentioning the source with a direct hyperlink to https://williamguindon.me/;
• Strictly non-commercial use (NC): You do not have the right to use these original contents for commercial or mercantile purposes without prior written authorization;
• No modification (ND): In the event that you remix, transform or truncate the contents, you cannot distribute the modified work under the name of the original author in such a way as to distort the meaning of the subject or the investigation.

4.2. Data harvesting, searching and indexing by AI agents

Automated indexing, data scraping / crawling and documentary access for the purposes of public research, citizen or journalistic analysis and factual verification are authorized subject to strict compliance with the terms of the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: any substantial reproduction or direct quotation of our work must credit the original source (William Guindon). ↗

Any training of AI models resulting in the generation of derivative works or any reuse for commercial purposes is strictly prohibited without prior agreement. In addition, automated access must be carried out in a reasonable manner, without compromising the stability or availability of site infrastructure.

5. Use of the AI ​​Virtual Assistant & Disclaimer (AI Disclaimer)

The site integrates an artificial intelligence conversational assistance tool powered by a serverless Cloudflare Worker feature and the Groq inference API. By using this module, the user agrees and expressly acknowledges that:

• Exclusively indicative nature: The answers provided by the AI ​​assistant are purely informative and popular. They do not in any way constitute a formal legal opinion, an approved environmental expert opinion or an official interpretation of international treaties.
• Complete disclaimer of liability: The publisher assumes no responsibility for any inaccuracies, approximations, omissions or “hallucinations” generated by the third-party machine learning algorithm. The user remains solely responsible for comparing any response with the original documents filed in the public register of CCE (SEM-26-003).

6. Using Nostr Client-Side Secure Messaging

The NIP-59 / NIP-44 encrypted messaging channel made available is based on an architecture 100% executed client-side in your browser. Using it:

• You remain the sole guardian of your locally generated secret key (nsec). As the publisher does not technically have any access to your decryption keys, the loss of your secret key results in the irreversible impossibility of decrypting the responses received.
• It is strictly prohibited to use this channel to transmit threats, illegal content, malicious code or denial of service attacks.

7. Network Infrastructure, Security Filtering and Cloudflare Services

The distribution, optimization, resilience and security of the williamguindon.me site are ensured by the global infrastructure of Cloudflare, Inc.. The user acknowledges and agrees to the following terms governing the infrastructure:

• Automated traffic filtering and perimeter protection (WAF / Anti-DDoS): Access to the site is subject to automated filtering to block cyberattacks, distributed denials of service, malicious injections and abusive behavior. Publisher reserves the right to automatically ban or restrict access to any IP address, network range, or user agent exhibiting hostile behavior.
• Prohibition of attack and circumvention: It is strictly prohibited to attempt to circumvent, saturate, probe, disable or alter the perimeter protection mechanisms, application firewalls (WAF) or security rules deployed on the Cloudflare network.
• Zero Trust partitioning (Cloudflare ACCEss): Technical administration spaces and interfaces are private and protected by a Cloudflare Zero Trust gateway. Any attempted unauthorized access, reverse engineering of access, or intrusion into these areas constitutes a willful violation of these Terms and will be reported to the appropriate authorities.
• Serverless Edge Services (Cloudflare Workers): Dynamic API endpoints (including /api/groq-chat ) run on serverless workers at the network edge. The publisher does not guarantee uninterrupted availability or a fixed latency time for the execution of these third-party services.
• Exemption relating to infrastructure outages: The publisher cannot be held responsible for widespread network outages, Internet transit degradations or temporary unavailability of data centers operated by Cloudflare or GitHub.

8. Character of citizen information and absence of professional relationship

The user acknowledges that the documentary analyses, summaries, accounts and data published on this site are part of the legitimate exercise of the right to criticize, freedom of civic expression and the dissemination of information from public registers (in particular Commission de coopération environnementale (Commission for Environmental Cooperation)). No relationship of legal advice, approved environmental expertise, mandate or trust is created between the publisher and the user of the site.

9. Disclaimer and Limitations of Liability

This site is made available for purely documentary and informative purposes:

• Accuracy of information: Although the publisher strives to faithfully reproduce the official documents and scientific data available, it cannot guarantee the total absence of material, typographical errors or omissions. The original documents posted in the public registers are authentic.
• Legal limitation: To the fullest extent permitted by the laws of the Province of Quebec and Canada (in particular article 1474 of Code civil du Québec (Civil Code of Québec)), the publisher cannot be held responsible for indirect damages, loss of profits or interruptions of activity resulting from the consultation or use of the information published on this portal. In accordance with mandatory law, liability for bodily or moral injury or resulting from intentional or gross negligence is not subject to any exclusion.

10. External Hyperlinks, Redirects & Official Short Domain (wg.s.gy)

The site contains hyperlinks to external websites operated by third parties (international organizations, ministries, press reviews, cartographic platforms).

The user acknowledges that any consultation of an external URL referenced on this site is carried out at his own risk.

The author of this site cannot be held responsible for the content, modifications, privacy policies or any direct or indirect harm resulting from access to or use of these external URLs. The presence of an external URL does not imply any validation, affiliation or approval of the services or comments published there.

Official URL Shortener (wg.s.gy): For ease of accessibility, sharing on social media, and citing in print media, William Guindon uses the custom short domain https://wg.s.gy/ (operated via Short.io). These short links are created exclusively by William Guindon for the sole purpose of shortening the web addresses of the resources in the file. They redirect directly and faithfully to the original official and verified content (pages of the williamguindon.me site, deposited PDF documents, press releases or public registers).

11. Applicable Law and Competent Courts

These Terms of Use are governed by the laws of the Province of Quebec and the federal laws of Canada applicable there. Any dispute relating to the site will be subject to the jurisdiction of the courts sitting in the judicial district of Terrebonne or Montreal, Province of Quebec.

12. Language Policy, Primacy of French, and Translation Disclaimer

The official and original language of this website, all its evidentiary documents, and William Guindon's filings is French.

Foreign-language versions (specifically English under /en/ and Spanish under /es/) are generated through automated translation processes and are provided strictly in good faith to facilitate cross-border access to information. The author, a French-speaking minor citizen, does not possess the professional linguistic capacity to certify their exhaustive accuracy.

En conséquence, only the original French version is authoritative (“French is authoritative”) en cas de contestation, divergence ou ambiguïté. Des erreurs de traduction ou des défauts d'affichage peuvent exister sans engager la responsabilité de l'auteur. Pour plus de détails, consultez la Translation Policy & Primacy of French ↗.

12. Divisibility

If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable or invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such provision shall be limited to the minimum extent necessary, and the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect.

13. Contact

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