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These terms govern your use of oreeconseil.ca. They are short by the standards of the genre, and they are written to Québec law: what this website is, what it is not, what you may do with it, and what the practice does and does not answer for.
In brief
This summary is written to be read, not to be litigated. Where it differs from the numbered text, the numbered text governs.
By accessing or using the website at oreeconseil.ca, you accept these terms of use. If you do not accept them, do not use the site. That is a real choice: nothing on this site is behind a login or a banner, so declining costs you nothing but a closed tab.
In these terms, the practice, we and us mean Orée Conseil, an advisory practice operated by Aminata Diabaté, based in Montréal and the Eastern Townships, Québec. You means the person using the site and, where that person is acting for an organization, that organization as well — and you confirm you have authority to bind it.
These terms are a contract of adhesion: they are drafted by the practice and not negotiated clause by clause with each reader. They are written to be read as they stand, without cross-references to documents that are not on this site, and the clauses that matter most — clause 3.2 on legal advice, clause 4.1 on confidentiality, and section 12 on liability — are stated in the same plain terms as the rest and are not hidden in an annex.
The site describes a practice, a method and a body of work. It is published for general information. It is not tailored to your organization, it does not know your facts, and it cannot be a substitute for advice given by someone who does.
Orée Conseil is not a law firm. Aminata Diabaté is not a member of the Barreau du Québec, is not a member of the Chambre des notaires du Québec, and does not practise law. Nothing on this site is a legal opinion or legal advice, and nothing on it may be relied on as such.
The practice works alongside its clients' obligations — Law 25, professional secrecy, the guidance published by professional orders — because those obligations decide which uses of artificial intelligence are open to an organization and which are not. Describing an obligation, and mapping a workflow against it, is advisory work. Determining the legal effect of a rule on your particular facts, drafting an instrument, or giving an opinion on your compliance is the practice of law, reserved by section 128 of the Act respecting the Barreau du Québec, and it is work the practice neither performs nor holds itself out as performing.
Where a question calls for a legal opinion, the practice will say so and will recommend that you obtain one from a lawyer or a notary of your choosing. Where a mandate touches on a legal question, the engagement letter records that boundary in writing.
Nothing on the site is accounting, tax, actuarial, human-resources, investment or insurance advice, and nothing on it is a security audit, a certification, an attestation or an assurance report. The practice holds no licence in those fields and issues no opinion in them.
Reading the site, sending an enquiry, or exchanging preliminary correspondence creates no professional relationship of any kind and does not oblige the practice to accept a mandate. A relationship begins when an engagement letter is signed by both parties, and not before.
Legal and regulatory statements on the site are accurate as at the date of publication shown on the page carrying them. Law 25 came into force in stages, professional orders revise their guidance, and the technology described here moves faster than either. Nothing on the site is undertaken to be current at the moment you read it.
Do not send confidential, privileged or sensitive material through the enquiry form. A first message should say enough to describe the problem and no more. What is protected by professional secrecy in your hands is not protected by it in ours, because no professional secrecy attaches to a practice that is not a professional order's member.
Your enquiry is protected by the privacy policy, by the practice's ordinary duty of discretion, and by the security measures described in that policy. It is not protected by lawyer-client privilege or by the professional secrecy of a notary, and it could in principle be compellable in proceedings to which it is relevant. Once an engagement letter is in place, confidentiality is governed by its own terms, which are stronger and mutual.
Until a mandate is opened, no conflict check has been performed. The practice may already be acting for an organization with an adverse interest to yours, and an unsolicited enquiry does not prevent it from continuing to do so.
Please give accurate information in an enquiry, and do not impersonate anyone or claim an authority you do not have. Everything else about how that information is handled is in the privacy policy.
The descriptions of the diagnostic, the training, the ongoing support and the Radar Loi 25, and the deliverables listed with them, describe how the practice ordinarily works. The scope of any actual mandate — what is examined, what is produced, by when, and by whom — is fixed in the engagement letter. Where the site and the engagement letter differ, the engagement letter governs.
Any fee, range or order of magnitude published on the site is indicative, is stated before tax, and is an invitation to discuss rather than an offer capable of being accepted so as to form a contract. A binding price is the one written into a signed engagement letter after the scope has been confirmed.
The practice undertakes to bring competence, diligence and independent judgment to a mandate. It does not warrant a particular commercial outcome, a productivity gain, a cost saving, or that any organization following its recommendations will be found compliant by a regulator, a professional order or a court. Compliance is a state of an organization, achieved by the decisions it takes; advice is an input to those decisions, not a substitute for them.
The practice sells no software, resells no licence, and receives no commission, referral fee or other consideration from any vendor whose products it may name. Where a recommendation names a tool, it names it because the analysis pointed there.
Where the site makes an interactive demonstration available, it runs on a fictitious dossier prepared for the purpose. The documents, names, figures and outcomes in it are invented and correspond to no real person, organization or transaction.
A demonstration illustrates a mechanism; it is not a product, not a service, and not advice. Its output must not be relied on for any purpose. Do not type real client information, personal information or confidential material into a demonstration — it is a public web page, not a professional file.
The refrain of this practice is that AI drafts and the human decides. It applies to the practice's own work: where a generative tool assisted in preparing material published on this site, a person reviewed, corrected and approved that material before publication, and a person is accountable for it.
No output of any automated or generative feature on this site is advice, and none of it should be acted on without independent verification by a person competent to give it. Generative systems produce fluent text that can be confidently wrong, and a document that reads like an opinion is not one.
The practice makes no decision about you by exclusively automated means, on this site or off it.
The site and its content — text, structure, selection and arrangement, illustrations, diagrams, typographic treatment and source code — are protected by the Copyright Act and by the law of Québec, and belong to Orée Conseil or to those who have licensed their material to it. Publication on an open website is not a waiver of anything.
You may read the site, print or save pages for your own use or for internal use within your organization, and quote short extracts in your own work provided you attribute the extract to Orée Conseil and, where the medium allows, link to the page it came from. Any dealing permitted by the Copyright Act is unaffected by this clause.
Orée, Orée Conseil, the O·R·É·E method and the names given to the practice's offerings, together with the wordmark and the sprig device, are the marks of the practice. Nothing on the site grants a licence to use them, and nothing in clause 8.2 permits their use in a way that suggests endorsement or affiliation.
The practice publishes a robots.txt that names and permits the crawlers of the principal search and answer engines, deliberately, because being quotable inside those systems is part of how a small practice is found. That permission is granted on these conditions: the content is attributed to Orée Conseil, the source page is identified where the interface allows, the content is not presented as legal advice or as the output of a law firm, and the passage is not altered so as to change its meaning. Access must respect the current robots.txt and must not impose an unreasonable load on the site. The practice may change robots.txt at any time, and doing so withdraws the permission for the future.
If you send a suggestion about the site or the practice's work, the practice may use it without obligation, compensation or attribution. Do not send anything you would want to keep, or anything that belongs to someone else.
The practice may restrict or block access to the site, and may take any other step open to it in law. Conduct that appears criminal may be reported to the competent authorities.
The site is offered as it stands and as it is available. The practice does not undertake that it will be available without interruption, free of error, or free of every defect, and it may modify, suspend, restructure or withdraw the site or any part of it at any time, including content you were relying on being there.
Where a page is retired, the practice makes a reasonable effort to redirect its address rather than break the link, because a broken link on a professional site is a discourtesy to the reader who saved it.
The content is provided without warranty of any kind other than those the law imposes and does not permit to be excluded. In particular, the practice gives no warranty that the content is complete, accurate at the moment of reading, current, or fit for a particular purpose, and no warranty as to the content of any site reached from a link on this one.
This clause governs the site. Warranties in respect of a mandate are those of the engagement letter and of the Civil Code of Québec, and this clause does not reduce them.
To the extent permitted by law, the practice is not liable for any loss arising from the use of, or the inability to use, this site or its content, including loss of profit, loss of opportunity, loss of data, or a decision taken in reliance on a page rather than on advice given on your facts.
Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability for bodily or moral injury, or liability for intentional or gross fault. Article 1474 of the Civil Code of Québec makes such an exclusion a nullity, and this document does not attempt one.
Nor does anything in these terms reduce a right you hold under the Consumer Protection Act, or any other right that the law does not permit to be waived in advance.
Subject to clause 12.2, the practice's total liability arising from your use of this site is limited to one hundred Canadian dollars. Liability arising from a mandate is governed by the engagement letter, which sets its own ceiling and its own insurance position, and is not limited by this clause.
You agree to hold the practice harmless from any claim by a third party arising from your own breach of these terms, from your unlawful use of the site, or from content you sent through it that you were not entitled to send. This clause does not apply to the extent the claim arises from the practice's own fault.
Links to public sources and to third-party sites are offered as references. The practice does not control those sites, does not endorse their content by linking to them, and is not responsible for what they publish or for how they handle your information.
Personal information is governed by the privacy policy and by the cookie policy, which form part of these terms. Where a term of this document and a term of the privacy policy differ on the treatment of personal information, the privacy policy governs.
Neither party is liable for a failure to perform caused by superior force within the meaning of article 1470 of the Civil Code of Québec — an unforeseeable and irresistible event, including the failure of a telecommunications network, a general failure of a hosting provider, or a governmental measure preventing performance.
The practice may amend these terms. The version number and the date of coming into force at the head of this page always identify the text in effect, and superseded versions are kept and provided on request. An amendment applies to your use of the site from the date it comes into force; it does not change the terms of a mandate already under way, which is governed by its engagement letter.
These terms, and any dispute arising from them or from the use of the site, are governed by the laws in force in the Province of Québec and by the laws of Canada applicable there, without regard to any conflict-of-laws rule that would point elsewhere.
The parties elect domicile in the judicial district of Montréal, Québec, and submit any dispute to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that district, subject to any right a consumer has to bring proceedings in the district of their own domicile, which this clause does not remove.
The parties agree to speak first. A complaint sent to the address in section 21 will be answered, and most things that end up in a courtroom would have been settled by a telephone call made earlier.
These terms are drawn up in French, in accordance with the Charter of the French language, and translated into English for the convenience of readers who prefer it. In the event of any discrepancy between the two versions, the French version prevails.
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