Terms of Service
These terms are the agreement between you and CorpEase Inc. for your use of CorpEase. By creating an account, or by paying for a service, you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not use CorpEase.
1. Who we are
CorpEase is operated by CorpEase Inc., a corporation incorporated under the Canada Business Corporations Act (corporation number 1791878-0), with its registered office at 624 Huron St, London, Ontario N5Y 4J8, Canada. In these terms "we", "us" and "our" mean CorpEase Inc., and "you" means the person using CorpEase and, where you are acting for a business, that business.
2. What CorpEase does
CorpEase is software for incorporating a Canadian business and keeping it in good standing. Depending on the services you buy, we:
- collect the information a government registry needs and prepare the filings from it;
- submit those filings to Corporations Canada or a provincial registry on your instructions;
- keep your corporate records — directors, officers, shareholders, registered office, individuals with significant control — and your documents in one place; and
- track the filing deadlines that apply to your business and remind you about them.
3. We are not a law firm
CorpEase is not a law firm, and we are not your lawyers or paralegals. Nothing on the platform — the questions we ask, our explanations of the law, the documents we produce, or anything our staff tell you — is legal, tax or accounting advice, and using CorpEase does not create a solicitor-client relationship.
We describe what the legislation requires as we understand it, and we work to keep that accurate. Your situation may not be an ordinary one. For advice about your particular circumstances — how to structure your shares, tax planning, arrangements between shareholders, or whether to incorporate at all — speak to a lawyer or an accountant.
4. Who can use CorpEase
You must be at least the age of majority where you live and able to enter into a contract. If you are setting up or managing a business, you confirm that you are authorised to act for it and to give us the instructions that you give us.
We do not serve Quebec. The jurisdictions we can currently file in are shown in the app, and we will tell you before you pay if we cannot file where you need us to.
5. Your account
Keep your password, and any passkey or second factor, to yourself. You are responsible for what happens under your account. If you think someone else has access to it, tell us straight away at support@corpease.ca.
6. The information you give us
A filing is only as good as the information behind it. You are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of everything you enter, and for keeping it up to date. Two points are worth being plain about:
- Filings are made under your authority, not ours. You are the incorporator or an authorised representative of the business; we prepare and submit on your instructions. Misrepresentation in a filing is an offence — under the Canada Business Corporations Act, for example, it carries a fine of up to $5,000 or imprisonment for up to six months, or both (s. 250(1)). Provincial statutes have similar provisions.
- You will be giving us personal information about other people — directors, officers, shareholders and individuals with significant control, including dates of birth and home addresses. You confirm that you are entitled to give it to us and to have it used as set out in our Privacy Policy, and that those people have been told where the law requires it.
7. Government filings
Government registries decide whether a filing is accepted, whether a corporate name is available, and how long any of it takes. We cannot guarantee those outcomes or timing. If a registry rejects a filing, we will tell you what it said and work with you to put it right where we can.
8. Fees, payment and renewals
Prices are shown before you pay and are in Canadian dollars. Applicable taxes may be added. Your total normally has two parts: the CorpEase subscription, and the government filing fee for your jurisdiction. Government fees are set by the registry, not by us — we collect them with your payment and remit them on your behalf.
A subscription runs for one year from the day you pay. We will contact you before it ends. If we introduce automatic renewal, we will tell you in advance and give you a way to turn it off.
9. Cancellations and refunds
- Before we submit a filing, you can ask us to cancel it. We have not paid the government fee to the registry at that point, so we refund what you paid in full.
- Once a filing has been submitted, the government fee has gone to the registry and cannot be recovered, and the CorpEase fee for that filing is non-refundable.
- Nothing here takes away rights you have under consumer protection law.
10. Your records, and our platform
Your information stays yours. You give us permission to use it to run the service for you: to prepare and make your filings, keep your records, and contact you about them. We do not sell it. While your account is active you can ask us for a copy of your records at any time.
The platform itself — the software, the design, the text, and the CorpEase name and logo — belongs to us. You may use it to run your own business, but not to copy, resell or rebrand it.
11. Acceptable use
Do not use CorpEase to break the law, to make a filing you know to be false, to set up a business for a fraudulent purpose, to interfere with the service or its security, or to scrape or resell it.
12. Changes, suspension and closing your account
We are actively building CorpEase, and features will change. If we have to suspend or close your account — for non-payment, misuse, or because the law requires it — we will tell you why and, unless we are prevented from doing so, give you the chance to retrieve your records first.
You can close your account at any time. Closing it does not undo filings already made: a corporation continues to exist, and its obligations continue, until it is properly dissolved.
13. What we do not promise
CorpEase is provided as it is. We do not promise that the service will be uninterrupted or free of errors, or that the deadlines we calculate capture every obligation that applies to your business. Your corporation's compliance remains your responsibility.
14. Limit on our liability
To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential loss, or for lost profits, revenue, data or goodwill. Our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded by law, including liability for fraud.
15. Claims arising from your instructions
If a claim is brought against us because of information or instructions you gave us, you will cover our reasonable costs of dealing with it — except to the extent the claim arises from our own error.
16. Changes to these terms
We will post any changes on this page and update the date at the top. If a change is significant, we will tell you by email. Continuing to use CorpEase after a change means you accept the updated terms.
17. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there, and the courts of Ontario have jurisdiction. This does not affect any right you have under consumer protection law to bring a claim where you live.
18. Contact us
support@corpease.ca
CorpEase Inc., 624 Huron St, London, Ontario N5Y 4J8, Canada