Terms of Service

KALK is an AI-assisted quantity takeoff and estimating platform for construction professionals. You upload plans, specifications and related documents; KALK reads them, detects rooms and surfaces, extracts materials, and helps you produce quantities and estimates.

We improve the Services continuously, so features may be added, changed or removed. Features identified as beta or preview are provided as-is, may be unstable, and may be modified or withdrawn at any time.

You must be at least 18 years old and provide accurate account information. You are responsible for keeping your credentials secure and for activity carried out under your account.

Each account belongs to an organization. Administrators of an organization can invite, promote and remove members, assign roles that control access to projects and data, and access the content created within the organization.

Tell us promptly at info@kalk.ca if you believe your account or your organization's data has been accessed without authorization.

"Client Content" means the plans, specifications, drawings, photos, estimates, libraries, project data and other materials that you or your organization upload to or create in the Services.

You and your licensors keep all rights in Client Content. We claim no ownership of it.

You grant KALK a non-exclusive, worldwide licence to host, store, copy, transmit, display and process Client Content for the purpose of operating, securing and supporting the Services for you, including processing by the service providers described in our Privacy Policy.

You confirm that you have the rights necessary to upload Client Content and that doing so does not breach any confidentiality obligation, contract or law.

We may use de-identified, anonymized, aggregated or otherwise protected data derived from Client Content to operate, analyze and improve the Services and to develop, test and train artificial intelligence models and related technologies. Such data does not identify you, your organization or your clients, and we do not publish your Client Content.

Detected rooms, measured surfaces, extracted materials, quantities, prices and estimates are produced using automated and AI-based methods. They may be incomplete or incorrect.

The outputs of the Services are decision support. They are not professional advice and do not replace review by a qualified estimator, engineer, architect, technologist or other professional.

You remain solely responsible for verifying scales, assumptions, quantities and prices before relying on them, including in any bid, contract, purchase order or construction decision.

You agree not to:

• use the Services in breach of any law or third-party right;
• upload content you are not authorized to share;
• attempt to access data belonging to another organization, or bypass authentication, permissions or other security measures;
• reverse engineer, decompile, scrape, resell or sublicense the Services;
• use the Services or their outputs to build or train a competing product, model or dataset;
• upload malware, or interfere with or place an unreasonable load on our infrastructure.

Access may be free, in beta, or subject to a subscription. Where fees apply, the amounts, billing period and taxes are those stated in your order or subscription. Unless stated otherwise, fees are in Canadian dollars, exclusive of applicable taxes, and non-refundable except where the law requires otherwise.

We may change pricing on reasonable prior notice, effective at the start of your next billing period.

We treat Client Content as confidential. Access is limited to the personnel and service providers who need it to operate, secure and support the Services, and to cases where disclosure is required by law.

The Services, including the platform, software, models, interfaces, documentation, and the KALK name and logo, belong to KALK or its licensors. Apart from the right to use the Services under these Terms, no licence is granted to you.

If you send us feedback or suggestions, we may use them to improve the Services without any obligation to you.

We aim to keep the Services available, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted access. We may carry out maintenance, and we may temporarily suspend access where necessary for security, legal or technical reasons.

You may stop using the Services at any time, and an organization administrator may remove a member's access. We may suspend or terminate access in the event of a breach of these Terms, non-payment, or a risk to the security or integrity of the platform.

When an account or an organization is closed, the right to use the Services ends. We may delete Client Content after a reasonable period, as described in our Privacy Policy, so export anything you need to keep before closing your account.

To the extent permitted by law, the Services are provided "as is" and "as available", and we disclaim all implied warranties, including those of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement. Where the law does not allow such exclusions, they apply only to the extent permitted.

To the extent permitted by law, KALK is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, nor for lost profits or revenue, inaccurate or lost bids, cost overruns, project delays, or loss of data.

To the extent permitted by law, our total liability for all claims arising in any twelve-month period is limited to the greater of the amounts you paid us for the Services during that period and CAD $100.

Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for bodily or moral injury, or for intentional or gross fault.

You agree to indemnify KALK against third-party claims arising from your Client Content or from your use of the Services in breach of these Terms or of the law.

We may update these Terms. If a change is significant, we will give reasonable notice by email or in the application. Continued use of the Services after the effective date of the change means you accept the updated Terms.

These Terms are governed by the laws in force in Québec and the federal laws of Canada applicable there. The courts of the judicial district of Montréal, Québec, have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute, except that we may seek injunctive relief in any competent court.

These Terms are available in French and in English. In the event of a discrepancy between the two versions, the French version prevails.

[legal entity name to be completed] (KALK), [business address to be completed], Québec, Canada. Questions about these Terms: info@kalk.ca.