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Licence Agreement ​

Effective Date: 2026-07-09 · Document ID: LA-MMA-001 · Contact: info@mapsted.com · Contact UsVersion: 1.0

Copyright © 2014–2026 Mapsted Corp. All rights reserved.

1. Definitions ​

In this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings set out below:

  • "Agreement" means this Licence Agreement (LA-MMA-001) as amended from time to time.
  • "Licensee" means the individual or legal entity that has entered into a valid, signed commercial agreement with Mapsted Corp. for use of the Software, or that is accessing the Software for the purpose of evaluation under the terms of Section 7.
  • "Mapsted Corp." (also referred to in this Agreement as "Mapsted") means Mapsted Corp., a federally incorporated Canadian corporation headquartered in Ontario, Canada, together with its subsidiaries, affiliates, and related entities. Registered office address available upon written request to info@mapsted.com.
  • "Software" has the meaning given in Section 2 (Scope).

2. Scope ​

This Licence Agreement ("Agreement") governs the use of the Mapsted Maps JavaScript API (@mapsted/maps-js-api on npm), including:

  • the source code and compiled distributions (ESM, CommonJS, IIFE/CDN bundles);
  • the CDN-distributed IIFE bundle (served at mapi.mapsted.com);
  • TypeScript declaration files (.d.ts);
  • source maps (.js.map files);
  • the package.json manifest and the LICENSE file distributed within the npm package;
  • the README, CHANGELOG, and any documentation files distributed within or alongside the npm package.

Together these are referred to as the "Software". The Software operates as a thin iframe and postMessage wrapper. The iframe hosted at maps.mapsted.com, the CDN delivery origin at mapi.mapsted.com, and the supporting backend services (deploy.mapsted.com, filer.mapsted.com) are operated exclusively by Mapsted Corp. and are not part of the Software distributed to Licensee; their availability and terms are governed solely by the signed commercial agreement. End-user data transmitted to Mapsted's backend through the Software is subject to Mapsted Corp.'s Privacy Policy (PP-MMA-001).

3. No Sale; Ownership ​

Mapsted Corp. retains full ownership of the Software. No title or ownership of the Software or any copy thereof is transferred to the Licensee under any circumstances. Installing, running, copying, distributing, or otherwise using the Software is a licence granted by Mapsted Corp., not a sale.

4. No Licence Granted by Default ​

No licence is granted by default. Installing, running, copying, or otherwise using the Software without a valid, signed commercial agreement with Mapsted Corp. is prohibited. To obtain a licence for evaluation, sandbox, non-production, or production use, contact sales at https://www.mapsted.com/contact-us or info@mapsted.com.

5. Grant of Licence ​

When a licence is granted under a signed commercial agreement, Mapsted Corp. grants the Licensee a:

  • non-exclusive — no Licensee has exclusive rights; Mapsted Corp. may licence the Software to others;
  • non-transferable — the Licensee may not assign, transfer, or delegate rights, subject to Section 14;
  • non-sublicensable — the Licensee may not grant sub-licences to third parties;
  • revocable — Mapsted Corp. may revoke the licence upon breach or as provided in the commercial agreement;
  • limited — the licence covers only uses expressly described in the signed commercial agreement.

The grant of licence is contingent upon Licensee's continued payment of all fees and charges set out in the signed commercial agreement. The licence permits the Licensee to embed the Software in its own web applications solely for the purposes stated in the signed commercial agreement (displaying Mapsted indoor maps in customer-facing or internal web and kiosk applications).

For clarity, no patent licence is granted, implied, or inferred by this Agreement. Any patent licence, if applicable, shall be addressed solely in the signed commercial agreement.

No right to use any Mapsted Corp. trade name, trademark, service mark, or logo is granted by this Agreement. Any permitted references to Mapsted Corp.'s trademarks are governed by the Trademark Policy (TP-MMA-001).

6. Permitted Use ​

Under a valid commercial agreement, the Licensee may:

  1. Install and use the Software within the Licensee's own web applications for the authorised purpose.
  2. Incorporate the Software into development, staging, and production environments as permitted by the commercial agreement.
  3. Make internal copies of the Software solely for backup or archival purposes.

For the avoidance of doubt, Mapsted Corp. claims no copyright in Licensee's own application code that merely calls the Software's published API, provided such code does not incorporate any part of the Software itself.

7. Commercial Agreement Required for Production Use ​

Production use — defined as any deployment accessible to end users outside the Licensee's internal development team, including automated testing pipelines and CI/CD environments — requires a signed commercial agreement with Mapsted Corp.

Reserved right to introduce usage limits. Mapsted Corp. reserves the right, at its sole discretion and with reasonable notice posted to this documentation site, to introduce tiered access (for example, anonymous evaluation, sandbox, and production tiers), per-session or per-day call quotas, fair-use limits, rate-limiting, required API keys, and other usage controls for the Service. Any such controls, when introduced, will be enforced at Mapsted's infrastructure and documented in the Acceptable Use Policy. Attempting to circumvent any usage control introduced by Mapsted is a breach of this Agreement and the Acceptable Use Policy.

Until such controls are formally introduced, all non-production evaluation use remains subject to the Acceptable Use Policy and must not be used for any production purpose.

8. Prohibited Uses ​

Without Mapsted Corp.'s prior written authorisation, the Licensee may not:

  1. Install, run, copy, distribute, sublicence, lease, lend, or sell the Software.
  2. Modify, create derivative works of, translate, or adapt the Software.
  3. Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code or underlying ideas of the Software — including, without limitation, attempting to reconstruct the postMessage wire protocol, the iframe embedding mechanism, any attempt to call or replicate the Mapsted-hosted iframe endpoint (maps.mapsted.com) or its internals directly, or any Mapsted routing or positioning algorithm — except to the extent such restrictions are expressly prohibited by applicable law.
  4. Remove, obscure, or circumvent any copyright, trademark, licence notice, rate limit, usage meter, authentication mechanism, or other technical protection measure or attribution notice present in the Software.
  5. White-label, rebrand, or redistribute the Software as, or as part of, a third-party product or service, or use any Mapsted Corp. trademark or trade name in a manner likely to cause confusion or imply endorsement.
  6. Use the Software for competitive benchmarking, replication of Mapsted's product, or development of a competing indoor-mapping or indoor-positioning product.
  7. Scrape, cache, or systematically extract building data, map tile data, or routing data from Mapsted's backend services beyond what is reasonably required to render a map session for an authorised end user.

9. Intellectual Property ​

Mapsted Corp. retains all right, title, and interest in and to the Software, including all:

  • copyrights;
  • trademarks (see Trademark Policy);
  • patents — Mapsted Corp. holds a portfolio of granted patents relating to indoor positioning and related technologies; a current list is available upon request from info@mapsted.com;
  • trade secrets;
  • moral rights (waived to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law);
  • know-how and confidential information;
  • and any other intellectual property rights embodied in or associated with the Software.

No intellectual property rights are transferred or licensed beyond those expressly granted in Section 5 of this Agreement and in any signed commercial agreement.

Any feedback, suggestions, or improvements provided by Licensee to Mapsted Corp. regarding the Software shall be owned exclusively by Mapsted Corp. and Licensee hereby irrevocably assigns all rights, title, and interest therein to Mapsted Corp.

10. Confidentiality ​

Licensee agrees to treat as strictly confidential any non-public information about the Software's internal protocols, API schemas, backend data formats, or wire-protocol structure that Licensee observes in the course of permitted use. This obligation survives termination of this Agreement and any signed commercial agreement for a period of five (5) years, or for so long as such information remains a trade secret under applicable law, whichever is longer.

11. Third-Party Components ​

The Software may incorporate third-party open-source components. Such components remain subject to their respective original licences, which do not extend to the Software as a whole. A full list of bundled components and their licence texts is maintained in the Open Source Notices.

12. Export Controls ​

The Licensee represents and warrants that (a) it is not located in, operating under the control of, or a national or resident of any country subject to sanctions administered by the Government of Canada (Global Affairs Canada), the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the United Kingdom Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), or any other applicable sanctions authority; (b) it is not listed on any applicable denied-party or restricted-party list; and (c) it will comply with all applicable export control laws and regulations, including the Canadian Export and Import Permits Act and the Special Economic Measures Act, the United States Export Administration Regulations (EAR), and any applicable European Union or United Kingdom sanctions measures, in connection with its use of the Software. Mapsted Corp. asserts in good faith that the Software is classified EAR99 (mass-market software employing only standard TLS 1.2/1.3 cryptography) pending any formal CCATS determination; see the Export Control Notice (ECN-MMA-001 §5.3) for the detailed good-faith classification posture. Licensee shall not export, re-export, transfer, or otherwise make available the Software to any jurisdiction, entity, or person in violation of such laws and regulations.

13. Warranty Disclaimer ​

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. MAPSTED CORP. DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTIES ARISING FROM COURSE OF DEALING, USAGE, OR TRADE PRACTICE. MAPSTED CORP. DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL MEET THE LICENSEE'S REQUIREMENTS, THAT OPERATION WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, OR THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL BE FREE OF ERRORS.

Service level commitments, if any, are governed solely by the signed commercial agreement.

14. Limitation of Liability ​

IN NO EVENT SHALL MAPSTED CORP. OR ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, OR AGENTS BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, USE, OR GOODWILL) ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THIS AGREEMENT, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

To the extent direct damages are not excluded by applicable law, Mapsted Corp.'s aggregate liability to Licensee shall not exceed the greater of CAD $100 or the fees paid by Licensee to Mapsted Corp. in the twelve (12) months preceding the claim. Licensees operating under a signed commercial agreement should refer to that agreement for any superseding liability provisions.

15. Indemnification ​

Licensee shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Mapsted Corp. and its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or relating to: (a) Licensee's breach of this Agreement or any signed commercial agreement; (b) Licensee's unauthorised use of the Software; (c) Licensee's own applications, products, or services in which the Software is embedded; or (d) any violation of applicable law by Licensee. Licensee shall provide Mapsted Corp. with prompt written notice of any claim subject to this indemnification obligation; failure to provide timely notice relieves Licensee of its obligations only to the extent Mapsted Corp. is materially prejudiced by the delay. Any intellectual property indemnification by Mapsted Corp. in favour of Licensee, if any, shall be governed solely by the signed commercial agreement.

16. Assignment ​

Licensee's assignment restricted. The Licensee may not assign, transfer, or delegate this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without Mapsted Corp.'s prior written consent. Any purported assignment without such consent is void.

Change of control. A change of control of Licensee (whether by merger, acquisition, or sale of substantially all assets) shall be deemed an assignment requiring Mapsted Corp.'s prior written consent.

Mapsted Corp.'s assignment right. Mapsted Corp. may assign this Agreement and any licence granted hereunder to any successor entity or acquirer of all or substantially all of Mapsted Corp.'s assets or business, without Licensee's consent.

17. Termination ​

Any licence granted in connection with the Software terminates automatically upon:

  • any wilful breach by the Licensee of Section 8 (Prohibited Uses) or Section 9 (Intellectual Property) of this Agreement, without notice or opportunity to cure; or
  • any other material breach by the Licensee that remains uncured thirty (30) days after written notice from Mapsted Corp. describing the breach in reasonable detail; or
  • the expiry or termination of the signed commercial agreement for any reason; or
  • Licensee initiating any patent, trade secret, or other intellectual property infringement claim against Mapsted Corp. or its affiliates.

Upon termination, the Licensee must immediately cease all use of the Software and destroy or return all copies, including all copies embedded in Licensee's applications or infrastructure.

Sections 3, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, and 19 survive termination.

18. Force Majeure ​

Neither party shall be liable for any failure or delay in performance under this Agreement to the extent caused by circumstances beyond that party's reasonable control, including acts of God, natural disaster, pandemic, internet or telecommunications infrastructure failure, or the acts or omissions of third-party service providers. Mapsted Corp.'s obligations with respect to backend service availability are governed solely by the signed commercial agreement.

19. Governing Law ​

This Agreement and any licence granted in connection with the Software shall be governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable therein, except where the applicable signed commercial agreement specifies a different governing law, in which case that agreement's choice of law governs.

Any dispute arising out of or relating to this Agreement shall be resolved exclusively in the courts of the Province of Ontario, and each party irrevocably consents to the personal jurisdiction of those courts. Either party may seek injunctive, declaratory, or other equitable relief from a court of competent jurisdiction without waiving any other remedy.

In the absence of a valid signed commercial agreement, no use is authorised and this Agreement does not create any enforceable licence.

20. Contact ​

For licensing enquiries, commercial agreements, or any question about permissible use: