Terms of Service

These Terms of Service govern your use of the website located at https://saskoilseeds.com and any related services provided by SaskOilseeds.

By accessing https://saskoilseeds.com, you agree to abide by these Terms of Service and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. If you do not agree with these Terms of Service, you are prohibited from using or accessing this website or using any other services provided by SaskOilseeds.

We, SaskOilseeds, reserve the right to review and amend any of these Terms of Service at our sole discretion. Upon doing so, we will update this page. Any changes to these Terms of Service will take effect immediately from the date of publication.

These Terms of Service were last updated on April 24th, 2025.

Limitations of Use

By using this website, you warrant on behalf of yourself, your users, and other parties you represent that you will not:

1. modify, copy, prepare derivative works of, decompile, or reverse engineer any materials and software contained on this website;
2. remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from any materials and software on this website;
3. transfer the materials to another person or “mirror” the materials on any other server;
4. knowingly or negligently use this website or any of its associated services in a way that abuses or disrupts our networks or any other service SaskOilseeds provides;
5. use this website or its associated services to transmit or publish any harassing, indecent, obscene, fraudulent, or unlawful material;
6. use this website or its associated services in violation of any applicable laws or regulations;
7. use this website in conjunction with sending unauthorized advertising or spam;
8. harvest, collect, or gather user data without the user’s consent; or
9. use this website or its associated services in such a way that may infringe the privacy, intellectual property rights, or other rights of third parties.

Intellectual Property

The intellectual property in the materials contained in this website are owned by or licensed to SaskOilseeds and are protected by applicable copyright and trademark law. We grant our users permission to download one copy of the materials for personal, non-commercial transitory use.

This constitutes the grant of a license, not a transfer of title. This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions or the Terms of Service, and may be terminated by SaskOilseeds at any time.

Liability

Our website and the materials on our website are provided on an ‘as is’ basis. To the extent permitted by law, SaskOilseeds makes no warranties, expressed or implied, and hereby disclaims and negates all other warranties including, without limitation, implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property, or other violation of rights.

In no event shall SaskOilseeds or its suppliers be liable for any consequential loss suffered or incurred by you or any third party arising from the use or inability to use this website or the materials on this website, even if SaskOilseeds or an authorized representative has been notified, orally or in writing, of the possibility of such damage.

In the context of this agreement, “consequential loss” includes any consequential loss, indirect loss, real or anticipated loss of profit, loss of benefit, loss of revenue, loss of business, loss of goodwill, loss of opportunity, loss of savings, loss of reputation, loss of use and/or loss or corruption of data, whether under statute, contract, equity, tort (including negligence), indemnity, or otherwise.

Because some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on implied warranties, or limitations of liability for consequential or incidental damages, these limitations may not apply to you.

Accuracy of Materials

The materials appearing on our website are not comprehensive and are for general information purposes only. SaskOilseeds does not warrant or make any representations concerning the accuracy, likely results, or reliability of the use of the materials on this website, or otherwise relating to such materials or on any resources linked to this website.

Links

SaskOilseeds has not reviewed all of the sites linked to its website and is not responsible for the contents of any such linked site. The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement, approval, or control by SaskOilseeds of the site. Use of any such linked site is at your own risk and we strongly advise you make your own investigations with respect to the suitability of those sites.

Right to Terminate

We may suspend or terminate your right to use our website and terminate these Terms of Service immediately upon written notice to you for any breach of these Terms of Service.

Severance

Any term of these Terms of Service which is wholly or partially void or unenforceable is severed to the extent that it is void or unenforceable. The validity of the remainder of these Terms of Service is not affected.

Governing Law

These Terms of Service are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Canada. You irrevocably submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in Saskatchewan or that location.

Privacy, Cookies & Legal Notice

Privacy

Your privacy is important to the Saskatchewan Oilseeds Development Commission (SaskOilseeds). This statement discloses the privacy practices of the SaskOilseeds website, www.saskoilseeds.com. The privacy policy of this website adheres to the Privacy Act and the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) enacted by the Government of Canada, Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) enacted by the EU.

We reserve the right, at any time, to add to, change, update or modify our privacy policy (in accordance with current legislation) by posting such change, update or modification on our website. Any such change, update or modification will be effective immediately upon posting on our website, www.saskoilseeds.com.

If you have questions about our privacy policy or a complaint, please contact us by calling (306) 975-0262.

The Short Version

Privacy legislation is mostly common sense. We don’t track users beyond anonymous site analytics (such as Google Analytics), we don’t send people anything they didn’t ask for, and we don’t share any personal information you give us when you do things like signing up for an email newsletter or submitting a contact form. We only use that personal information to do what you asked us to do (such as putting you on our email newsletter list or answering the question you submitted). We also do our best to keep any information you share with us secure. You can contact us at any time if you want us to delete any data you have shared with us.

What Information Do We Collect and What Do We Do With It?

Website Analytics: When someone visits www.saskoilseeds.com we use third-party Google Analytics to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone.

Subscriber Lists: SaskOilseeds communicates information about its services and products to farmers electronically through two primary means (1) e-newsletter and (2) texting. As required by Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation (“CASL”), SaskOilseeds will only communicate electronically with farmers who give their consent. SaskOilseeds will honor farmers’ wishes to unsubscribe from either list (e-newsletter or texting) within a maximum of 10 business days. We don’t rent or trade subscriber lists with other organizations and businesses.

• SaskOilseeds e-newsletter shares important information about the value the Commission provides (in the areas of research, policy and market development) to keep farmer members informed on how their levy dollars are being invested. At the point of sale for canola products, farmers are given the option by the buyer to provide their email address, which is then collected by SaskOilseeds. Farmers who provide their email address agree to receive SaskOilseeds e-newsletter via email, and an unsubscribe option is available at the bottom of every e-newsletter. There is also the ability to subscribe to SaskOilseeds e-newsletter through a sign-up form on our website. As part of the registration process for our email newsletter, we collect personal information. We use that information for a couple of reasons: to tell you about stuff you’ve asked us to tell you about; to contact you if we need to obtain or provide additional information; to check our records are right and to check every now and then that you’re happy and satisfied. We use a third-party provider, MailChimp, to deliver our e-newsletter. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletter. For more information, please see MailChimp’s privacy notice.
• SaskOilseeds uses an automated texting service to all farmers to receive canola marketing and agronomy resources, event notices, and urgent news/alerts from the Commission by opting into the service by texting keyword “SASKOILSEEDS” to 1-877-541-7044. Farmers can opt-out of the automated texting service by texting “STOP” to 1-877-541-7044, or by emailing info@saskoilseeds.com. We use a third-party provider, SimpleTexting, to deliver our texting service. For more information, please see SimpleTexting’s privacy notice.

Web Forms: As part of sending a general inquiry via web forms on our site, we collect personal information so that we can respond to your inquiry. We don’t share your personal information with any third parties and only use it to do what you’ve asked us to do.

Email: If you send an electronic mail (email) message that includes personally identifiable information, for example, in an email message containing an inquiry, we will use that information to respond to your inquiry. Remember that email is not necessarily secure against interception. If your communication is very sensitive, or includes information such as your bank account, charge card, or social insurance number, you should not send it electronically unless it is encrypted or our website indicates the particular site is secure.

Employees: Our employees may view information that you provide us in order to perform their jobs and service you. We restrict access to nonpublic personal information about you to those employees who need to know that information in order to provide products or services to you. We do not share nonpublic personal information with third parties without your consent.

Access to Your Personal Information: You are entitled to view, amend, or delete the personal information that we hold. Email your request to info@saskoilseeds.com

In a nutshell, we only use the personal information you give us to carry out services you have requested, and we may contact you to make you aware of additional services, products, or information you might find useful. We make every effort to keep your personal information secure. We do not share your personal information with any third parties.

Cookies Policy

SaskOilseeds uses cookies on our website, www.saskoilseeds.com. Our Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use cookies, how third-parties we may partner with may use cookies on our website, your choices regarding cookies, how to disable them, and further information about cookies.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of text sent to your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows our website or a third-party service to recognize your computer or device and make your next visit easier and the website more useful to you. Cookies can be “persistent” or “session” cookies.

How SaskOilseeds uses cookies

When you use and access our website, we may place a number of cookies files in your web browser.

We use cookies for the following purposes: to enable certain functions of the website, to provide analytics, to enable some social sharing features, and so on. We are careful to not collect any personal data through our use of cookies.

We use both session and persistent cookies on our website and we use different types of cookies to run our website.

Essential cookies

We may use essential cookies to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts.

Third-party cookies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of our website, such as Google Analytics, or to enable some social sharing or other features. The cookies we use do not identify you personally.

What are your choices regarding cookies?

If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.

Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.

Generally speaking your experience on our website should be fine if you disable all cookies, but we want users to be aware that it is possible that disabling cookies will cause browsing problems.

Legal

The information and links contained on this website are being provided by the Saskatchewan Oilseeds Development Commission (SaskOilseeds) for general information purposes only. This website may include links to third party websites over which SaskOilseeds has no control. SaskOilseeds makes no representations as to the accuracy or any other aspect of the information contained in such third party websites.

Furthermore, the Saskatchewan Oilseeds Development Commission (SaskOilseeds) makes no representations about the suitability, reliability, availability, timeliness, and accuracy of the information contained on this website for any purpose. The information contained on this website is provided ‘as is’ without warranty of any kind.

The Saskatchewan Oilseeds Development Commission hereby disclaims all warranties and conditions with regard to this website, including all implied warranties and conditions or merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement.

In no event shall the Saskatchewan Oilseeds Development Commission be liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, consequential damages or any damages whatsoever arising out of or in any way connected with the use or performance of this website.