Terms of Use

QRchive is operated by Pacific Rim Wastewater Solutions Ltd., a British Columbia company ("we", "us"). These terms are a contract between you and us. By creating an account, unlocking an archive, ordering stickers, or adding files to an archive, you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use QRchive.

If you use QRchive on behalf of a company, you confirm you are allowed to bind that company, and "you" means the company too.

A QRchive sticker is a durable printed sticker with a unique code. Each sticker is linked to its own archive: online storage for the files that belong with whatever the sticker is stuck to. Anyone who scans the sticker opens the archive in a browser. No app and no account are needed to view an archive.

Archives are public by default: anyone who scans the sticker (or has its link) can see and download what is in it. You can make an archive private from your dashboard, in which case viewers need an access password or an approved email address. See section 6.

You sign in with a link or code sent to your email address. There are no passwords for accounts, so your email account is your key: keep it secure. You are responsible for everything done through your account.

You must be at least 18, or the age of majority where you live, and able to enter a binding contract. One account per person or business, please. We may suspend or close accounts that break these terms.

Prices are in Canadian dollars and are shown before tax. Applicable GST, HST or PST is added at checkout. Payments are processed by Stripe; we never see or store your card number.

• Stickers: a box of stickers is sold at the price shown at checkout, with shipping included.
• Archives: $49 per archive, one time, when you unlock it. Unlocking includes 1 GB of storage for that archive. There is no subscription and no renewal fee.
• Storage upgrades: optional one-time purchases that raise an archive's storage limit, at the prices shown in your dashboard.

Unlock fees and storage upgrades are final once paid: they buy permanent storage that starts immediately, so they are not refundable except where the law requires it. A roll order can be cancelled for a full refund until it has been printed. If something is wrong with an order, email jordan@qrchive.ca and we will make it right.

We may change prices for future purchases. A price change never affects an archive you have already unlocked.

You own the files you put in an archive. You give us the licence we need to run QRchive: to store your files, make backup copies, generate previews (such as image thumbnails and video poster frames), and show and deliver the files to anyone who opens the archive. We do not sell your files, and we do not use them to train artificial-intelligence models.

You are responsible for the files in archives you manage, including files added by other people through public uploads or the archive's email-in address (see section 7). If someone adds something that should not be there, delete it or turn those features off.

Unless you make an archive private, anyone who scans its sticker can view and download everything in it, along with the project name, address, description, and contact details you have entered. Treat a public archive like a notice pinned to the thing itself.

Do not put personal information about other people, financial records, passwords or other confidential material in a public archive. If you need to store something like that, make the archive private first. Private archives are limited to the access password and email addresses you set. Anyone who has already opened a private archive may keep access for up to 30 days after you change the password or remove their email, unless you use "Reset visitor access".

We are not responsible for what someone does with information you chose to publish in a public archive.

Every unlocked archive can accept files from anyone who scans it and from anyone who emails its unique email-in address. Both are on by default so that the next person on the job can add their report or photos. You can turn them off for any archive in your dashboard. When either is on, you agree that files added by others become part of the archive and are your responsibility to keep or remove.

Files added by email-in or public upload are checked automatically for file type and size only. We do not review their contents.

QRchive is for documents, photos, videos and records that belong with the thing a sticker is stuck to. Do not use it for anything else. In particular, you may not upload, store, share or link to:

• anything that is illegal to possess or distribute in Canada, including any sexual image of a minor, which we report to the authorities;
• intimate images or personal information of another person without their consent;
• material that infringes someone else's copyright, trademark or other rights;
• malware, or content designed to deceive, defraud or harass;
• anything that puts us in breach of the terms of our payment or hosting providers.

You also may not probe, scrape, enumerate or attack QRchive, interfere with other people's archives, resell stickers as your own product without our written agreement, or represent yourself as QRchive.

Every archive carries a "Report" link. We review reports and may remove files, lock or suspend archives, and suspend or close accounts, with or without notice, when we believe these terms or the law have been broken.

If you believe something in an archive is unlawful or infringes your rights, use the Report link on that archive or email jordan@qrchive.ca with the archive link and the reason.

Copyright notices: Canada's notice-and-notice rules apply to us as a storage provider. When we receive a valid notice we forward it to the account that manages the archive and keep the records the Copyright Act requires. We may also remove the material.

Orders and requests: we comply with court orders, orders of the British Columbia Civil Resolution Tribunal (including orders to remove intimate images), and lawful requests from law enforcement, and we may preserve and disclose files, account information and logs when the law requires it. Where the law lets us, we will tell the affected account holder.

Our promise is permanence. We keep unlocked archives for as long as QRchive operates; there is no fixed storage term and nothing to renew. The 10-year rating on the sticker itself is a durability rating for the printed sticker, not a limit on the archive.

Files follow the sticker, not the account. If you close your account, your unlocked archives are released rather than deleted: their files stay attached to the stickers, and the next person who scans a released sticker can claim the archive and become its manager. If you want particular files gone for good, delete them before you close your account, or ask us at jordan@qrchive.ca and we will delete them for you.

If we ever have to shut QRchive down, we will give at least 90 days' notice by email and keep the export tools working during that time so you can download everything.

You can export all of your archives at any time from your dashboard, as ZIP files with the files and their details. You can delete individual files at any time. Deleted files are removed from our storage promptly and from backups within 30 days.

We recommend keeping your own copy of anything you cannot afford to lose.

Stickers are printed on industrial polyester and rated for ten years in an enclosed, protected location. Outdoor exposure, chemicals and abrasion shorten that. If a sticker is damaged or lost, you can request a replacement from the archive's page in your dashboard; the replacement opens the same archive.

We work hard to keep QRchive available, but it is provided "as is" and "as available". We do not promise that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, and we may change or add features at any time. We will not remove a feature you paid for without an equivalent replacement or a refund.

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential losses, lost profits, or loss of data, however caused. Our total liability to you for anything arising out of QRchive in any twelve-month period is limited to the amounts you paid us in that period. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

You agree to cover us for claims by others that arise from files you put in an archive, from files added by others to an archive you manage, or from your breach of these terms.

QRchive runs on Supabase (database and sign-in) and Cloudflare (file storage), both configured to keep data in Canada; Vercel (application hosting) and Resend (email), which process requests in the United States; and Stripe (payments). Each has its own terms and privacy policy. Our Privacy Policy explains what each one sees.

We may update these terms. For material changes we will email account holders at least 30 days before the change takes effect. Continuing to use QRchive after that date means you accept the new terms.

These terms are governed by the laws of British Columbia and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. If we have a dispute, we both agree to try to settle it first through good-faith discussion and, if that fails, through mediation in Vancouver, British Columbia. If mediation does not resolve it, the courts of British Columbia have exclusive jurisdiction.

Pacific Rim Wastewater Solutions Ltd., British Columbia, Canada. Email jordan@qrchive.ca for anything about these terms, an order, or an archive.