Terms of use
Version 2026-09-15. In force for every firm that uses Anovus RPR.
These terms are the agreement between Anovus and a land survey firm that uses Anovus RPR. They are written plainly because what they say matters to how the software is used: it assists a certified Alberta Land Surveyor and never replaces their judgement.
1. What Anovus RPR is, and is not
Anovus RPR is software that helps a land survey firm compile an Alberta Land Surveyor’s Real Property Report from the firm’s own field data and title documents. It draws the plan, computes distances and areas from the points the crew shot, drafts the wording of the report, and keeps the job’s paperwork in one place.
It is not a surveyor and it does not practise surveying. It makes no survey decision, no professional judgement and no certification. Every report produced with it is the work of the Alberta Land Surveyor who reviews, approves and seals it, under the Alberta Land Surveyors’ Association Manual of Standard Practice and the Surveys Act. The software is a tool for that surveyor and the technicians who work under their supervision.
2. The surveyor checks everything
Before a report is approved, sealed, sent to a client or submitted to a municipality, the responsible surveyor must check every part of it. The software’s findings, setback flags, checks and drafted wording are aids to that review. They are not conclusions.
- Every distance, bearing, area, tie and encroachment depth is computed from the field data as supplied. If the field data is wrong, incomplete or miscoded, the figures are wrong.
- A setback flag compares a measured distance with a general minimum from the municipal bylaw. It is a prompt to look, not a ruling on compliance.
- The legal description, title number and registered instruments are read from the documents uploaded. They are shown as editable fields because they must be verified against the certificate of title.
- The checks on the review page report what the software found. Ticking nothing and approving anyway is the surveyor’s attestation, not the software’s.
3. Machine learning and what it reads
Some of the documents a firm uploads are read by a machine-learning model. This applies to title certificates and registered plans (to extract the legal description, owners, instruments and dimensions), to point files and drawings when the columns, coordinate system or codes are not recognised by the firm’s own code list, and to the wording of report notes.
For that reading, the content of the document is sent to a third-party model provider through OpenRouter and processed there. The provider’s own terms apply to that processing. Do not upload a document you are not permitted to share in this way.
The model never produces a figure that prints on the plan. Distances, bearings, areas and depths are computed by the software from the survey data, not read from or written by the model. What the model reads is shown to you as text you can change, and it can be wrong: a misread digit, a missed instrument, a wrong column. Verify it.
4. City and third-party data
The software looks up open data published by municipalities, such as the City of Calgary’s parcel, land use, building outline and public tree records, and shows it beside or behind your plan. That data is a mapping product. It is not a survey, it can be out of date or wrong, and it never prints on the report. It is there to help you check your own work and notice what might be missing.
5. Compliance, municipalities and third parties
Anovus does not guarantee that a report, a compliance application or any document produced with the software will be accepted by a municipality, a lawyer, a lender, a registry or any other party. A refused certificate of compliance, a report returned for correction, a missed encroachment, a wrong statement in the certification or a claim arising from a report remain the responsibility of the firm and the surveyor who signed it.
6. Responsibility and limits
The firm is responsible for the reports it produces, for the data it uploads, for the accuracy of what its people enter, and for meeting its professional obligations. To the fullest extent permitted by the law of Alberta, Anovus is not liable for any loss, claim, cost or damage arising from reliance on the software’s output, from an error in a report, from a model’s reading of a document, from third-party data, from a failed compliance check or from a report that proved to be false or incomplete. The firm agrees to indemnify Anovus against claims arising from reports the firm produced with the software.
The software is provided as it is. Anovus works to keep it available and correct, and does not promise that it will be uninterrupted or free of errors.
7. Your data
The firm’s jobs, uploads, reports and records belong to the firm. They are stored on servers in Canada, backed up nightly, and are not shared with other firms. Anovus staff access a firm’s data only to operate the service or to help when the firm asks. Documents sent to the model provider for reading are sent for that purpose only.
Delete a job and its files are removed from the working system; backups roll off within thirty days. Ask Anovus to remove a firm and its data entirely when you leave.
8. Accounts
The administrator who creates the firm accepts these terms on the firm’s behalf and is responsible for who is invited, for their roles, and for removing people who leave. Keep passwords and invitation links private. Anovus may suspend an account that is used against these terms.
9. Changes and law
Anovus may change the software and these terms. When the terms change, the firm’s administrator is asked to read and accept the new version before continuing; the version and the date of acceptance are recorded on the firm. These terms are governed by the laws of Alberta and of Canada, and any dispute is heard in Alberta.
Questions about these terms: rpr@anovus.ca. Anovus, Calgary, Alberta.