ERstat's emergency-room data is free for Canadians, newsrooms, researchers and community sites. If you're building a commercial product on it, a commercial license keeps it reliable, gives you the rights and history you need, and helps fund the coverage.
Personal, journalistic, academic, and civic use.
Anything for-profit or revenue-supporting.
Include a visible credit that links to the source. The embed widget already does this; if you use the API or RSS directly, add something like:
<a href="https://erstat.ca/feed">Live ER status by ERstat</a>
Yes — for personal, journalistic, academic, civic, and other non-commercial use, with attribution and a link back to erstat.ca. The live widget, RSS, and the free API endpoints are all free under those terms.
Using the data in a for-profit product or service, internal business operations, paid research, or anything you charge for or that supports revenue. If you are building a business on it, you need a commercial license.
Correct, individual facts aren’t copyrightable. A commercial license buys what the free tier deliberately doesn’t include: commercial-use rights, historical and bulk data, an uptime SLA and support, higher rate limits, webhooks/push delivery, enrichment, and indemnification under a signed agreement.
Show a visible credit linking to the source — for example, “Live ER status by ERstat” linking to https://erstat.ca/feed. The embed widget includes this automatically.
No — academic research and journalism fall under the free, non-commercial tier. Reach out if you need bulk/historical access for a study and we’ll help.
Building something commercial, or not sure which tier you fall under? Get in touch — we're easy to work with.