All original content created by or for S.O.T. School of Trading Inc. (the "Company") and made available on or through its websites, courses, communities, events, and services (the "Services") — collectively, the "Materials" — is the exclusive property of the Company or its licensors. The Materials are protected automatically upon creation under the Copyright Act (Canada), United States copyright law, the Berne Convention, and other international treaties, whether or not registered and whether or not a copyright notice appears on any individual item. Purchasing access to the Materials buys a limited licence to view them (Section 4); it never transfers ownership of anything.
The Materials include, without limitation:
For clarity: copyright protects the Company's expression of ideas, methods, and information — the specific wording, recordings, designs, structures, and compilations listed above. Underlying ideas and publicly known market concepts are not owned by anyone; the Company's expression of them is owned by the Company, and contractual restrictions in the Terms & Conditions additionally prohibit uses of the Materials (including building competing products from them) beyond what copyright law alone would restrict.
"S.O.T.", "School of Trading", "S.O.T. School of Trading", the Company's logos, and the names of the Company's proprietary programs, models, and tools are trademarks and trade names of the Company, whether or not registered. Nothing in the Services grants any licence to use any Company trademark. You must not use Company trademarks — including in domain names, social-media handles, usernames, hashtags implying affiliation, metatags, keywords, or advertising — in any way that is likely to cause confusion about source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement, or in any manner that disparages or discredits the Company. Nominative, truthful references (for example, stating that you completed one of our courses) are permitted so long as they create no impression of affiliation or endorsement. Third-party marks appearing in the Services (for example, platform or broker names) belong to their respective owners.
Subject to the Terms & Conditions and payment of applicable fees, individuals with valid enrolment or membership are granted a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to view and use the Materials solely for their own private, non-commercial education, only through the interfaces the Company provides, and only while their access remains valid. Materials expressly marked by the Company as downloadable may be downloaded for the same limited personal use. This licence ends automatically when your access ends and may be revoked for breach. All other rights are reserved.
Except as expressly permitted in Section 4 or with the Company's prior written consent, no person may, in whole or in part, in any medium, whether or not for payment:
These prohibitions apply during and after any enrolment, survive termination, and bind every visitor to the Services whether or not they hold an account.
Members retain ownership of their own original contributions (journals, posts, mark-ups they create), subject to the licence they grant the Company under the Terms & Conditions. However: (a) Materials remain the Company's property even when embedded in, quoted in, or annotated within a Member's contribution, and no Member may extract or redistribute Materials via their own posts; (b) work products created by completing Company templates, worksheets, or report-card formats do not transfer any rights in the underlying templates, formats, or systems; and (c) recordings of classes and community sessions belong to the Company as described in the Terms, including where Members appear in them.
The Services may display third-party content under licence or as permitted by law — for example, screenshots or footage of charting, order-flow, and execution platforms; exchange market data; news excerpts; and platform interfaces. All such content remains the property of its respective owners, is used for education, criticism, review, commentary, and illustration, and confers no rights on you: a licence you may perceive the Company to have does not extend to you, and market data shown in the Materials must not be extracted or relied upon for trading. Nothing in this Notice limits any user's own rights under fair dealing (Canada) or fair use (U.S.); however, those doctrines are narrow, fact-specific exceptions — they do not permit sharing course libraries, reposting lessons, or building products from the Materials, and asserting them incorrectly does not shield infringement.
Without limiting Section 5, the Company expressly prohibits — and, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, reserves all rights against — any use of the Materials or the Services for: (a) training, fine-tuning, evaluating, grounding, or otherwise developing any artificial-intelligence, machine-learning, or large-language model or system; (b) creating, augmenting, or distributing any dataset or corpus; (c) text-and-data mining, embedding generation, or retrieval indexing for third-party systems; or (d) automated summarization, paraphrase, or reconstruction of the Materials for redistribution. This paragraph constitutes an express reservation of rights and opt-out from text-and-data-mining and AI-training uses to the maximum extent recognized in any jurisdiction. Automated agents, scrapers, and crawlers are denied access to the Services except search-engine indexing of public marketing pages in accordance with our robots directives.
The Company monitors for, investigates, and enforces against unauthorized use of the Materials. Consequences of infringement or breach may include, cumulatively: immediate termination of access without refund; civil proceedings for copyright and trademark infringement and breach of contract, including claims for damages, an accounting of profits, and injunctions; interlocutory and permanent injunctive relief, which infringers acknowledge is appropriate because unauthorized disclosure of the Materials causes irreparable harm; statutory damages where elected — in Canada, currently CAD $500 to $20,000 per work infringed for commercial purposes (or CAD $100 to $5,000 in total for non-commercial infringement), and in the United States, US $750 to $30,000 per work, up to US $150,000 per work for willful infringement — plus, where available, recovery of costs and legal fees; takedown and notice procedures with hosts, platforms, registrars, and payment providers worldwide; and referral to authorities where conduct may be criminal. The Company may pursue any person who induces, authorizes, or benefits from infringement, not only the person who performed it.
If you become aware of leaked, pirated, re-uploaded, or otherwise infringing copies of the Materials anywhere — or of any person offering to share or sell access — please report it (confidentially, if you prefer) to info@schooloftrading.ca with the subject "Piracy Report", including links or screenshots where possible. If you believe content on our Services infringes your rights, use the procedures in our Copyright Infringement Policy (DMCA & Notice-and-Notice).
Requests for permission to reproduce, quote, translate, or license any Materials — including media, press, educational-institution, and partnership requests — must be made in writing to info@schooloftrading.ca, describing the material, purpose, medium, audience, and duration of the proposed use. No permission is granted unless and until the Company confirms it expressly in writing signed by an authorized officer; silence is not consent, and any permission granted is limited strictly to its written terms and is revocable as stated in it.
All rights not expressly granted in this Notice or in the Terms & Conditions are reserved by S.O.T. School of Trading Inc. and its licensors. The Company's failure to act against any particular use is not a waiver, licence, or estoppel as to that use or any other. This Notice may be updated from time to time; the version posted at the time of your use applies, and continued use after an update constitutes acceptance. This Notice is governed by the laws of British Columbia and the federal laws of Canada, and is subject to the dispute-resolution provisions of the Terms & Conditions.
