Create a FreeWoodChips.ca account

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless FreeWoodChips.ca, its operator, directors, officers, volunteers, and contractors (the “Released Parties”) from and against any and all claims, demands, actions, damages, losses, injuries, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) that arise out of or relate to: (a) your use of FreeWoodChips.ca; (b) a listing, claim, rating, or message you post; (c) a wood-chip, log, or debris dump at a site you listed or claimed; (d) injury to any person, or damage to property, vehicles, utilities, plantings, septic systems, pavement, or neighbouring land; (e) dumping or listing on land you did not have the legal right to use, including public land; (f) your breach of these terms; or (g) a dispute between a resident and a crew.

This indemnification applies even if a claim alleges that a Released Party was negligent in operating the matching board, except that you are not required to indemnify a Released Party for that party’s own fraud or wilful misconduct.

You agree that FreeWoodChips.ca is a matching venue only. You will not name FreeWoodChips.ca as a contractor, supervisor, carrier, or insurer of a dump. You will look first to the other party to the dump, and to your own insurance, for any loss connected to a drop.

If a Released Party is pulled into a claim covered by this clause, you will, at your expense, cooperate in the defence and will not settle a claim that imposes an obligation on a Released Party without that party’s prior written consent, not to be unreasonably withheld.

Neither you, the other party to a drop, nor FreeWoodChips.ca is liable for delay, interruption, or failure to perform caused by events beyond that party’s reasonable control (“force majeure”). Force majeure includes, without limitation: severe weather, ice, snow, flooding, fire, windstorm, heat, drought, or other acts of God; power, internet, or road closures; municipal, provincial, conservation-authority, or police orders; labour disputes; equipment breakdown or accident; shortage of fuel; pandemic or public-health order; war, terrorism, or civil unrest; and any other event that a reasonable tree crew or resident could not have prevented.

A missed, late, partial, or cancelled dump because a crew’s day ran long, a truck or chipper failed, a storm made the site or the roads unsafe, or a host was not ready, is not a breach of these terms and does not create a right to damages, credits, or a replacement load.

FreeWoodChips.ca does not guarantee that any listing will receive a dump, that a claimed site will still be open when the truck arrives, or that the board will be available without interruption.

If force majeure continues for more than 14 days, either party to a claimed (but not yet dropped) listing may treat the claim as cancelled and the site may be listed as open again. No penalty applies.