Terms of Service

These terms govern your use of ParkingNova. Using the site means you accept them. If you do not, please do not use the service.

ParkingNova is a parking search service. We gather parking information from municipal open data and from rates we compile and check ourselves, and show it in one place with directions to the carpark.

We want to be unambiguous about what we are not:

We do not own, operate, manage or control any parking facility. We do not sell parking, take reservations, or act as agent for any operator. We do not process payments and never handle your card details. We cannot guarantee a space will be available when you arrive.

Any contract for parking is between you and the operator. Their terms, cancellation policy and refund rules govern it, not these.

Prices shown are indicative. They come from the operators themselves or from public data, and can be out of date, incomplete or wrong. The price and terms shown by the operator at the point of payment are the ones that apply.

Two things are worth stating specifically, because we know about them:

Municipal rates are ours, and carry a date. Municipal prices are compiled and checked by us from the operator's published rates. They are not supplied to us by the Toronto Parking Authority, and every city carpark result shows the date of the version we hold. Rates change, and there may be a gap between a change and our next update, so treat the date as part of the price. Some we have additionally confirmed lot by lot, and those say so. The rates posted at the lot always govern.

Sample data. Where we do not yet have live access to a provider, results may come from a captured sample rather than a live quote. We label this on the page whenever it applies.

Walking distances and times are estimates calculated from coordinates. They do not account for actual routes, construction, accessibility or how long a garage takes to exit.

At present, we are not. ParkingNova carries no advertising, sells no parking and earns no commission from any operator. The site is free to use and nothing on it has been paid for by anybody.

That may change. If it does we will say so here first, and it will not change how results are ranked: the list is ordered by price, distance and the filters you choose, on the same basis for every carpark, and no payment will ever move one up it.

Use ParkingNova for finding parking. Do not scrape, resell or systematically extract our content; do not attempt to disrupt or gain unauthorised access to the service; do not use it to break the law.

Operator names are used to identify whose parking is being shown. We claim no affiliation, partnership or endorsement, and we do not act on any operator's behalf.

Municipal carpark rates are compiled by us from the operator's published rates rather than supplied by the Toronto Parking Authority. Capacity and accessibility data are provided by the City of Toronto Open Data Portal, and contain information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Map data comes from OpenStreetMap contributors. Links to other sites are for convenience; we are not responsible for their content.

The ParkingNova name, design and original content are ours. Underlying data remains subject to the licences of its sources.

The service is provided “as is”. We do not warrant that it will be uninterrupted or error-free, or that any price, distance, opening hour, capacity or amenity shown is accurate, complete or current.

Verify anything that matters before you rely on it, particularly accessibility, vehicle height limits and overnight restrictions.

To the fullest extent the law allows, ParkingNova is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss arising from parking charges, fines, towing, damage to or theft from a vehicle, unavailable spaces, or anything an operator does or fails to do.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including under applicable consumer protection legislation.

We may update these terms. The date at the top shows the current revision, and continuing to use the service after a change means you accept it.

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply in it. The courts of Ontario have jurisdiction.

Questions about these terms: legal@parkingnova.ca

See also our Privacy Policy.