Terms

Agreeing to these terms

These terms are the agreement between you and FLOWEREH INC., a company incorporated in Canada, based in Ontario, which runs SkilledLadder. In these terms, “SkilledLadder” means FLOWEREH INC. and the site, and “you” means the person using the site.

The terms cover every page of the site, every email it sends, accounts, Your Ladder, email alerts and the form for asking a school for information. The privacy policy is part of these terms. It says what SkilledLadder keeps, why, and for how long.

By using the site, you agree to these terms. If you create an account, you agree to them when you create it. If you don’t agree, don’t use the site.

The short version

Who runs it

FLOWEREH INC., a company incorporated in Canada, based in Ontario.

Free

Reading the site, an account, Your Ladder and email alerts cost nothing.

Information

The site is information, not advice. The agency that sets a rule or a fee has the final word.

Your deadlines

Alerts and reminders help, but you keep your own deadlines.

Age

You must be 13 or older for an account or alerts, and 18 or older to send a school a request.

Your data

What you put in Your Ladder or a request stays yours. SkilledLadder never sells it.

Paid listings

A school marked Paid listing pays for each request it gets. Payment never changes the order of a list or its figures.

What SkilledLadder is

SkilledLadder publishes what a trade costs, what a trade pays and what a state requires, for electricians, plumbers and sprinkler fitters. SkilledLadder is information. It isn’t legal, financial or career advice.

SkilledLadder isn’t a school, an employer, a union, a licensing board, a government agency or an apprenticeship sponsor. It doesn’t run programs, give exams, issue licenses or place anyone in a job. Nothing on the site is a promise of a job, a place in a program, a license or a level of pay.

The site is free to use. SkilledLadder is paid by schools marked Paid listing, for each request they get through the site, as the section on asking a school says.

Who can use the site

Anyone can read the site without an account.

To create an account or sign up for alerts, you must be at least 13 years old. If you are under 18, a parent or guardian must agree to these terms for you first. By creating an account, you say they have.

To send a request to a school, you must be at least 18.

An account is for one person. Don’t share it, and don’t create an account for someone else or in someone else’s name.

Figures, sources and accuracy

Where the figures come from

Figures come from government filings, state agencies, apprenticeship registers and what schools and programs publish themselves. Each page with figures names its sources. A figure is what its source said when SkilledLadder collected it.

What a figure is and isn’t

• A pay figure is what a program or an agency published. It isn’t a job offer, and your own pay can be different.
• A median or a range sums up many programs. It doesn’t tell you what any one program pays.
• A cost or a fee can change after the site shows it. Confirm it with the school or the agency before you pay.
• Rules differ by state and sometimes by city or county. Where the agency and the site disagree, the agency is right.
• A label such as “Counts toward a certificate” is SkilledLadder’s reading of an agency’s rules. The agency decides.

Errors and corrections

Sources can be wrong or out of date, and SkilledLadder can make mistakes. If you find an error, write to info@skilledladder.com. Schools and programs can send corrections to the same address. SkilledLadder will fix the error or tell you why it disagrees.

If a figure affects your money or your time, confirm it with the agency or the school that sets it before you act.

Your account

Creating an account

You can sign in with an email address and a password. Use an email address that is yours. SkilledLadder emails a link to confirm it. Email alerts go only to an address you confirmed.

Keeping your account safe

Keep your password to yourself. What happens in your account is your responsibility, unless SkilledLadder’s own failure to protect it caused it. If SkilledLadder learns that someone got your account data without permission, it emails you, as the law requires.

If you think someone else has used your account, change your password. Changing or resetting your password signs you out on every other device. On your account page, you can sign out on this browser or on every device at once. You can also write to info@skilledladder.com.

After 5 wrong passwords for one email address from one connection, signing in stops for 15 minutes.

Changing your details

You can change your email address and your password on your account page. A new email address starts working after you click the link sent to it.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account at any time on your account page. SkilledLadder deletes it at once, with Your Ladder and your alerts, and takes your email address off the alerts list. This can’t be undone. A school you sent a request to keeps its own copy, and the services SkilledLadder uses keep their own records for a time, as the privacy policy says.

When SkilledLadder can suspend or close an account

SkilledLadder can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, breaks the law, or puts the site or other people at risk. It emails the account’s address to say why, unless the law or someone’s safety stops it from doing so. If you think it got this wrong, write to info@skilledladder.com.

Your Ladder

What Your Ladder is

Your Ladder is a free tracker. In it you keep the programs and schools you save, what you tick on their checklists, the programs you applied to or enrolled in, the jobs you log, your hours and your steps toward a license.

It isn’t an official record

Your Ladder is a notebook for you. SkilledLadder doesn’t send it to any agency, school, program or employer. It doesn’t file applications, doesn’t get forms signed for you and doesn’t check what you enter.

The agency decides what counts toward a license. Your Ladder can’t tell you whether an agency will accept your hours or your forms. Keep your own copies of signed forms, pay records and certificates.

Dates, hours and totals

Dates and totals in Your Ladder are worked out from what you enter. They are estimates, not an agency’s count. If what you enter is wrong, the totals are wrong too.

Details about other people

A job you log can hold details about another person, such as the name, phone number and license number of the person who supervised you. Add only what your form needs, and only details you have a right to keep. Your Ladder shows them only to you, and SkilledLadder never contacts them.

What you enter stays yours

What you put in Your Ladder stays yours. You let SkilledLadder store it and use it only to run Your Ladder and to send the reminders you ask for. You can change or delete it at any time. To get a copy, write to info@skilledladder.com from your account’s email address.

If Your Ladder changes or ends

SkilledLadder can change Your Ladder. If it ever stops offering Your Ladder, it emails account holders at least 30 days before, so you can get a copy of what you entered.

Email alerts

What you get

When you sign up for alerts, you get emails only about what you pick, such as application dates, a fee or rule change, or your license renewal. An account also gets its own emails: the link to confirm your address, a password reset when you ask for one, and a notice when your password or your email address changes.

Stopping alerts

Every alert has a one-click unsubscribe. You can also reply with the word unsubscribe, or change your alerts on your account page. Unsubscribing stops alerts. An account still gets its own emails until it is deleted.

Alerts don’t replace your own checks

An alert can be late or never arrive. Programs change their dates, sometimes without notice, and an application window can close early. Check with the program or the agency before a deadline. Your deadlines, including your license renewal, are yours to keep.

Asking a school for information

How it works

Some schools on a school list have a Request info button. It opens a form for your name, your email address, and your phone number and a question if you want to give them. You don’t need an account. Nothing is sent until you tick the box and press Send to the school.

What the school gets

The school gets only what the box names: your name, your email address, your phone number and your question, and the program you asked about. It goes to that one school only. SkilledLadder never passes it to another school or to anyone else, apart from the services that run the site, as the privacy policy says.

After you send it

The school answers you directly. If you give your phone number and send the request, you agree that the school may call or text you about your question. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to a text to stop texts.

After SkilledLadder sends the request, the school decides what happens next. SkilledLadder doesn’t decide who a school accepts and can’t promise a reply, a place, a price or financial aid.

Once the school has your request, the school’s own privacy policy covers it. To have SkilledLadder delete its copy, write to info@skilledladder.com and say which school. The privacy policy says how long SkilledLadder keeps a request.

Paid listings

A school marked Paid listing pays SkilledLadder for each request it gets through the site. The label sits next to the Request info button, and the form says so too. Payment never changes a school’s place on a list or its figures.

Using the form fairly

Send only your own request, with your own true details. Don’t send someone else’s details. Don’t advertise. Don’t send the same request again and again.

Schools and programs on the site

Schools and programs appear on the site because of what public sources say about them. No school pays to be on a list or for its place on it. A school or program on the site isn’t endorsed by SkilledLadder, and SkilledLadder isn’t responsible for what a school or a program does.

A school or program that runs a listing can send a correction to info@skilledladder.com.

A school that gets requests through the site has a school account, and the school agreement covers it. These terms still cover each person who signs in to it.

How you can use the site

What you can do

You can read the site, print it, quote it and send it to someone who needs it.

What you can’t do

• Scrape or copy the site in bulk, republish it as your own, or resell its data.
• Use the site to break the law, or to harass or deceive anyone.
• Get into someone else’s account, or try to.
• Attack, overload or probe the site, or get around its limits, such as the limit on sign-in tries.
• Use bots or scripts on accounts, Your Ladder, alerts or the school request form.
• Use the SkilledLadder name or logo in a way that suggests SkilledLadder backs you or your business.

Links to other sites

The site links to agencies, schools, programs, employers and their forms. SkilledLadder doesn’t run those sites and isn’t responsible for them, what they say, their forms or their fees.

Who owns what

The text, the design, the logo and the way the data is collected and arranged on the site belong to SkilledLadder. The public records the figures come from stay public, and you can use them from their sources.

What you put in an account, in Your Ladder or in a request stays yours. You let SkilledLadder keep it, show it to you, send you the alerts you pick, send a request to the school you pick, and have the services named in the privacy policy handle it for SkilledLadder. SkilledLadder does nothing more with it.

If you send a suggestion or a correction, SkilledLadder can use it to improve the site without paying you.

Changes to the site

SkilledLadder can add to the site, change it, or pause or stop any part of it. The site can be down for repairs or for reasons outside SkilledLadder’s control. Nothing in these terms promises that a page or a feature will always be there.

No promises about the site

SkilledLadder provides the site, including accounts, Your Ladder, alerts and school requests, “as is” and “as available”. It makes no warranty of any kind. SkilledLadder doesn’t promise that the site is accurate, complete, up to date, free of errors or always working, or that it fits any purpose of yours.

Liability

As far as the law allows, SkilledLadder isn’t liable for a loss that comes from using the site, from not being able to use it, or from a decision you make with it. That includes:

• a missed deadline or an application window you didn’t hear about,
• a rejected application, or hours or forms an agency doesn’t accept,
• a fee you paid, or work or pay you lost,
• anything between you and a school, a program, an employer or an agency.

If a court finds SkilledLadder liable to you anyway, the most it owes you for all claims together is $100.

Some places don’t allow some of these limits, so some may not apply to you. These limits don’t apply to fraud, to harm SkilledLadder causes on purpose, or to anything else the law doesn’t let SkilledLadder limit.

Claims caused by how you use the site

If you use the site in a way that the section on how you can use the site forbids, or that breaks the law, and someone else makes a claim against SkilledLadder because of it, you cover that claim and its reasonable costs. SkilledLadder tells you about the claim promptly. This doesn’t apply to a claim caused by SkilledLadder’s own acts, or if you are under 18.

Problems and disputes

Start with an email

If you have a problem with the site, write to info@skilledladder.com first. Say what happened and what you want. SkilledLadder will try to sort it out with you. Give it 30 days before you take the problem anywhere else.

The law that applies

These terms are governed by the laws of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada that apply there. A dispute about the site or these terms goes to the courts of Ontario.

You can still bring a claim in a small claims court where you live, if the claim fits there. If the law where you live gives you rights that these terms can’t take away, you keep them.

Ending the agreement

You can stop using the site at any time. If you have an account, delete it on your account page.

SkilledLadder can stop your use of the site if you break these terms. The parts of these terms on who owns what, no promises, liability and claims still apply after the agreement ends.

Changes to these terms

The terms change as the site grows. The “Last updated” date shows when they last changed.

If a change matters for you, such as a new limit or a new cost, SkilledLadder emails account holders and puts a notice at the top of this page at least 14 days before the change starts. A change that only fixes a typo or follows a new law can start at once.

If you keep using the site after a change starts, the changed terms apply to you. If you don’t agree with a change, stop using the site and delete your account. A change never applies to a claim that began before it.

The rest of the agreement

• These terms and the privacy policy are the whole agreement between you and SkilledLadder about the site.
• If part of these terms can’t be enforced, the rest still applies.
• If SkilledLadder doesn’t enforce a part of these terms at one time, it can still enforce it later.
• You can’t pass your account or these terms to someone else. SkilledLadder can pass the site and these terms to a new owner. The new owner must follow the privacy policy, and needs your yes before it uses your data in a new way. Account holders get an email at least 30 days before the handover, and can delete their account first.

Contact

Questions about these terms go to info@skilledladder.com.

Company

FLOWEREH INC.

Address

301-4900 Bathurst St, North York ON M2R 1X6, Canada

Email

info@skilledladder.com