Last updated July 2026
This page sets out who owns the material on meetgwen.ca and the technology behind Gwen, and what you may and may not do with either.
All content on this website — the text, layout, design, graphics, the Gwen mark, illustrations, source code and the arrangement of all of it — is owned by Sector 7 Networks or used under licence, and is protected by the Copyright Act (Canada) and by international copyright treaties.
"Gwen" and the Gwen mark are trade-marks of Sector 7 Networks, whether registered or used at common law. Nothing on this site grants you any licence or right to use them.
Read this section before you build anything that resembles Gwen. Gwen is proprietary technology, not a published method. If you want to use it in your business — including as part of a service you sell to your own clients — there is a licensing route, and it starts with a conversation. Taking it without one is a serious matter and we treat it as such.
Gwen is not a single product but a body of proprietary work developed by Sector 7 Networks over years and at substantial cost. It includes, without limitation:
The expression of this work is protected by copyright. The underlying methods, techniques and know-how are protected separately as trade secrets and confidential information under the laws of British Columbia and Canada, and under the equivalent laws of substantially every country in which you might operate. The fact that an idea is not patented does not make it free to take.
Without our prior written permission, you may not, and may not permit or assist anyone else to:
These restrictions apply to you, to your company, to your contractors and to anyone acting on your behalf, and they survive the end of any discussion, trial or agreement between us.
If we demonstrate Gwen to you, run a trial for you, or send you a proposal, scope or technical document, everything you see and receive is disclosed to you in confidence and for the sole purpose of evaluating whether to become our client. It is not published, it is not a licence, and it does not become yours to use because you were shown it. Requesting a demonstration is an acceptance of this obligation.
Nothing on this website, in any demonstration, in any conversation with us, or in any document we send you grants you any licence, right, title or interest in the Gwen technology by implication, estoppel or otherwise. Rights are granted only in a signed written agreement, and only to the extent it says so.
We monitor for misuse of our work, and we act on it. If you infringe our rights or misuse our confidential information, we will pursue every remedy available to us, which may include:
Canada, and most countries you are likely to operate in, are parties to the Berne Convention and the TRIPS Agreement. Our copyright is therefore recognised and enforceable in roughly 180 countries, and our trade secret and confidential information rights have equivalents in each of them. Operating outside Canada does not place you beyond reach. We may bring proceedings in British Columbia, in the jurisdiction where you are established, or in any jurisdiction where the infringement or its effects occur, and we may enforce a Canadian judgment against you locally.
Under Canadian law, directors, officers and employees who direct, authorise or knowingly participate in infringement can be held personally liable, separately from the company they work for. This is not a theoretical point; it is a common feature of these cases.
None of the above is intended to stop you working with us. We licence Gwen to other businesses, including to service providers who want to offer it to their own clients, and there is a straightforward commercial route to doing that properly.
If Gwen is interesting to you commercially, the correct and by far the cheapest first step is to contact us and ask. A licensing conversation costs you nothing. The alternative costs a great deal more.
You are welcome to view this site, and to print or download individual pages for your own internal, non-commercial reference — for example, to share with a colleague while deciding whether to talk to us. Any copy you make must keep this copyright notice intact.
Product names, logos and trade-marks belonging to other companies that appear on this site remain the property of their respective owners, and are referred to only to describe how Gwen works with those products. Their appearance does not imply any affiliation or endorsement.
We keep this site accurate and current to the best of our ability, but it is marketing material, not a contract. Descriptions of what Gwen does, response times and figures are provided for general information and may change as the product develops. Nothing on this site forms part of any agreement between us unless it is repeated in a signed written agreement.
If you believe material on this site infringes your copyright, please tell us through the contact form. Identify the work you say has been infringed, point us to where it appears on this site, and include enough detail that we can reach you. We will look into it promptly.
These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of British Columbia and the laws of Canada that apply there, and you submit to the jurisdiction of the courts of British Columbia. This does not limit our right to bring proceedings against you in any other jurisdiction where you are established or where an infringement occurs.
If any part of these terms is found to be unenforceable, that part is to be read down to the extent necessary, or severed, and the rest remains in full force.
We may update these terms from time to time. The version published here is the one that applies, and the date at the top tells you when it last changed.