Link Policy

Links from a Canada Business service centre Web site are related to the mandate and objectives of the CBSCs site as a source of business information for Canadians or businesses operating in Canada. In general, the Canada Business service centres may provide links to the following:

• Canadian government sites providing business-related information, programs and services;
• foreign government sites providing information to Canadian companies doing business abroad (i.e. customs, import procedures, tariffs, patents, copyright, trademark, industrial design);
• commercial business databases, including company directories, available free of charge;
• sites maintained by Canada Business partners;
• Internet/Web search engines and directories.

Links to Commercial Organizations

We generally do not provide links to commercial sites. Under some circumstances, Canada Business service centres will provide links to a commercial organization to provide clients with free information or services useful to a business, where such information is not available from non-commercial sites. The decision will be at the discretion of the Canada Business Webmaster.

Request for a Link from the Canada Business Site

To request a link to be placed on a Canada Business service centre Web site, please contact the Webmaster by E-mail.

In your contact message, please explain how the proposed link relates to this policy and contributes to the objective and enhancement of Canada Business. Ensure that a return contact name and E-mail address are included. If a proposed link meets the criteria stated in this policy, it may still be declined at the discretion of the Canada Business Webmaster. If a link is approved, the administrators of the target site will be informed and the link established.

A reciprocal link back to the Canada Business Web site is encouraged.

Guidelines when Linking to the Canada Business Site

Webmasters are recommended to follow these steps when establishing external links from your Web site to the Canada Business Web site:

• in addition to linking to specific pages within the Canada Business site, also provide a link to Canada Business homepage (http://www.cbsc.org);
• periodically check the integrity of the links to the Canada Business documents;
• Canada Business discourages the use of frames;
• Canada Business content may be used in a framed environment if the third party frame does not exceed 20% of the viewing area.

Banner Policy

The Canada Business service centres do not participate in banner advertisement or banner exchange on our Web site.