About Us and Your Terms of Use
About Us
At Afolabi Business Law Professional Corporation, we have established Ottawa Notary on the simple premise that Canadians will be well served by a simple-to-use, fast, document creation and notarial service.
Every day, many are stumped by obscure bureaucratic requirements - unable to proceed with a set objective until, for example, sworn statements are delivered.
Of course, sworn statements don't exactly walk the street at high noon, and they don't sit around in the snow either. They have to be drafted, to suit the needs of each person, and then duly "sworn".
Seemingly simple, but historically difficult. Now, with our service, truly simple.
Our services are delivered by the following experienced personnel:
At Afolabi Business Law Professional Corporation, we have established Ottawa Notary on the simple premise that Canadians will be well served by a simple-to-use, fast, document creation and notarial service.
Every day, many are stumped by obscure bureaucratic requirements - unable to proceed with a set objective until, for example, sworn statements are delivered.
Of course, sworn statements don't exactly walk the street at high noon, and they don't sit around in the snow either. They have to be drafted, to suit the needs of each person, and then duly "sworn".
Seemingly simple, but historically difficult. Now, with our service, truly simple.
Our services are delivered by the following experienced personnel:
- Jide Afolabi - lead lawyer and notary public
- Farooq Rafiq - consulting notary public
- Joly Mbalaka - legal assistant and commissioner of oaths
By completing a form accessible through the Ottawa-Notary.ca website and making payment; or by being aware of the fact that your spouse completed a form accessible through the Ottawa-Notary.ca website ("Ottawa-Notary"), provided your name within the form, and made payment; or by booking a consultation or a service with a lawyer, notary public, or commissioner of oaths, whether or not by video conference, directly or indirectly through the Ottawa-Notary website, you agree as follows:
1. You retain Afolabi Business Law Professional Corporation (ABLPC) to act for you only regarding the service selection you or your spouse made, with a service selection being one of the actions set out directly above.
2. The dollar amount set out on a form, or on a web page, or communicated to you by a lawyer, notary public, or commissioner of oaths, is the fee due to ABLPC for that service selection.
3A. For greater certainty, your use of Ottawa-Notary constitutes the use of an "unbundled legal service" - in which a specific part of your overall matter, such as just a separation agreement but not the negotiation of its terms or the divorce that may follow it, is handled by ABLPC - and as such ABLPC is not your legal representative regarding matters not explicitly indicated as being part of the service selection you or your spouse made, such as matters that include but are not limited to any request you seek to make to an Ontario court for any order, or any decision by you to litigate any issue.
3B. You fully understand and agree that some matters, such as those that concern separation and divorce, may require more than the basic legal advice within the "unbundled legal service" you may utilize on Ottawa-Notary. You fully understand and agree that additional, person-specific legal advice at additional cost will be offered to you in the event you use the drafting services on Ottawa-Notary for documents related to such matters and are subsequently using notarial services through Ottawa-Notary for the resulting documents, and that you may receive and pay for that additional, person-specific legal advice or you may decline and evidence the same in writing.
3C. You fully understand and agree that you may seek additional, person-specific legal advice elsewhere prior to the execution and notarization of your documents.
4. Any reference to "divorce papers" on the Ottawa-Notary website is exhaustively a reference to Ontario family law court forms 8A, 25, and 36.
5. The usage of the notarial services of ABLPC is subject to a cost separate from the cost of document creation.
6. If, considering your actual circumstance, and considering the instructions on the Ottawa-Notary website, you or your spouse make the wrong service selection prior to filling a form and making payment on the Ottawa-Notary website, you, and your spouse as applicable, are exclusively and exhaustively responsible for any resulting outcome as well as any resulting liability.
7. You will provide ABLPC with all information ABLPC deems required or useful with regard to the service selection you or your spouse made.
8. You agree that the time frame for the completion of the service selection you or your spouse made may come to depend on factors that you or ABLPC may not be able to control.
9. You agree that ABLPC, in undertaking the service selection you or your spouse made, cannot give and is not giving you a guarantee of any one of your desired outcomes.
10. If you wish to verbally consult with a lawyer, the applicable hourly fee rate, billed in 15 minute increments, will be $300.
11. The hourly fee rate may be billed as applicable in its entirety, or in part, at the sole discretion of ABLPC.
12. In addition to the fees set out in this Terms of Use and on the Ottawa-Notary website, you may have to pay to cover additional third party costs, such as court fees, government charges, or postage, as well as any taxes on those costs.
13. Harmonized Sales Tax will be added to all fees.
14. Should you wish to terminate the service selection you or your spouse made prior to completion, you may do so but there will be no refund owing to you as the service selection you or your spouse made will have commenced, or will have been fully performed, prior to any such termination request.
15. Should ABLPC wish to terminate the service selection you or your spouse made prior to completion, ABLPC may at its own discretion do so and issue you a full or partial refund.
16. Any reference in this Terms of Use to "the service selection you or your spouse made" is to be read as being "the service selection you made, or that your spouse made with your knowledge". Any reference in this Terms of Use to “spouse” includes but is not limited to a person in a common law relationship - as defined in Ontario - with another, as well as a person in a conjugal relationship of some commitment with another.
17. As may be applicable, the interests of you and your spouse as they pertain to the retention of ABLPC cannot be divergent since ABLPC must maintain undivided loyalty between you and your spouse.
18. As may be applicable, you and your spouse are singularly and jointly responsible for any and all fees charged by ABLPC.
19. This Terms of Use will be governed by the laws in force in Ontario, Canada.
20. You give ABLPC the power to use its judgment, without consulting you, in placing clauses it considers to be appropriate within documents related to or emanating from the service selection you or your spouse made, and you hold ABLPC harmless in doing so.
21. You will sign all documents that ABLPC indicates you should sign with regard to the service selection you or your spouse made, and you hold ABLPC harmless if you refrain from so doing.
22. You have the right to any assistance you opt for in reviewing this Terms of Use.
23. This Terms of Use is a binding contract, it is the entire and sole agreement between you, your spouse as applicable, and ABLPC, and it cannot be assigned.
24. If a court says any part of this Terms of Use can’t be enforced, that part will be construed as narrowly as possible in order to ensure the rest of this Terms of Use remains enforceable and that valuable consideration remains exchanged.
25. No part of this Terms of Use can be waived or deemed as waived unless the waiver is in writing, and is signed by you, or the both of you as may be applicable, and by a director of ABLPC.
26. ABLPC will hold any information provided by you in the strictest confidence, and may securely store that information electronically, including in equipment made available by cloud service providers.
27. Despite clause 26 above, you understand that cloud storage, as well as communication with ABLPC by electronic means, possesses some risk, however minimal, of unauthorized disclosure or interception in transit.
29. Neither you nor ABLPC will be in breach of this Terms of Use as a result of any delay or failure in performance caused by reasons out of the reasonable control of you or ABLPC.
30. You hereby indemnify ABLPC with regard to any liability, expense, or cost arising from or connected to any claim by any third party in relation to the provision of the service selection you or your spouse made.
31. We make video services available from time to time. In the event that we do and you utilise our video service, you additionally agree as follows:
1. You retain Afolabi Business Law Professional Corporation (ABLPC) to act for you only regarding the service selection you or your spouse made, with a service selection being one of the actions set out directly above.
2. The dollar amount set out on a form, or on a web page, or communicated to you by a lawyer, notary public, or commissioner of oaths, is the fee due to ABLPC for that service selection.
3A. For greater certainty, your use of Ottawa-Notary constitutes the use of an "unbundled legal service" - in which a specific part of your overall matter, such as just a separation agreement but not the negotiation of its terms or the divorce that may follow it, is handled by ABLPC - and as such ABLPC is not your legal representative regarding matters not explicitly indicated as being part of the service selection you or your spouse made, such as matters that include but are not limited to any request you seek to make to an Ontario court for any order, or any decision by you to litigate any issue.
3B. You fully understand and agree that some matters, such as those that concern separation and divorce, may require more than the basic legal advice within the "unbundled legal service" you may utilize on Ottawa-Notary. You fully understand and agree that additional, person-specific legal advice at additional cost will be offered to you in the event you use the drafting services on Ottawa-Notary for documents related to such matters and are subsequently using notarial services through Ottawa-Notary for the resulting documents, and that you may receive and pay for that additional, person-specific legal advice or you may decline and evidence the same in writing.
3C. You fully understand and agree that you may seek additional, person-specific legal advice elsewhere prior to the execution and notarization of your documents.
4. Any reference to "divorce papers" on the Ottawa-Notary website is exhaustively a reference to Ontario family law court forms 8A, 25, and 36.
5. The usage of the notarial services of ABLPC is subject to a cost separate from the cost of document creation.
6. If, considering your actual circumstance, and considering the instructions on the Ottawa-Notary website, you or your spouse make the wrong service selection prior to filling a form and making payment on the Ottawa-Notary website, you, and your spouse as applicable, are exclusively and exhaustively responsible for any resulting outcome as well as any resulting liability.
7. You will provide ABLPC with all information ABLPC deems required or useful with regard to the service selection you or your spouse made.
8. You agree that the time frame for the completion of the service selection you or your spouse made may come to depend on factors that you or ABLPC may not be able to control.
9. You agree that ABLPC, in undertaking the service selection you or your spouse made, cannot give and is not giving you a guarantee of any one of your desired outcomes.
10. If you wish to verbally consult with a lawyer, the applicable hourly fee rate, billed in 15 minute increments, will be $300.
11. The hourly fee rate may be billed as applicable in its entirety, or in part, at the sole discretion of ABLPC.
12. In addition to the fees set out in this Terms of Use and on the Ottawa-Notary website, you may have to pay to cover additional third party costs, such as court fees, government charges, or postage, as well as any taxes on those costs.
13. Harmonized Sales Tax will be added to all fees.
14. Should you wish to terminate the service selection you or your spouse made prior to completion, you may do so but there will be no refund owing to you as the service selection you or your spouse made will have commenced, or will have been fully performed, prior to any such termination request.
15. Should ABLPC wish to terminate the service selection you or your spouse made prior to completion, ABLPC may at its own discretion do so and issue you a full or partial refund.
16. Any reference in this Terms of Use to "the service selection you or your spouse made" is to be read as being "the service selection you made, or that your spouse made with your knowledge". Any reference in this Terms of Use to “spouse” includes but is not limited to a person in a common law relationship - as defined in Ontario - with another, as well as a person in a conjugal relationship of some commitment with another.
17. As may be applicable, the interests of you and your spouse as they pertain to the retention of ABLPC cannot be divergent since ABLPC must maintain undivided loyalty between you and your spouse.
18. As may be applicable, you and your spouse are singularly and jointly responsible for any and all fees charged by ABLPC.
19. This Terms of Use will be governed by the laws in force in Ontario, Canada.
20. You give ABLPC the power to use its judgment, without consulting you, in placing clauses it considers to be appropriate within documents related to or emanating from the service selection you or your spouse made, and you hold ABLPC harmless in doing so.
21. You will sign all documents that ABLPC indicates you should sign with regard to the service selection you or your spouse made, and you hold ABLPC harmless if you refrain from so doing.
22. You have the right to any assistance you opt for in reviewing this Terms of Use.
23. This Terms of Use is a binding contract, it is the entire and sole agreement between you, your spouse as applicable, and ABLPC, and it cannot be assigned.
24. If a court says any part of this Terms of Use can’t be enforced, that part will be construed as narrowly as possible in order to ensure the rest of this Terms of Use remains enforceable and that valuable consideration remains exchanged.
25. No part of this Terms of Use can be waived or deemed as waived unless the waiver is in writing, and is signed by you, or the both of you as may be applicable, and by a director of ABLPC.
26. ABLPC will hold any information provided by you in the strictest confidence, and may securely store that information electronically, including in equipment made available by cloud service providers.
27. Despite clause 26 above, you understand that cloud storage, as well as communication with ABLPC by electronic means, possesses some risk, however minimal, of unauthorized disclosure or interception in transit.
29. Neither you nor ABLPC will be in breach of this Terms of Use as a result of any delay or failure in performance caused by reasons out of the reasonable control of you or ABLPC.
30. You hereby indemnify ABLPC with regard to any liability, expense, or cost arising from or connected to any claim by any third party in relation to the provision of the service selection you or your spouse made.
31. We make video services available from time to time. In the event that we do and you utilise our video service, you additionally agree as follows:
- If you selected video service, simply click on the link received by email to start the video call.
- The best option for a video appointment is a scanner, so you can get the signed document to your notary.
- Alternatively, you can also use the CamScanner phone app, or just take a picture of your document.
- Another option is to share your screen with your notary and then sign your PDF document digitally.
- You'll get back the PDF version of your notarized document by email right away.
- We'll place a paper version in the mail for you on the same day.