Effective 26 July 2026 · Sophabulous Inc., Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
It describes how we actually work, but it has not yet been reviewed by a lawyer. If a term here matters to a decision you are making, email info@sophab.ca and ask us to confirm it in writing.
These terms apply to sophab.ca and the tools on it. Using the site means you accept them. If you do not, please do not use the site. Our Privacy Policy explains what we do with your information and forms part of these terms.
The tools here model a Solar Passive Habitat on your building and estimate what it would cost. The free tools are a visualisation and a budget guide: a mockup on your own photo, a massing model, an elevation, and a cost estimate. They deliberately do not give you a structural verdict on your particular design — sizing the structure is engineering work, and it belongs to the paid plan set, not to a slider on a web page.
Every figure on this site is a preliminary estimate, not a quotation and not an offer to contract. It is generated from typical material and labour prices, in the currency and units shown, and before any field measurement.
Real costs move with your site, your access, your finishes, the season and your contractor's schedule. Estimates exclude finishes and electrical until we have measured the site, and they can change once we have. Nothing here is financial, tax or investment advice, and energy or savings figures are modelled projections rather than a promise of performance.
We do not provide stamped or sealed plans, and we are not your engineer of record. What we produce is an engineer-ready drawing set: the Sophab Arch drawings adapted to your dimensions, with the analysis, load path and foundation reactions worked out so a licensed professional engineer can review the work rather than re-derive it.
Before you build, that set must be reviewed and sealed by a professional engineer licensed in your province, engaged by you and paid directly by you. That engineer, not Sophabulous, takes professional responsibility for the design as built. You are also responsible for obtaining permits and for complying with your local building code, zoning, setbacks and any applicable covenants. Zoning and setback information shown in our tools is a convenience only and is not a legal determination — your municipality's is the one that counts.
Most of this site is free: the estimate, the mockup and the report cost nothing. The one thing we charge for is the engineer-ready plan set. It is sold as a deposit taken up front with the balance due on delivery, and both figures are shown to you before you pay. The price you are shown at checkout, in the currency shown, is the price we charge — we never bill a different amount or a different currency than the one on the button.
Card payments are processed by Stripe on Stripe's own secure pages. We never see, handle or store your card number; we receive only a confirmation that the payment succeeded, together with the amount and currency. Stripe's own terms and privacy policy apply to that step.
What you are buying is still an engineer-ready set, not a sealed one. Paying us does not make us your engineer of record and does not change anything in section 3 above: your own licensed engineer must still review and seal the set before you build, and that engineer — not Sophabulous — takes professional responsibility for the design.
Delivery. Your plan set is generated to order from the dimensions you configured, usually within minutes of payment. We email you a private download link and it also appears in your account, where it stays available to you. If something goes wrong and a set cannot be produced for your configuration, we will tell you and refund the deposit in full.
Refunds. Because a plan set is a custom digital good produced on demand, the deposit is fully refundable up until we generate your set, and after that we will still refund it if the set we delivered does not match the dimensions you bought, or if we cannot correct a genuine error in it. What we cannot refund is a delivered set that is simply no longer wanted — a change of plan, a sale of the property, or your engineer recommending a different approach. That is not a criticism of the decision; it is that the work has been done and the drawings are already in your hands. If you are unsure whether your situation qualifies, write to info@sophab.ca and ask us — we would rather sort it out than have you stuck with something you cannot use.
Any balance owing is payable on delivery on the terms stated in your invoice. Taxes, where they apply, are shown separately. We are not able to give tax, legal or financing advice.
You can sign in with Google, with Facebook, or with a one-time link sent to your email address, so that your reports stay in one place. Keep access to that email account secure: anyone who can read it can request a sign-in link. Tell us at info@sophab.ca if you think someone else has been in your account, and we can close it at your request.
You keep ownership of the photos, dimensions and notes you upload. By sending them you give us permission to use them to produce your mockup, your report and your plan set, and to keep them in our records. We will not publish a photo of your property, or use it in marketing, without asking you first. Only upload photos you are entitled to upload.
Please do not attempt to break into, overload, scrape wholesale, or probe the site or its APIs, submit other people's personal information, or use the site to send anything unlawful. We rate-limit requests and may suspend access that damages the service for others.
The site, its text, images, drawings, models and the Sophabulous and Sophab names are ours or our licensors'. You may read, print and share pages for your own non-commercial use. Anything beyond that — republishing, or reusing our drawings in another project — needs our written permission. Deliverables you have paid for are yours to use for the project they were prepared for.
We link to third-party sites and use third-party services (mapping, imagery, sign-in). We do not control them and are not responsible for their content or their practices.
We aim to keep the site up, but we do not guarantee it will be uninterrupted or error-free, and we may change or withdraw features. The site and its free tools are provided "as is", without warranties of any kind to the extent the law allows.
To the extent permitted by law, Sophabulous is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for loss of profit, arising from your use of this site or reliance on a free estimate. Our total liability in connection with the site and any free tool is limited to CAD $100, or to the amount you have paid us in the previous twelve months if that is greater. Paid work is governed by the agreement covering that work, and this paragraph does not limit liability that cannot lawfully be limited — including for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.
Nothing in these terms displaces your rights under applicable consumer protection law.
These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of New Brunswick and the laws of Canada that apply there, and the courts of New Brunswick have jurisdiction.
We may update these terms; the date at the top shows when they last changed, and continuing to use the site means accepting the updated version. Questions go to info@sophab.ca — Sophabulous Inc., Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada.