Link Policy

Links from the Canada/Manitoba Business Service Centre (C/MBSC) web site are related to the mandate and objectives of the C/MBSC site as a source of business information for Canadians or businesses operating in Canada. In general, the C/MBSC 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 C/MBSC's partners;
• Internet/Web search engines and directories.

Links to Commercial Organizations

We generally do not provide links to commercial sites. Under some circumstances, the C/MBSC 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 C/MBSC Webmaster.

Request for a Link from the C/MBSC Site

To request a link to be placed on the C/MBSC 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 the C/MBSC. 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 C/MBSC 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 C/MBSC web site is encouraged.

Guidelines when Linking to the C/MBSC Site

Webmasters are recommended to follow these steps when establishing external links from your web site to the C/MBSC web site: 

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