Privacy Policy

Reading the site

No account is needed and none exists. We use no advertising, no tracking cookies, and no third-party services. For usage statistics we run our own privacy-respecting, cookie-free analytics (see below): every request your browser makes stays on antigonishreel.ca, including the analytics, which we proxy through our own domain and host on our own hardware in Canada (we host our own fonts for the same reason). The site is hosted in Canada.

Like nearly every website, our server keeps standard technical logs (IP address, page requested, browser type) for security and troubleshooting. These are rotated and discarded automatically and are not used to profile readers.

One cookie supports form submissions (a CSRF token, a standard protection against forged requests). It expires within 24 hours, identifies nobody, and is not used for tracking. A second cookie exists only for the site operator's admin login.

When you send us something

Four surfaces accept submissions, and all work the same way:

• Contact form: your message, plus a name and a way to reach you if you choose to give them. Anonymous messages are welcome.
• Event submissions: event details, plus an optional contact name and email so we can follow up.
• Ask a Local: your question and an optional way to reach you.
• Obituary listing removal requests: your reason, plus optional name, relationship, and contact details.

With each submission we also record the IP address it came from. That is our spam and abuse defence, nothing more.

What we do with it: respond to you, review the submission, and publish what is meant to be public (an approved event listing, for example). Contact details are never published, never sold, never shared with anyone outside the service, and never used for marketing. We would disclose information only if required by law.

How long we keep it: personal information in a submission, including contact-form message text, contact details, and IP addresses, is automatically and permanently deleted 90 days after your submission is dealt with, or 180 days after it arrived, whichever comes first. Content that was meant to be published (an approved event listing, a published answer to a local question) stays up as part of the public record of the site.

Obituary listings

The Reel indexes death notices already published by local funeral homes: the name, the dates, and a link to the funeral home's own page. We store and republish nothing else. Family members or funeral homes can have a listing removed using the "request removal" link on any entry, or by emailing us. Removal requests are treated as sensitive: contact details are visible only to the operator, access is logged, and the same deletion schedule applies.

Content from public sources

Most of what the Reel shows (events, notices, weather, road conditions) is gathered from public sources and credited to them. If something about you appears in aggregated content and you want it corrected or removed, use the contact form (choose "correction" or "privacy") or email us. See our Terms of Use for the correction and takedown process.

Analytics

We use Plausible Analytics, a privacy-respecting tool we run ourselves on our own hardware in Canada. It measures overall site usage, such as which pages are visited, roughly how many people visit, and which outbound links or file downloads are clicked, without cookies and without collecting or storing any personal information about you. There is no cross-site tracking, no advertising, and no visitor profiles. Visitor counts come from a one-way fingerprint that rotates daily, cannot be reversed, and is discarded each day. The analytics script and the data it sends are served from antigonishreel.ca itself, so nothing goes to any outside company, and we keep no server access logs for the analytics requests.

Your rights

You can ask what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it: email info@antigonishreel.ca. We will respond within 30 days. If you are not satisfied with our handling of your personal information, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (priv.gc.ca).

Changes

Changes to this policy will be posted on this page with a new effective date. We will not weaken the commitments above retroactively.