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Comment nous traitons vos données
Solaire Plug-In pour le Canada est une campagne de plaidoyer. Nous demandons aux gens de signer une pétition et d'écrire à leurs élu·e·s — c'est la raison d'être de ce site. Les seules données personnelles que nous collectons sont celles nécessaires pour acheminer un message à votre élu·e et pour prouver, si nécessaire, que vous avez bien consenti à ce que nous avons envoyé.
Deux consentements distincts
When you sign the petition at /take-action, you agree to two different things independently:
- Campaign updates (required to sign). Submitting the form adds you to the campaign’s advocacy list. We’ll email you about the campaign — progress, action alerts, policy wins — and nothing else. Every such email has an unsubscribe link.
- Product updates (optional, unchecked by default). A separate checkbox below the form asks whether, after plug-in solar is permitted in your province, you’d like to hear about balcony solar products you can buy. If you leave it unchecked, you will never receive product marketing from us — not now, not after the campaign succeeds, not ever. If you check it, those messages are a separate list you can unsubscribe from independently.
These lists are never bridged. Advocacy emails from us will never link to commercial product pages. We make this promise because that’s what the Canadian anti-spam law (CASL) requires, and because it’s what someone signing a petition has a right to expect.
Ce que nous collectons
When you sign the petition we store:
- Your name. Used on the email you send your representative. Shown to you during the flow; not published.
- Your email address. Used to send you campaign updates. Also used to de-duplicate signatures so one person can’t inflate the counter.
- Your postal code. Used once, at the moment you sign, to look up your MP or MLA/MPP via the OpenNorth Represent API. We keep the postal code on your record so the campaign can report petition reach by riding.
- The campaign you signed. So we can count signatures per province and federal campaign.
- Your IP address and browser user-agent. Stored on each consent record as proof of origin. CASL requires us to be able to demonstrate, if challenged, that a specific person consented at a specific time from a specific device. IP is not shown publicly.
- The exact wording you saw when you consented. Stored as a version tag on your consent record. If we later change the petition copy, your record keeps the version you actually agreed to.
We don’t set advertising cookies. We don’t run third-party trackers or analytics pixels. We don’t sell data. A light-mode / dark-mode preference is stored in your browser’s localStorage if you use the theme toggle — nothing leaves your device.
Comment nous l'utilisons
- To send you campaign updates you’ve agreed to receive.
- To count signatures per campaign so we can show accurate totals and report reach to policymakers.
- To prove consent if a regulator asks us to produce it.
- To de-duplicate signatures so the counter reflects real people.
We do not use your information to profile you, to re-target ads, or for any purpose other than the campaign you signed up for.
Combien de temps nous conservons
- Consent records are append-only. If you unsubscribe, the record is stamped with the time and source of revocation but not deleted — the audit trail is what makes the consent demonstrable if challenged.
- Signature records persist for the life of the campaign so counts stay accurate. When a campaign is archived, we keep an anonymized aggregate (count by riding, count by date) and delete the per-person rows on request, or by default after a reasonable wind-down period.
- Unsubscribes take effect immediately. CASL allows up to ten business days; we honour it on the spot.
Vos choix
- Unsubscribe. Every email includes a one-click unsubscribe link for the specific lane (campaign newsletter or product updates) that email belongs to. You can drop one without affecting the other.
- Ask what we have. Email us and we’ll send you everything we hold about you.
- Ask us to correct it. Same address — tell us what’s wrong and we’ll fix it.
- Ask us to delete it. We’ll delete your petition signature on request. Any consent records (newsletter, commercial) stay on file, revoked, as the proof they were ever given — this is a CASL audit-trail requirement, not a choice we’re making.
Contact
Questions or requests go to david@peopleandplanet.consulting. We’re a small team; a reply may take a few days.