Privacy policy

There is no account to create, and this website never asks for payment details.

Like almost every website, the server records each request: the IP address it came from, the time, the page and the browser’s user-agent string. That is standard operation and security logging, not analytics about you.

To run a campaign: to reply to you, to organise volunteers, to deliver and collect lawn signs, and to send occasional campaign email if you asked for it. That is all. We do not build a profile of you and we do not use it for anything else.

Election law separately requires the campaign to record and file details of financial contributions with Elections BC. That obligation is set by law, it applies only to people who contribute money, and it is described on the contribute page.

Nobody. Your information is not sold, rented, traded or shared with any other campaign, party or organisation. The only exceptions are what the law requires — the contribution reporting above, or a valid legal order.

The website is hosted on a server operated on the campaign’s behalf by its web provider, who can technically access it while maintaining the server and is not permitted to use it for anything else.

This site sets no cookies until you say it may. When you first arrive it asks, in a notice at the bottom of the page. If you say no, nothing is stored on your device and nothing is stored later either — the notice does not come back and the site works exactly the same.

If you say yes, the campaign stores four small cookies: your answer, so you are not asked again; a random code that lets the campaign tell a returning reader from a new one; a second random code that groups the pages you read in one sitting; and a short note of what brought you here — a search engine, a link, or a code on a lawn sign. Each one holds a random number or a few words. None holds your name, your address, your location or anything you have typed into a form, and none can be read by any other website.

You can change your mind whenever you like by clearing this site's cookies in your browser; the notice will then ask again. The forms themselves need no cookie at all — they are protected against automated abuse by a signed token embedded in the page.

There are no advertising cookies, no Google Analytics or any other outside analytics service, no tracking pixels, no social media widgets, and no fonts or scripts loaded from anybody else’s servers. Everything described here happens on the campaign’s own server. Nothing on this site reports your visit to a third party, and none of it is used for advertising.

The campaign counts page views on its own server, so it can see which pages people read and which websites link here. No cookie is set, and nothing runs in your browser to do it.

For each view the site records the page, the date and time, whether the device is a phone, the website that linked you here if there was one, and any campaign tag that was in the link. If you agreed to cookies, the two random codes described above are recorded alongside it, so the campaign can see that one person read four pages rather than four people reading one. Your IP address is not written down.

If you fill in a form after agreeing to cookies, the note of what brought you to the site is saved with it — for example “a lawn sign” or “a search engine”. It tells the campaign which of its efforts are working. It says nothing about you.

To estimate how many different people visited, the site makes a short code out of your network address and browser combined with a secret and that day’s date. The code is built fresh every day, cannot be turned back into an address, and cannot be matched up from one day to the next. These monthly files are kept for 13 months and then deleted.

If your browser sends a “Do Not Track” or Global Privacy Control signal, nothing about your visit is recorded at all.

Form submissions are stored in files that are not reachable from the web and are readable only by the account that runs the website. The site is served over an encrypted connection.

If you are not satisfied with how it was handled, you can complain to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia.

If this policy changes, the new version replaces this one on this page.