Privacy Policy

• Standard server logs. Like nearly every website, our hosting infrastructure automatically records basic technical data when you visit: your IP address, browser type and version, the pages you request, and the time of the request. We use these logs to keep the site running, diagnose problems, and protect against abuse. They are retained only as long as needed for those purposes.
• Analytics — only with your consent.We use Google Analytics 4 to understand aggregate traffic — which pages are read, roughly where visitors come from, and what devices they use. It does not load at all unless you accept it through the cookie banner, and you can change your mind anytime via "Cookie preferences" in the footer (declining also clears any analytics cookies already set). This is measured in aggregate; we do not use analytics to build profiles of individual readers.
• Your email address — only if you subscribe. The newsletter takes one piece of information, your email address, and uses it for one thing: sending you the briefing. Details in the newsletter section below.
• Your chosen region — stored in your browser. If you pick a region (say, Edmonton), we save that choice in a cookie on your device so pages can highlight your local news and weather. It personalizes the page in your browser; we do not use it to identify or track you.
• Your location — only if you ask, and we never receive it. If you switch on “Use my location”, your browser gives the page an approximate position, which is rounded to about a kilometre and saved on your device. It is not transmitted to us and we keep no record of it — the nearest-town lookup runs in your browser. See using your location.

We do not require accounts, logins, or sign-ups, and we never collect names or payment information. The only personal information you can give us is an email address — by subscribing to the newsletter or by emailing us — and we use it only for that purpose.

Subscribing to the Alberta Daily briefing asks you for one thing: your email address. Here is exactly what happens to it:

• Confirmed opt-in.After you subscribe, you get a confirmation email; you are only added to the list once you confirm. This is express consent under Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL) — we only email people who asked.
• Stored with Buttondown. The newsletter is sent through Buttondown, our newsletter provider, which stores subscriber addresses on our behalf on servers in the United States. Alongside your email address we store a consent record — when you signed up, the page you signed up from, the IP address the signup came from, and the exact wording you agreed to. That record exists because CASL requires us to be able to prove you asked for these emails; it is used for nothing else, and it is deleted with your address if you ask to be removed.
• Unsubscribe anytime. Every newsletter email includes a working unsubscribe link. Unsubscribing stops the emails; if you also want your address deleted from the list entirely, use the link or email us and we will remove it.
• Never sold, never shared. We do not sell, rent, or share the subscriber list with anyone, and we do not use it for anything except the newsletter itself.

The newsletter is sent by Alberta Daily, PO Box 117, Sunnybrook AB T0C 2M0. The same address appears in the footer of every edition, as Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation requires.

Alberta Daily is supported by advertising served through Google AdSense. This is the part of the site where third parties collect data, so here it is explicitly:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads on this site based on your prior visits to this website and other websites across the internet.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve personalized ads to you based on your visits to this and other sites. You can read how Google uses data from sites like ours in Google's advertising technologies policy.
• You can opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings (g.co/adsettings). To opt out of personalized ads from other third-party vendors, visit aboutads.info/choices or, in Canada, youradchoices.ca.
• You can also block or delete cookies entirely through your browser settings. The site works fine without them — you will simply see less relevant ads.

A few pages load content directly from other organizations' servers, which — like any web request — means those servers see your IP address and browser type:

• Live maps. When a map is on screen, the base map loads from OpenFreeMap (a free, open-source map host that uses no cookies and keeps no user database) and radar/weather layers load from Environment and Climate Change Canada. Like any web request, those servers see your IP address and browser type.
• Everything else is fetched by us, not you.News feeds, event listings, and road, wildfire, and alert data are retrieved by our servers — those providers never see your visit. The site's fonts are bundled with the site itself, so your browser makes no request to Google Fonts.

Analytics is opt-in for everyone, everywhere — it never runs without your consent, wherever you visit from. For advertising: if you visit from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, personalized advertising also requires your consent. Where required, you will be shown a consent message before personalized ads are served, and you may choose non-personalized ads instead — these rely on contextual information (such as the page you are reading) rather than your browsing history. You can change or withdraw your consent at any time via the consent message or the opt-out links above.

Alberta Daily is a general-audience news site and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children; if you believe a child has subscribed to the newsletter, email us and we will remove the address.

We handle personal information in accordance with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and Alberta's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). In practice this means:

• We collect only what we need to operate the site, and we told you what that is above.
• You may request access to any personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask what it has been used for. Given how little we collect, the honest answer will usually be "server logs and, if you subscribed, your email address."
• You may withdraw consent to collection or use of your information, subject to legal or technical limits — decline or reverse the cookie banner, unsubscribe from the newsletter, use the ad-personalization opt-outs above, or contact us.
• Some data is stored outside Canada. Google (analytics and advertising) and Buttondown (newsletter) process data on servers in the United States, where it is subject to US law. We share with each service only what it needs to function.
• If you are not satisfied with our response, you may complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada or the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta.

For access, correction, deletion, or any other privacy request, email hello@albertadaily.ca with "Privacy request" in the subject line. We respond to privacy requests within 30 days.

If we change how the site handles data — for example, by adding a new feature that collects information — we will update this policy and revise the "last updated" date at the top of this page before the change takes effect.