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Privacy & cookies

What we collect, why, and how to say no.

What we collect

Pages you visit, your language and area choices (stored on your device), and anonymous visit counts if you allow them.

What we don’t collect

Immigration documents, application numbers, passport or SIN.

Tools

Calculator inputs and checklist ticks stay in your browser.

Advertising cookies

If you allow it, Google AdSense may use cookies to show ads. Choose “Necessary only” to turn this off.

Fonts

Fonts load from Google Fonts, which receives your IP address.

Your choices

Change your cookie choice at any time with the button below.

Vacation page clicks

When you open a place on the Vacation page, we add 1 to that place’s count for the day so we can show the most popular places. We do not store cookies, IDs or your internet address for this.

Feedback form

When you send feedback we keep your message, the page address, your language and, only if you give it, your email so we can reply. Messages are sent to our team by our email delivery service and are not shared with anyone else.

Google and other ad partners

Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your earlier visits to this website or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies lets it and its partners show you ads based on your visits to this site and other sites on the internet. We only load these ads if you choose “Allow all”.

How to opt out

You can turn off personalised ads in Google Ads Settings, or turn off some other vendors’ cookies at aboutads.info. Read how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

Where your data is kept

The site is hosted on Cloudflare, whose servers may be outside Canada. We keep only what the site needs to work. If you delete a Q&A account, we delete your email and password as described above.

Children

This site is for adults planning or making a move to Canada. It is not aimed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information.

Your rights and how to reach us

You can ask what personal information we hold about you, and ask us to correct or delete it, by emailing hello@newcomer-board.example. If you are not happy with our answer, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

Last updated: 2026-10-30

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