This policy explains what personal information SpotMyAd collects, why, and your choices. We follow Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).
1. What we collect
- Account: your email address and password (stored encrypted by our authentication provider).
- Profile: what you enter — business or display name, category, city, province, postal code, and optional contact person, phone, email, website, description and logo. Your postal code is used to work out your home postal area (the first three characters).
- Ads: headline, description, dates, chosen spot and category, optional photo, phone and website.
- Ad statistics: counts of views, taps, calls and website clicks per ad per day. These are totals only; we do not record who viewed or tapped an ad.
- Technical data: basic logs (such as IP address, browser type and time of request) kept by our hosting providers for security and to keep the service running.
2. Why we use it
To run your account, show your profile and ads, review ads before they appear, apply area limits, give advertisers their statistics, keep SpotMyAd secure and prevent abuse, and contact you about your account. We do not sell personal information.
3. What is public
Your business or display name, category, city and province, logo and approved ads are shown publicly. Contact details you choose to add to your profile are shown to signed-in members; phone and website you add to an ad are shown publicly on that ad. Your account email is never shown unless you enter it as a contact email.
4. Service providers
We use providers to host and run SpotMyAd: Lovable and Supabase (application hosting, database, file storage and sign-in), MapTiler and OpenStreetMap (map tiles), and Cloudflare (domain and network). They process data on our behalf. Some of them store or process data outside Canada, including in the United States, where it may be accessible to authorities under local law.
5. Cookies and storage
We use the cookies and browser storage needed to keep you signed in and to remember map position and selected spot during a visit. We do not use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies.
6. How long we keep it
We keep your account, profile and ads until you delete them or close your account. When you delete your account, your profile, ads, ad images and statistics are deleted. Logs are kept for a limited time by our providers.
7. Your rights
You can view and edit your profile and ads at any time, and delete your account from the Account page. You can ask us for access to, or correction of, your personal information, or withdraw consent, by emailing us. If you are not satisfied with our answer, you can contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
8. Security
We use access controls, encrypted connections and database rules that limit who can see each piece of data. No system is perfectly secure; tell us right away if you think your account is compromised.
9. Children
SpotMyAd is not intended for anyone under 18, and we do not knowingly collect their information.
10. Changes and contact
We will post updates here and notify account holders of significant changes. Contact: spotmyad48@gmail.com