Visitor privacy

Visitor privacy and search advertising cookies

How this fieldbook handles personal information under Canadian PIPEDA, what the search advertising cookies do, and how to opt out without losing the pages.

This notice covers The Lakeshore Family Fieldbook, written and operated by Maren Kowalski and Devon Patel at 25 Queens Quay West, Suite 612, Toronto, Ontario. We follow Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act because this is a small Canadian household publication, not a data business. We have no affiliates abroad and no customer database to sell.

If you only read pages, our server keeps ordinary logs: an Internet Protocol address, browser type, the pages requested, and a timestamp. That is how we notice a broken page or a sudden crawl. Logs rotate and we do not build profiles from them. If you email us, we have whatever you chose to write, and we use it only to answer you.

Search advertising cookies

We run a small search advertising campaign so families looking for stroller advice, weather rules, or dining arithmetic can find these notes. That campaign uses advertising cookies and similar tags set by the search network. They tell the network that an advertisement was shown and whether someone arrived here. They are not needed to read anything on this site. Block them and every page still works.

We do not see your search history. We may see aggregate counts of clicks and impressions. We do not join those numbers to your emails, and we do not use them to price anything, because we do not sell anything. The cookies belong to the advertising companies, not to us. You can refuse non-essential cookies in your browser, run a tracker blocker, or adjust your advertisement settings with the search network directly.

Your rights under PIPEDA

You may ask what personal information we hold about you, ask for a correction, and withdraw consent for anything optional, including the advertising and any reply you no longer want. Write to [email protected] or to the Queens Quay address. We answer in a reasonable time. If you are unsatisfied, you may complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, though we would rather fix it first.

We do not process payments, check identification at a door, or run accounts. The heaviest record we might hold is an email saying the upper pod was lost in fog. Even that is personal information, and we treat it that way.