Privacy Policy

This page explains what personal information canada-ontario-games.ca collects, why we collect it, and what you can do about it. We publish information about the Ontario Summer Games and about online casinos and sports betting available to Canadians. We are a publisher, not an operator, and we handle very little personal data.

We follow the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), the federal privacy law that applies to commercial activity in Canada, along with the privacy rules that apply in Ontario.

What we collect

There are two kinds of information on this site: what you type in yourself, and what your browser reports automatically while you read. We do not run user accounts and never ask for banking details, government identification or payment cards.

Information you send us

If you write to us through the contact form or by email, we receive the name you give, your email address and whatever you put in the message. That information is used to answer you and nothing else. We do not add contact form senders to a mailing list.

Information collected automatically

Our analytics tool records the pages you open, the page that sent you here, roughly how long you stay, your approximate location at the city or region level, your browser and your device type. It also processes your IP address in the moment of the request. We look at this in aggregate to see which articles people actually read and which ones load badly on phones. We do not try to identify individual readers, and we do not build advertising profiles.

Cookies and similar storage are covered in the Cookie Policy.

Why we collect it and on what basis

Under PIPEDA we need your knowledge and consent to collect personal information, and the kind of consent depends on how sensitive the data is. Strictly necessary cookies and basic server logs run on implied consent, since the site cannot be served without them. Analytics and affiliate tracking run only after you choose Accept on the cookie banner, which is express consent that you can take back at any time. Contact form data is processed because you chose to write to us.

Who we share it with

We do not sell personal information, and we never have. A limited number of service providers see data as part of doing their job:

• The analytics provider that produces our traffic reports, acting on our instructions.
• Our hosting provider, whose server logs record requests to the site.
• Casino and sportsbook operators, when you click a partner link. At that point you leave our site and the operator’s own privacy policy takes over. The link may pass a referral code so the operator knows the visit came from us, which is how the site is funded.

We would also disclose information if a Canadian court order or a valid legal request required it. Some providers store data on servers outside Canada, which means foreign courts may in principle be able to reach it under the law of that country.

How long we keep it

Contact form messages and email correspondence are kept for up to 24 months, then deleted. Aggregated analytics reports are kept for up to 26 months. Raw server logs roll off within 90 days.

Your rights under PIPEDA

Canadian privacy law gives you real control over information about you, and you do not need a reason to use it. You can:

• Ask what personal information we hold about you and get a copy of it.
• Have inaccurate or incomplete information corrected.
• Ask us to delete what we hold, subject to any record we are legally required to keep.
• Withdraw consent for analytics and affiliate tracking, either through the cookie banner or by writing to us.
• Complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada if our answer does not satisfy you.

How to make a request

Write to [email protected] and say what you want. We reply within 30 days, which is the deadline PIPEDA sets. Because we do not keep accounts, we may need to ask a question or two to confirm that the data you are asking about is yours, and we will not ask for identity documents to do that.

How the information is protected

The site is served over HTTPS, access to the publishing system is limited to people who need it and protected by strong passwords with two-factor authentication, and software is patched on a regular schedule. No website can promise perfect security, so we keep the amount of data we hold small on purpose.

Young readers and the 19+ sections

This site is not aimed at children. The pages covering online casinos and sports betting are written for adults who are legally allowed to gamble, which in Ontario means 19 or older. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 19 through those pages. If you believe a minor has sent us personal information, write to us and we will remove it.

Changes to this policy

If we change how the site collects or uses information, we update this page and change the date below. Significant changes to how consent works will be reflected in the cookie banner as well, so you get a fresh choice rather than a quiet edit.

Last updated: August 2026. Questions about privacy on this site go to [email protected].