Summary
ProvinceCompare.ca has no accounts, no sign-up forms, no advertising and no paywall. We do not sell or share data. We use two analytics tools to see which guides people read and where pages are hard to use, so we can improve them.
What we collect
- Google Analytics 4. Pages viewed, how far you scroll, which sections of a guide you reach, links you click, how you arrived (for example from a search engine), and general device, browser and approximate location (country or city) information. Google does not give us your name, email or exact IP address.
- Microsoft Clarity (on guide pages). Mouse movement, clicks and scrolling, used to produce heatmaps and anonymized session replays. Clarity masks text you type into forms. We use it without cookies, so visits are not linked across days.
- Your browser's local storage. Your language choice and how you first arrived at the site, kept on your own device so the calculators and analytics work. It is not sent anywhere except as part of the analytics above.
- Hosting logs. Our host, Cloudflare, processes standard request data such as IP addresses to deliver pages and block abuse.
When you use a calculator, the figures you enter (such as household income, sometimes rounded) are sent to Google Analytics with the result so we can see which scenarios readers check. They are not linked to your name or contact details.
Feedback form
The "Give Feedback" button opens a Google Form. Anything you choose to write there is stored by Google Forms and read only by us.
How to opt out
- Install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
- Use your browser's tracking protection or a content blocker; the site works fully without analytics.
- Clear this site's data in your browser settings to remove local storage.
Third-party policies
We may change these tools; this page will be updated when we do.