Privacy

You can read the whole paper without telling us anything. There are no accounts, no advertising trackers, no cookies and no third-party analytics. We count page views ourselves, without storing your address. The only personal information we hold is an email address, and only if you gave us one — by subscribing to the newsletter, sending a correction, or asking to be listed.

We do not set cookies and we do not use a third-party analytics service. Nothing follows you between pages or between visits.

Three things are loaded from other companies, and each of them sees your IP address, because that is how the web works: Google Fonts serves the typefaces, OpenStreetMap serves the map tiles on pages with a map, and TradingView serves the stock quotes on the current front page and the Development & Business desk. TradingView's frame is not told which of our pages you are reading, and by its own account sets no cookies. Cloudflare hosts the site and keeps the standard request logs any host keeps.

Anything you set here — light or dark mode, which sections you want, which map layers are on — is stored in your own browser and never sent to us. Clearing your browser data clears it.

We count page views on our own server. For each one we record the page, the site that linked you here (the domain only, not the full address), the country Cloudflare reports, whether you are on a phone or a computer, and the time.

We do not store your IP address. It is turned into a one-way code that changes every day — enough to tell two views apart within a day, and useless for connecting one day to the next. We cannot turn it back into an address.

That is how we know whether anyone is reading. No third party, no cookie, nothing that follows you between visits.

We store your email address, which edition you picked, and two timestamps: when you asked to join and when you confirmed. The timestamps are the record that you agreed, which the law requires us to be able to show.

Signing up does not put you on the list. It creates a pending entry and sends one email asking you to confirm. If you do not confirm you never receive anything, and the pending entry is deleted after 30 days.

We use it to send you the edition you asked for and nothing else. We do not sell the list, share it, rent it, or use it to work out who you are.

Every issue carries a one-click unsubscribe link, and your mail program's own unsubscribe button works too. Unsubscribing deletes your row — we do not keep a record that you were ever on it.

The correction form stores what you sent: the headline, what we got wrong, what the right version is, and your email address if you chose to leave one. The address is optional and is used for one thing — replying to you about the correction. The listings form works the same way.

We keep what you send until it has been dealt with, and we do not delete correspondence on a timer. Something sent for a reply may sit for weeks and still be worth acting on. Ask us to delete it and we will.

Corrections we publish stay published, because that is the point of them — but a published correction never carries your name or your address.

Two companies outside Canada handle personal information for us, both in the United States. Resend sends the newsletter and the confirmation emails; it receives your email address in order to deliver them and is not permitted to use it for anything else. Cloudflare hosts the site and stores the database the forms write to.

Because they are outside Canada they are subject to the laws of the country they are in, and its courts and government can reach information held there. That is true of every service of this kind, and it is worth knowing rather than glossing over.

This page is our written statement of how we handle personal information, including our use of those companies. If you want more detail than is here, ask and we will send it.

Page-view records: 90 days. A scheduled job deletes anything older, every day.

Your subscription: for as long as you are subscribed. Unsubscribing deletes it. An unconfirmed signup is deleted after 30 days.

Correspondence — corrections, and requests to be listed: kept until it is dealt with. We do not sweep it on a timer, because something somebody sent for a reply is the one kind of message a timer should not throw away. Ask and it is deleted.

Server logs: Cloudflare's standard retention, which we do not control.

You can ask what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected, ask for a copy, or ask us to delete it. Say so in an email and we will do it. There is no form and no fee.

We may have to keep a record of a consent, or of a correction we published, where the law requires it. If that applies we will tell you which part we cannot delete and why.

The Edmonton Daily Brief is run by one person in Edmonton, Alberta. The editor is the person responsible for this site following Alberta's privacy law, and the person who answers questions about what is collected, how it is used, and what the companies above do with it.

Email corrections@edmontondailybrief.ca, or write to: 104 - 10221 111 St NW, Edmonton, AB, Canada, T5K 2W5.

If you are not satisfied with the answer you can take it further. The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada both take complaints about organizations like this one.

Changes to this pageIf what we collect changes, this page changes with it, and the date changes too. We do not make changes quietly. Last updated 24 August 2026.