Privacy
This site is run by the campaign for Tara McDougall, candidate for Rossland City Council. It collects as little as it can, and this page says what it does with what it has.
What we collect
Your email address, if you sign up for updates. Nothing is sent to it until you open the email we send first and press the button on the page the link opens. If you never do, your address sits in the database unconfirmed and you hear nothing further.
What you write to us through the contact form: your name, your email address, your message, and the replies we send back, so the conversation stays in one place.
What you send in an endorsement: your name, your email address, the display name you choose, and the words themselves. The display name and the words appear on the home page if the endorsement is approved; your name and your email address are never published. Nothing goes up until you press the button on the page the link opens, and a person reads it first. That email also carries a link that lets you change your words afterwards. When you do, the earlier version stays in the campaign's records beside who changed it and when, so the campaign can always show what was published and what happened to it.
Nothing else. There are no accounts, no payments and no advertising profiles, and we do not buy or sell lists.
Cookies and tracking
There is no third-party tracking. No advertising pixels, no social media buttons that report back, and no analytics service reading over our shoulder.
The site does count its own page views, without cookies and without fingerprinting anyone: the page, where the visit came from, a scrambled version of the browser's name, and when. It also records the address the visit came from, and that is on purpose. It is how the campaign tells a person from a scraper, and how "twelve people read this today" becomes a number at all. Addresses are readable only inside the campaign's admin, and they are deleted after sixty days.
On the home page, the site also records when one of its major sections enters the screen: Why I'm Running, About Me, Values, Events, the email list, contact, and election information. This helps the campaign see which parts of the page people reach. It uses the same address and sixty-day retention as page views, and does not use cookies or outside tracking scripts.
The campaign also keeps a short list of its own addresses, each with a name, so that its own visits can be left out of those numbers. When a campaign team member signs in to the admin panel, the address they are signing in from is labelled with their account name automatically. The list is for the campaign's own addresses only: the candidate's, the team's.
The site sets the session cookies it needs to keep a form working and to submit it safely, and those are not shared with anyone.
What we use it for
- To send campaign updates, and a reminder to vote before October 17.
- To answer you, and to keep the thread of the conversation so nobody is asked the same question twice.
- To stop spam and abuse: we limit how often a form can be sent from one connection, which needs the submitting address for about a minute.
Who else sees it
Almost nobody. Messages and the subscriber list are readable by the campaign team in the admin. Email is delivered for us by Resend, a mailing service, which needs the address in order to deliver the message. We do not sell, rent or share personal information for anyone else's use.
How long we keep it
- Newsletter addresses: until you unsubscribe. The link is in every message, and it works immediately.
- Contact messages: for as long as the campaign needs them. Ask us to delete yours and we will.
- Endorsements: while the campaign runs, unless you ask us to take yours down, which we will. Earlier versions of the words live for as long as the endorsement does, beside the record of who changed them and when.
- Page views: sixty days, addresses and all.
- The campaign's own addresses: kept while the campaign runs, and only ever the campaign's own.
- Form flood counters: about a minute.
Your choices
Leave the list. Either the unsubscribe link at the bottom of a campaign email (it opens a page with one button), or the mail app's own unsubscribe next to the sender, which works in one press. Both take effect immediately.
Take an endorsement down. If your words are on the site and you would rather they were not, write to us and they come down.
Ask what we hold, or ask us to delete it. Write to [email protected] and we will answer.
Questions
This page describes how the campaign handles personal information under British Columbia's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). If something here is unclear, write to [email protected].
Last updated 8 October 2026.