Privacy Policy
What we collect, what other people can see, and what we do with it. Last updated November 12, 2026.
The short version
To hold an account we ask for two things: an email address and a display name. We do not ask for your real name, your licence number, your phone number or your address. We collect as little as we can because what we do not hold cannot be exposed.
What we collect
- Account details: your email address, your display name, an optional bio, and a securely hashed password.
- What you post: threads, replies, private messages, reports and event submissions.
- Newsletter: the email address you subscribe with and when you agreed to receive it.
- Contact form: the name, email address and message you send.
- Technical data: standard web server logs, such as IP address and browser type, kept for security and to stop spam. We do not build advertising profiles.
What other people can see
- Other members and visitors see your display name, your bio if you wrote one, and what you post on the boards. They never see your email address.
- The people you message see your display name and your messages.
- The site's staff can see the email address on an account. They need it to run the site, deal with abuse and respond to you. Private messages are stored on our server and are not end-to-end encrypted.
How anonymous a display name is
A display name keeps your identity from other members and from the public. It is not absolute anonymity. We hold the email address you signed up with, and we could be required to disclose account information by a court order or another legal obligation. If that concerns you, sign up with an email address that does not identify you.
We will not hand over account information voluntarily to anyone, including the Law Society, in the absence of a legal requirement to do so.
Candidates
Candidate profiles are built from information the Law Society and the candidates have made public for the election, including published contact details. A candidate can ask us to correct a profile at any time. When a candidate claims a profile, we send one confirmation email to the address published for them.
We email you about your account (for example a password reset) and, if you are subscribed, the newsletter. Every newsletter has an unsubscribe link. We do not sell, rent or share email addresses.
Advertising
Banner ads are images hosted on this site. We count how often each one is shown and clicked. We do not let advertisers place tracking code on the site, and we do not share member information with them.
Keeping and deleting
You can change your display name, bio and newsletter setting in your dashboard. To close your account and have your email address erased, write to info@lsobencherelection.ca from the address on the account. Posts you made may remain, attributed to a removed account, so that discussions still make sense; tell us if you want them removed too.
Where it is stored
The site's data is stored on a server we manage, hosted in a commercial data centre. Access is limited to the people who run the site.