Effective date: November 10, 2026
This policy explains how Good Caring Media Inc., which runs Child Caring Canada at childcaring.ca (“we”, “us”), handles personal information. It is written to meet Canada’s federal private-sector privacy law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), and, for visitors in Quebec, Quebec’s private-sector privacy law as amended by Law 25.
Our Privacy Officer is responsible for personal information at Good Caring Media Inc. Email editor@childcaring.ca with “Privacy” in the subject line.
If you write to us, we receive your email address, your name if you include it, and what you write. We use it to answer you and to correct the site if you report a mistake. We don’t sell or rent your message or your email address, and we don’t share them with advertisers.
We keep emails only as long as we need them to answer you and to keep a record of the corrections we make, and then we delete them. We take reasonable steps to protect the emails we keep from loss and from access by anyone who shouldn’t see them. Our email is handled by an email service provider, which may store messages outside Canada.
You don’t need an account to use the site, and the only form on it is the search box. The services below collect information when you visit. It can include your IP address, the type of device and browser you use, your approximate location (such as your city), the pages you view, the site that sent you here, how you use each page, and identifiers stored in cookies.
Search: when you use the site’s search box, the words you search for become part of the page address (for example, /search/?s=daycare) and are shown in the heading of the results page. Like the address of any page, that address reaches Google (through Google Analytics, and AdSense when the results page shows ads), Microsoft Clarity and Cloudflare. Please don’t type personal information into the search box.
Google AdSense shows the ads that pay for the site.
To learn more, read How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
How to turn it off: you can turn off personalized ads from Google in Google Ads Settings. You can opt out of personalized ads from many other ad companies at YourAdChoices.ca (Canada) or aboutads.info. You will still see ads, but they will be less tailored to you.
Google Analytics 4 tells us how many people visit, which pages they read, how they found the site, and roughly where they are and what devices they use. We use it to see which pages are useful and to find problems. Google says that Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses.
How to turn it off: install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, or use a content blocker that blocks Google Analytics.
Microsoft Clarity records how visitors use our pages: clicks, taps, scrolling and mouse movement. From this it makes heatmaps and session recordings (replays of a visit), which we use to find parts of the site that are confusing or broken. Clarity masks the text you type into the search box, so your typing does not appear in recordings. The words you search for still appear in the page address and in the heading of the results page, as explained above, and a recording of the results page can show them. Microsoft may also use Clarity data for its own purposes, as described in the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
How to turn it off: use a content blocker, or your browser’s tracking protection, to block clarity.ms.
Centre pages show a Google map, and some articles show a YouTube video. When one of these loads, Google receives information about your visit and may set cookies, under the Google Privacy Policy.
The site is hosted by Cloudflare, which processes visitors’ IP addresses and the details of each request to deliver pages and to protect the site from attacks. Cloudflare may set a cookie that helps it tell visitors apart from automated traffic.
You can block or delete cookies in your browser’s settings, or browse in a private window. The site works without cookies: you can still read every page, but the ads you see may be less relevant to you. Blocking cookies doesn’t stop every service from collecting information about your visit; to stop Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity, use the options above.
Google LLC, Microsoft Corporation and Cloudflare, Inc. are based in the United States. The information they collect may be stored and processed in the United States and other countries, where courts, law enforcement and national security authorities may be able to access it under the laws of those countries.
Child Caring Canada is written for parents and caregivers. It is not meant for children, and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from children.
You can ask us what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, ask us to delete the emails you sent us, or withdraw your consent. Email editor@childcaring.ca with “Privacy” in the subject line. We will reply within 30 days.
If you are not satisfied with our answer, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada or, if you live in Quebec, the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec.
When we change this policy, we will post the new version on this page and change the effective date at the top. If we start using a new service that collects information about visitors, we will add it here first.
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