Privacy Policy

1. About This Site

Neepawa Online (neepawaonline.com) is a community information website serving Neepawa, Manitoba. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and your choices regarding your information.

2. Information We Collect

Contact form submissions. When you use our contact form, we collect your name, email address, and the content of your message. This information is used solely to respond to your enquiry.

Server logs. Like most websites, our hosting provider automatically records standard web server logs including IP addresses, browser type, referring pages, and access times. This data is used for security and site maintenance only and is not shared with third parties.

Cookies. Neepawa Online does not use tracking cookies or advertising cookies. Our site may use a session cookie solely for technical purposes (e.g., form security). We do not use Google Analytics or any third-party analytics platform.

3. Third-Party Services

Our site loads fonts from Google Fonts and weather data from Open-Meteo. These requests are made directly from your browser and are subject to the respective providers' privacy policies. We embed a Google Maps iframe on our Map page, which is loaded only when you click to activate it.

We link to external websites (businesses, government, organizations). We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites.

4. How We Use Information

We use the information collected only to:

• Respond to contact form submissions
• Maintain and improve the website
• Diagnose technical issues

We do not sell, rent, or share your personal information with third parties for marketing purposes.

5. Data Retention

Contact form messages are retained only as long as necessary to respond to your enquiry. Server log files are retained for a short period for security purposes and then deleted.

6. Your Rights

You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of any personal information you have submitted to us by contacting us via the Contact page. We will respond within a reasonable time.

7. Security

We take reasonable precautions to protect information submitted through this site. However, no internet transmission is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted to or from our site.

8. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The date at the top of this page reflects when it was last revised. Continued use of the site after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

9. Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.