Privacy Policy

We take the protection of your personal information seriously. This policy explains, in plain language and in accordance with Québec’s Act 25, what we collect — and above all what we do not collect.

1. Who is responsible

The person responsible for the protection of personal information for the tresbonslocataires.ca website is the TBL Editorial Team. If you have any questions about this policy or wish to exercise your rights, write to us via the Contact page.

2. What we collect

Browsing: when you visit the site, we create no account and ask for no personal information to read our articles. Your browser may keep, locally on your device only, your cookie choice — see section 4.

Contact form and story sharing: if you use our form, your message goes through your own email software (mailto): we receive only what you choose to write to us (name, email address, message content). This information is used exclusively to reply to you and is never sold, rented or shared with third parties for advertising purposes.

What we do not do: we sell no data and we create no advertising profile on our own behalf. Third-party audience measurement and advertising cookies (including Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity and the Meta Pixel for audience measurement, as well as Google AdSense for advertising) may nevertheless be placed on your device, solely according to your consent choices, as detailed in sections 4 and 5 below.

3. Purposes of use

• Replying to messages sent via the Contact page;
• Reading and, where applicable, moderating stories submitted for the "True Stories" section;
• Ensuring the technical operation and security of the site.

4. Cookies

The site uses a single functional cookie, stored in your browser (localStorage): your “accept / refuse” choice on the consent banner. If you click “Accept”, we load Google Analytics 4 (audience measurement, IP anonymization enabled), Microsoft Clarity (anonymized heat maps and session recordings) and the Meta Pixel (measuring traffic from Facebook and retargeting visitors, via Meta Platforms) to understand which pages are viewed and how the site is used; no audience measurement cookie is placed if you refuse. We also use Ahrefs Analytics, an audience measurement tool that works without cookies: it places no cookie on your device and stays active whether you accept or refuse the measurement cookies described above. We also use Grow, Mediavine’s audience measurement and engagement tool: it uses first-party cookies to measure visitor traffic and engagement, for the purpose of assessing our eligibility for Mediavine’s advertising program. Third-party cookies may also be placed by the external platforms to which the site redirects you when you open them (for example a TikTok video, which opens on tiktok.com in a new tab) — these platforms are subject to their own policies.

5. Google AdSense advertising and third-party cookies

We use Google AdSense to display ads on our website.

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to display ads based on users’ previous visits to this website or to other websites.
• Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to display ads to our users based on their visit to our site and/or to other sites on the Internet.
• Users can opt out of personalized advertising at any time by visiting the Google Ads Settings page. You can also visit the How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps page to learn more about how Google manages data.

6. Retention and security

Messages received are kept only as long as needed to reply to them, then deleted on request. The site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages and served over HTTPS. Despite our precautions, no transmission over the Internet is fully secure: never send us banking information or government identification numbers.

7. Your rights (Act 25)

You have the right to access the personal information we hold about you, to have it corrected and to request its deletion. To exercise these rights, write to us via the Contact page, specifying your request: we will reply within 30 days.

8. Changes

This policy may be updated to reflect changes to the site or the law. The date of the last revision is shown below.

Last revised: October 22, 2026.