This page explains what thisblock does with information. The publisher is Simon, in Toronto. You can write to [email protected].
The address you type
When you search, your browser sends the address, or the map point you picked, to this site’s server. The crosshair button asks the browser for your current location and sends that point once, so the server can return the nearest Toronto street address. Businesses sends the business name you type and gets back the matching public licence addresses and any building permit that names that business. The server uses a search to find public records and sends the result back. There is no account. The address is not added to a marketing list and it is not sold. The last address is saved in this browser’s local storage so the next visit can open on the same block. It is not sent anywhere except as the next search. The host may keep a short technical log that includes the time, the page, and an IP address, so the server can be kept online. Those logs are not used to build a profile of you.
City records on the page
The cards are public records the City of Toronto already publishes: business licences, active building permits, noise exemptions, festivals and events, development applications, and address points. A card shows the operating name on a licence, not the client name behind it, and it does not show the business phone number from that file. Event cards skip the phone and email on the city listing. A proposal card can show the city planner’s name and Toronto email from the application file, and it does not show that planner’s phone. Permit cards can show the builder name the city published. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto.
Advertising and cookies
The home page can show Google AdSense once a publisher ID is approved. The ad script does not load until you press Allow ads. If you press Reject ads, that choice is saved in local storage on your browser and the Google ad script is not requested. If you allow ads, Google may set cookies and use information about your browser to choose and measure ads. Google’s description of that processing is at policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
You can change your mind by clearing this site’s data in your browser. That removes the saved choice and the question will appear again.
What this site does not do
thisblock does not ask for payment details. It does not sell personal information. It is not directed at children. It does not ask you to sign in. City open data is not combined with a private dossier about the person at the address you typed.
Asking for a correction
If a card is wrong, the source is the city file, and the correction has to be made there. If something on this site itself is wrong, or you want to ask what the server did with a search, email [email protected]. This policy is written for visitors in Canada, including the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. If a law where you live gives you a right to access or delete information a log still holds, write to that same address and say what you want.