Overview
This privacy policy explains how Residential Permits & Approvals Canada and its publisher, WRS Web Solutions Inc., handle information associated with this website. The site does not provide user accounts and does not ask visitors to upload permit applications, plans, identification documents or private project files.
Information handled by this site
When you visit the site, the hosting environment may automatically record ordinary technical information such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser and device type, requested page, referring page, date and time, and error or security information. This information may be used to operate the site, investigate technical problems, prevent abuse and understand aggregate traffic.
Browser-based tools and local storage
Some checklists, worksheets and trackers can save information in your browser when you select a Save option. This information is stored locally on your device and is not transmitted to the publisher by those tools. You can remove it by using the tool's reset function or clearing this site's browser storage.
Do not enter confidential information, permit numbers, access codes, financial account details or other sensitive personal information into a browser-based tool.
Google AdSense, advertising cookies and similar technologies
This site may display advertising through Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, may place and read cookies on your browser or use web beacons, IP addresses and other identifiers as a result of ad serving on this site.
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a visitor's previous visits to this website or to other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables Google and its advertising partners to serve ads based on visits to this site and other sites on the Internet. Depending on your location, account settings and consent choices, ads may be personalized or non-personalized.
Google receives information when its services are used on a site, which can include the page URL, IP address and browser or device information. Google may use that information to deliver and measure advertising, prevent fraud and abuse, maintain its services and, where permitted, personalize ads.
- How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services
- Google Ads Settings, where users can control or opt out of personalized advertising from Google
- YourAdChoices opt-out page, which may provide choices for participating third-party advertising companies
Other advertising partners
Google AdSense may permit Google-certified advertising networks, bidders and other ad technology partners to participate in ad delivery and measurement. The current partners used for visitors in regulated regions are identified through the consent message and associated vendor information. Those companies may offer their own privacy controls or opt-out methods.
The list of participating providers can change as Google changes its commonly used provider set or as account settings change. The consent message, when shown, is intended to provide the current provider information and links applicable to that visitor.
Consent for the EEA, United Kingdom and Switzerland
Where required, visitors in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom and Switzerland are shown a consent message through a Google-certified consent management platform before consent-requiring advertising storage or personalized-ad processing occurs. The message provides choices concerning cookies, local storage, advertising purposes and participating providers.
Consent choices can be changed or withdrawn through the privacy controls supplied with the consent message where those controls are available. Users can also manage Google ad personalization through Google Ads Settings.
Canadian and other regional privacy choices
Google's Privacy & messaging tools may display region-specific notices or opt-out controls where required. Browser settings can also be used to block or remove cookies, although doing so may affect advertising, saved tool information or some site functions.
Analytics and aggregate reporting
The site does not currently embed a separate Google Analytics tracking tag. Aggregate reporting may nevertheless be available through the hosting service and Google AdSense, including page views, approximate location, device category, ad performance and technical diagnostics.
Information sharing and sale
The publisher does not sell personal information. Technical information may be processed by service providers that support hosting, security, content delivery and advertising. Information may also be disclosed where reasonably necessary to comply with law, protect the site or investigate abuse.
Retention and security
Server-log retention is controlled by the hosting environment and operational needs. Locally saved tool information remains on the visitor's device until the visitor removes it. Reasonable safeguards are used, but no website or Internet transmission can be guaranteed completely secure.
External links
This site links to municipal, provincial, territorial, federal and other third-party websites. Those sites have their own privacy policies and practices. Following an external link means leaving this site.
Children
This site provides general household and property-planning information. It is not directed to children and is not designed to collect personal information from children.
Privacy questions and requests
Privacy questions or documented requests concerning information under the publisher's control may be submitted through the site's limited-purpose contact page. Include only the information reasonably needed to understand and verify the request.
Changes to this policy
This policy may be updated when the site's tools, advertising arrangements, consent requirements or applicable laws change. Last updated August 6, 2026.