How RollPoll handles personal information, in plain language. Written to meet PIPEDA, Canada's federal privacy law.
If you ask for beta access: your name and email address, and the fact that you agreed we may contact you. That is all.
If you vote in a poll: your phone number, so we can text you a verification code. We use it to check that a real person voted and that they voted only once.
We do not keep it. Once your code is confirmed, the number is turned into a one-way fingerprint — a scrambled value that cannot be turned back into your number. The fingerprint lets us tell that some phone has already voted without us being able to tell which. Your actual number is never written to our records.
Your vote is published against a random registration number, never against your name or your phone. Anyone can look up a registration number on the public results; nobody can work out whose it is.
We do not sell your information. We do not share it with the organizer running the poll — they see the results, not the voters. We do not use your phone number to market anything to you.
If you reply STOP to one of our texts, that number stops receiving anything from us, permanently, until you text START. Nobody at RollPoll and no poll organizer can add or remove a number from that list — only you can, from your own phone.
A vote that is never confirmed by code is deleted within 24 hours. Confirmed votes are kept for as long as the poll's results are published. Beta signup details are kept until you ask us to delete them.
You can ask us what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Write to hello@rollpoll.ca and we will respond.
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