Privacy

Privacy policy

Last updated November 6, 2026

This site, shanemarshall.ca, is run by Shane Marshall in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. It is a personal portfolio. This page explains what information it handles and why. I follow Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL).

What I collect

Contact form. If you write to me through the contact form, I receive the name, email address and message you type in. I collect it only so I can read and reply to your inquiry. Submitting the form is your consent for me to use it for that purpose.

Nothing else on purpose. The site has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising or tracking pixels, and no cookies of its own. I do not build a profile of visitors.

Services that handle data for the site

• Cloudflare hosts and delivers the site. Like any host, it sees technical request data such as your IP address, browser type and the pages requested, and keeps standard server logs for security and reliability.
• Web3Forms receives contact form submissions and forwards them to my inbox.
• hCaptcha, loaded through the contact form, checks that a submission comes from a person. It may read device and browser signals and set a cookie or similar storage for that check. It loads on the contact page only.
• Google Fonts serves the site's typefaces. Your browser requests them from Google, which receives your IP address when it does.

These providers have their own privacy policies and may process data outside Canada, including in the United States. I do not sell your information and do not share it with anyone else.

Links to other sites

The site links to LinkedIn and Brand Pulse Marketing. Once you follow a link, that site's own privacy practices apply.

How long I keep it

I keep an inquiry and my reply for as long as the conversation or a possible hiring discussion continues, then delete it within a reasonable time after that. You can ask me to delete it sooner at any point.

Email and CASL

I use your email address to reply to the message you sent. I do not add you to a mailing list or send marketing messages.

Your choices

You can ask to see the information I hold about you, correct it, or have it deleted, and you can withdraw your consent to my keeping it. Send a message through the contact form and mention that it is a privacy request. I will respond within the time the law requires. If you are not satisfied with my response, you can contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

Security and children

I use reputable providers and encrypted connections (HTTPS), and I do not store form submissions on this site. No method of transmission is perfectly secure, so please do not send sensitive account or financial details through the form. The site is not aimed at children and I do not knowingly collect information from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, I will update the date above. The current version always lives at this address.