Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Beavers at Work collects, uses, discloses, stores, and protects personal information when you use our website and related services.

We are based in Ontario, Canada and aim to handle personal information in a manner consistent with Canadian privacy principles, including consent, limited collection, limited use, safeguards, openness, access, and accountability.

Account information, such as your name, email address, password credentials, profile photo, and profile details.

Job and marketplace content, such as job titles, descriptions, locations, applications, chat messages, reviews, ratings, and status updates.

Messages and chat history between users are stored in our database so conversations can function, remain available in your inbox, support job coordination, and help us review reports or investigate misuse when needed.

Technical and usage information, such as device information, browser type, IP address, log data, pages viewed, search activity, approximate location signals, and cookie or similar technology data.

Support and safety information, such as reports, inquiries, moderation history, and communications you send to us.

We use personal information to create and manage accounts, publish job posts, show applications, store and display user chats, support messaging, display profiles, provide ratings and reviews, and operate the marketplace.

We also use information to communicate with users, provide support, improve our services, detect misuse, investigate reports, enforce our Terms, protect safety, and comply with legal obligations.

Information you choose to include in job posts, applications, profile details, reviews, and ratings may be visible to other users or the public depending on the feature.

Chat messages are not public, but they are stored by Beavers at Work and may be visible to the users in the conversation and to authorized service personnel when needed for operation, support, safety, legal compliance, or enforcement.

Do not post banking information, passwords, government identification numbers, private access codes, or other sensitive information in public posts, reviews, applications, or platform messages.

Beavers at Work does not process payments, escrow funds, guarantee payment, set prices, or manage invoices between users.

Users are encouraged to discuss private details such as quotes, payment terms, phone numbers, addresses, scheduling, and work-specific arrangements offline and to use their own judgment before sharing personal or financial information.

We do not sell personal information.

We may share information with service providers who help us operate the website, such as hosting, authentication, storage, email, analytics, security, and support providers.

We may disclose information where required or permitted by law, to enforce our Terms, to investigate suspected fraud or illegal activity, to protect users or the public, or in connection with a business transfer such as a merger, financing, or sale of assets.

We may use cookies and similar technologies to keep you signed in, remember preferences, measure usage, secure the website, and improve the service.

You can control cookies through your browser settings, but some features may not work properly if cookies are disabled.

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information we handle.

No website, database, or transmission method is completely secure. Users should avoid sharing highly sensitive information through the platform.

We retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, to provide the service, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, maintain records, and comply with legal obligations.

You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information, subject to legal, safety, fraud-prevention, and record-keeping limits.

Some information may remain in backups, logs, legal records, completed transactions, moderation records, or content already shared with other users where deletion is not technically or legally practical.

The service is intended for adults who can enter into binding agreements. We do not knowingly invite children to offer services through the platform.

Users must not post or accept work involving child labour, unsafe work, or work that violates Ontario employment, occupational health and safety, education, or other applicable laws.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted on this page with a new effective date.

If you have privacy questions or requests, please contact us through the Contact page.