Privacy · static pages, one log file, zero trackers
MineBit Canada Privacy in Plain Terms, Server Logs and Nothing Else
Most privacy policies run long because the site behind them is busy collecting. This one is short for the opposite reason. Nothing to sign up for, nothing measuring you, one log file that forgets you.
The only record
What a Server Log Holds When You Open a MineBit Page Here
This site is a stack of static files: no database, no login system, no account in your name. What does exist is the web server's access log, which every server writes by default, adding a line each time a file leaves the machine.
That line carries your IP address, the moment of the request, the file asked for, the status code, your browser's user-agent string and whichever page sent you. Nobody types it. Its honest uses are catching a page that has started returning errors and spotting a bot hammering the server overnight.
No consent wall
Why This MineBit Site Shows You No Cookie Banner
Consent pop-ups exist because of the machinery behind them: measurement tags, advertising identifiers, remarketing lists. None of it is installed on these pages. No analytics tag, no social pixel, no session recorder, not one cookie set by minebitcanada.com.
With nothing non-essential to agree to, a banner would be theatre — a box asking your blessing for tracking that was never loaded. One fewer thing to click feels like a mercy.
No input
Nothing on These MineBit Pages Asks You to Type Anything
You will not find a contact form here, or a newsletter box, or a chat widget, or a comment thread. No field for a name, an email, a birth date or a card number.
Writing to us is different, and entirely your call. An email to [email protected] lands in an ordinary mailbox, answers you, then gets deleted. Correction requests to the editor address work the same way, as the about page describes.
Leaving this site
Clicking Through to MineBit Hands You to Its Own Policy
Every Play button opens minebit.com in a fresh tab through a redirect carrying an affiliate reference. From the instant that tab paints you are the operator's visitor, and MineBit's privacy notice and cookie policy are the documents that matter.
Expect those to allow far more than happens here: its own cookies, its own measurement, and identity documents gathered at verification if you register. None of that is under our control. What the operator never does is tell us anything about you as an individual — commission reports arrive as counts, not names.
Retention
How Long MineBit Page Logs Survive Before Deletion
Access logs rotate on a thirty-day cycle and the rotated files are destroyed rather than archived, so a request you made five weeks ago no longer exists anywhere we can reach.
Site backups hold markup, stylesheet and images — no visitor data, because there is none to copy. Nothing is sold, rented or handed to a broker. Not now, not later, not for any price.
Federal law
Your PIPEDA Rights Over Data From This MineBit Site
The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act is the federal statute covering a commercial site like this one. Under it you can ask what personal information is held about you, request a copy, have an inaccuracy fixed, and escalate a poor answer to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
The likely outcome, honestly: a short answer. An IP address inside a rotating log is the only candidate, and finding your lines means giving us a date and the address you browsed from. Thirty days is the statutory maximum; it rarely takes that.
Quebec
Quebec's Law 25 and Readers of This MineBit Site
Read this from Quebec and a tighter provincial regime sits over the federal one: the modernised private-sector law known as Law 25. It tightens how consent must be obtained, requires a named privacy officer, obliges organisations to report confidentiality incidents, and grants a portability right federal law lacks.
Most of its weight falls on organisations that profile individuals or move personal data abroad in volume, which is not this site's business. Name Law 25 in your email and the request is handled under it.
Reader questions
Privacy Points Readers Raise About This MineBit Site
None. No consent cookie, no preference cookie, no session cookie — static files have nothing to remember. Your browser may cache an image or the stylesheet, which is storage on your device, not something we can read.
Not by us. An IP address plus a browser string counts as personal information under Canadian law, but we hold nothing to join it to. Your provider could tie an address to an account; a static site cannot.
No measurement script of any kind is installed. That is unusual for an affiliate site and it costs us any view of which pages get read. Commission is tracked by the operator after the click.
Whatever its own privacy policy says, which is a separate document from this one. Expect cookies, analytics and, at registration, identity documents for verification. Read it before you deposit rather than afterwards.
Email [email protected], name the right you are exercising, and include the date and address you browsed from so the log lines can be found. PIPEDA allows thirty days to reply.