CanTrust

Privacy Policy

Learn how CanTrust collects, uses, protects, and shares information.

Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 20, 2026

CanTrust ("CanTrust," "we," "us," or "our") respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit or use cantrust.shop, create an account, submit content, or interact with our services.

Information We Collect

We may collect the following types of information:

  • Account information: your name, email address, login method, and account authentication details.
  • Profile and submission information: content you submit to CanTrust, including names, links, descriptions, categories, tags, images, and related metadata.
  • Communications: messages you send to us, support requests, email preferences, and subscription or unsubscribe activity.
  • Usage information: pages viewed, actions taken, device and browser information, approximate location, referring URLs, and similar analytics data.
  • Authentication information: information provided by third-party login providers such as Google when you choose to sign in with them.
  • AI feature inputs: website URLs, descriptions, or other content you provide when using AI-assisted features.

How We Use Information

We use information to:

  • Provide, operate, maintain, and improve CanTrust.
  • Create and manage user accounts.
  • Review, publish, edit, reject, or remove submitted content.
  • Send transactional emails, verification emails, password reset emails, account notices, and service updates.
  • Analyze site performance, usage patterns, and product quality.
  • Prevent abuse, spam, fraud, security incidents, and unauthorized access.
  • Support AI-assisted content generation, website analysis, or content formatting features.
  • Comply with applicable legal obligations and enforce our terms or policies.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

CanTrust may use cookies and similar technologies to keep you signed in, support authentication, remember preferences, protect forms, measure site usage, and improve service reliability. You can adjust cookie settings through your browser, but some features may not work correctly if cookies are disabled.

Analytics

We may use analytics tools, including Google Analytics, to understand how visitors use CanTrust. These tools may collect usage and device information through cookies or similar technologies. Analytics data helps us improve the website, identify technical issues, and understand feature usage.

Email Services

We use third-party email infrastructure, such as Resend, to send account-related and service-related emails. These providers may process your email address and message metadata only as needed to deliver emails and support service reliability.

AI Services

When you use AI-assisted features, the information you provide may be sent to third-party AI service providers to generate, analyze, or structure content. Please avoid submitting sensitive personal information, confidential information, or information you do not have the right to share.

Third-Party Services

CanTrust may rely on third-party providers for hosting, content management, authentication, analytics, email delivery, storage, AI processing, and infrastructure. These providers may process information on our behalf according to their own terms and privacy practices.

Examples of services we may use include:

  • Sanity for content management and data storage.
  • Google for authentication, analytics, or AI services.
  • Resend for email delivery.
  • Cloudflare and hosting providers for performance, security, DNS, and infrastructure.

Sharing of Information

We do not sell your personal information. We may share information only when necessary to:

  • Operate and improve CanTrust.
  • Work with service providers acting on our behalf.
  • Respond to legal requests or comply with applicable law.
  • Protect the rights, safety, security, or integrity of CanTrust, our users, or the public.
  • Complete a business transaction such as a merger, acquisition, financing, or asset transfer.

Public Content

Some content submitted to CanTrust may be published publicly, including names, descriptions, links, images, categories, tags, and other listing information. Please do not submit content that you do not want to be public.

Data Retention

We retain information for as long as needed to provide CanTrust, maintain records, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, prevent abuse, and comply with legal obligations. We may delete or anonymize information when it is no longer needed.

Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect information. However, no internet service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Your Choices

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights to access, update, correct, delete, or export certain personal information. You may also unsubscribe from certain emails using the unsubscribe link where available.

To make a privacy request, contact us at [email protected].

Children's Privacy

CanTrust is not intended for children under 13 years old, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so we can take appropriate action.

International Users

CanTrust may be operated from, or use service providers located in, different countries. By using CanTrust, you understand that information may be transferred to and processed in countries other than where you live.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make changes, we will update the "Last updated" date above. Continued use of CanTrust after changes means you accept the updated policy.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle information, contact us at:

Email: [email protected]