Privacy Policy

Where Can I Watch (hereafter abbreviated "WCIW") is a service currently operated as a sole proprietorship by Joshua Gorner, an individual residing in Ontario, Canada (hereafter "we", "us", or the "Publisher"). This privacy policy explains how the Publisher uses personal data we collect from you when you use WCIW. By accessing WCIW, you consent to this privacy policy.

This website is published from Canada and is only intended for use by Canadian residents.

This privacy policy was last updated on June 25, 2023. We reserve the right to update this policy without notice and thus encourage you to review this page, and in particular the "Significant revisions" section, regularly.

What data do we collect?

When you access WCIW, our third-party service providers collect non-personally-identifying information that is typically made available by web browsers and servers, such as external IP addresses, the browser used, any referring site, and the dates and times of each visit. In some circumstances, this information may be obtained in part using browser cookies, as described below.

In order to register (i.e. sign up for emails or a paid membership), we require your email address. You can unsubscribe from these emails at any time using the "Unsubscribe" link provided at the bottom of the emails, or by clicking here and turning off the "Email newsletter" toggle. We will not use your email address for any other purpose unless specifically requested.

While our membership management portal allows you to enter your name, you are under no obligation to do so. However, if you choose to become a paid member, the name from your payment information may be associated with your account.

Member authentication is handled by sending an email to your previously-registered address when you sign in, which includes a "magic link" which sets the session in your browser (see "What types of cookies do we use, and for what purposes?", below). As such, we do not collect or store any member passwords.

If you choose to make a financial contribution to WCIW, either through our optional paid membership, or on a one-time basis through our page on Buy Me a Coffee (BMAC), we can access some of the information collected by Stripe (our main payment processor) and/or BMAC. This information may include personally-identifiable information including your name and/or email address, your postal code, and partially-redacted payment information (such as the last four digits of a payment card number). Buy Me a Coffee and Stripe both have separate privacy policies that we encourage you to review before using their services in relation to WCIW.

What do we use your information for?

We, and our service providers, collect and use this information in order to:

1. understand how our services are used, such as which pages are most popular, when it's being accessed, and how users are being referred to WCIW;
2. process payments (including recurring payments for paid memberships) when you choose to subscribe to or support WCIW; and
3. manage free and paid memberships, including member authentication, and by sending email newsletters to you, if you choose to subscribe to them.

How do we store and protect your information?

We use a variety of security measures and best practices, including multi-factor authentication on all service provider accounts on which it is supported, to ensure that any personal information that you provide, directly or indirectly, remains safe and is only accessible by the Publisher (or, in limited circumstances, by our service providers).

We review all of our service providers on a regular basis to ensure they are also maintaining a high level of security, and are keeping confidential any information that our users have not explicitly chosen to share publicly (e.g., supporter names on our Buy Me a Coffee page).

Do we share any of your information with outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to any outside parties, except to the extent that such information is handled by our service providers as discussed above, or as may be required to conduct our business (i.e., accounting or legal purposes).

We may also release information if we reasonably believe such release is necessary in order to comply with the law, or to protect our (or others') rights, property or safety.

Finally, in the event that the WCIW service is transferred by the Publisher to a different entity, ownership of (or access to) that information will also be transferred to the new owner. (We mainly intend this to cover situations like future incorporation, but in theory it could also cover other transactions.)

Do we use cookies?

Yes. HTTP cookies are small text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behaviour information. When you visit WCIW, we, and our service providers, may collect information from you automatically through cookies.

What types of cookies do we use, and for what purposes?

Functional: If you choose to sign up for and use a membership (either paid or free), our content platform provider Ghost will set two cookies: ghost-members-ssr and ghost-members-ssr.sig, which are required to authenticate you.

Our payment provider for paid subscriptions, Stripe, may also set cookies related to fraud prevention, including __stripe_sid and __stripe_mid, even if you do not attempt a payment transaction.

All of these are, from WCIW's perspective, "functional" cookies. Blocking them will not prevent you from accessing the website as a whole, but doing so will likely prevent you from signing up for paid subscriptions and accessing related exclusive content.

Strictly necessary: In the past, Cloudflare (one of the intermediate hosting providers used by WCIW's main hosting provider, Ghost) has set what it considers "strictly necessary" cookies for traffic management and protection purposes. As of June 2023, it is our understanding that these cookies are no longer applicable to WCIW, however it is possible they may be re-enabled in the future without notice to us. In this event, blocking such cookies may make it more difficult for you to access the WCIW service. You can find out more about these cookies here.

Note:

• As of June 25, 2023, we are no longer using cookies for analytics purposes, as we have transitioned to Fathom Analytics, a cookie-free analytics platform. You can visit their website for more information about how they collect data.
• We do not use cookies or tracking pixels on WCIW in association with the affiliate programs we participate in (in fact, we've declined it when it's been suggested to us). However, clicking affiliate links may result in cookies being set in other domains by the affiliate program operator in question, or its providers.

How do I manage cookies?

If you do not want to accept cookies, you can set your browser to block them Instructions are available for the following major browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari.

How do I contact you?

If you have questions above this privacy policy or the data we hold on you, please email us at hello@wherecaniwatch.ca.

This privacy policy is adapted in part from the Proton Technologies template posted here.

Significant revisions

If there are updates to this Privacy Policy, they will be summarized here.

• June 24-25, 2023 – Removed references to PayPal as that payment option was discontinued by BMAC at the end of 2021. Removed references to Google Analytics as we have transitioned to using Fathom Analytics (which does not use cookies or similar identifiers). Updated usage of Stripe and Cloudflare cookies.
• May 26, 2021 – Noted additional cookies that are now being set in relation to paid membership support, plus a few other details which we did not catch in our previous revision.
• May 25, 2021 – Updated to reflect the introduction of paid memberships.
• January 24, 2021 – Updated to reflect account support (i.e., emails). Some minor copyedits (e.g. a few instances where "Proprietor" was used instead of the intended "Publisher")
• November 25, 2020 – initial version posted.