Does PIPEDA apply to you?
You collect, use or disclose personal information in the course of commercial activity in Canada, unless a province with substantially similar legislation covers you instead.
- ✓Who it covers: people in Canada.
- ✓In force since 1 January 2001.
- ✓Exposure if you ignore it: Up to CAD $100,000 per violation for specific offences; the Privacy Commissioner's findings are public, which for most companies is the sharper end.
What PIPEDA asks a product to do
Four obligations carry most of the weight for a digital product. They are what the clause set below is written against, and what the scan is looking for evidence of.
- ✓Get meaningful consent, which the Commissioner reads as consent an ordinary person would understand from what they were shown.
- ✓Limit collection to what is necessary for identified purposes, and name those purposes at the point of collection.
- ✓Report breaches that pose a real risk of significant harm to the Commissioner and to the individuals affected.
- ✓Give people access to their information and a way to challenge its accuracy.
What Poliogo puts in your documents
Said plainly, because it matters before you pay rather than after: there is no PIPEDA-specific clause set yet. What your documents get is the global baseline — retention, security safeguards and breach notification — plus the disclosures generated from your detected stack, which is the bulk of what PIPEDA asks a product to publish. If a PIPEDA-specific section is what you need, tell us and it goes in the queue.
- ✓Global Retention Baseline — appended automatically when your stack and jurisdiction call for it.
- ✓Security Safeguards And Breach Notification — appended automatically when your stack and jurisdiction call for it.
Why a generated PIPEDA policy beats a template
A template describes a product someone imagined. This one describes yours, and notices when yours changes.
Written from evidence, not recall
No SDKManifests first, then a vendor-endpoint sweep over the source. A raw fetch to a payment or model API with no SDK installed — the normal shape of AI-generated code — is still detected.
The statutory sections are fixed text
The PIPEDA sections come from a pre-drafted library and are appended from it, not written by a model. Your stack is identified by pattern matching, so a model outage cannot remove a mandatory section. An AI model drafts only the extra clauses you ask for from your own operational notes.
You can explain every paragraph
Beside each clause sits a plain-English note: what it means, and which detected service made it necessary. You will not publish a sentence you could not defend to a customer.
It stays true after launch
DriftEach scan is diffed against the snapshot your documents were generated from. Adding a tracker on a Tuesday produces a pull request, not a quiet inaccuracy discovered during an audit.
The law moves too
A curated bulletin written against the statutes, filtered to the changes your own stack makes relevant — not a news feed. Included from Starter.
One product, several regimes
Most products serve more than one jurisdiction. The regional clause sets stack rather than compete, so a policy can satisfy the GDPR, CCPA and Israeli law at once without three documents.
How it works
A Git repository, a hosting account, or the repository your no-code builder syncs to. Source is read in flight rather than stored, and nothing in it changes except through a pull request you approve.
Every service your code calls, in plain English, with the evidence for each. This is what decides which PIPEDA disclosures your documents need — a product with no advertising pixel should not carry an advertising disclosure.
Privacy policy, cookie policy and — from Starter — terms of service, with the PIPEDA sections appended from the clause library. Those sections are fixed text, not written by a model.
Re-scan whenever you like on any plan, or let a paid plan watch in the background. A stack change becomes a pull request with a plain-English diff, and merging it is the approval.
Questions people ask
Does PIPEDA apply to me?
You collect, use or disclose personal information in the course of commercial activity in Canada, unless a province with substantially similar legislation covers you instead. If you are unsure, the honest answer is that most products serving people in Canada are in scope, and the cost of assuming otherwise is up to cad $100,000 per violation for specific offences; the privacy commissioner's findings are public, which for most companies is the sharper end.
What does Poliogo actually write for PIPEDA?
Said plainly, because it matters before you pay rather than after: there is no PIPEDA-specific clause set yet. What your documents get is the global baseline — retention, security safeguards and breach notification — plus the disclosures generated from your detected stack, which is the bulk of what PIPEDA asks a product to publish. If a PIPEDA-specific section is what you need, tell us and it goes in the queue.
Is a generated policy good enough, or do I need a lawyer?
For routine day-to-day compliance — a privacy policy that matches your product, a working consent banner, and keeping both current as the product changes — this does the heavy lifting from clause logic built from published regulatory text. It does not replace counsel for a regulatory dispute, a corporate transaction or anything unusual about your situation. Poliogo is a compliance management technology platform, not a law firm, and this page is not legal advice.
How does it know what my product does with data?
It reads the project. Dependency manifests first, then a sweep of the source for known vendor endpoints — the URLs your fetch, axios and httpx calls address — so a raw HTTP call to a payment or model API is detected even with no SDK installed. Environment variable names are read as evidence; their values never are.
What happens when the law changes?
Regulation monitoring is a curated bulletin written against the statutes themselves, not a news crawler, and it is filtered to the changes your own stack makes relevant. It is included from Starter. When a change affects you, the update arrives with a plain-English explanation of what it asks for.
Can I see the PIPEDA sections before I commit to anything?
Yes. Connect a project on the Free plan, run the scan and generate the documents — the full text, with the plain-English explanation beside every clause saying what it means and which detected service made it necessary. Nothing is published until you approve it, and no card is asked for.
Generate your PIPEDA documents
Connect a project and see the detected stack in under 60 seconds. Free plan, no credit card, and nothing is published until you approve it. Poliogo is a compliance management technology platform, not a law firm, and this page is not legal advice.
Start free — no credit cardPoliogo is an automated code analysis and document display tool, not a law firm. Poliogo does not provide legal advice, representation, or guarantees of statutory compliance, ADA/WCAG certification, or legal immunity. Visual banners and generated documents are advisory tools and do not substitute for professional legal review.