Canada Quant Labs Inc. (“CQL”, “we”, “us”) operates cql.ca as a marketing surface for our open-weight model work. This policy explains what personal information we collect through this site, how we use it, and how to reach us with questions or requests.
1Who we are
Canada Quant Labs Inc. is a federally incorporated Canadian company with its principal office in Victoria, British Columbia. We are a spinout of Sunday Market Research. Our public artifacts — model weights, reproduction repositories, model cards — live on Hugging Face and GitHub under the canada-quant organization. This policy covers cql.ca only; the Hugging Face and GitHub platforms publish their own privacy policies that govern conduct on those platforms.
2What we collect
We collect personal information only when you submit one of the three forms on this site:
- Partnerships form. Your name, email address, organization, the vertical you selected, and the free-text message you wrote.
- Press form. Your name, outlet, email address, the message you wrote, and an optional deadline.
- Quant-request form. Your name, contact (email address or Hugging Face handle), the base model you nominated, target quantization, why-it-matters text, and an optional “who's waiting to deploy this” field.
When you submit a form, our serverless backend records the standard HTTP request metadata that any internet service receives — submission timestamp and your IP address at the time of submission — for abuse-prevention and rate-limiting purposes.
What we do not collect or use
- No analytics scripts, ad pixels, or behavioural trackers run on this site.
- No cookies are set by cql.ca. The site is fully functional with cookies disabled.
- No newsletter signup, no marketing list, no remarketing.
- We do not buy, rent, or enrich your data from third-party data brokers.
3How we use it
Submissions are delivered to the appropriate internal inbox — partnerships@cql.ca or press@cql.ca — and used solely to respond to your inquiry, evaluate the partnership or model request, and follow up. We retain the original submission in our mail system as part of the conversation history so that the people responding can see the original context.
We do not use submitted information to train models. Free-text fields you submit through the contact forms are not part of any training corpus and are not redistributed.
4How it is processed and stored
The site is hosted on Amazon Web Services (Canada Central region, ca-central-1) using Amazon S3 for static hosting and Amazon CloudFront for delivery. Form submissions are handled by an AWS Lambda function and delivered as email through Amazon Simple Email Service (SES). The inboxes that receive submissions are operated under our domain.
Submitted information is therefore processed and stored on Amazon infrastructure in Canada. AWS may transfer aggregate operational data outside of Canada in the normal course of operating its global network; the submission content itself is processed in ca-central-1.
5How long we keep it
We retain form submissions in our email system for as long as the corresponding business relationship or evaluation is active, and for a reasonable period afterward to maintain continuity of correspondence — typically up to twenty-four months from your last contact with us. You can ask us to delete your data sooner; see Section 7.
Backend request logs (timestamps, IP addresses, abuse-prevention signals) are retained for a short operational window — typically up to ninety days — then expire automatically.
6Who else sees it
We do not sell or share personal information with third parties for their own marketing purposes. We rely on the following service providers, who process information on our behalf under their published agreements:
- Amazon Web Services, Inc. — hosting, content delivery, email delivery (S3, CloudFront, Lambda, SES). Region: ca-central-1.
- Google Fonts — fonts are loaded from fonts.googleapis.com when you visit a page on this site. Google may log the request as part of font delivery; see Google Fonts privacy. If this is a concern, you can block third-party font loading in your browser without breaking the site.
We may also be required to disclose information in response to a valid legal process (e.g., a Canadian court order) or to protect against fraud, abuse, or security threats.
7Your rights
Under Canadian privacy law — the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), British Columbia's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), and equivalent provincial legislation — you have the right to:
- Ask whether we hold personal information about you, and request a copy of it.
- Ask us to correct information that is inaccurate or incomplete.
- Ask us to delete information we no longer need to retain.
- Withdraw consent for future use, subject to legal and contractual constraints.
- File a complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (priv.gc.ca) or the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia (oipc.bc.ca).
To exercise any of these rights, email privacy@cql.ca. We respond to verified requests within thirty days.
8Security
Form submissions move over TLS to our backend, and emails are stored in mailbox systems protected by standard access controls. No system is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable steps proportionate to the sensitivity of what you send us. Please do not send sensitive personal information (health records, identification documents, financial credentials) through the contact forms — use email and arrange a more appropriate channel with us first.
9Children
This site is intended for business audiences. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of eighteen. If you believe a minor has submitted information through this site, contact privacy@cql.ca and we will delete it.
10Changes to this policy
We may revise this policy as our practices or the law evolves. The effective date at the top of this page reflects the current version. Material changes will be reflected on this page; for substantial changes affecting how we use existing submissions, we will contact you at the email address you provided.
11Contact
Privacy questions, access requests, or correction requests:
- Email: privacy@cql.ca
- Mail: Canada Quant Labs Inc., Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (request the postal address by email if you need to send physical mail).