Privacy policy for Home & Away, Alberta Game Day

Who this policy covers

This policy applies to homeandawaybar.com, published as Home & Away, Alberta Game Day, a guide to watching hockey and football in Calgary and Edmonton. Home & Away, Alberta Game Day publishes this website and is responsible for the processing described on this page. Questions about it go to the editorial desk at [email protected].

The site has no user accounts, no sign-up, no comments, no newsletter, no shop and no contact form. Most of the personal information rules that apply to bigger websites have little to attach to here, but the parts that do apply are set out below in plain terms.

This policy covers this website only. The rules for using the site itself are in the terms of use, and the two documents are read together.

Cookies and tracking

The site sets no cookies. It uses no analytics service, no advertising trackers, no social media pixels and no affiliate links, and the pages load no third-party scripts, fonts, maps or embedded videos. Nobody is building a profile of your visit from this site.

Because no cookies are set and nothing is tracked, there is no cookie banner. A banner would ask permission for something that does not happen.

The one preference stored in your browser

The site has a Home and Away colour switch that changes the look of the pages. If you use it, your choice is saved in your browser's local storage under the key hna-kit, holding either the home or the away setting, so the same colours load next time.

That value stays on your device. It is never sent to the server, it identifies nothing about you and it is not shared with anyone. You can remove it at any time by clearing site data for homeandawaybar.com in your browser settings, and the site simply returns to its default colours. Nothing else is stored in your browser by the site.

Server logs kept by the host

Like almost every website, the site runs on a web server operated by a hosting provider. When your browser requests a page, the server records standard technical details: your IP address, the date and time, the page requested, the referring page if your browser sends one, and the browser and device type it reports.

These logs are kept by the host for security and to keep the site running, for example to spot attacks, block abusive traffic and fix errors. They are held for a limited period and then deleted under the host's own retention rules. They are not used to identify readers, not combined with other data and not used for marketing. The editorial desk does not use them to analyse who reads which page.

Email you send to the desk

If you email [email protected], the desk receives your email address, your name if your mail program shows one, and whatever you put in the message. That information is used only to read your message, reply to it and correct or update a page where needed.

Your email is not added to a mailing list, not sold, not rented and not passed to venues, teams or anyone else. It is kept only as long as it is useful for dealing with your message and for keeping a record of corrections, then deleted. You can ask for your correspondence to be deleted sooner, and that request will be carried out unless a law requires the record to be kept.

Email travels through ordinary mail providers. Please do not send sensitive personal information, such as financial or health details, to the desk.

Links to other websites

Pages link to outside sites such as arena pages, Calgary Transit, the City of Edmonton, the AGLC, GameSense Alberta and Alberta Health Services, and to venues' own websites. Once you follow a link, the other site's privacy policy applies, not this one. Those sites may set their own cookies.

The site names no betting operators and links to none. The betting section explains rules for adults 18 and over who are physically located in Alberta and does not collect any information from you.

Your rights under Canadian and Alberta law

Private sector organizations in Canada handle personal information under the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and, in Alberta, the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). In general terms, these laws give you the right to know what personal information an organization holds about you, to ask for a copy, to ask for it to be corrected if it is wrong, and to withdraw consent to its use where that is possible.

Here, the only personal information the desk could hold is email you have sent. To ask what is held, to correct it or to have it deleted, write to [email protected] from the address you used. You may be asked to confirm that the address is yours before anything is released or removed. A reply will be sent within the time the law allows.

If you are not satisfied with the answer, you can contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada or the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta.

Children and changes to this policy

The site is written for adults. It does not knowingly collect information from children, and the betting pages are for people 18 and over only. If a child has emailed the desk and a parent wants the message removed, write in and it will be deleted.

If the way the site handles information changes, for example if a new feature ever needed a cookie, this page will be updated first and the date at the top will change. The version you are reading carries the date shown at the top of the page. The about page and the contact page have more on how the guide works.