Privacy policy

Who we are

Cartekks is a car-buying service in development. It is operated by Saad Asad, 92 Manley Lane, Milton, Ontario L9T 5N9, Canada. For anything about your personal information, email admin@cartekks.com. Saad is responsible for how Cartekks handles personal information.

We follow Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL).

What we collect

When you join the waitlist we collect:

• Your first name and email address.
• If you choose to share them: your postal code or city, what you are shopping for, when you plan to buy, and how you heard about us.
• A record of your consent to receive email: the exact consent wording and its version, the date and time (UTC), the page you signed up on, your IP address, and your browser's user agent (a short line of text that names your browser and device type).

When you unsubscribe we record the time and how you did it (the link in an email, your email program's unsubscribe button, or our unsubscribe page), so we can honour it and prove we did.

We also record whether our welcome email was delivered to our email provider, so we can fix problems.

We do not use analytics, advertising trackers or tracking cookies on this site. The only cookie we set is a sign-in cookie for the Cartekks admin page, which visitors never receive.

Why we collect it

• To send you the emails you asked for: launch updates, early access invitations and occasional product news.
• To decide where to launch first and what to build, using your location and shopping details in aggregate.
• To keep a record that you consented, as CASL requires.

We do not use your information for anything else, and we never sell or rent it.

Your consent

We only email you if you tick the consent box on the waitlist form. You can withdraw consent at any time using the unsubscribe link in any email, our unsubscribe page, or by emailing us. Unsubscribing through the link or the page takes effect immediately and automatically. Requests sent by email are handled by hand, right away and always within 10 business days.

How long we keep it

We keep waitlist information until Cartekks launches plus 12 months, or until you unsubscribe, whichever comes first. After you unsubscribe we keep only your email address and the date you left, so we never email you again by mistake, and the consent record for as long as the law requires us to be able to show it. If you want us to erase everything, including that record, ask us and we will delete it in full.

Who we share it with

We share your information only with two service providers that work on our behalf:

• Netlify, Inc. (hosting and storage) hosts this website and stores the waitlist in our Netlify account.
• Resend (email delivery provider) delivers the emails we send you. It receives your first name and email address, and the content of each email.

Both are based in the United States, so your information may be stored and processed outside Canada and may be accessible to authorities there under local law. We do not share your information with dealers, advertisers or anyone else.

This site loads its fonts from Google Fonts. Your browser connects to Google to download them, which shares your IP address with Google. We do not send Google any form data.

How we protect it

The site is served over HTTPS. The waitlist is stored in private storage in our Netlify account and can only be viewed through a password-protected admin page. Any export is kept off public repositories. Only the people who run Cartekks can access it.

Your rights

You can ask to see the information we hold about you, correct it, or have it deleted in full. Email admin@cartekks.com from the address you signed up with. We will reply within 30 days.

If you are in the European Union or United Kingdom, you also have the right to object to processing, to ask us to restrict it, and to receive your data in a portable format. Our basis for processing is your consent.

If you are not satisfied with our answer, you can contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

Changes to this policy

If we change how we use your information, we will update this page and the date at the top. If a change is significant, we will email the waitlist before it takes effect.

Contact

Cartekks, operated by Saad Asad
92 Manley Lane, Milton, Ontario L9T 5N9, Canada
admin@cartekks.com