Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 17, 2026

Open Compensation (opencompensation.org) is a free, independent transparency tool that aggregates publicly disclosed Canadian public sector salary data. This privacy policy explains what data we display, how we handle visitor information, and your rights.

1. What Data We Display

Open Compensation aggregates and displays public sector salary data that is already publicly available through government disclosure programs. This includes: • Ontario: Public Sector Salary Disclosure (Sunshine List), published annually by the Ontario government for employees earning $100,000+ in salary. • British Columbia: Public Sector Executive Compensation, published by the BC government. • Manitoba: Public Sector Compensation Disclosure, published by the Manitoba government. • Alberta: Public Sector Body Compensation Disclosure, published by the Alberta government. All data displayed on this site is sourced from official government publications and is already part of the public record.

2. Legal Basis for Data Display

The compensation data displayed on Open Compensation is collected and published by Canadian federal and provincial governments under their respective disclosure legislation: • Ontario's Public Sector Salary Disclosure Act, 1996 • British Columbia's Public Sector Employers Council reporting requirements • Manitoba's Public Sector Compensation Disclosure Act • Alberta's Public Sector Compensation Transparency Act As this information is part of the public record, its display and aggregation is lawful and consistent with the purposes for which it was originally disclosed: promoting transparency and accountability in the use of public funds.

3. Personal Information We Collect About Visitors

When you visit this site, we collect the following usage data to improve the website: • No account registration is required to use this site. • Searches and public profiles: To improve search, we use PostHog to collect the exact search query you submit (up to 120 characters), result counts, selected reporting period and filters, spelling suggestions you select, and which public salary or physician profiles you click or view. Search text keeps the capitalization and spacing you entered. Please do not enter sensitive information in the search box. • Website controls: We record selected filter changes, sorting, result pagination, clearing filters, wider-search links, and successful profile-link copying. These events help us identify confusing controls and unsuccessful search journeys. • Referral sources: We record the referring website's origin, without its page path or query. We also retain valid source, medium and campaign tags from incoming links, including ChatGPT referral tags, and the entrance page without its query or fragment. Entrance attribution is retained in this tab for up to 30 minutes and attached to subsequent events. Other URL parameters, campaign search terms and campaign content are excluded. • Analytics identifiers and metadata: PostHog assigns an anonymous browser identifier and receives standard browser and device metadata. PostHog may also derive approximate geographic information from the network request. Profile analytics include the public profile path and URL and a stable internal record identifier; we do not identify visitors by their real name. • Your choices: We respect browser Do Not Track. Analytics may also be prevented by browser privacy settings or content blockers. • Limits: We do not use session replay, automatic interaction capture, or per-keystroke search tracking. Search text is recorded when you submit a search, select a suggested or matching profile, or pause on a non-empty query in instant physician search. Earlier grouped analytics did not retain exact searches or profile IDs, so that history cannot be backfilled. • Browser storage: The site uses browser storage for interface preferences, PostHog's anonymous identifier and temporary referral attribution. No account is required.

4. Data Correction & Removal Requests

If you are a public sector employee whose data appears on this site and you believe there is an error in the data displayed, you may request a correction by contacting us at privacy@opencompensation.org. Please note: • The data we display comes from official government sources. If the original source contains an error, we encourage you to contact the publishing government body directly to correct the source data. • We will update our records to reflect corrections made at the source. • Because this data is part of the public record and published under legislative authority, we are generally unable to remove records that are accurately reproduced from government disclosures. We take all requests seriously and will respond within 5 business days.

5. PIPEDA Compliance

Open Compensation is committed to complying with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). The salary data displayed on this site is publicly available information that was collected and disclosed by government bodies for the purpose of public accountability. Under PIPEDA, publicly available information as prescribed by regulation may be collected, used, and disclosed without consent. If you have questions about how we handle data under PIPEDA, please contact privacy@opencompensation.org.

6. Data Security

We take reasonable measures to protect the integrity of the data we display: • All connections to this site are encrypted via HTTPS/TLS. • The public site is served as static assets by Cloudflare. • Search and profile analytics are sent directly from the browser to PostHog; the site does not add a Worker or database call for these events. • Analytics collection is bounded to a 20-event pre-SDK queue and 50 custom events per page.

7. Third-Party Services

This site uses the following third-party services: • Cloudflare: Static hosting, CDN, DNS, security services, and Cloudflare Web Analytics • PostHog: Browser-direct product analytics described in section 3 These services receive network and browser metadata as part of serving the site or processing analytics.

8. Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

9. Contact

For privacy-related inquiries, data correction requests, or questions about this policy, contact us at: privacy@opencompensation.org For general inquiries, visit our Contact page.