Privacy Policy
This page explains what Lightly Coded collects, why it's collected, how it's protected, and what control you have over your information. The goal is simple: collect only what's needed to run the site, deliver audits, and support the services you request.
The short version
Most people don't read every legal paragraph. This summary gives the practical meaning first; the full policy below has the detail.
Name, email, company, phone, website URL, audit details, and messages you choose to send.
Contact forms, free audits, paid audit credits, account security, and saved audit history.
Your personal information is not sold, rented, or shared with data brokers or ad networks.
You can request access, correction, deletion, or withdrawal of non-essential consent.
Plain-language notice
Lightly Coded is a Canadian business website and audit platform. This policy references PIPEDA and should be reviewed against applicable provincial rules, Google API requirements, Stripe requirements, and the actual technical implementation by qualified counsel before it's relied on.
1. Introduction
Lightly Coded ("we," "us," or "our") is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to lightlycoded.com and the people who create accounts to use our audit platform. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information in accordance with Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).
2. Information we collect
3. How we use your information
Your contact information is never used for unrelated marketing, never sold, and never rented.
4. Data sharing and disclosure
We do not sell your personal information or share it with advertisers, data brokers, or marketing networks.
5. Google Search Console data
If you connect Google Search Console to run an in-depth audit, we access a limited amount of Google user data through Google's APIs, solely to produce the audit you request.
Lightly Coded's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
6. Data retention
Contact and audit submissions are kept only as long as needed to deliver the audit, respond to your enquiry, and complete related follow-up, then removed. You can ask us to delete a submission at any time.
Account details, sessions, audit history, and credit records are retained while your account is active; you can delete your account from settings at any time. Audit reports already produced may be retained by our audit service — email privacy@lightlycoded.com to have those removed too. Limited transaction records may be retained where required for legal, tax, or accounting purposes.
8. Security measures
We use HTTPS encryption in transit, platform-level hosting security on Vercel, restricted access to submissions, and passwordless sign-in to reduce password-storage risk. No method of internet transmission or storage can be guaranteed 100% secure.
9–10. Children and policy updates
Our services are intended for businesses and the people who run them, not individuals under 18. If you believe a child's personal information has been submitted, email privacy@lightlycoded.comand we'll delete it. Updates to this policy will appear on this page with a new "Last updated" date.
Your privacy rights
Under Canadian privacy principles, you can access the personal information held about you, correct inaccurate details, withdraw consent for non-essential collection, and request deletion where appropriate.
Email privacy@lightlycoded.comHow data moves
A contact form, audit request, account sign-in, purchase, or optional Search Console connection starts the process.
The site, audit service, email delivery, analytics, hosting, and payment providers perform only their required roles.
You can manage cookies, disconnect Search Console, delete your account, or email about privacy rights.
Contact us about privacy
Email privacy@lightlycoded.com to ask about the policy, request access, correct information, withdraw consent, or request deletion of personal information.
