Free Cookie Policy Generator for WordPress Site — PIPEDA Compliant

🇨🇦 Key PIPEDA Requirements

Canada's federal private sector privacy law, PIPEDA (Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act), applies to commercial activities across Canada. Quebec's Law 25 (Bill 64) has introduced GDPR-like requirements for Quebec residents. Canada's Privacy Commissioner can investigate complaints, and courts can award damages for serious privacy breaches.

• Obtain meaningful consent before collecting, using, or disclosing personal information
• Limit collection to what is necessary for the identified purpose
• Provide individuals with access to their personal information on request
• Protect personal information with appropriate security safeguards
• Report breaches that pose a real risk of significant harm to the Privacy Commissioner
• Quebec Law 25: privacy impact assessments, data minimization, and new consent rules

WordPress Site — Specific Considerations

WordPress sites collect data through comments, contact forms, analytics plugins, and e-commerce plugins like WooCommerce. WordPress itself stores commenter IP addresses by default. The vast plugin ecosystem means data collection can vary dramatically — each plugin may set cookies, collect user data, or send data to third-party services. Your privacy policy must reflect the actual plugins installed on your site.

Data typically collected by WordPress Site businesses: commenter name, email and IP address, contact form submissions, analytics data, WooCommerce customer and order data, login account data, plugin-specific collected data

• WordPress comment system IP address collection
• Contact form plugin data retention (WPForms, Contact Form 7)
• WooCommerce customer and order data
• Analytics plugin disclosure (MonsterInsights, Site Kit)
• Caching and CDN data processing disclosure