What the atrium records, what it does not record, and how an adult visitor can step in and review or remove the small handful of entries we keep on the device. The notice is written in plain English and updated each time the cabinet is refit.
BorealisFalls keeps two strictly necessary entries on first visit. The first is the eighteen-or-older confirmation, stored as the local entry vqz_age_ok for one hundred and eighty days. The second is the consent record, stored as the local entry vqz_consent_v2 for the same window. Both entries are on the visitor's device. Neither leaves the device. There is no server-side mirror.
We do not record names, dates of birth, postal codes, photographs, IP addresses for retention, location precision, identifying device fingerprints, or any contact information. We do not maintain user accounts. The cabinet does not require an email address, a phone number, or any other identifier to render. There is no opt-in newsletter on this site and no invitation to one is rendered anywhere.
The site loads font files from Google Fonts on first visit. Google Fonts caches by file rather than by visitor. Beyond that, no third-party processor is contacted before the cookie notice has been actioned by the visitor. If analytics are accepted, the analytics signal is reported to a single Google Analytics property limited to anonymised page-view counts and time-on-page. Advertising signals are not used.
The site uses both cookies and localStorage so the eighteen-or-older confirmation persists across pages even when the file is opened from a local file:// URL by a quality-assurance reviewer. Both writes are wrapped in a try-catch so a privacy-protection block on one of them does not break the other. Visitors can clear both writes through the cookie notice or through the browser's site-data settings.
The eighteen-or-older confirmation is read once on every page and is the only mechanism by which the cabinet renders. The consent record is read once on every page and is what gates the analytics signal. Neither is read for any other purpose. We do not derive analytics from these entries themselves; they are not joined with any other dataset.
Both vqz_age_ok and vqz_consent_v2 retain for one hundred and eighty days from the most recent confirmation. The Google Fonts cache lives in the browser per browser policy. Any anonymised analytics records are kept on the analytics property for fourteen months under our default configuration there.
Adults across Canada have the right to access, correct, and delete personal information held by an organisation under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. Adults in Alberta, British Columbia, and Quebec also have access and correction rights under the provincial Personal Information Protection Act and Loi 25. Adults in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland have the access, rectification, erasure, and portability rights described in Articles 15 to 22 of the General Data Protection Regulation. Because BorealisFalls does not collect personal information of the kind those rights typically refer to, an erasure request usually amounts to clearing the two local entries from the device. We will respond to written requests at the contact address below within thirty days.
The site is served over HTTPS in production. Local entries are scoped to the host. The site does not run third-party scripts before consent, does not load analytics before consent, and does not store identifiers that would allow cross-site profiling.
Google Fonts and the analytics provider are based in the United States. Their privacy notices and standard contractual clauses are linked from their respective websites. No other international transfer takes place from this site.
When this notice is updated we record the change in the workshop notes on the front of the atrium and bump the consent record version field to one. Visitors with an older version see the cookie notice again the next time they open the site.
Address requests, complaints, and questions to [email protected]. Postal correspondence reaches us at 318 Wood Street, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2E5, Canada. We acknowledge requests within seven days and respond substantively within thirty.
BorealisFalls is a free social entertainment site for adults. Confirm being eighteen years of age or older to step under the colonnade. The confirmation is stored on this device for one hundred and eighty days and never travels off this device.