What we collect
If you subscribe, submit a board note, send an editorial contribution, or contact us about advertising, we receive the information you enter. Your Oak Bay notes stay with our editorial team unless you explicitly agree to publication with your name. Reader reactions and poll votes are connected to a random browser identifier—not your email. Optional written feedback is kept for up to 180 days.
Analytics
Google Analytics 4, Google Tag Manager, Microsoft Clarity, PostHog, and Vercel Analytics may record visits, page interactions, device information, and approximate location. We use this to understand what gets read, where forms break, and which outreach brings in subscribers. Our own event tracking deliberately excludes email addresses, names, phone numbers, and postal addresses.
Meta tracking is optional and off until you allow it. If you allow it, the Meta Pixel measures page visits and confirmed new signups to help us measure our advertising and reach readers again. Meta can receive page and browser information, cookie and ad identifiers, and those events. We do not send your newsletter email address through these events. Your choice is saved in this browser for 180 days. You can change it using Ad privacy choices at the bottom of the page. We respect Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track signals.
Who helps us run the paper
We use service providers for newsletter delivery, hosting, analytics, email, payments, and customer follow-up. They receive only the information needed to provide those services. We do not sell personal information.
Your choices
Every newsletter has an unsubscribe link. You can also block analytics in your browser. To ask what information we hold, correct it, or request deletion, email hello@news.oakbaylocal.com.
Last updated November 11, 2026.