Effective date: November 4, 2026
FSJ Scoop is a free local newsletter about news, events and community life in Fort St. John, British Columbia. This policy explains what personal information we collect, why, and the choices you have. We aim to follow British Columbia's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA).
When you subscribe: your email address. If a signup form asks for your name, we collect that too.
When you read our emails: our newsletter platform, beehiiv, records whether an email was opened and which links were clicked, using a small tracking image and tracked links.
When you visit our website: beehiiv may use cookies and similar technology for things like keeping a session working, remembering that you subscribed, measuring page views, and recording how you found us.
When you contact us or answer a poll: your message or poll response, and the email address it came from.
We do not ask for sensitive information such as financial or health details.
To send you FSJ Scoop. To answer your messages and story tips. To understand which stories and links readers find useful so we can improve the newsletter. To keep our list working and protect it from spam or abuse.
We only use your information for these purposes unless we ask for your consent for something new, or the law allows or requires it.
By subscribing, you agree that we may use your email address to send you FSJ Scoop. You can withdraw your consent at any time by unsubscribing. If you unsubscribe, you will stop receiving the newsletter.
We do not sell your personal information.
We use beehiiv to run our newsletter and website. beehiiv stores and processes subscriber information for us, and this information may be stored and processed outside Canada, including in the United States, where it may be accessible under the laws of that country.
beehiiv's own terms also describe data it collects and uses for its own purposes, such as engagement data across publications on its platform. You can read beehiiv's privacy policy and its data protection terms.
We may disclose information when PIPA allows it or when the law requires it, for example under a court order.
Every email includes an unsubscribe link. Unsubscribing stops our emails. If you would also like us to delete your subscriber record, or to see or correct the personal information we hold about you, contact us using the details below. We will respond as PIPA requires. Some information may need to be kept where the law requires it.
We rely on beehiiv's account security and keep access to our subscriber list limited to the people who run FSJ Scoop. No method of storing or sending information online is completely secure.
We keep your information while you are subscribed and for as long as reasonably needed after that for the purposes above or as the law requires.
Our newsletter links to news stories, event pages and other websites run by others. Their privacy practices are their own, so please check their policies.
Email us at [email protected], reply to any FSJ Scoop email, or write to us at:
FSJ Scoop
112-970 Burrard Street, Office# 1593
Vancouver, B.C. V6Z 2R4
Canada
If you are not satisfied with our response, you can contact the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia.
We may update this policy when our practices change. We will post the new version here with a new effective date.