Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 5, 2026

DentCheck is designed to respect your privacy. This policy explains, plainly, what the tool does and does not collect.

What we do not collect

DentCheck does not ask for or store your name, email, phone number, address, or any other information that identifies you. We do not require an account. We do not track your location using your IP address. We do not sell or share data with advertisers, and the tool shows no ads.

What we do collect

To understand how the tool is used and improve it, DentCheck records anonymous, aggregate usage data:

• That a visit to the site occurred.
• That a coverage check was completed, along with the province selected, a broad age band (for example, 25 to 44), a broad income band (for example, under $70k), and the general eligibility outcome.
• How far through the questionnaire people get: that the questionnaire was started, that a question was reached, and that results were produced. The record of reaching a question stores the name of the step only, for example "income" or "insurance". The answer you selected on that step is never recorded with it.
• Which poster or link you arrived from, when the link you followed carried a tag (for example, a poster in a community health centre). This identifies the poster or link, never you. The set of possible values is fixed and short: anything we don't recognize is discarded rather than recorded, so a tag can't be used to single out an individual visitor.

This information is stored as broad categories, never exact values, and is not connected to your identity or to any individual session in a way that could identify you. It tells us, for example, "a check was completed in Ontario by someone in the 25 to 44 age band," and nothing more.

The answers you enter

The answers you give in the questionnaire (such as your exact age and income) are used to calculate your results in your browser. Your exact figures are not transmitted or stored; only the broad bands described above are recorded for aggregate statistics. The same holds for the step tracking: we record which question you reached, never the answer you gave on it.

How the data is used

Aggregate usage data is used only to understand overall usage of the tool, how many people use it, which provinces they're in, and which outcomes are common. It is never used to contact, profile, or identify any individual.

Children's data

DentCheck does not knowingly collect any information from children. The tool is designed to be used by adults making coverage decisions, including on behalf of their children, and it collects no identifying information from any user regardless of age.

Third parties

DentCheck is hosted on Vercel and uses a database provided by Neon to store the anonymous aggregate data described above. These providers process data on our behalf to run the service.

Contact

If you have questions about this policy, you can reach us at contact@dentcheck.ca.

Changes

This policy may be updated as the tool evolves. The date at the top reflects the most recent change.