Privacy policy

Last updated 2 November 2026

Who we are, and who is accountable

We are the Canadian Red Angus Promotion Society ("CRAPS", "the Society", "we"). The Red Angus app is ours, and the information you put into it is held by us. The Society is accountable for it.

Our mailing address and email address are on the Contact CRAPS screen in the app (More, then Contact CRAPS) and at the foot of this page. Questions about your information go to our privacy contact at the same address.

Who built and runs the app. The app is built and run for the Society by Anavi Technologies, a trade name of 2741388 Alberta Inc., under a written agreement with the Society. It handles your information only on the Society's instructions, only to run the app for us, and never for its own purposes. It may not sell it, share it or use it for anything else. The Society decides what the app collects and who may see it, and remains accountable for your information while the service provider holds it. This policy is the Society's, and the Society is responsible for it. Questions and requests about your information come to the Society, not to the service provider.

The law this follows

Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), Alberta's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA) where it applies to us, and Canada's anti-spam legislation (CASL) for the messages we send you.

Your consent

You give us your information when you sign up, fill in your details, make your listing, post a sale, or write to us. Using the app means you agree to this policy.

Two things need a separate yes, which you give in the app and can take back at any time: Society news and invitations to renew or join. More, then Notifications, turns either off. Taking back your consent does not undo what was done while it was in place.

You can refuse to give us anything, but some of it is needed for a membership or a listing to work at all.

What we keep, and why

Your name, email address, farm or ranch name, phone, cell and where you live. So we know who you are and can reach you. Where you live also decides which notices from the Society reach your phone.

Your membership record: the year, the type of membership, the amount and how it was paid. This is the Society's own record of fees.

A screenshot of an e-transfer, if you send one. So we can match your payment. It can show banking details, so only you and the Society's admin can open it.

The app takes no payment and never asks for a card or bank account number. You pay the Society outside the app. We hold no card details because we never receive any.

Your listing in the breeder directory: farm name, town, province, phone, cell, email, website, what you raise, and the pin you place on the map. Other members see it in the breeder list and on the map only if you turn those on.

Your location, only when you ask for it. When you tap "Use my location" the app reads where the phone is, once, to place your pin or to show you where you are on the map. It never reads your location in the background, and never keeps a trail of where you have been.

Sales and events you post, and the ones you save or say you are attending.

Feedback sent while the app was being tested, if you were one of the testers, with the screenshots that went with it, the app version, the phone model and system version, the time zone and the last five errors the app had noted. The app no longer sends feedback; we keep these reports only to fix what they describe.

Which phones you use for notifications, and what you said yes or no to. Canada's anti-spam law asks us to keep a record of every yes and no.

The Society's member list. When we bring our own list of members into the app, we use the name, email, membership type and last year paid on it to recognise you as an existing member when you sign up. Nothing from the list is shown to other members.

The app never asks for a birth date. A junior member ticks a line saying they are 21 or under, and that is all it keeps.

We collect nothing for advertising, and the app has no analytics and no trackers. Nothing about you is used to follow you across other companies' apps or websites. Nothing is sold or given to data brokers or advertisers.

Who can see it

Other members see your listing only if you turn it on, and only what you put on it.

The Society's admin can see everything above. A booth helper, who takes payments at Red Round-Up, sees less: no record of what you said yes or no to, no map pin or road address you have hidden, and no member list downloads.

Our service provider can reach the information when it is working on the app for us, under the agreement described above.

Nobody else sees your details. We never sell or share your information.

We would hand information to a court, the police or a regulator only where the law requires it, and only as much as the law requires.

If the Society ever hands the app on to another organization, or to a different company to run it, your information goes with it and stays under this policy.

What the Society does not check

The directory shows what members have typed about themselves. The Society does not verify it. What you put on your listing is yours to keep right. Dealings between members are between them. The terms of use say more about this.

Where it is kept

On one server in Toronto, Canada, run on Microsoft Azure in its Canada Central region. A backup is taken every day. The server keeps the last seven, and a copy of each goes to separate storage, also in Toronto, where it is kept for 90 days.

What leaves Canada

Notifications. The text of a notification and the code that identifies your phone pass through Expo's push service in the United States, and then through Apple or Google to reach your phone. A notification can name a sale or event you saved, and nothing else about you: never your name, an amount you paid, or a reason for a decision.

Maps on Android. On an Android phone the map tiles come from Google Maps. Google receives the part of the map you are looking at. It receives nothing about your account.

Email. Email from us goes through Microsoft's Azure Communication Services, which holds its data in Canada.

App updates. When the app checks for an update, the phone asks Expo's update service in the United States. It sees the phone's internet address, the app's version and a random number made for that copy of the app, and nothing about you or your account.

Nothing else about you leaves Canada.

Information held outside Canada is subject to the laws of the country it is in, and may be reached by the courts and authorities of that country. We use these services because the app cannot send notifications or draw maps without them, and we send them as little as we can.

How long we keep it

• Your account details: for as long as you have an account. An account whose email address was never confirmed, and that holds no membership, is removed 30 days after it was made.
• E-transfer screenshots: until 31 December of the membership year they were sent for, and at once if you change how you are paying or delete your account.
• Feedback from testing, and its screenshots: until the Society removes them, once the problems reported have been fixed.
• Records of what you said yes or no to about notifications: 3 years after you say no or delete your account.
• Records of notifications sent to you about your own membership, posts and saved sales: 2 years.
• A past member's hidden listing and saved sales: until 31 December two years after the last year they paid.
• Fee records, and the record of what the Society's admin did in the app: for the period the Society keeps its financial records, which is 7 years.
• Requests to delete an account sent from our website: 30 days while we wait for the email to be confirmed, and 12 months after the request has been dealt with.
• Server logs: 30 days.
• Backups: seven days on the server, and 90 days in the separate copy.

Keeping it safe

Your sign-in is protected by a password you choose, and the Society's admin sign-in also needs a code sent by email. Information travels encrypted between your phone and our server. Only the people named above can reach it, and only as much as their job needs. No system is perfect, and we do not promise that ours cannot be broken into. If it is, we will do what is set out under If something goes wrong.

Notifications from CRAPS

Notifications come from the Canadian Red Angus Promotion Society, at the mailing address and email address on the Contact CRAPS screen.

Practical notices about times, places and weather go to every phone that has notifications on. Society news and invitations to renew or join only go to people who said yes to them in the app.

You can turn Society news or invitations off at any time: open the app, go to More, then Notifications, and turn the switch off. Turning every switch off stops notifications to that phone altogether.

Posting sales and events

Members can post sales and events for other members to read. Posts are looked over by the Society before they show, and anyone with the app can report a post. The Society can take a post down and can stop an account from posting. A post shows the contact phone number and the details the member typed, and nothing else about them.

Juniors

Junior members can be under 18. A junior's listing in the breeder directory starts hidden, and turning it on is for a parent or guardian to agree to. A parent or guardian may ask us for what we hold about their child, or ask us to delete it, at the address below. Everything else in this policy applies to juniors in the same way.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account in the app (More, then Delete my account), or on our website if you no longer have the app.

Deleting removes your profile, your listing, your posts, the sales and events you saved, your feedback, your notification choices and the phones linked to your account.

The Society keeps its record of the fees you paid: your name, the year, the type of membership and the amount. It keeps nothing else about you, because the law requires a society to keep its financial records. Signing up again later starts a new account with nothing from the old one.

What you deleted also stays in the backups until those backups are deleted in their turn, which takes at most 90 days. Backups are used only to recover from a fault.

Seeing or correcting what we hold

Most of what we hold about you is on the My details and My listing screens in the app, where you can change it yourself.

For anything else, or for a copy of everything we hold about you, ask our privacy contact. We will answer within 30 days. If we cannot give you something, we will tell you why. If you think something we hold is wrong, tell us and we will correct it.

If something goes wrong

If your information is ever lost, taken or seen by someone who should not see it, the Society records what happened and acts to stop it. Where there is a real risk of significant harm to you, the Society tells you, and it reports the breach to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada when the law requires it.

If you are not happy with our answer

Write to our privacy contact first, and give us a chance to put it right. If you are still not satisfied, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (priv.gc.ca, 1-800-282-1376). If you are in Alberta, you may instead complain to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta (oipc.ab.ca).

Changes to this policy

The date this policy was last updated is shown at the top. If we change it in a way that matters to you, we will say so in the app.