Privacy Policy

Effective date: 22 August 2026

Applies to the BCCA Decisions iOS app and this website.

The short version. BCCA Decisions has no accounts and no logins. It collects no name, no email address, no location, and no analytics or advertising identifiers. The only data it stores is what is technically required to send you push notifications and to sync bookmarks for subscribers. Nothing is ever sold or shared for marketing.

1. What is collected

Only the minimum needed to make the features work:

Data	Why	When
Apple push token	So Apple can deliver new-judgment alerts to your device. It identifies a device installation, not a person.	Only if you are a subscriber and enable notifications.
Notification preferences	Whether you want criminal, civil, or both, so you are not sent irrelevant alerts.	Alongside the push token.
Subscription status	A true/false flag recording that an active subscription exists, so premium features and alerts can be enabled.	Alongside the push token.
Bookmarked citations	To sync your saved cases and tell you when a later judgment cites one of them.	Subscribers only. Free bookmarks stay on your device.
Search terms and filters	Sent to the server to return matching judgments. They are not tied to your device or retained as a search history.	When you search.

2. What is never collected

Names, email addresses, or phone numbers
Location data of any kind
Advertising identifiers (IDFA), tracking pixels, or third-party analytics SDKs
Contacts, photos, calendars, or any other device data
Payment details — see section 4

3. Summaries and the AI service

Where the Court of Appeal for British Columbia publishes its own summary of a judgment (2015 onward), that summary is what the app shows you. For judgments from 2001 to 2014, where the Court published no summary, the app generates one by sending the published text of the judgment — a public court record — to Anthropic's Claude API. Every summary is labelled so you can always tell the Court's words from a generated one.

No personal data is included in these requests: only the public judgment text. Anthropic does not use this material to train its models.

4. Payments

Subscriptions are handled entirely by Apple through the App Store. Card numbers, billing addresses, and Apple ID details never reach this app or its servers — the app only ever receives confirmation from Apple that a subscription is active. Manage or cancel a subscription in the Settings app under your Apple ID, or at apps.apple.com/account/subscriptions.

5. Who the data is shared with

Data is shared only with the services that make the app function, never for marketing:

Apple — receives the push token in order to deliver notifications.
Anthropic — receives public judgment text when a summary is generated, as described above.
Railway — hosts the server and database, located in the United States.

Judgment text and archive data are obtained from the Court of Appeal for British Columbia and from CanLII. Nothing about you is sent to either of them.

Your information is never sold, rented, or traded.

6. Retention

Push tokens and bookmarks are kept for as long as the app is installed and notifications remain enabled. If you turn notifications off, disable the app's notification permission in iOS Settings, or delete the app, the token stops working and is removed automatically when Apple reports it as no longer valid.

7. Your choices

Turn alerts off at any time in the app's Settings, or in iOS Settings › Notifications.
Delete bookmarks individually, which removes them from the server.
Delete the app, which ends all data collection.
Request deletion of everything associated with your device by emailing the address below. Requests are honoured within 30 days.

8. Children

BCCA Decisions is a legal research tool intended for adults. It is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from them.

9. Security

All traffic between the app and the server uses HTTPS with TLS. The database is not publicly accessible. Because the app holds no accounts, passwords, or payment details, there are no credentials to compromise.

10. Changes

If this policy changes materially, the effective date above will be updated and the revised policy posted on this page.

11. Contact

Questions or a data-deletion request: azzopalj@gmail.com.

BCCA Decisions is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the Court of Appeal for British Columbia, the Government of British Columbia, or CanLII. Nothing in the app constitutes legal advice.