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Privacy Policy

Current as of September 2, 2026

This page answers, in order, the questions somebody actually has about a site like this one. Emma Lemieux publishes Tulqemari from Montréal as an individual, and is the person accountable for everything set out below. Her address is 1250 René-Lévesque Blvd W, Montréal, QC H3B 4W8, Canada, and her email is [email protected].

Three laws bear on this: the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, the Québec Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector as amended by Law 25, and Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation. Law 25 requires a named person responsible for the protection of personal information; that person is Emma Lemieux, at the address above.

What does the server record when I open a page?

A line in a log, written automatically before any human is involved. It contains the IP address the request came from, the user-agent string the browser announces, the file that was asked for, the time and the response code. No web server can serve a page without producing that line.

Those lines are looked at when something breaks or when a burst of automated traffic needs identifying. They are not combined with anything else, not aggregated into statistics, and not used to work out who anybody is.

Is there anything measuring me?

No. There is no analytics platform on this domain, no tag manager, no advertising pixel, no remarketing tag, no session recorder, no heatmap and no embedded third-party content of any sort. Every file the browser fetches — stylesheet, script, icons, images — is served from tulqemari.com, so no outside company is ever placed in a position to observe the visit.

What happens if I write to you?

The message sits in a mailbox and is read. Whatever you put in it — a name, a return address, a question about a board — is there because you decided to send it, not because a page asked. There is no form anywhere on this site: nothing to submit, nothing to upload, no comment field, no sign-up.

Threads are kept for up to twenty-four months so that a follow-up months later still makes sense, then deleted. Ask for earlier deletion and it happens.

And if I order the card?

The same mailbox, with two additions. Once payment is made, the reference your bank attaches to an Interac e-Transfer appears alongside the correspondence, which is how the payment is matched to the order. And the order is kept slightly more deliberately than a general enquiry, so that somebody who loses the file next spring can ask again and be recognised.

No card number, expiry date or security code is ever seen by this site or by Emma Lemieux. An e-Transfer runs between your bank and hers; this domain has no payment page for card details to be entered into, and never will.

What is any of it used for?

Keeping the site available and secure. Reading and answering email. Fulfilling an order — sending transfer details, confirming the payment landed, delivering the file. Complying with a lawful demand from a Canadian authority, should one ever arrive. That is the complete list.

Nothing is sold, rented, traded or handed to advertisers or data brokers. Under CASL no commercial electronic message is sent from here at all: there is no list to join, so there is nothing to leave. A reply to your own email is not marketing.

Where does it physically sit?

On the hosting provider’s infrastructure and in an email account, both of which may run outside Québec and outside Canada. Law 25 requires that to be considered rather than glossed over: where information leaves the province, the provider is contractually bound to protections comparable to those required here, and what is involved amounts to log lines and correspondence.

Pages are served over HTTPS, so traffic between your browser and the server is encrypted in transit, and administrative access to the hosting account belongs to one person and is protected by a unique credential.

What cookie is set?

One, named tq_cookie_consent, holding the answer you gave the banner and expiring after six months. The Cookie Policy sets it out in full and offers a one-click way to change your mind.

What can I ask you to do?

Under PIPEDA and Law 25: to confirm whether information about you is held and give you a copy; to correct anything inaccurate or incomplete; to tell you where information about you came from; to accept the withdrawal of a consent you gave; and to delete your correspondence. Write to [email protected] saying which. A first answer normally comes within a couple of business days and the request is completed inside thirty days.

If the answer is unsatisfactory, the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec takes complaints, as does the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. Neither asks whether you complained here first.

What about links to other places?

Pages here point at store listings for the applications they describe. Those platforms belong to other organisations, run under their own privacy policies, and are entirely outside the reach of this document. Once a link takes you off tulqemari.com, what happens to your information is decided by whoever operates the destination.

Will this page change?

If the site changes in a way that affects it, yes, and the date at the top moves when it does. Nothing here is applied backwards to information already deleted.