Map.ca's Policy Pledge

The public version of how Map.ca behaves: short, plain, and built so the platform can be held to it.

Version: 1.0.0
Effective: May 20, 2026
Last reviewed: May 20, 2026
Review cycle: every 24 months

Map.ca exists to help people, businesses, communities, and governments connect through real places. The Pledge is the public version of that commitment. It is short on purpose: every line is something the platform can be held to.

We believe people should own their presence, understand how they are represented, and have simple tools to correct, control, or remove their information. Map.ca is built as infrastructure. That means trust comes first.

Doctrine note. The Constitution's §6 draft pledge lists six “We do not…” lines plus one positive promise about ownership and control. To honour the build specification's request for seven prohibitions without inventing new doctrine, the prohibitions array below contains the six verbatim “We do not…” lines from §6, followed by the doctrine's positive promise restated as a negative — explicitly marked as derived rather than verbatim. The doctrine is the source; this restatement does not override it.

Principles this policy enforces

People own their presence
Visibility is not for sale
AI assists, people remain responsible
Consent must be meaningful
Public data and personal data are not the same thing
Pricing must be simple and honest
Community benefit must survive scale

What it requires

Display the Pledge prominently on the Policies hub.
Update the Pledge only through a Constitutional amendment.

What it forbids

We do not sell visibility.
We do not rank businesses by advertising spend.
We do not take a percentage of people's work.
We do not use location to secretly track people.
We do not use AI to replace human responsibility.
We do not treat community data as something to extract.
We do not deny people ownership of their own presence, the ability to understand how they are represented, or the tools to correct, control, or remove their information. (Derived from the §6 positive promise; not verbatim.)