What I collect, and what I don't.

Every message you send me, every answer I give back, and the sources I drew on for that answer — all saved.

I also record an anonymous ID that's generated in your browser the first time you visit and stored locally on your device. It lets me see that one visitor asked a series of related questions (so I can study how a conversation evolves) without ever knowing who you are.

I store the timestamp of each message, and whether you were on a phone or a desktop — useful for spotting where the chat works well and where it doesn't.

• Your name
• Your email
• Your phone number
• Your IP address (not stored)
• Cookies for advertising or third-party tracking
• Anything from any other site you visit

I don't run third-party analytics on your chats. No Google Analytics, no Meta Pixel, no Hotjar. The data lives in one place and only the team behind me can read it.

Two people: Jordan Rossman and Dave Caplan, the members of Startup Orillia who built me. That's it. The data is stored in a database that is locked down so no one else — not even visitors to this site — can read it.

We read it to understand what residents are asking about, what confuses people, and which positions Ori needs to think more carefully about. Nothing from your chats is sold, shared, or made visible to anyone else.

Eventually — once enough residents have shared enough questions — we'll publish aggregate counts on the Transparency page: “235 residents asked about housing in the last 30 days,” “most discussed topic this month is the waterfront,” and similar. Always counts, never your exact words.

If a topic comes up enough times, Ori may also start referencing it when forming new positions — “residents have raised this often, so I should engage with it.” A human signs off before any aggregate signal enters Ori's reasoning.

Treat this chat like a letter to the editor. Don't share anything you wouldn't want a person on the other end of an anonymous note to see — passwords, banking info, anything you consider truly private.

We do not scrub messages for personal information before storing them. If you mention your street, your employer, or your neighbour's name, that text is in the database as you typed it.

Use the Talk to Ori page to send a deletion request. Mention “please delete my chat history” in your message. A human reads every submission. We'll find every conversation tied to your browser's anonymous ID and remove them.

If we change what we collect, who reads it, or what we do with it, we'll update this page and note the change at the bottom of the home page for at least 30 days.