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PIPEDA Compliant CAPTCHA

Friendly Captcha is in compliance with PIPEDA privacy practices.

Canada’s current federal private-sector privacy law is the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). Friendly Captcha supports privacy-conscious implementations by avoiding tracking-based CAPTCHA methods and minimizing data processing.
Friendly Captcha is a privacy-first bot protection solution designed to help organizations reduce the personal-data processing associated with CAPTCHA protection. Friendly Captcha helps Canadian businesses avoid collecting, storing, and sharing personal information.
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PIPEDA Compliance With Friendly Captcha​

No CAPTCHA Cookies

  • No HTTP cookies for CAPTCHA verification
  • No persistent browser storage for CAPTCHA functionality
  • No user consent required

No sharing or disclosure of personal data

  • No personal information is collected, used, or disclosed
  • No third-party integrations that involve personal data
  • No need for consent or opt-out controls

No Collection of Personal Information

  • Compliant to PIPEDA’s definition of personal information
  • No collection of names, emails, IP logs, or device IDs
  • No identifiers that could be linked back to a user

Transparent and Accountable by Design

  • Open source front-end code
  • Clear privacy policy and documented data handling
  • Precise data processing agreement

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Many traditional CAPTCHA solutions rely on cookies, profiling, device identifiers, or data collection that may increase privacy and consent obligations.
 
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PIPEDA Compliance Checklist

PIPEDA requires organizations subject to the law to follow fair-information principles, including accountability, identifying purposes, consent, limiting collection, limiting use, safeguards, openness, and individual access.
Friendly Captcha can support these principles by helping reduce the personal information processed for bot protection:

Appropriate and proportional data use

Human or bot? We only collect data that is technically necessary. According to PIPEDA's principle 4, enterprises must ensure that their data collection, use, and disclosure practices are appropriate under the circumstances.

Purpose Limitation

User data is used strictly for security purposes. In accordance with PIPEDA's principle 5, personal data may only be used for purposes that are identified at or before the time of collection.

No cookies

Friendly Captcha does not use HTTP cookies or persistent storage. There is no personal data processing that would trigger the consent requirement as required under Schedule 1, Principle 3 in PIPEDA.

No Disclosure or Third-Party Sharing

No user data and personal information is shared or disclosed to third parties. Section 9 of PIPEDA places strict conditions on data disclosures and certain business uses of information, to ensure enterprises handle consumer data with transparency and accountability.

Privacy by design and default

Our bot protection technology is based on Proof-of-Work, not personal data. Under PIPEDA's Schedule 1, enterprises must implement privacy as a core system design principle.

Built-in Transparency

We provide a clear, human-readable privacy policy and make our front-end code open source. This complies with PIPEDA Section 6.1, which requires enterprises to provide clear explanations of their data practices.

See our privacy policy for end users to learn more.

Preparing for Canada's proposed
privacy reform (Bill C-36)

Canada is considering a proposed new federal privacy law: the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act (PPCDA), introduced through Bill C-36.
 
The proposed law is not currently in force and may change during the legislative process. If enacted, it would replace key federal private-sector privacy provisions currently found in PIPEDA.
 
Friendly Captcha’s data-minimizing approach can help organizations prepare for evolving privacy expectations by reducing reliance on cookies, persistent identifiers, and tracking-based CAPTCHA technologies.
 
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FAQ

PIPEDA is Canada’s current federal private-sector privacy law. It sets rules for organizations that collect, use, or disclose personal information in commercial activities. Depending on the organization and the processing activity, provincial privacy laws may also apply.

The Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act is proposed federal privacy legislation introduced through Bill C-36. It has not yet become law. If enacted, it would modernize Canada’s federal private-sector privacy framework.

Friendly Captcha aligns with the PIPEDA by avoiding the collection, tracking, or disclosure of personal information. It does not store sensitive personal data, helping private sector organizations and enterprises meet PIPEDA compliance requirements with minimal effort.

Yes. While Bill C-36 is still being finalized, Friendly Captcha already meets its core requirements: data minimization, limited use, accountability, and transparency. This makes Friendly Captcha a future-proof bot protection solution.

No. Friendly Captcha does not collect personal information or involve data brokers as it is required in Canada’s privacy law. It protects websites from automated threats without storing consumers’ personal information, ensuring full compliance with Canada’s privacy legislation.

While customers remain responsible for assessing their own legal obligations and implementation,  Friendly Captcha is designed to support data-minimizing, privacy-conscious bot protection practices. By choosing a product like Friendly Captcha, you’re doing everything you can to ensure you’re in compliance with Canadian privacy laws.

Choose a PIPEDA-Compliant CAPTCHA

With Friendly Captcha, you eliminate the need to manage consent, disclosures, or opt-out mechanisms. That’s because we don’t collect personal information to begin with. Avoid regulatory headaches and protect your users – the privacy-first way.

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