Privacy Policy
Last updated: January 13, 2026
Hearsay Media Inc. operates the Hearsay newsletter and the Inn Laws community (the "Services"). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose information when you use our Services.
1. Personal Information We Collect
Newsletter subscribers: When you sign up for the Hearsay newsletter, we collect your email address. You may also voluntarily provide information about your location, practice setting, and interests.
Community applicants: When you apply to join Inn Laws, you may voluntarily provide information including your name, email address, employment information, year of call, practice setting, and interests.
Community members: When you join Inn Laws and create a member profile, you may provide additional information such as a bio, headline, firm profile URL, LinkedIn URL, and profile photo. You may also contribute to community discussions and participate in recorded virtual events. When you purchase a membership, billing details are collected and stored by our payment and community platform providers, and are accessible to us.
Website visitors: As you navigate our websites, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. This information is used for statistical purposes and to improve our Services.
2. Why We Collect Your Information
We collect your information to deliver our Services, process transactions, and communicate with you. We also use your information to understand who uses our Services, to improve our offerings, and to inform our business decisions. As a visitor to our websites, you can browse most content without providing personal information. It is only when you subscribe, apply, or register that you are required to provide information.
3. How We Process Personal Information
We may process the personal information we collect in order to improve the Services. For example:
We analyze subscriber information to improve the content of the Hearsay newsletter.
We analyze the information shared by community members to help place them in a peer group and connect them with other members.
We may use large language models and other AI-powered tools to help analyze the information we collect. We take reasonable steps to safeguard the data we process with those tools, including by only using tools that do not train their models on the data we submit.
4. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies and similar technologies to analyze trends, administer our websites, and track how visitors use our sites. We may use third-party analytics tools to help us understand website traffic and usage patterns. You can manage cookie preferences through your browser settings.
5. Embedded Content
Our websites and community may include embedded content from other websites (such as videos, images, or articles). For example, a community post may include an embedded YouTube video. Embedded content from other websites behaves as if you had visited that other website directly. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content in accordance with their own privacy policies. We do not control how these third parties collect or use personal information, and their practices are governed by their respective privacy policies.
6. Email Policies
We are committed to keeping your email address confidential and will not sell, rent, or lease our subscriber or member lists to third parties.
7. Security and Storage
We use third-party service providers located inside and outside of Canada, including in the United States, to help us deliver our Services. These include our community platform (Circle), payment processor (Stripe), email service provider (Beehiiv), and other tools.
You acknowledge that your personal information may be accessible to law enforcement and governmental agencies in those countries under lawful access regimes or court order.
We use commercially reasonable efforts to store and maintain your personal information in a secure environment. Those efforts include ensuring that we only store data with reputable third-party vendors like Google, Stripe, and Circle. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
In the event of a breach of security safeguards involving personal information under our control, we will assess the breach to determine whether it presents a real risk of significant harm to affected individuals. Where required by applicable law, we will notify affected individuals and relevant regulatory authorities of such breach as soon as reasonably practicable and will take reasonable steps to reduce the risk of harm and to prevent similar incidents in the future.
8. How We Disclose Personal Information
We will not sell your personal information. We may disclose your information in the following circumstances:
Service Providers: We share information with third-party service providers who help us deliver our Services. These providers only have access to what is necessary to perform their tasks.
Community Visibility: Information you include in your Inn Laws member profile (such as your name, photo, headline, bio, location, and links) is visible to other members. Community discussions and posts are visible to other members of the community.
Aggregate & Anonymized Data: We may share aggregate statistical data that does not identify any individual. We may also share anonymized information about community discussions, community events, and community members to help market Inn Laws to prospective members.
Legal Requirements: We may disclose information if required by law or if we believe disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, your safety, or the safety of others.
Business Transfers: If Hearsay Media is acquired or goes through a change of control, personal information may be transferred to the new entity, where permitted by law.
9. How We Retain Personal Information
We keep your personal information for as long as necessary for the purposes outlined in this policy, or as required by law. This may extend beyond the termination of your subscription or membership. If you leave the Inn Laws community, your contributions to community discussions and content will generally remain visible and accessible to other community members.
10. How You Can Access Your Personal Information
You have the right to access the personal information we hold about you. If you would like to access, correct, or delete your personal information, or receive a copy of your data, please contact us. We will make reasonable efforts to keep your information accurate and up to date.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you by posting an announcement on our website or sending you an email. Your continued use of our Services after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy.
12. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how your information is handled, please contact us at: privacy@innlaws.ca