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NOR-TIC TECHNOLOGIES INC.

Privacy Notice

Version 1.1·Effective date: 2026-06-27·Last revised: 2026-06-30

This Privacy Notice explains how NOR-TIC TECHNOLOGIES INC. (“NOR-TIC,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) handles personal information in connection with the AI Adoption Map (“AIMAP,” “the Map”), the free interactive self-assessment published at nor-tic.com/map (served from map.nor-tic.com). NOR-TIC is a corporation incorporated under the laws of the Province of Ontario, Canada, with its registered office at 1300B - 350 Bay St., Toronto, Ontario M5H 2S6, Canada.

This Notice is governed by Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). Because the Map is reachable worldwide, this Notice is also written to meet the transparency expectations of the EU/EEA General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) for visitors in those regions. The Map itself transmits nothing and gives NOR-TIC no personal information; the only personal data touched in connection with the Map is the host-layer edge logging described in Section 4, which Cloudflare keeps on a legitimate-interest basis (GDPR Art. 6(1)(f)). NOR-TIC sells no personal information (CCPA), and your rights are described in Section 6.

What you type and mark stays in your browser. The Map sends nothing anywhere — no servers, no AI services, no analytics, no tracking, no cookies — and works fully offline after it loads. That is the whole privacy story. The sections below are the detail.

1. The Map collects nothing and transmits nothing

The AI Adoption Map runs entirely in your own web browser. After the page loads, it makes no network requests of any kind. Specifically, the Map:

We do not receive, store, or have access to any information about Map visitors.

The Map is intended for a general professional audience and is not directed to children. Because it collects and transmits nothing, it processes no personal information about anyone, including children.

2. What stays in your browser

Two things are kept locally, on your own device, using your browser’s storage — and never leave it:

You can clear all of this at any time using the Map’s “Start over” control or by clearing your browser data. If your browser blocks local storage (for example, in private-browsing mode or inside some embeds), the Map still works for your current visit, but your marks will not persist after you close it.

3. The share link

If you choose to create a share link for your build, the link itself encodes which cards you marked, so that opening it can rebuild your result on the recipient’s screen. The Map signals this when you copy the link — it tells you the link is your data, with no account attached. The link is created and used entirely by you: NOR-TIC does not receive it unless you send it to us, and the encoded marks are not personal identifiers in themselves (they are which cards resonated with you). The link is not encrypted: it is a plain, readable record of your own marks, so anyone who opens the link can reconstruct exactly the cards you marked. Treat a share link the way you would treat any record of your own input — share it only with people you intend to.

4. The page that hosts the Map

The Map is served as a static page from Cloudflare Pages. We have not enabled tracking cookies, third-party analytics, or any third-party scripts on this page, and we do not configure the host to track or profile visitors. Like any web server, Cloudflare keeps short-lived edge logs (including IP addresses) — retained only as long as Cloudflare needs them for security and abuse-prevention — on a legitimate-interest basis. These logs are held and controlled by Cloudflare under its own privacy terms as our hosting provider; NOR-TIC does not receive them, does not use them to identify or profile you, and builds no visitor profiles. This host-layer logging is separate from the Map itself, which — as described above — transmits nothing.

5. Information NOR-TIC holds

Because the Map requires no account and transmits nothing, NOR-TIC receives no marks, typed input, results, or identifiers from the Map itself, and holds no such Map-visitor information. The only visitor data associated with NOR-TIC is the short-lived edge logs (including IP addresses) kept by our host, Cloudflare, for security and abuse-prevention on a legitimate-interest basis, as described in Section 4 — not used to identify or profile you. We do not sell personal information (we have none from the Map to sell).

Breach notification. If a breach of security safeguards involving personal information under NOR-TIC’s control ever created a real risk of significant harm to you, we would notify you and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada as required by PIPEDA. Because the Map transmits no personal information to NOR-TIC and stores your data only in your own browser, such a breach would not involve Map-visitor data held by us.

6. Your rights under PIPEDA

Subject to applicable law, you have the right to access the personal information NOR-TIC holds about you, to request correction of it, and to ask questions about how it is handled. Because the Map stores everything only on your own device and sends nothing to NOR-TIC, there is no Map-visitor personal information for us to access or correct.

To exercise these rights, or for any privacy question, contact us at support@nor-tic.com.

7. Changes to this Notice

We may update this Notice. The current version is always the one published at this page, identified by the version and effective date shown above. If we make material changes, we will update those dates and keep prior versions available on request. If the Map ever changes to transmit anything (for example, if an online feature were added in the future), this Notice would be updated to describe it before that change is released.