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Privacy policy — Shelter Heating Risk Calculator

Effective date: 6 September 2026 

Published by: Perry Schippers, trading as RANN

Contact: pasrann@rann.ca

The short version

This application does not collect, transmit or share any information. It has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising and no telemetry. It makes no network connections of any kind. Everything you enter stays on your own computer, in a file you control.

What the application stores

Everything you record is written to a database file on your own machine:

• shelter profiles, including any address or coordinates you enter

• assessments, the controls you selected and any notes you wrote

• properties and their details

• your rating scales and any changes you make to the risk data

On Windows this file is under your own user profile. You can copy it, back it up, move it to another machine or delete it at any time. The application provides a command to save a copy wherever you choose.

Assessment records may contain the address and coordinates of a property, and any notes you write about it. That information is yours. It is never sent anywhere by this application.

What the application does not do

• It does not connect to the internet. There is no licensing check, no update check and no usage reporting.

• It does not collect personal information about you.

• It does not use cookies, advertising identifiers or analytics.

• It does not share anything with the publisher or with any third party.

• It does not require an account or a sign-in.

When information leaves your machine

Only when you choose to move it, using a feature you invoke deliberately:

• Saving or exporting a file. You pick the location. The file goes where you put it.

• Exporting an assessment for another assessor. This writes a file you then send by whatever means you choose. The application does not send it.

• Exporting a Word report. Same: a file, where you put it.

• The review export. The application can write a file describing an assessment so that you may take it to an AI assistant of your own choosing. The application does not contact any assistant, holds no API key, and does not transmit the file. Anything you then do with that file is between you and whatever service you take it to, under that service’s own privacy terms.

Children

The application is a professional tool and is not directed at children. It collects no information from anyone, of any age.

Changes to this policy

If a future version of the application changes what it does with data, this policy will be updated before that version is published, and the effective date above will change.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about the application:

pasrann@rann.ca