What we collect
If you subscribe, we send your email address and the place you subscribed from to Overstory Media’s newsroom system. If you post to the community board or write to us about an event, advertisement, correction, or news tip, we receive the information you include.
What we measure
Vercel Analytics and Vercel Speed Insights measure visits, page performance, story views and use of the sign-up flow. On production, Google Tag Manager can load a measurement tag so we can see which pages are read. Preview and local deployments do not load it. Our optional PostHog integration measures page visits and use of the site. Microsoft Clarity provides heatmaps and session recordings to help us find confusing or broken interactions. These tools may store identifiers in your browser to connect visits. Form inputs are masked in recordings. Preview deployments, automated checks and visits marked as internal QA are excluded.
We do not send your email address to these analytics tools. Our sign-up analytics records that a sign-up happened and where the form appeared, not the address entered.
Who helps us run the paper
The site is hosted on Vercel. The paper is managed through Overstory Media’s newsroom system and email is delivered by Resend. Community-board and event data may be stored in Supabase. These services receive the information needed to provide their part of the service.
Your choices
Every edition includes an unsubscribe link. From that page you can leave the list or ask for one email a week. To ask about, correct, or request deletion of your personal information, write to privacy@thewestshore.ca. If you enable Do Not Track in a supported browser, PostHog and Microsoft Clarity will not collect analytics from that browser.
Who we are
The Westshore is published by Overstory Media Group (opens in a new tab) and covers Langford, Colwood, Metchosin, Sooke, the Highlands, and View Royal. For anything other than privacy, write to hello@news.thewestshore.ca.