PRIVACY POLICY
LAST UPDATED: 29TH AUGUST 2026
THE HOG WORK PLAIN ENGLISH SUMMARY
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GLASS-LEVEL HONESTY: We collect company and project details to assess your inquiry and coordinate labour. We collect worker details to place, pay, and support people on site. We never sell either.
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WE ASK, THEN WE USE: We collect your information with your knowledge and consent, and use it only for the reasons we tell you about here.
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CANADIAN LAW: We operate under Canada's federal private-sector privacy law, PIPEDA, and Ontario employment and construction legislation.
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YOUR CHOICE: You can ask to see what we hold about you, correct it, withdraw your consent, or ask us to delete it.
1. WHO THIS POLICY COVERS
This Privacy Policy explains how Hog Work Industrial Hub Ltd. ("Hog Work", "we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, discloses, and protects personal information when you visit our website (https://hogwork.com), use our intake forms, apply to work with us, or engage our services.
Hog Work is an Ontario corporation. Because Ontario has no general private-sector privacy statute, our handling of personal information in commercial activity is governed by the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), alongside our obligations under Ontario employment and construction legislation.
2. ACCOUNTABILITY — WHO TO CONTACT
We have designated a Privacy Officer accountable for our compliance with this policy. To ask a question, request access to your information, or make a complaint, contact:
Privacy Officer, Hog Work Industrial Hub Ltd. Email: help@hogwork.com Phone: 289-324-1600 [BUSINESS ADDRESS — TO BE CONFIRMED BY JEFF]
3. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
(a) Company and project inquiries. When you submit a client or partner intake form, we collect: company name, contact name, work email address, phone number, project location, estimated construction or contract value, trade requirements, and scheduling needs.
(b) Worker and applicant information. When you apply to work with us or are onboarded, we collect: name, contact details, work eligibility information, trade certifications and safety training records, apprenticeship registration details, work history, references, emergency contact details, and — where we employ you — the payroll and employment information required by law, which may include your Social Insurance Number, banking details for direct deposit, and tax forms. Where you are working on an assignment, we also collect time and attendance records, including location-verified timecard data, and incident or safety reports.
(c) Automatically collected technical data. When you browse this site we collect standard technical data: IP address, approximate location at the city or country level, device and browser type, operating system, pages viewed, and session timestamps.
(d) Cookies and session tokens. We use operational cookies and authentication tokens to keep the site working, maintain secure sessions, and understand site usage. You can control cookies through your browser settings, though disabling them may affect site functionality.
4. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We use personal information only for these purposes:
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Assessing project eligibility, capacity, and fit against our service tiers.
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Contacting site superintendents, project managers, or company officers about capacity, scheduling, and dispatch.
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Screening, vetting, matching, onboarding, placing, scheduling, and supporting workers.
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Administering payroll, statutory deductions, benefits, and employer-of-record obligations.
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Verifying time and attendance records, and meeting recordkeeping and holdback-related audit obligations under the Ontario Construction Act and the Employment Standards Act, 2000.
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Assessing credit and payment risk for prospective and active commercial clients.
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Health and safety administration, incident reporting, and workplace insurance obligations.
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Protecting the security of our systems, preventing fraudulent submissions, and enforcing our agreements.
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Sending you commercial messages where you have consented to receive them.
We do not use your information for automated decision-making that produces a legal or similarly significant effect without human review.
5. CONSENT + WITHDRAWING IT
We collect, use, and disclose personal information with your knowledge and consent, except where PIPEDA permits or requires otherwise — for example, to investigate a breach of an agreement or a suspected contravention of law, in an emergency threatening someone's life, health, or security, or where disclosure is required by law.
You may withdraw your consent at any time, subject to legal and contractual restrictions and reasonable notice. Withdrawing consent may mean we can no longer provide a service or continue an assignment. Withdrawing consent does not remove our obligation to retain records that legislation requires us to keep.
Commercial electronic messages. Where we send you marketing or promotional email, we do so in accordance with Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL). Every such message identifies us, gives our contact information, and includes an unsubscribe mechanism. You can unsubscribe at any time, and we will action it promptly. Unsubscribing from marketing does not stop transactional or employment-related messages we need to send you.
6. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We do not sell, rent, or trade personal information. We disclose it only as follows:
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Service providers. Trusted vendors performing functions on our behalf — including database and platform hosting, payment processing, payroll and employer-of-record administration, scheduling and timecard systems, and communications tools. They are bound by contract to protect the information and use it only for the services they provide to us.
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Clients and project hosts. Where you are a worker on an assignment, we disclose to the client the information they need to host you safely and lawfully on site — such as your name, trade classification, certifications, and attendance. We do not disclose your pay rate to a client, or a client's rates to you.
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Legal and regulatory. Where required by law, court order, subpoena, statutory audit, or a lawful request from a regulator or government authority in Ontario or Canada, including the Ministry of Labour and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board.
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Protecting our interests. To enforce our agreements, investigate suspected fraud, unauthorized data extraction, or breach, or to protect the safety, rights, or property of any person.
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Business transaction. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, information may be disclosed to the parties involved, subject to confidentiality protections and applicable law.
7. INFORMATION STORED OR PROCESSED OUTSIDE CANADA
Some of the service providers we use store or process information on servers located outside Canada, including in the United States. While information is in another country, it is subject to that country's laws and may be accessible to that country's courts, law enforcement, and national security authorities. We use contractual and security measures to require comparable protection from our service providers. If you would like to know more about how we handle information transferred outside Canada, contact our Privacy Officer.
8. RETENTION + SECURITY
We keep personal information only as long as needed for the purpose it was collected for, or as long as legislation requires us to keep it — whichever is longer. Ontario employment legislation requires us to retain certain payroll and employment records for defined statutory periods, and those requirements override a deletion request for those specific records.
Intake submissions from inquiries that do not proceed are deleted or de-identified on a routine cleanup cycle.
We protect personal information with physical, organizational, and technical safeguards appropriate to its sensitivity, including access controls, encryption in transit, and restricting internal access to people who need it to do their job. No system is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Breach notification. If a breach of security safeguards creates a real risk of significant harm to you, we will notify you and report to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada as PIPEDA requires, and we will keep records of breaches as required.
9. YOUR RIGHTS
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Access. You may request access to the personal information we hold about you and information about how it has been used and disclosed. We will respond within 30 days, or tell you if we need more time and why. Limited exceptions apply — for example, where disclosing would reveal another person's personal information or privileged material.
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Correction. If information we hold is inaccurate or incomplete, you may ask us to correct it.
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Deletion. You may ask us to delete your information, subject to statutory retention requirements and active contractual obligations.
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Withdraw consent. See Section 5 above.
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Complain. If you are not satisfied with how we have handled your information or your request, contact our Privacy Officer first. You also have the right to complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (priv.gc.ca).
There is no charge for a routine access request. If a request would involve unusually high costs, we will tell you the estimated cost in advance and give you the chance to withdraw or modify the request.
10. CHILDREN
This website and our services are directed at businesses and at working-age individuals. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the minimum age permitted to work in Ontario in the applicable role. If we learn we have collected such information without proper authorization, we will delete it.
11. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our operations or in the law. The revised version takes effect when posted, and the "Last Updated" date above will change. If a change materially affects how we use information we already hold about you, we will take reasonable steps to notify you.
12. CONTACT US
Hog Work Industrial Hub Ltd.
Attn: Privacy Officer
Email: help@hogwork.com
Phone: 289-324-1600