Last updated 14 September 2026.

Who runs this

cadvisionstory.com is a historical archive of CADVision Internet (Calgary, 1990–2001), assembled and operated by Jeffrey Shmigelsky in Vancouver, British Columbia. I decide what happens to the information described below. You can reach me at jeffrey@activeq.io.

What this site does not do

There is no contact form, no sign-up, no newsletter, no account and no shop. The site never asks for your name, your email address or anything else about you, and there is nothing here to fill in. If you want to get in touch, you have to send an email — and then I have whatever you chose to put in it, and nothing more.

What is collected

Three analytics services run on every page. All of them see visits rather than people, and none of them is given anything that identifies you.

• Google Analytics 4 — which pages were opened, how you arrived (the referring site, a search, or an ad), approximate location worked out from your IP address, and your device and browser type. Google’s enhanced measurement adds scroll depth, clicks on links leaving the site, file downloads and video plays. Two events are counted here that Google does not supply on its own: that a newspaper scan was opened, and that it was magnified past the fitted view. On an archive of clippings, whether anyone actually read one is the only question worth asking.
• PostHog (US Cloud) — clicks, scroll and click maps, page views, and session recordings of how a visit moved through the pages. PostHog is configured not to create a profile for an anonymous visitor, and since nobody signs in here, no profile is ever created.
• Vercel Analytics and Speed Insights — page views and how quickly pages loaded, so the site can be kept fast.

If you arrive from a Google ad, the link carries Google’s click identifier in the address. Google reads it to attribute the visit to the ad that produced it, and Google Analytics stores it alongside the visit. There is no ad conversion tag and no lead form on this site — the identifier measures the click, nothing further.

Why

To find out which chapters are read, which scans people stop on, and whether the archive is reaching anyone — and to keep the pages loading quickly. That is the whole of it. Nothing here is sold, rented, or shared for anyone else’s marketing, and no one is added to any list.

Cookies

Google Analytics and PostHog set cookies to tell one visit from the next. You can block them in your browser, or use its tracking-protection or Do Not Track setting, and every page will still work exactly as it does now. Nothing on this site is behind a cookie banner, because nothing here depends on your accepting one.

Where it goes, and for how long

The site is hosted by Vercel, and Google, PostHog and Vercel all process this data on servers in the United States, so information about your visit is stored outside Canada. Each keeps it on its own schedule: Google Analytics retains event data for at most fourteen months, and PostHog keeps events and session recordings under its own retention settings. Nothing about a visit is copied anywhere else.

Your choices

Because the archive never asks who you are, there is normally no record here that could be tied to you that I could hand over or delete. If you think there is — you emailed me, say, or you believe a session recording captured something of yours — write to jeffrey@activeq.io and I will find it and delete it. No form, no charge.

The archive is run from British Columbia, under Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and British Columbia’s Personal Information Protection Act. If you think I have handled your information badly, tell me first — and you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

The archive itself

The scans, photographs and documents reproduced here are historical records of a company that closed in 2001. If you appear in one and would rather not, write and say so.

Children

This is a business history. It is not aimed at children and no information is sought from them.

Changes

If what the site does changes, this page changes with it and so does the date at the top.

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