Updated October 1, 2026

Your information. Your choices.

Private review version. The operating corporation’s legal name and provider processing countries still need confirmation before public launch. Canada-only storage has not been established. Please use fictional information while reviewing this site.

Who to contact

For questions, access, corrections, complaints or consent withdrawal, contact the Privacy Contact, KEWL Leads (CarBids) at hello@carbidsab.ca. Include your request reference if available. Do not email identification documents, credit reports, banking information or a SIN. We may ask for proportionate verification before releasing or changing a record.

What we collect and why

• Your name, phone number and preferred contact method for handling your vehicle request and any authorized dealer referral. An email address is required if you select email contact and is otherwise optional. Your selected method controls follow-up; providing a phone number does not authorize calls or texts when you choose email.
• Alberta location, vehicle preferences, budget target and timing to understand your request and find a suitable participating dealer.
• For selling or trading: vehicle details, mileage, condition and customer-reported history. VIN and photos are optional and help describe the vehicle.
• Your consent choices, request reference, follow-up notes and dealer assignment to manage the referral and respond to privacy requests.
• Limited technical information for delivery, sign-in and security. The application uses a temporary hashed network identifier for submission limits; hosting providers may also process network and operational logs.

We do not ask for credit history, lender names, employment, income or loan balances in this referral intake. Do not put these details, bank information, identification documents or people unrelated to the request in notes or photos. Financing questions belong with the dealer under its own process.

Separate consent for dealer sharing

The required service checkbox permits KEWL to respond about this request using your preferred method. The separate dealer-sharing checkbox is optional and starts unchecked. Without it, the request stays with KEWL and is not available to dealers through this site.

If you opt in, we may share your contact details, vehicle information, preferences, optional VIN/photos and readiness summary with a participating Alberta dealership for this request. Normally one dealer receives it. Another may receive it if reassignment is needed. Dealers may pay KEWL referral fees. This is not consent for unrelated marketing. Dealers handle vehicle transactions and any financing, and are responsible for their own handling of information.

Readiness and matching

Hot, Warm and Early describe shopping readiness from timing, budget and vehicle preferences; selling and trade ratings use vehicle details and condition. Missing answers can lower a readiness rating, but credit, employment and income do not affect it. A separate completeness score and dealer coverage, vehicle rules, availability and capacity determine referral matching. These are rules-based follow-up tools, not credit checks, approvals or financing decisions. Ask us to correct an answer or review a match.

Providers and processing outside Canada

This site uses OpenAI Sites for hosting and access, with Cloudflare Workers for application processing, D1 for records and R2 for vehicle photos. The privacy mailbox uses Namecheap Private Email when you email us. These services may involve processing outside Canada, where information may be subject to foreign law and lawful access.

Country and contract review is pending: the current setup does not establish the specific countries for storage, processing, support, logs or backups. We have not verified Canada-only residency. The complete country list and provider practices must be confirmed and this notice updated before public collection begins. Contact the Privacy Contact above for our provider policy and questions about overseas processing.

Contact choices and suppression records

Your selected channel is for responding to this enquiry only. We do not collect permission for ongoing promotional campaigns. Read our email, text and calling rules. You can stop emails, texts or calls, reply to the sender, or contact the Privacy Contact. The site is private during review; email/reply options remain available if the site access gate prevents you opening the form.

We retain the selected email address/phone number, name when known, channel, request dates and source separately from lead records to honour opt-outs. Deleting a lead does not delete this limited suppression record. Phone records have a minimum retention date of three years and 14 days; they do not automatically reactivate after that date. Other suppression records remain while reasonably needed to honour the choice, subject to periodic review and legal requirements. Resubmitting an enquiry does not automatically remove an opt-out.

Retention, withdrawal and deletion

Our procedure is to review requests after 90 days and keep information only for a continuing reasonable business or legal purpose. Ninety days is a review point, not an automatic deletion promise. Accounting obligations, complaints, access requests and other legal requirements can require longer retention of necessary records.

You can withdraw consent for contact or dealer sharing. This may prevent us from completing the referral. We can stop further site sharing and review what must be retained or deleted. Information already received or downloaded by a dealer cannot be recalled automatically; we will coordinate the request with known recipients. Deletion from active site records and photos does not establish immediate removal from provider backups or a dealer’s own systems.

Access, correction and protection

Contact us to request access to your information, correct it or raise a concern. We will handle requests under applicable privacy requirements and explain any permitted restriction. Lead records and photos have owner/dealer access controls; participating dealers can access only authorized assigned records. No security measure eliminates all risk. The current application contains no advertising pixels or unrelated marketing subscription.

You may also contact the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta.