When entering a question into the IntelliStatCan tool, please do not include any personal information or information that could allow your identification or the identification of another individual.
The information you enter in the tool, including any personal information that could be entered inadvertently, is collected under the authority of the Statistics Act and the Financial Administration Act, for the sole purpose of improving the efficiency of the tool and the accuracy of the query results, and will be retained by Statistics Canada for 2 years. It will be used only for internal audits of the query results to detect system errors, quality issues and identification of query patterns. It will not be used for any other purposes or to make any decisions that could affect an individual, and it will not be disclosed outside of Statistics Canada.
In accordance with the Privacy Act, you have the right to the protection of, access to, and correction of any personal information collected by Statistic Canada. Any personal information that you could have provided through the tool is described in Personal Information Bank StatCan PPU 805 - Client Information. However, due to the nature of the IntelliStatCan tool, which involves Large Language Model (LLM), it is not possible for Statistics Canada to retrieve any personal information you might have entered in the tool, thus eliminating the possibility to provide you with access to, or to correct the information once it has been processed.
You have the right to file a complaint with the Privacy Commissioner of Canada regarding Statistics Canada’s handling of your personal information.