Privacy policy
Last updated August 5, 2026 · Footings is in active beta · Operated by Canopus Supply Inc., doing business as Footings
Footings exists to keep a construction company's job costing and books straight. The data you put in it is yours. This page says plainly what we collect, where it lives, and who can see it.
What we collect
- Account details — your email address and the name you sign up with.
- Your company's records — the jobs, estimates, invoices, bills, expenses, payments, schedules and books your team enters, and the receipts and documents you photograph or upload.
- Almost nothing else. There is no advertising, no analytics tracker, and no selling or sharing of your data with third parties for their own use. We don't use cookies beyond what keeping you signed in requires.
Where it lives
All application data is stored in Canada (our database and file storage run in a Canadian data-centre region), encrypted in transit and at rest. Payment card details are not collected — Footings has no paid plans during the beta.
Who can see it
- Your team, by role. Access inside your company is enforced by database-level rules: field crew see their own jobs and uploads; project managers see the jobs they're on; only owner, admin and accounting roles see the company's books. Another company can never see your data.
- Us, narrowly. The people operating Footings can access production systems for maintenance and support. We look at customer records only when needed to fix a problem you've reported.
- Our infrastructure providers (database/hosting) process data on our behalf under their own security and privacy commitments.
Automatic document reading (when enabled)
Footings can read a photographed receipt or invoice and pre-fill the entry for you. When this feature is enabled and you request a read, that one document is transmitted securely to our document-processing provider (Anthropic) for extraction and is not used to train their models under our configuration. Documents are never sent for processing unless a user asks for that document to be read; skipping the feature and typing the entry yourself keeps the document entirely in Canada. This feature is currently not enabled in production — this section is here so the policy is ahead of the feature, not behind it.
Support messages
The support form is processed by Netlify (our hosting provider) and lands in our support inbox. Send only what the problem needs — support messages are kept while the issue is worked and for a reasonable record afterwards, and are readable only by the people running Footings.
Sensitive identifiers
Subcontractor tax identifiers (business numbers, SINs entered for T5018 slips) get extra protection: they are stored separately, shown masked, readable in full only by accounting roles, and every reveal is written to an audit trail.
Your controls
- Export — your books export to Excel at any time. Your data is never held hostage.
- Deletion — ask via the support page and we delete your account and your company's data within 30 days (see that page for details).
Changes and contact
If this policy changes materially we'll note it here with a new date. Questions: use the support page.
The company behind Footings: Canopus Supply Inc. (doing business as Footings), Unit 103 – 185 Forester Street, North Vancouver, BC V7H 0A6, Canada. Privacy questions reach the owner directly through the support page.