Map.ca exists to help people, businesses, communities, and governments connect through real places. The Pledge is the public version of that commitment. It is short on purpose: every line is something the platform can be held to.
We believe people should own their presence, understand how they are represented, and have simple tools to correct, control, or remove their information. Map.ca is built as infrastructure. That means trust comes first.
Doctrine note. The Constitution's §6 draft pledge lists six “We do not…” lines plus one positive promise about ownership and control. To honour the build specification's request for seven prohibitions without inventing new doctrine, the prohibitions array below contains the six verbatim “We do not…” lines from §6, followed by the doctrine's positive promise restated as a negative — explicitly marked as derived rather than verbatim. The doctrine is the source; this restatement does not override it.
Requirements
- Display the Pledge prominently on the Policies hub.
- Update the Pledge only through a Constitutional amendment.
Prohibitions
- We do not sell visibility.
- We do not rank businesses by advertising spend.
- We do not take a percentage of people's work.
- We do not use location to secretly track people.
- We do not use AI to replace human responsibility.
- We do not treat community data as something to extract.
- We do not deny people ownership of their own presence, the ability to understand how they are represented, or the tools to correct, control, or remove their information. (Derived from the §6 positive promise; not verbatim.)