You own your data. This page summarizes how we treat it.
The First Nations Information Governance Centre developed the OCAP® principles to address four key concerns: Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession.
When OCAP® was formally established in 1998, it gave shared language to concerns many communities had raised for years: who owns Indigenous data, who controls its use, and who can charge for access to it. In the mid 1990s, co-founder Trevor Wiens was working with communities on consultation and land-use records with communities retaining ownership of their information. That approach shaped LOUIS from the start. Today, OCAP® remains foundational to how we work: clients own their data, control how it’s used, decide who can access it, and are guaranteed copies of all data stored in our secure environment — even in the event of a financial dispute.
The LOUIS Toolkit is a software as a service platform for our customers. This policy provides a summary of the signed Client Agreement which takes precedence.
The LOUIS Toolkit website and the LOUIS Field mobile application are owned and operated by Apropos Information Systems Inc. Client data is hosted in Canada.
The purpose of this policy is to inform users of our services of the following:
You own your data and retain all right, title and interest in it.
We will treat all your data as confidential, and will not use or disclose your data for any purpose other than providing access to the Service and providing the Additional Services, provided that We may disclose your data where required to do so by law, or order of a court or other authority having the jurisdiction over Us to compel production of documents.
We accept no responsibility to review, screen, filter or otherwise approve your data, provided that We have the right, but not the obligation, to remove from our systems any of your data that we believe is in violation of any term or condition of this Agreement.
We will retain your data during the Term of this Agreement and for one (1) year following the expiry of the Term or termination of this Agreement, following which time We have no obligation to retain your data and may delete or destroy your data without notice to You, and without any liability whatsoever to You.
During the Term, We will make commercially reasonable efforts to recover your data accidentally or inadvertently deleted by You. We provide no warranty, condition or guarantee that efforts to recover your data will succeed.
All Confidential Information gathered under this Agreement shall remain the property of You and only be used by Us for the completion of Services under this Agreement.
If We are required by law to disclose Confidential Information, We will provide written notice of this request to You (unless prohibited by law from doing so) so as to permit You to have an opportunity, if possible, to take steps to attempt to oppose disclosure, or to limit or protect your Confidential Information.
We use Cloudflare Turnstile on our website to protect our forms and pages from spam and automated attacks. Turnstile collects basic technical information, such as your IP address, browser type, and device information, to check if you are a real person. This data processing is handled by Cloudflare, and their use of your information is governed by the Cloudflare Privacy Policy (including Turnstile).
Some photographs and illustrations on this marketing website are AI-assisted images. They are conceptual and do not depict specific clients, communities, Nations, municipalities, or places. They are not photographs of LOUIS customer sites or staff unless otherwise stated.