Legal
Every document that governs your use of Hypertax, each with the version you are reading, the date it takes effect and a record of what changed.
These documents are pre-launch drafts
They have not been reviewed by a lawyer and are not in force. Passages awaiting a decision from counsel are marked in place within each document.
Documents
- What Hypertax collects, why, who else processes it, where it is stored, how long it is kept, and the rights you have over it.Version 1.2.0-draftEffective Draft8 passages awaiting counsel
- The agreement between you and Hypertax: who may use it, what you are buying, what we are responsible for, and what you are.Version 1.1.0-draftEffective Draft4 passages awaiting counsel
- Hypertax is software that prepares a return from what you tell it. It is not a tax adviser, and it does not prepare everything you may owe.Version 1.1.0-draftEffective Draft1 passages awaiting counsel
- Exactly where Hypertax uses AI, where it does not, why sending your return information to a model vendor needs your consent, and what happens if you decline.Version 1.1.0-draftEffective Draft2 passages awaiting counsel
- The confirmations you make before Hypertax releases your completed return, and what each of them is there for.Version 1.1.0-draftEffective Draft2 passages awaiting counsel
Consent and retention
Two further documents live under /legal/ and are deliberately not in the list above, because neither is a policy we wrote freely: the consents record a decision that has to be yours rather than ours, and the retention policy resolves an obligation the Income Tax Act imposes on us.
- The two consents Hypertax uses: one to disclose your tax return information to a named AI vendor outside Canada, one for Hypertax's own use of it. Both are drafts awaiting legal review, so the AI features they cover are switched off.
- What Hypertax erases as soon as you ask, what it must keep for six years because the Income Tax Act requires records of a prepared return to be kept that long, and why nothing kept can be used to contact you.
Consent to disclose your return information is handled separately
Sending any part of your return to an AI vendor outside Canada is a disclosure of your personal information for a purpose other than preparing your return, and it requires your prior, specific, opt-in consent. The consent to disclose and the consent to use are separate documents, because agreeing to one is not agreeing to the other, so neither is folded into anything above. Both are still drafts awaiting legal review, so nothing is being asked of anyone yet and every AI feature is switched off. Declining either one still leaves a complete return reachable by entering your figures yourself.