Settings
Preferences for policyratio, the citation-first policy-lookup tool for government staff across Canada. These live only in this browser — nothing here leaves your machine. Theme and default jurisdiction take effect the next time you open the tool.
Theme
System follows your device's light or dark setting. Choosing Light or Dark pins it — saved to theme and applied before the page paints, so there's no flash.
Default jurisdiction
Which province or territory's policy the tool searches by default. Only Alberta is loaded today; other provinces and territories appear here as their manuals are added. Saved to default-jurisdiction.
Default sector · coming soon
policyratio loads policy by sector as well as by jurisdiction — income support, health, housing, employment, child & family services. Today only Income Support is loaded (in Alberta), so there's nothing to choose yet. A sector selector will appear here once a second sector is live.
Stored searches
The tool remembers your recent questions so you can rerun them. They're kept only in this browser under recent-questions, and are PII-scrubbed before they're ever stored — no client identity, no free text beyond the policy query itself.
What this tool holds about anyone
No personal client information is ever entered or stored. Questions are structured, PII-free policy queries — there's no name, SIN, date of birth, or free-text field to paste them into.
What is retained is a structured, PII-free record of a lookup: the query, the section IDs returned, quote hashes, and the pinned model version — kept for defensibility on appeal, never a client's identity. Anything held on this device (theme, default jurisdiction, recent searches) stays on this device.
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