About zaayt.com and privacy

Last updated: November 6, 2026

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Your Community, Closer to You

zaayt.com (زيتـ.كم) is an independent community directory for Arabic-speaking residents and newcomers in Canada. We make it easier to reach shops and markets, resources for finding housing and insurance, and educational steps for settling in, and we offer a space to share experience. An informational listing does not mean a partnership or endorsement, and does not reflect live stock or prices.

Limits of the service and contact

Purchases, bookings, insurance and rentals take place directly with the provider, on its own site or system. We do not accept rental, immigration, identity or bank account documents, and we do not guarantee that an application will be accepted or that a product is available. We do not offer real estate or insurance brokerage, or legal, financial or immigration advice. The Newcomer steps material and Zait Al Maple (zaitalmaple.com) are educational, and community answers are experiences that you may need to confirm with the responsible authority.

This is an early launch stage, and the directory can grow and be corrected. Browsing the site is free. Preparing your CV for jobs is an optional service paid with credits; job listings and apply links are always free. The fees pay only for the tools that prepare your documents: zaayt.com is not an employment or recruitment agency, takes no money for getting a job or an interview, and does not share your CV or information with employers. For questions, privacy and corrections, contact the zaayt.com team that runs the platform at support@zaayt.com, and for partnerships partners@zaayt.com.

Browsing and account data

Browsing does not need an account. When you ask to sign in, we use your email to send a code that is valid for ten minutes. After verification, you can choose your name or a nickname; your sign-in email is not shown to members. We keep account data, your name, posts, reports and the log of admin actions to protect the community and run the service. A sign-in session lasts up to seven days, and you can end it by signing out.

Your questions, answers and display name are public, and others may copy them outside the site. Do not post private information about yourself or others, or children's information or documents. Posts are not anonymous to the platform's administrators; a nickname hides your real name from other members.

Tips and comments

Comments under tips use the same community account. Readers see the display name, the text and the date; the email stays private. You can delete your comment and report someone else's, and administrators can delete comments that break the rules. Deleting a comment removes its text from the page and from the operational database, while a limited action record remains; the backup retention described on this page applies. Comments are personal experiences, not financial advice, a religious ruling or a confirmation of the information.

Shops and organisations in the directory

Most cards for shops, markets and organisations were added by the zaayt.com team from public information the business itself published on its website, its official page or an official register: the name, city, type of business and website, with the source link. A listing is for information only and does not mean a partnership or endorsement. A logo, if shown, is taken from the official website to identify the business.

The owner of any shop or organisation can ask for its card to be corrected, updated or removed at partners@zaayt.com; we review the request and reply as soon as we can. They can also send a request to add or update a card from the site after confirming their email; the request is not published automatically. Do not send a private home address for publication; a public business contact is better. We do not add you to a marketing list.

Keeping and deleting data, and your requests

We keep account data to run the account, and posts while they are published. Sign-in codes expire after ten minutes and sessions after seven days; their expired records are cleaned up during maintenance or later sign-in requests. Deleting a post on the site erases its text from the active database, while a limited record of the deletion remains. An older copy may stay in backups until they rotate, so deleting is not an immediate erasure from every copy.

The app's daily backups are kept in a private space on the hosting and rotate within a period of up to about 14 days. They are not available to the public. The hosting service may keep other copies under its own settings. Data on reports, requests and the admin log is kept while it is needed for review, protection or applicable obligations, and we review requests to remove it according to its purpose.

To ask to see your data, get a copy of it, correct it or delete your account, write to support@zaayt.com from your account email and state your request without sending sensitive documents. We may ask for suitable verification before acting on it. If part of the data has to be kept for a legal or security reason, we explain this when we handle your request. If our answer does not satisfy you, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada or to your province's privacy body, such as the Commission d'accès à l'information in Quebec. Deleting your account does not delete copies that other people made of published content.

Newcomer steps and storage in your browser

The Newcomer steps guide does not accept government applications or documents. If you choose to save your progress, the ticks on the steps are kept in your browser only and are not synced with the server. You can clear them or stop saving; anyone who uses the same browser may see them. We use a necessary session cookie for sign-in only. We put no advertising tools, ad tracking or session recording on the site, and we never sell your data or share it for advertising; we count visits with a tool that uses no cookies and does not identify you. When you choose your city or province on the home page or in the Groceries, Clothing, Bazaars, Jobs or Services sections, we keep your choice in your browser only so that those sections open on it next time; it is not sent to the server, and you can change it or clear it by choosing «All provinces».

The household budget in Your economy is kept in your browser only: your numbers are not sent to the server unless you yourself choose «Save my budget in my account» while signed in with your community account. Then we keep in your account the monthly amounts for each line and each month, the names of the lines you added and the display choice, and we remove the copy from the device. We never ask for or store bank account or card numbers. The budget is not shown to any other user, and the admin panel does not show it. You can delete it at any time with «Delete from my account», and it is deleted automatically after two years without an update or when you delete your account, though older copies may remain in backups until they rotate. You can instead download a copy of your numbers as a file to your device, with no account.

In Professional licensing, your answers and the status of your steps are kept in your browser only, unless you choose «Save to my account» while signed in with your community account. Then only your choices and the status of your steps are kept in your account, without documents or application numbers; they are shown to no one, and they are deleted if they are not updated for two years or when you delete your account. The «Email the report to me» and «Email me this plan» buttons send your report to your account email only.

zaayt.com alerts (newsletter)

Subscribing to zaayt.com alerts is optional, and it starts only if you choose it yourself after confirming your email with the sign-in code, on the Professional licensing page or on the sign-in screen of Your community. We keep the date of your consent, the consent wording you read and the page you subscribed from, and the profession, province and language if you chose them, so that we send you only what concerns you. Alerts are sent through Hostinger Reach, the newsletter service of the site's hosting provider, which receives only your email and these tags: not your name, not your progress on the roadmap and no other content. You can unsubscribe at any time from the unsubscribe link in every email or from the unsubscribe page, and your email is removed from the sending list. Asking «Email me this plan» sends your plan once and does not subscribe you to alerts. Subscription data is deleted when you delete your account.

Jobs, channel content and the app

A job ad you send is kept for review, and an alert email goes to the administrators through Resend before publication. The editor publishes the job description and the approved application link, and does not publish the sender's sign-in email or account details. Applications and CVs go directly to the company; we do not receive CVs on the platform.

Job-alert notifications on your device are optional. When you press «Turn on notifications on this device» and allow it in your browser, we keep with your account only the notification address your browser gives us (a link at the notification service of Google, Apple, Mozilla or Microsoft) and the notification language. When new jobs match your alert, we send that service an empty signal that carries neither your name, your search nor any job; your device then asks zaayt.com for the number of new jobs to show it. You can turn this off on the job alerts page or in your browser settings, and we delete the address when the service tells us it is no longer valid or when your account is deleted.

The smart application assistant in Jobs runs in your browser: your CV, cover letters, form answers, the postings you paste and your application log are kept on your device only. When you ask, after confirming, for lines to be worded in English, for your CV to be prepared for a job published on our jobs page or for a job whose posting you pasted, or for a cover letter or answers to its form questions, we send only the text that is needed, without your name, phone, email, links and address (but with the names of the companies you worked for and the years of each job), together with the posting text, to the AI provider Anthropic in the United States to be worded, and we keep none of it. The provider deletes it within 30 days, except what its systems flag as breaking its usage policy, which it may keep for up to two years, and it does not use it to train its models. Form questions about residency, work permits, salary, age, gender, race, disability, religion or criminal record, and questions that ask for your name or contact details, are never sent. We open a posting's link only when you press «Read the posting from the link»: our server then opens that public posting page alone, respects its robots.txt file, sends it nothing about you, and never opens LinkedIn, Indeed or Job Bank links. When you upload a CV, the file is read on your device and never uploaded or kept, and the text of a picture or a scan is also read on your device: your name and contact details stay on your device, lines of personal data such as date of birth and nationality are removed, and after you confirm, the rest of the text (jobs, education and skills) is sent the same way to be sorted into the fields as written. This service needs a community account, and we keep daily usage counters and the number of units (tokens) sent and received for each day and each service to know the cost, as numbers only, without any text or account. We also keep a private copy of the posting text of each job published in Jobs, taken from the employer's own page, so that preparing a CV is more precise. This copy is shown to no one, and we delete it when the job closes or after 120 days.

When you pay for the CV preparation service: payment is made through Stripe, which receives and stores your card details; we never see or store the card number, and we send Stripe your account email so that you receive the receipt. We keep what is needed to run the service and for tax records: what you bought, the amount, the date, your credit balance and your plan. We keep payment records for 6 years as tax law requires, even after the account is deleted. The terms of sale and the refund policy are on the terms page.

Channel cards are links to their sources. Videos update from an official feed where one is available; updates may be delayed or may fail. Loading an external player or a video image from YouTube or TikTok needs you to press the load option, and may send connection information to that platform under its own policy. Aggregate measurement records the ID of the channel whose link was opened, and does not tell us who the visitor is.

You can add the platform to your home screen. It needs an internet connection to show current content; we do not keep account or admin pages, or their requests, for offline use, only a fixed notice that the connection is down.

Posting rules and accuracy of information

Post respectfully, without abuse, impersonation, spam or personal information. Administrators can hide or delete content that breaks the rules, and review reports. Check prices, taxes, schedules and service conditions with the provider before any transaction. The date on which a source was checked does not guarantee that the information is still correct, and an automatic check of a link does not mean its content was reviewed. If the way we use data changes, we update this notice and ask for new consent when it is required.