Privacy notice

Last updated: October 5, 2026

This notice explains how Oat handles your information when you join the waitlist or use Oat's pilot. Oat's full privacy policy will be published before Oat opens.

What Oat collects

If you join the waitlist

• Your email address
• Whether you offered to help test Oat
• The language you chose (English or French), so Oat can write to you in it
• When you signed up and confirmed, and the wording you agreed to

If you use Oat's pilot

• Your email address and language, and when you signed in
• What you enter in your files: your claim or your Defence, the dates of each step, and details about the other people or businesses involved, such as the other side and your witnesses. Oat uses details about other people only to prepare your forms and track your dates.

The public pages of this website do not use cookies, ads or tracking tools. When you sign in, Oat sets one cookie that keeps you signed in on that browser. It is not used for tracking.

Why

Oat uses your waitlist email address only to tell you about its launch and, if you offered, to invite you to test it. Oat uses what you enter in the pilot only to keep your files, prepare your forms and, unless you turn it off, email you a reminder before a date in your files. Oat does not sell or share your information (except with an app you connect yourself, see below), and does not use it to train AI.

Where it is kept

Oat uses these service providers in the United States:

• Railway runs this website and stores the waitlist, accounts and files.
• Resend sends Oat's emails. Emails never include details of your claim.
• Microsoft stores emails you send to Oat.
• Adobe Fonts supplies the heading font, so your browser shares your internet (IP) address with Adobe.

US authorities may be able to access information stored there, under US law.

Who at Oat can see it

The people who work on Oat don't read what's in your files. They look at your information only if you ask for help and agree to it, to fix a problem or keep Oat secure, or if the law requires it. Anyone who works on Oat must agree in writing to keep it confidential. Oat's founder is a lawyer, and never shares your information with the founder's law firm or its clients.

To see how the pilot is going, Oat's server counts things like how many files reach each step, which forms are downloaded, and whether people say the court office accepted their forms the first time. These are numbers only: nobody reads your file to make them, and they don't include your name or anything you wrote. Oat may share these numbers, for example with the Law Society of Ontario.

Oat is for each person's or business's own claims. To check this, Oat asks whether you use it for yourself or for a business, and its server counts, for each account, how many claims it started in the last 12 months, how many different people or businesses it named as defendants, and how many different names its claims were made in. If an account goes past set limits, the people who run Oat see its email address and those numbers (never what's in its files), and may contact you about it.

Apps you connect

You can connect an app, such as an AI assistant, to your files. (During the pilot, this is by invitation.) The app can then read only the files you choose and, if you allow it, suggest changes. Nothing changes in a file until you accept, and only you can approve forms, accept an offer, settle or consent. The connection lasts 90 days, or until you disconnect the app on your files page.

Oat keeps the app's name, which files it can see and what it may do. Each app's suggestions, and what you did with them, are kept with the file and shown in its "what changed" page; they are deleted with the file. What an app reads is then handled by that app under its own terms and privacy policy, which Oat doesn't control. Please check them before you connect an app. Oat never sends your information to an app you haven't connected.

How long it is kept

Waitlist: until you unsubscribe, or until Oat no longer needs it to contact you about its launch, whichever comes first. If you don't confirm your email address, it is deleted after 30 days.

Pilot: your files are kept until you delete them or your account. A sign-in link works for 30 minutes, and signing in lasts 30 days.

Your choices

You can unsubscribe from the waitlist at any time, using the link at the bottom of any waitlist email. Your email address is then deleted. In the pilot, you can turn reminder emails off on your files page or with the link in any reminder, and you can delete a file, or your whole account and all its files, at any time. Deleting can't be undone. You can download a copy of your information (your account and everything in your files) from your files page at any time. To see, correct or delete your information, you can also email privacy@oat.ca.

Questions or complaints

Email privacy@oat.ca. If you are not satisfied with the answer, you can contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.