# About this site **Military Deals** is a free, independent directory of discounts and pro deals available to Canadian military members, veterans, and their families. It currently lists **304 verified programs** across 11 categories, in English and French. ## Who runs it It's built and maintained by one serving member as a personal side project, not by the Department of National Defence, CFMWS, or any company. Nobody is paid to be listed, and listings can't be bought. ## Why it exists Military discounts are scattered across hundreds of vendor pages, forum threads, and word of mouth. Half the links are dead by the time you find them. This site puts them in one place, keeps them checked, and makes them searchable by category, region, or your base. ## How deals are verified - Every deal is added by hand and checked against the vendor's own terms before it's listed. - Links are re-checked automatically every day; anything broken is flagged for review. - Each deal shows the month it was last checked. Deals are re-checked on a rolling basis, oldest first, and a deal that visitors say didn't work goes to the front of the line. - Each deal carries a tier, from T1 (free or exceptional) down to T5 (niche or low value), so a real program stands out from a token one. - Programs change without notice. Always confirm with the vendor before you rely on a deal. ## Community-driven Missing a deal, or found one that's out of date? Use the "Submit a deal" button on the homepage (https://militarydeals.ca/). Every submission is reviewed before it's published. ## Free, with no ads and no affiliate links There are no ads, no sponsored placements, no affiliate links and no donations. The site earns no money. It's a free resource, run as a personal project for the military community. ## Not an official resource Military Deals is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the Department of National Defence, the Canadian Armed Forces, or Canadian Forces Morale and Welfare Services. For official benefits and programs, see CFMWS (https://www.cfmws.ca/). ## Sharing the site with your unit, MFRC, or base paper Link to **militarydeals.ca**, or to your base's page, such as `militarydeals.ca/bases/petawawa/`, which lists the deals near that base. `militarydeals.ca/?base=petawawa` opens the interactive view with local deals first and the map centred on the base. The short description at the top of this page can be reused as-is. ## Privacy There's no account and no sign-up, and nothing is sold or shared with the businesses listed. This is everything the site records: - **Visit statistics.** Google Analytics (which uses cookies) and Cloudflare Web Analytics (which doesn't) count page views, searches and clicks, to show what people use and what they can't find. See how Google uses this data (https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites). A tracker blocker stops both, and the site works the same. - **Deal clicks.** Each "Visit Site" click adds one to that deal's count for the Top 10. Your IP address is kept for one hour so the same person can't count a deal more than once an hour. - **"Did this deal work?"** Answers are stored as counts per deal. A one-way scrambled form (a hash) of your IP address is kept for 30 days to stop repeat votes. - **The submit and report form.** What you type is emailed to the site's inbox with your IP address, and a copy is kept for 90 days in case the email doesn't arrive. The IP address limits spam to 5 submissions a day. Your email address is optional and only used to follow up on that submission. - **"Near me"** uses your location inside your browser only. It isn't stored or sent anywhere. - **Saved deals, your base and your feedback answers** stay in your own browser, not on the site. - **Other services your browser loads.** Cloudflare hosts the site, Google Fonts provides the fonts, and the map view loads its map from CARTO and its map code from unpkg. Each one receives your IP address when your browser fetches from it, under its own privacy policy. For questions, or to have something you sent deleted, email contact@militarydeals.ca (mailto:contact@militarydeals.ca). ## Contact Email contact@militarydeals.ca (mailto:contact@militarydeals.ca) for corrections, questions from MFRCs, base papers or units, businesses that want to offer or update a military discount, or any concern about the site, including from DND or CFMWS. One person runs the site, so a reply can take a few days. To suggest a new deal, the "Submit a deal" button on the homepage is quickest. --- Source: https://militarydeals.ca/about/ Also available in French: https://militarydeals.ca/fr/a-propos/