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This cookie policy (“Cookie Policy”) describes the types of cookies we use on the Platform and our purposes for using them.
If you have any questions about this cookies policy, or would like a detailed list of cookies we currently use on the website, please contact us at [email protected]. For more information about our privacy practices, please review our Privacy Policy.
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What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or on the hard drive of your device. Unless you have changed your browser settings so that it refuses cookies, our system will issue cookies whenever you visit the Platform.
Key concepts
FIRST AND THIRD PARTY COOKIES: Whether a cookie is first or third party refers to the domain that places the cookie.
First-party cookies are those set by a website the user is visiting at that time (for example, cookies placed by https://www.podiatreestrie.ca/ ).
Third-party cookies are cookies that are set by a domain other than that of the site visited by the user. If a user visits a website and another entity sets a cookie through that website, it is a third-party cookie.
PERSISTENT COOKIES: These cookies remain on the user’s device for the duration specified in the cookie. They are activated every time the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.
SESSION COOKIES: These cookies allow website operators to link a user’s actions during a browsing session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and ends when the user closes the browser window. Session cookies are created temporarily. Once the browser is closed, all session cookies are deleted.
How to delete and block our cookies
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What cookies do we use and why?
The cookies that we may use on the Platform can be classified as follows:
Strictly necessary
Performance
Functionality
Targeting
Some cookies may serve more than one of these purposes
“STRICTLY NECESSARY” COOKIES” allow you to move around the Platform and use essential features such as secure areas. Without these cookies we cannot provide the requested services.
We use “strictly necessary” cookies to:
Identify you as being connected to the platform and to authenticate yourself
You make sure you sign in to the correct service on the Platform when we make changes to how it works
For safety reasons
Accepting these cookies is a condition of using the Platform, so if you prevent these cookies we cannot guarantee the performance of the Platform or security on the Platform during your visit.
‘PERFORMANCE COOKIES’ collect information about how you use the e.x Platform. the pages you visit, and if you encounter any errors. These cookies do not collect any information that could identify you and only serve to help us improve how the Platform works, understand the interests of our users, and measure the effectiveness of our advertising.
We use performance cookies to:
Perform web analytics: provide statistics on platform usage
Track affiliates: provide feedback to affiliated entities that one of our visitors has also visited their site
Obtain data on the number of platform users who viewed a product or service
Help us improve the platform by measuring errors that occur
Test different designs for the platform
Some of our performance cookies are managed for us by third parties.
“FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES” are used to provide services or remember settings to improve your visit.
We use “Functionality” cookies for purposes such as:
Don’t forget the settings you have applied, such as layout, text size, preferences and colors
Remember if we have already asked you if you would like to complete a survey
Remind you if you engaged with a specific component or listing on the platform so it doesn’t repeat
Show you when you are logged in to the platform
To deliver and display embedded video content
Some of these cookies are managed for us by third parties.
“TARGETED COOKIES” are used to track your visit to the Platform, as well as other sites, applications and online services, including the pages you have visited and the links you have followed, allowing you to display targeted advertisements on Platform.
We may use targeting cookies to:
Display targeted ads within the platform.
Improve how we deliver personalized ads and content, and measure the success of advertising campaigns on the platform.
Additional information on advertising and analytics.
Third-party analytics and advertising
Facebook Connect. For more information on what Facebook collects when you use Facebook Buttons on the Platform, please see: Data Policy.
Facebook Ads. For more information about what Facebook collects and your choices around Facebook Ads, please see: AdChoices.
Twitter. For more information about what Twitter collects when you use Twitter buttons on the Platform or visit pages on the Platform that include these buttons, please see: https://twitter.com/ en/privacy.
LinkedIn. For more information about what LinkedIn collects when you use LinkedIn buttons on the Platform or visit pages on the Platform that include these buttons, please see Privacy Policy | LinkedIn
Google Analytics. For more information about Google Analytics cookies, see Google’s help pages and privacy policy:
Google’s privacy policy
Google Analytics Help Pages
Google developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on; If you wish to opt out of Google Analytics, you can download and install the add-on for your web browser here.
Please note that on the platform the Google Analytics code is completed with “gat._anonymizeIp();” to ensure anonymized collection of IP addresses (IP masking).
More information about third-party targeted advertising
A guide to behavioral advertising and online privacy produced by the internet advertising industry is available at: http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/
For more information about interest-based ads and to opt out, go to:
US (Internet Advertising Bureau): www.aboutads.info
Canada: www.youradchoices.ca
European Union: www.youronlinechoices.eu/