COOKIE POLICY
COOKIE POLICY
This website uses cookies
We, VTech Technologies Canada Ltd., use cookies to personalize content, to provide social media features and to analyze our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media partners, who may combine it with other information you have provided to them or that they have collected from your use of their services.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites you visit. They are widely used to enable websites to operate, or operate more efficiently, and to provide information to site owners. The cookies we use enable us, among other things, to improve your experience when using our website and to ensure that the website functions as you expect it to.
What are the different types of cookies?
A cookie can be classified according to its lifespan and the domain to which it belongs.
Depending on its lifetime, a cookie is either:
- a session cookie that is deleted when the user closes the browser; or
- a persistent cookie that remains on the user's computer/device for a predefined period of time.
With regard to the domains to which they belong, there are two types:
- First party cookies: These are cookies set directly by the website or domain the user is visiting.
- Third-party cookies: These are cookies set by a domain other than the one the user is visiting. This typically occurs when the website incorporates elements from other sites, such as images, social media plugins or advertising. When the browser or other software fetches these elements from the other sites, they can set cookies as well
What categories of cookies are used on our website?
We use 5 categories of cookies on our website:
- Essential cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary for the functioning of the website to which you, as a user, have requested access. Essential cookies also include cookies intended for communication purposes only (for the sole purpose of transmission over the network). These essential cookies are exempt from consent.
- Cookies for audience measurement
These cookies make it possible to generate statistics on visits in order to improve the website. The solution used for this (Matomo) anonymizes IP addresses.
- Cookies related to social network sharing plugins
These third-party cookies are set by social networks to use your browsing data in accordance with their terms, when you interact with sharing buttons of these networks integrated on the site.
- Functional cookies
These cookies are used to personalize your user experience.
- Video cookies
These cookies are set by a third-party service (Youtube) to use your navigation data in accordance with their conditions, when playing videos of the service embedded on our site.
We incorporate videos on our site using the "privacy- enhanced" mode proposed by Youtube. This means that when viewing the embedded videos, no activity data is collected to personalize the Youtube viewing experience.
Understand how and why we use cookies
The tables below detail the cookies we use and their purposes.
| COOKIES EXEMPT FROM CONSENT (ESSENTIAL COOKIES) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name of the cookie | Session / Persistent | Duration | First-party / Third-party | Purpose |
| Essential | |||||
| CookieControl | Persistent | 1 year | First Party | Determines whether the visitor has accepted the cookie consent box. This ensures that the cookie consent box will not be presented again upon re-entry. | |
| displayed_btm_consent | Persistent | 13 months | First Party | Determines whether the visitor has accepted the cookie consent box. This ensures that the cookie consent box will not be presented again upon re-entry. | |
| ci_session | Persistent | 2 hours | First Party | Preserves users states across page requests. | |
| visid_incap_# | Persistent | 1 year | First Party | The cookie on which we relate sessions to a specific visitor (visitor representing a specific browser on a specific computer) | |
| incap_ses_# | Session | Deleted when browser is closed | First Party | Used for session handling. | |
| COOKIES REQUIRING CONSENT | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Name of the cookie | Session / Persistent | Duration | First-party / Third-party | Purpose |
| Audience measurement | piwik_ignore | Persistent | 2 years | First Party |
The cookie stores whether a user has opted-out from being tracked by Matomo. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://matomo.org/faq/general/faq_157/ |
| MATOMO_SESSID | Session | Deleted when browser is closed | First Party |
Created when the opt-out feature is used. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://matomo.org/faq/general/faq_157/ |
|
| Functional (Management of widgets for contests, newsletter subscriptions or other third party functions) | _GRECAPTCHA | Persistent | 6 months | Third Party |
reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/faq#does-recaptcha-use-cookies |
| Video | GED_PLAYLIST_ACTIVITY | Session | Deleted when browser is closed | Third Party |
Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/ |
| ACLK_DATA | Persistent | 5 minutes | Third Party |
Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/ |
|
| YSC | Session | Deleted when browser is closed | Third Party |
Cookies used for security authenticate users, prevent fraud, and protect users as they interact with a service. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/ |
|
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Persistent | 180 days | Third Party |
Cookies used for security authenticate users, prevent fraud, and protect users as they interact with a service. Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/ |
|
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE__k | Persistent | 180 days | Third Party | ||
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE__default | Persistent | 180 days | Third Party | ||
How do I change the cookie settings?
You can accept or decline cookies and you can manage cookies using the tools built into the site.
Most web browsers allow some control over most cookies through the browser settings. You can prevent cookies from being stored on your computer or device by using the tools we provide or by setting your browser to not accept cookies. You can delete cookies already on your computer or device at any time. Find out how to manage cookies on the most popular browsers:
To find information about other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.
Changes to the Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. Please check this Cookie Policy regularly to ensure that you are aware of the most recent version.
Last update: October 9, 2023