Cookies Policy

Cookies and other similar tracking technologies are small text files or code placed on your device (e.g. computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website or app or view a message. Cookies allow a website or app to recognise a particular device.

We use cookies and other similar tracking technologies such as web beacons and single-pixel gifs on our website. These help us recognise you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.

For example, we may monitor how many times you visit our website, which pages you go to, traffic data, location data and the originating domain name of your internet service provider. This information helps us to build a profile of our users. Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.

You can set your browser not to accept cookies and our websites below tell you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, some of our website features may not function as a result.

For further information on our use of cookies and other similar tracking technologies, including a detailed list of your information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see below.

We use cookies and other similar tracking technologies to:

• recognise you whenever you visit our website;
• obtain information about your preferences and use of our website;
• carry out research and statistical analysis to help improve our content and services and to help us better understand our users’ requirements; and
• make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable.

The cookies we place on your device fall into the following categories:

• Strictly necessary cookies . These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website.
• Analytical cookies . They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies . These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Targeting cookies . These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
• Cookies for Adverts or logos . We may have a number of spots around the site that show advertisements or logos from companies, members or Charter members of the Canada-United Kingdom Chamber of Commerce, other chambers of commerce or other non-profit organisations. We use cookies to track which adverts have been visited or which logos have been clicked.
• Third Party Cookies . Other companies offering and advertising their products or services on our website, may also download cookies on to your equipment. These companies will have their own privacy policies which will govern the way they use their cookies. We accept no responsibility or liability for these sites to the maximum extent permitted by law.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

This cookie is set once the user is notified that the website uses cookies. This is a persistent cookie and remains on your computer for 1 year, so that the website can remember that the user has previously been notified that the website uses cookies. This way, the cookie pop-up message will only be displayed every year. If this is removed the Cookie Disclaimer will instantly re-appear.

This third party Google Analytics cookie establishes and keeps a unique ID for each visitor, which is persistent for 730 days.

This third party Google Analytics cookie establishes a Google analytics tracking session for each visitor (identified by Visitor ID stored in __utma), capturing user session details.

This third party Google Analytics cookie establishes a Google analytics tracking session for each visitor (identified by Visitor ID stored in __utma), capturing user session details.

This third party Google Analytics cookie stores referrals (how you got to our website) and navigation (between our website’s pages). This cookie stores only user referral and navigation details on a persistent basis for 182 days.

A JPaneSliders cookie is used to remember which panes were last opened as you move away from and return to those pages. Expires when session is closed.

This cookie is set for the browser to remember the guest id to display the latest news from our twitter account.

We will ask for your permission (consent) to place cookies or other similar tracking technologies on your device, except where these are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested.

There is a notice on our home page which describes how we use cookies and requests your consent before we place any non-essential cookies on your device.

If you do not want to accept cookies, you can change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our website.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see which cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, you can visit the third party website: www.allaboutcookies.org. Updates to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

The date at the bottom of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.

If you have questions or concerns regarding our use of cookies or other similar tracking technologies please contact us at info@canada-uk.org

This policy was last updated on: 22 March 2023.