Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the website or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the website more useful to you.
Essentially, cookies are a user's identification card for the Canadian Architecture Review servers. Cookies allow our website to create a customized experience for each user and allow us to remember your preferences and some details of your interaction with our site.
2. How We Use Cookies
When you use and access our website, we may place a number of cookie files in your web browser. We use cookies for the following purposes:
Essential 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 or use a shopping cart.
Analytical/performance cookies: These allow us to recognize 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 recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize 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.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
3.1 Session Cookies
We use session cookies to operate our website, such as:
Remembering your login details during your visit
Enabling functionality of the site
Ensuring that navigational information is saved for a single visit
3.2 Persistent Cookies
We use persistent cookies to understand how visitors interact with our website, such as:
Gathering statistics about how visitors use the site
Improving the site's usability
Analyzing navigation patterns
3.3 Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the website, deliver advertisements on and through the website, and so on. These may include:
Analytics cookies: Used to track website usage and visitor behavior
Social media cookies: Allow you to share content through social media platforms
4. How to Manage Cookies
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.
Our website provides you with the option to manage your cookie preferences directly. You can access these settings through the "Cookie Settings" feature available in the footer of our website.
You can also manage cookies through your browser settings. Here's how you can do this in some popular browsers:
Chrome
Click the menu icon (three dots) in the browser's top right corner.
Select "Settings".
Click on "Privacy and security".
Click on "Cookies and other site data".
Here you can manage your cookie preferences.
Firefox
Click the menu button (three lines) in the browser's top right corner.
Select "Options" (Windows) or "Preferences" (Mac).
Select "Privacy & Security".
Go to the "Cookies and Site Data" section.
Here you can manage your cookie preferences.
Safari
Go to "Safari" in the menu bar and select "Preferences".
Click on "Privacy".
Here you can choose to block all cookies, block third-party cookies, or allow all cookies.
Edge
Click the menu button (three dots) in the browser's top right corner.
Select "Settings".
Click on "Cookies and site permissions".
Click on "Manage and delete cookies and site data".
Here you can manage your cookie preferences.
5. Changes to Our Cookie Policy
We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Cookie Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page.
You are advised to review this Cookie Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Cookie Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
6. Contact Us
If you have any questions about our Cookie Policy, please contact us at:
Canadian Architecture Review
123 Architectural Avenue
Vancouver, BC V6B 4Y8
Canada
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +1 (604) 555-1234
Manage Your Cookie Preferences
You can adjust your cookie preferences at any time using the controls below: