Cookie Policy

1. What is a Cookie?

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, smartphone, or other devices when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or to improve the performance of the website, and to provide information to website owners.

Cookies allow a website to recognize your device and remember information about your visit, such as your language preferences, browsing history, and other settings. This makes your next visit easier and the site more useful for you.

Cookies can be "persistent" or "session":

• Persistent cookies: Stay on your device for a predetermined period or until manually deleted.
• Session cookies: Are temporary and expire when you close your browser.

2. How We Use Cookies

DailysCanadaNews uses cookies for several reasons, outlined below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry-standard options for disabling cookies without disabling the features they add to the site. We recommend leaving all cookies enabled if you are unsure whether you need them or not, as they may be required to provide a service you are using.

2.1 Types of Cookies We Use

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the operation of our website and enable you to use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, the services you have requested cannot be provided.

Examples of strictly necessary cookies we use:

• Authentication cookies to recognize logged-in users
• Security cookies to prevent abuse and protect our website
• Session cookies to manage your current visit

Performance Cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages they visit most often and if they encounter any errors. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a visitor. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and anonymous. They are only used to improve the performance of our website.

Examples of performance cookies we use:

• Google Analytics for analyzing website usage
• Audience measurement cookies to understand how visitors navigate our site

Functional Cookies

These cookies allow our website to remember your choices (such as your username, language, or region) and provide enhanced, personalized features. These cookies may also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize.

Examples of functional cookies we use:

• Language and region preference cookies
• Cookies to remember your personalization preferences

Targeting or Advertising Cookies

These cookies are used to deliver more relevant ads to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an ad and to help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They are typically placed by advertising networks with our permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations like advertisers.

Examples of advertising cookies we use:

• Google Ads for conversion tracking and displaying relevant ads
• Retargeting cookies to show relevant ads after visiting our site

3. Third-Party Cookies

In some cases, we also use trusted third-party cookies. This section details third-party cookies that you may encounter on our site.

3.1 Google Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics, one of the most widespread web analytics solutions, to help us understand how you use the site and how we can improve your experience. These cookies can track things like how long you spend on the site and the pages you visit, helping us continue to produce engaging content.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, visit the official Google Analytics page.

3.2 Google Ads

We use Google Ads to serve relevant ads to users and measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. Google Ads cookies help us:

• Measure clicks and conversions from our ads
• Personalize ads based on your interests
• Avoid showing the same ads too frequently

Google Ads uses cookies like:

• _gac_ - Contains campaign-related information for the user
• _gcl_au - Used by Google AdSense to experiment with advertising effectiveness
• IDE - Used by Google DoubleClick to track user actions after viewing or clicking on an ad

For more information on Google Ads cookies, visit the Google Advertising Technology page.

3.3 Social Networks

We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to interact with our content across various social platforms. For these features to work, social media platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter may set cookies through our site, which may be used to enhance your profile on their platform or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

4. How to Manage Cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. You can delete all cookies already on your device and set most browsers to prevent cookies from being placed. However, if you do this, you may need to adjust certain preferences every time you visit a site, and some features may not work.

4.1 How to Reject Cookies

You can reject cookies in various ways:

• Browser settings: Most browsers allow you to manage your cookie preferences. You can set your browser to reject cookies or delete certain cookies. Typically, you can find these settings in the "Options" or "Preferences" menu of your browser.
• Our cookie consent banner: When you first visit our site, we present a cookie consent banner that lets you choose which types of cookies you accept.
• Third-party cookie management tools: Some third-party services allow you to manage advertising cookies, such as Your Online Choices for European users.

4.2 Consequences of Rejecting Cookies

If you choose to block certain cookies, you may not be able to use all the features of our site. For example:

• Some pages may not display correctly
• You may not be able to log into your account or access certain features
• Your preferences may not be saved
• You may see less relevant ads

We respect your choice to reject cookies, but we encourage you to accept the cookies that help you use all the features of our site.

5. Cookie Retention Period

The duration a cookie stays on your device depends on whether it is a "persistent" or "session" cookie. Session cookies exist only until you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain on your device until they expire or are deleted.

Here are the retention periods for our main cookies:

6. Updates to Our Cookie Policy

We may update this cookie policy from time to time to reflect, for example, changes in the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Therefore, we encourage you to periodically review this cookie policy to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

The date at the top of this cookie policy indicates when it was last updated.

7. Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact us at:

Email: [email protected]