Our Cookie Policy at Heritage Discoveries
At Heritage Discoveries, we are committed to transparency and protecting your privacy. This Cookie Policy explains how we use cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website, heritagediscoveries.org, and interact with our services.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information. Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies.
Persistent cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser. They serve various functions, from remembering your preferences to enabling analytical insights into website usage.
How Heritage Discoveries Uses Cookies
We use cookies for several important reasons, all aimed at improving your experience on our site and understanding how our services are used. Here's a breakdown:
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Essential Cookies: These cookies are crucial for the basic functionality of our website. They enable core features like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
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Analytical/Performance Cookies: These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. This includes data on which pages are visited most often, how long users stay on the site, and if they encounter any errors. This information helps us improve the user experience and website performance.
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Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For example, they can remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize.
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Advertising/Targeting Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator's permission.
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies to report usage statistics of the Service, deliver advertisements on and through the Service, and so on. These third parties may include analytics providers, advertising networks, and social media platforms. Each of these third parties has their own privacy and cookie policies, which we encourage you to review.
Examples of third-party services that may set cookies on our site include:
- Google Analytics for website traffic analysis.
- Facebook Pixel for advertising and audience insights.
- Twitter tracking for social media integration.
We do not have control over the cookies placed by third parties. You should check the respective privacy policies of these third-party services for more information about their use of cookies.
Your Cookie Choices and Control
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by adjusting the settings on your web browser. Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings.
Please note that if you choose to refuse cookies, you may not be able to use the full functionality of our website. For example, some interactive features of Heritage Discoveries may not work correctly, or you may not be able to access certain parts of the site.
Here’s how you can typically manage cookies:
- Browser Settings: Most browsers allow you to block all cookies or block third-party cookies. You can also delete specific cookies or clear all stored cookies.
- Opt-out Links: For some third-party advertising networks, you can opt-out of their targeted advertising through industry-specific opt-out pages.
- Website Tools: Some websites provide their own cookie consent tools that allow you to manage your preferences directly on the site.
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 policy. We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Cookie Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Your continued use of the website after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Cookie Policy. If you do not agree with any part of this Cookie Policy, please discontinue use of our website.
Contact Us for More Information
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies, please do not hesitate to contact us:
Heritage Discoveries, 417 College Street, Toronto, ON M5T 1P7, Canada
Office Hours: Mon-Fri: 9:00-18:00, Sat: 10:00-16:00