Effective date: October 15, 2018
Grotrend Consultancy Inc and its affiliates (collectively, “Grotrend”, “us” or “we”) understand that your privacy is important to you and are committed to being transparent about the technologies it uses. This Cookie Policy explains how and why cookies, web beacons, pixels, clear gifs, and other similar technologies (collectively “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies”) may be stored on and accessed from your device when you use or visit any website or app that posts a link to this Policy (collectively, “the Sites”). This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.
By continuing to browse or use our Sites, you agree that we can store and access Cookies and
Other Tracking Technologies as described in this Cookie Policy.
A cookie is a small text file that can be stored on and accessed from your device when you visit one of our Sites, to the extent you agree. The other tracking technologies work similarly to cookies and place small data files on your devices or monitor your website activity to enable us to collect information about how you use our Sites. This allows our Sites to recognize your device from those of other users of the Sites. The information provided below about cookies also applies to these other tracking technologies. You can find more information at www.allaboutcookies.org
Grotrend uses Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to identify you and your interests, to remember your preferences, and to track your use of our Sites. We also use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies to control access to certain content on our Sites, protect the Sites, and to process any requests that you make of us. To administer our Sites and for research purposes, Grotrend also has contracted with third-party service providers to track and analyze statistical usage and volume information from our Site users. These third- party service providers use persistent Cookies to help us to improve the user experience, manage our Site content, and analyze how users navigate and utilize the Sites.
“First party Cookies” are cookies that belong to Grotrend and that Grotrend places on your device. “Third- party Cookies” are cookies that another party places on your device through our Site. Grotrend may contract with third-party service providers to send e-mails to users who have provided us with their contact information. To help measure and improve the effectiveness of our e-mail communications, and/or to determine whether messages have been opened and links clicked on, the third-party service providers may place Cookies on the devices of these users.
For more information on how these companies collect and use information on our behalf, please refer to
their privacy policies as indicated below.
We use the following types of cookies:
Persistent Cookies: We use persistent Cookies to improve your experience of using the Sites. This
includes recording your acceptance of our Cookie Policy to remove the cookie message which first appears
when you use the Sites.
Session Cookies: Session Cookies are temporary and deleted from your machine when your web
browser closes. We use session Cookies to help us track internet usage as described above.
You may refuse to accept browser Cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However,
if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the Sites. Unless you have adjusted
your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our system will issue Cookies when you direct your
browser to our Sites.
The data collected by the Sites and/or through Cookies that may be placed on your computer will not be
kept for longer than is necessary to fulfil the purposes mentioned above. In any event, such information will
not be kept for longer than one year.
Our Cookies are used for the following purposes:
Strictly Necessary/ Technical:
These Cookies are necessary to allow us to operate our Sites so you may access them as you have
requested. These Cookies, for example, let us recognize that you have created an account and have
logged into that account to access Site content. They also include Cookies that enable us to remember
your previous actions within the same browsing session and secure our Sites.
Analytical/ Performance:
These Cookies are used by us or third-party service providers to analyze how the Sites are used and how
they are performing. For example, these Cookies track what pages are most frequently visited, and from
what locations our visitors come from. If you subscribe to a newsletter or otherwise register with the Sites,
these Cookies may be correlated to you. These Cookies include, for example, Google Analytics cookies.
Functionality:
These Cookies let us operate the Sites in accordance with the choices you make. These Cookies permit us
to "remember" you in-between visits. For instance, we will recognize your user name and remember how
you customized the Sites and services, for example by adjusting text size, fonts, languages and other parts
of web pages that are alterable and provide you with the same customizations during future visits.
Third-Party Advertising:
These Cookies collect information about your activities on these and other sites to provide you targeted
advertising. We may also allow our third-party service providers to use Cookies on the Sites for the same
purposes identified above, including collecting information about your online activities over time and across
different websites. The third-party service providers that generate these Cookies, such as Adobe, Google,
LinkedIn, and Facebook, have their own privacy policies, and may use their Cookies to target advertising to
you on other websites, based on your visit to our Sites.
If you do not want Cookies to be dropped on your device, you can adjust the setting of your Internet browser to reject the setting of all or some Cookies and to alert you when a Cookie is placed on your device. For further information about how to do so, please refer to your browser ‘help’ / ‘tool’ or ‘edit’ section or see www.allaboutcookies.org. Please note that if you use your browser settings to block all Cookies (including strictly necessary Cookies) you may not be able to access or use all or parts or functionalities of our Sites.
If you want to remove previously-stored Cookies, you can manually delete the Cookies at any time.
However, this will not prevent the Sites from placing further Cookies on your device unless and until you
adjust your Internet browser setting as described above.
For more information on the development of user-profiles and the use of targeting/advertising Cookies.
If you have any other questions about our Cookie Policy, please contact us at: Grotrend Consultancy Inc Suite 8, 3252 Lawrence Avenue E Toronto M1H 1A4 info@grotrend.com