Cookies Policy for Location Scout BC

This Cookies Policy explains how Location Scout BC ("we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at www.locationscoutbc.ca ("Website"). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

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 information to the owners of the website.

How do we use Cookies?

We use cookies for several reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Essential Cookies

These cookies are essential for the operation of our Website. They allow you to navigate the site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.

Performance Cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use our Website, for example, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how our Website works.

Functionality Cookies

These cookies allow our Website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, a website may be able to provide you with local weather reports or traffic news by storing in a cookie the region in which you are currently located. Functionality cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customize. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.

Targeting or Advertising 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 as well as help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. Quite often targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization.

Types of Cookies We Use

We use the following types of cookies on our Website:

Types of Cookies Used by Location Scout BC
Cookie Name Purpose Provider Duration Type
_ga Used to distinguish users. Google Analytics 2 years Performance
_gid Used to distinguish users. Google Analytics 24 hours Performance
_gat Used to throttle request rate. Google Analytics 1 minute Performance
PHPSESSID Preserves user session state across page requests. Location Scout BC Session Essential
cookieconsent_status Remembers if user has accepted cookies policy. Location Scout BC 1 year Functionality

Cookie Management

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by visiting our Privacy Policy page, where a cookie consent tool is integrated. You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit our site. For more information about how to do this, please consult the "Help" section of your browser or visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Updates to our Cookies Policy

We may update this Cookies 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. Please therefore re-visit this Cookies Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

Contact Us

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

Location Scout BC
Privacy Department
Suite 1200 - 701 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, BC V7Y 1C6
Canada

Our Data Protection Officer is Amelia Chen, and she can be reached at the email address above.