Innovate Academy Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how Innovate Academy ("we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website, innovateacademy.ca (the "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. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Innovate Academy) are called "first-party cookies." Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third-party cookies." Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
Why We Use Cookies
We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Online Properties. Third parties serve cookies through our Website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.
Specifically, we use cookies for the following purposes:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.
- Performance and Analytics Cookies: These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Website but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality (like videos) may become unavailable. We also use these cookies to collect information about how visitors use our Website, for instance, 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 language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These 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. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized, and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
- Targeting and Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver adverts 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 campaigns. 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
The following table details the specific types of cookies we use on our website, along with their purpose and duration:
| Cookie Name | Purpose | Provider | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | Google Analytics | 2 years |
| _gid | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. | Google Analytics | 24 hours |
| _gat | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate | Google Analytics | 1 minute |
| PHPSESSID | Preserves user session state across page requests. | Innovate Academy | Session |
| cookieconsent_status | Remembers if user has accepted cookie consent. | Innovate Academy | 1 year |
How to Manage Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the Cookie Consent Manager. The Cookie Consent Manager allows you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Essential cookies cannot be rejected as they are strictly necessary to provide you with services.
The Cookie Consent Manager can be found in the notification banner displayed on our website. 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. You may also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. 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.
Additionally, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit:
Changes to Our Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie 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 Cookie Policy regularly 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.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us at: Contact Innovate Academy, or by mail at: 123 Tech Street, Toronto, ON M5G 2H1, Canada.
The Data Protection Officer for Innovate Academy is Amelia Thompson and can be reached at [email protected].