COOKIE POLICY

This website uses cookies

We, VTech Technologies Canada Ltd., use cookies to personalize content, to provide social media features and to analyze our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media partners, who may combine it with other information you have provided to them or that they have collected from your use of their services.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites you visit. They are widely used to enable websites to operate, or operate more efficiently, and to provide information to site owners. The cookies we use enable us, among other things, to improve your experience when using our website and to ensure that the website functions as you expect it to.

What are the different types of cookies?

A cookie can be classified according to its lifespan and the domain to which it belongs.

Depending on its lifetime, a cookie is either:

a session cookie that is deleted when the user closes the browser; or
a persistent cookie that remains on the user's computer/device for a predefined period of time.

With regard to the domains to which they belong, there are two types:

First party cookies: These are cookies set directly by the website or domain the user is visiting.
Third-party cookies: These are cookies set by a domain other than the one the user is visiting. This typically occurs when the website incorporates elements from other sites, such as images, social media plugins or advertising. When the browser or other software fetches these elements from the other sites, they can set cookies as well

What categories of cookies are used on our website?

We use 5 categories of cookies on our website:

Essential cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary for the functioning of the website to which you, as a user, have requested access. Essential cookies also include cookies intended for communication purposes only (for the sole purpose of transmission over the network). These essential cookies are exempt from consent.
Cookies for audience measurement
These cookies make it possible to generate statistics on visits in order to improve the website. The solution used for this (Matomo) anonymizes IP addresses.
Cookies related to social network sharing plugins
These third-party cookies are set by social networks to use your browsing data in accordance with their terms, when you interact with sharing buttons of these networks integrated on the site.
Functional cookies
These cookies are used to personalize your user experience.
Video cookies
These cookies are set by a third-party service (Youtube) to use your navigation data in accordance with their conditions, when playing videos of the service embedded on our site.
We incorporate videos on our site using the "privacy- enhanced" mode proposed by Youtube. This means that when viewing the embedded videos, no activity data is collected to personalize the Youtube viewing experience.

Understand how and why we use cookies

The tables below detail the cookies we use and their purposes.

COOKIES EXEMPT FROM CONSENT (ESSENTIAL COOKIES)
Type	Name of the cookie	Session / Persistent	Duration	First-party / Third-party	Purpose
Essential (Strictly Necessary)	ci_session	Persistent	2 hours	First Party	Preserves users states across page requests.
	incap_ses_*	Session	Deleted when browser is closed	First Party	Used for session handling.
	visid_incap_*	Persistent	1 year	First Party	The cookie on which we relate sessions to a specific visitor (visitor representing a specific browser on a specific computer)
	is_eu_country	Persistent	24 hours	First Party	Determines what website content visitor can access.
	CookieControl	Persistent	13 months	First Party	This cookie stores acceptance of cookie policy.
	displayed_btm_consent	Persistent	13 months	First Party	This cookie stores acceptance of cookie policy.

COOKIES REQUIRING CONSENT
Type	Name of the cookie	Session / Persistent	Duration	First-party / Third-party	Purpose
Audience measurement	piwik_ignore	Persistent	2 years	First Party	The cookie stores whether a user has opted-out from being tracked by Matomo. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://matomo.org/faq/general/faq_157/
Audience measurement	MATOMO_SESSID	Session	Deleted when browser is closed	First Party	Created when the opt-out feature is used. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://matomo.org/faq/general/faq_157/
Functional (Management of widgets for contests, newsletter subscriptions or other third party functions)	_GRECAPTCHA	Persistent	6 months	Third Party	reCAPTCHA sets a necessary cookie (_GRECAPTCHA) when executed for the purpose of providing its risk analysis. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/faq#does-recaptcha-use-cookies
Video	GED_PLAYLIST_ACTIVITY	Session	Deleted when browser is closed	Third Party	Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	ACLK_DATA	Persistent	5 minutes	Third Party	Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	YSC	Session	Deleted when browser is closed	Third Party	Cookies used for security authenticate users, prevent fraud, and protect users as they interact with a service. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	Persistent	180 days	Third Party	Cookies used for security authenticate users, prevent fraud, and protect users as they interact with a service. Google uses cookies for advertising, including serving and rendering ads, personalizing ads (depending on your ad settings at g.co/adsettings), limiting the number of times an ad is shown to a user, muting ads you have chosen to stop seeing, and measuring the effectiveness of ads. Link of 3rd Party Service: https://business.safety.google/adscookies/
	VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE__k	Persistent	180 days	Third Party
	VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE__default	Persistent	180 days	Third Party

How do I change the cookie settings?

You can accept or decline cookies and you can manage cookies using the tools built into the site.

Most web browsers allow some control over most cookies through the browser settings. You can prevent cookies from being stored on your computer or device by using the tools we provide or by setting your browser to not accept cookies. You can delete cookies already on your computer or device at any time. Find out how to manage cookies on the most popular browsers:

To find information about other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.

Changes to the Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. Please check this Cookie Policy regularly to ensure that you are aware of the most recent version.

Last update: October 9, 2023