Cookie Policy
Last updated: September 30, 2020
Our Cookie Policy outlines the general policy, practices, and types of cookies that MD Analytics Inc., (“MD Analytics”) may use to improve our services and your experience when visiting our website or using our services or applications. Please refer to our https://www.mdanalytics.com/privacy-policy/ for additional information and definitions regarding our privacy practices.
WHAT ARE COOKIES AND WHY DO WE USE THEM
Cookies are small pieces of text used to store information on web browsers. They are used by many websites to store and receive identifiers and other information on devices, such as a mobile phone or computer. We use cookies and other similar technologies, such as HTML5 web storage and local shared objects (collectively “cookies”) in order to provide a better experience for you and to generally improve our website, applications, and other services. We use cookies for the purpose of storing and retrieving session information in our online systems, and for analyzing traffic on our website. They make navigation easier and increase the user-friendliness of a website. We also may use information to present you with resources that are matched to your preferences and to manage and track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts.
We also may include tracking pixels, which are small graphic images, in our marketing communications to determine engagement. These cookies may be set by us or by third parties with whom we have partnered to assist in our marketing efforts.
ENABLING/DISABLING COOKIES
Some portions of our website, applications, and services are functional without cookies, and you may generally choose whether to accept cookies. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default; however, you may be able to delete cookies yourself through your browser’s cookie manager. To do so, please follow the instructions provided by your web browser. Please note that disabling cookies will reset your session, disable auto-login, and may adversely affect the availability and functionality of our website, applications, services and other resources we can provide to you.
For more information about managing cookies and how to stop cookies being installed visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies.
If you wish to opt-out of cookies that collect information to serve you interest-based ads, you may opt-out at https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1.
We also provide direct links to opt-out of specific types of cookies listed below.
TYPES OF COOKIES
Essential Cookies
Essential cookies are essential for websites and their features to work properly. Without these cookies, services such as the vehicle configurator may be disabled. An example of an essential cookie used on our website is WordPress, which is used for a logged in user.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies enable us to improve the usability and performance of our website and applications and ensure they work as intended. Examples include cookies to determine whether you have logged in before and to determine if you have dismissed a notification banner. Functional cookies are also used to store language settings. We also use cookies to provide customized services. You may disable any of these functional cookies as described above; but if you do, various functions of the website and applications may be unavailable to you or may not work as intended.
Performance Cookies
These cookies, also called analytics cookies, collect information about how users use our website. Analytical cookies help us, for example, to identify especially popular areas of our website. In this way, we can adapt the content of our websites more specifically to user needs and thereby improve what we offer you. For example, MD Analytics uses Google Analytics to track anonymized usage statistics for the site. This data is used to analyze how frequently people visit the site, how the website is found, and which pages are most frequently viewed. These cookies do not collect information that identifies a website user. This information is combined with data from thousands of other users to create an overall view of website data use and is never identified individually or personally. We use Google Analytics to improve user website experience and to understand how our media campaigns work. These cookies are only used to identify ways to improve the website.
The analytics cookies we use are:
Google Analytics – Web traffic tracking. Learn more at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/, and to opt out, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
LinkedIn Insights – Added to our websites to enable in-depth campaign reporting and to help us unlock valuable insights about our website visitors. We use the LinkedInInsight Tag (a piece of lightweight JavaScript code) to track conversion, retarget website visitros, and unlock additional insigts about members interacting with our LinkedIn adverts. You can opt out of cookies from LinkedIn on your LinkedIn settings page and recommend you read their Cookie Policy for more information.
Facebook Pixel – An analytics tool that allows advertisers to measure the effectiveness of advertising by understanding the actions people take on a website. Advertisers can use pixel data to make sure ads are being shown to the right people, build advertising audiences and unlock additional Facebook advertising tools. Facebook cookies are 3rd party cookies used to track website goal conversions and create (anonymized) lists of people that visited our website. If you wish to disable Facebook cookies on your browser, please visit https://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
Third-party Cookies
These cookies are installed by third parties, e.g. social networks. Their main purpose is to integrate social media content on our site, such as social plugins. MD Analytics does not use advertisig and targeting cookies.
The third-party cookies we use are:
Google Integrated Developer Environment – Includes Google Map. Measures the number and behaviour of Google Maps users, such as preferred zoom level. Learn more at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Share This: – Free sharing tools to connect your site to the rest of the world. To opt out, visit https://tarteaucitron.io/en/service/sharethis/.
EFFECTIVE DATE AND AMENDMENTS
This document is effective as of the date indicated at the top of this Cookie Policy under “Last updated”. This document may be amended from time to time.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Inquiries may be made through any of the following means:
Privacy Officer: Meeta Nordahl
Email: mnordahl@mdanalytics.com
Online Form: https://www.mdanalytics.com/contact-us/
Phone: 604-633-1927
Facsimile: 604-633-1921
Writing:
Attention: Meeta Nordahl
MD Analytics Inc.,
555 Burrard Street, 1stFloor,
Vancouver, BC V7X 1M, 8
Canada