Cookies Policy

Last updated: September 28, 2026.

What Cookies and Similar Technologies Are

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They store information such as preferences, session identifiers, or browsing patterns. Similar technologies include web beacons, pixels, and local storage that can access or store data on your device. Under Canadian privacy rules these files may collect personal information when they identify or track individuals across sessions.

Why the Site Uses Cookies

This non-commercial informational website uses cookies to ensure basic functionality, remember user choices, and measure how visitors interact with photo essays about city locations and public spaces. Cookies help maintain a reliable experience without requiring accounts or commercial tracking. They support the site's goal of sharing visual stories while respecting visitor privacy under PIPEDA.

Categories of Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These enable core features such as page loading and cookie banner operation. Without them the site cannot function properly.

Functional Cookies

These remember preferences like language or display settings to improve usability during a visit.

Analytics or Performance Cookies

These collect aggregated data on page views and navigation to understand which photo collections are most viewed.

Advertising or Targeting Cookies

The site does not deploy advertising cookies because it operates as a non-commercial resource.

Social-Media Cookies

No social-media sharing plugins or associated cookies are present on the site.

First-Party Versus Third-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are set directly by the site domain and relate only to content about daily life through photos. Third-party cookies may come from service providers that host images or analytics tools; any such providers are limited to essential operational support and do not engage in targeted advertising.

Session Versus Persistent Cookies

Session cookies expire when the browser closes and hold temporary data such as navigation state. Persistent cookies remain for a defined period, typically up to twenty-four months, to retain consent records or basic preferences. Retention periods are kept to the minimum necessary for the stated purpose.

Data Handled and Purpose of Each Category

Necessary cookies handle technical identifiers only. Functional cookies store non-identifying preference values. Analytics cookies process aggregated page-view counts and referrer information to improve content organization. No category collects names, addresses, or contact details of visitors.

Consent or Exemption Basis Under Canadian Law

Strictly necessary cookies operate under the exemption for essential service delivery. All other categories require explicit consent via the site-wide cookie banner in line with PIPEDA principles of meaningful consent. Visitors may withdraw consent at any time through the banner controls.

Cookie Provider Table

Site essential cookie: purpose site functionality, provider celezonexa.org, category necessary, duration session.
Preference cookie: purpose remember settings, provider celezonexa.org, category functional, duration twelve months.
Analytics cookie: purpose traffic measurement, provider analytics provider, category performance, duration twenty-four months.

How the Consent Manager Works

The cookie banner appears on first visit and allows selection or rejection of non-necessary categories. Choices are stored in a first-party cookie and can be changed later by revisiting the banner through the footer area. Withdrawal of consent takes effect immediately and stops further collection by those categories.

Browser-Level Controls and Consequences

Most browsers allow blocking or deleting cookies through settings menus. Disabling necessary cookies prevents the site from loading correctly. Disabling analytics cookies reduces the site's ability to refine photo presentation but does not block access to content.

International Transfers

Some analytics providers may process data outside Canada. Safeguards consistent with PIPEDA are applied. Details appear in the separate Privacy Policy available via the Contacts page.

Policy Changes

Updates to this Cookies Policy will be posted with a new last-updated date. Continued use of the site after changes constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.

Contact Route

Questions about cookies may be submitted using the contact form on the Contacts page or by calling (403) 504-7101. Written inquiries can be sent to 524 2 St SE, Medicine Hat, AB T1A 0C6, Canada. © 2026 celezonexa.org