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.
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.
A cookie can be classified according to its lifespan and the domain to which it belongs.
Depending on its lifetime, a cookie is either:
With regard to the domains to which they belong, there are two types:
We use 5 categories of cookies on our website:
The tables below detail the cookies we use and their purposes.
COOKIES EXEMPT FROM CONSENT (ESSENTIAL COOKIES) | |||||
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Type | Name of the cookie | Session / Persistent | Duration | First-party / Third-party | Purpose |
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CookieControl | Persistent | 1 year | First Party | Determines whether the visitor has accepted the cookie consent box. This ensures that the cookie consent box will not be presented again upon re-entry. | |
displayed_btm_consent | Persistent | 13 months | First Party | Determines whether the visitor has accepted the cookie consent box. This ensures that the cookie consent box will not be presented again upon re-entry. | |
ci_session | Persistent | 2 hours | First Party | Preserves users states across page requests. | |
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) | |
incap_ses_# | Session | Deleted when browser is closed | First Party | Used for session handling. |
COOKIES REQUIRING CONSENT | |||||
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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/ |
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/ |
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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/ |
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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/ |
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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/ |
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VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE__k | Persistent | 180 days | Third Party | ||
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE__default | Persistent | 180 days | Third Party |
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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