Effective Date: June 5, 2024
1. Introduction
OFCI (“we,” “us,” “our”) uses cookies on our website (the “Site”). This Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, the types of cookies we use, and your choices regarding cookies. By using our Site, you agree to the use of cookies in accordance with this policy.
2. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of text sent by your web browser by a website you visit. A cookie file is stored in your web browser and allows the Site or a third party to recognize you and make your next visit easier and the Site more useful to you.
3. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for the following purposes:
- To enable certain functions of the Site: Cookies are essential to provide you with services available through the Site and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.
- To provide analytics: We use cookies to analyze and improve the performance of our Site, including tracking how users navigate and use the Site.
- To store your preferences: We use cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
- To enable advertisements delivery, including behavioral advertising: We may use cookies to serve you with advertisements that may be relevant to you and your interests.
4. Types of Cookies We Use
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the Site to function properly. They allow you to navigate our Site and use its features.
- Performance and Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use the Site, which pages you visited, and which links you clicked on. We use this information to improve and optimize our Site.
- Functional Cookies: These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make when you use our Site, such as remembering your language preferences.
- Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to show you advertisements that are likely to be relevant to you based on your browsing habits.
5. Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the Site, deliver advertisements on and through the Site, and so on.
6. Your Choices Regarding Cookies
If you prefer to avoid the use of cookies on the Site, first you must disable the use of cookies in your browser and then delete the cookies saved in your browser associated with this website. You may use this option for preventing the use of cookies at any time.
If you do not accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Site and some features may not function properly.
7. How to Delete Cookies
You can restrict or block cookies set by the Site through your browser settings. Each browser has a different method for doing this. You can find more information about how to manage cookies on the most popular browsers by following the links below:
8. Changes to This Cookies Policy
We may update our Cookies Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Cookies Policy on our Site. You are advised to review this Cookies Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Cookies Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookies Policy, please contact us at:
OFCI Suite 201, 1869 Carling Avenue, Ottawa Canada, [email protected], 613.722.5122