Cookie Policy
On this website (https://naturopathosteopathclinic.com/etobicoke/), Naturopath Osteopath Clinic uses cookies. Any reference to “you,” “yours,” or comparable terminology in this Cookies Policy refers to any user of this website, regardless of identity. Expressions like “we,” “us,” “our,” or similar terms refer to Naturopath Osteopath Clinic.
How Do Cookies Work?
This website uses cookies, which are little files that are downloaded to your computer, as almost all professional websites do. When you visit a website, cookies—which are often made up of letters and numbers—are stored on your computer, handheld device, etc.
For you to be able to use this website and all of its features, cookies are used. To use the website or any of its features, these cookies are an absolute must. In addition, we use cookies for performance optimization, which improves your online experience, and analysis cookies, which help us better understand our website visitors and enhance our marketing, product, and service offerings.
This page explains the data they collect, how we use it, and why we occasionally need to keep these cookies. Additionally, we’ll explain how to stop these cookies from being saved, though doing so might “break” or reduce the functionality of some parts of the website.
As required by applicable law, we will only use performance and analysis cookies if you have given us permission to do so by checking the appropriate box in the Cookie Information Message that is initially displayed on our website. This message might resurface from time to time, for instance, if the relevant cookie (under “Cookie Settings,” see below) is declined or deleted.
Cookies can be turned off through your browser’s settings. Please be advised that this could also have an impact on the strictly necessary cookies, which are essential to this website’s operation.
Consequently, if you disable (all) cookies, some features of the website might not work as intended. Moreover, we won’t be able to improve your online experience without cookies. For instance, you will constantly be presented with the Cookie Information Message and will need to select the language. You can also change your browser’s settings to receive notifications when cookies are being placed.
How Cookies Are Used
Below are the many purposes for which we use cookies. Regretfully, most of the time there aren’t any industry-standard ways to disable cookies on this website without also completely blocking the features and functionalities they bring. In case cookies are used to provide a service that you use, it is advised that you leave all cookies enabled even if you are unsure if you need them or not.
The Tracking Technologies and Cookies that We Use
When discussing cookies and tracking technologies on our websites, Naturopath Osteopath Clinic makes reference to the following:
Pixels
The code that is installed on your computer to cause a cookie to be set is referred to as a pixel. Occasionally, we employ this approach to enable us to send you messages that are more pertinent.
We use web beacons in our subscriber emails to help us manage content more effectively. Web beacons are tiny images with a unique identifier that are used to monitor an internet user’s online activities. Web beacons are invisible web components that are embedded on websites, as opposed to cookies, which are kept on a user’s hard drive. They help us determine which of our HTML-based emails recipients have opened, which helps us assess how successful our marketing campaigns have been.
Web Beacons
Log Files
To keep track of events that take place on our websites, we use log files. This could involve the kind, content, or timing of any transactions you make with your device, among other things. We are able to examine activities on our websites thanks to these audit trails.
How and why tracking technologies and cookies are used
Cookies come in two varieties, depending on how they are configured:
Session Cookies
While you are on a website, they are momentarily stored in your computer’s memory and are removed when your browser is closed.
Persistent Cookies
Kept on your computer for a predetermined amount of time and used to ascertain whether we have previously interacted with your computer.
Our websites may use cookies in one of two ways:
1st Party Cookies
Cookies that are established by the website domain (or one of its subdomains).
3rd Party Cookies
Cookies that are set by a different domain on a website. (For example, through an external web service or one of our primary technology partners).
Classification of Cookies
The following categories apply to cookies that we and our primary technology partners have placed on the website:
Category 1: Cookies that are strictly necessary
These cookies are necessary because they let you navigate a website and take advantage of its features, like entering secure areas. Services that you have requested (like access to secure areas) cannot be provided without these cookies. These cookies do not collect personal data about you that could be utilized for marketing purposes or to track your online activities.
Category 2: Cookies for performance
These cookies gather data about your website usage, such as the pages you visit most frequently and whether you encounter any error messages on particular pages. No personally identifiable information is gathered by these cookies. These cookies only gather anonymous data, which is utilized to enhance the functionality of our website. Online advertisements are not targeted at you by these cookies. Without these cookies, we wouldn’t be able to track the effectiveness of our website and make pertinent changes that might enhance your browsing experience.
Category 3: Operational cookies
With the help of these cookies, a website can remember preferences you set (like your user name, language, or location) and customize its features and content to suit your needs. They can be used, for example, to store your login credentials and any customizations you’ve made to the text size, font, and other elements of the page. They might also be used to deliver requested services, like watching a video or leaving a blog comment. To make sure that all of our communications and services are pertinent to you, these cookies might be used. Your online browsing activity on other websites cannot be tracked by the information these cookies gather. The website cannot remember your past choices or customize your browsing experience without these cookies.
Category 4: Cookies for advertising and targeting
We make use of these to show you advertisements on our websites that we think are more pertinent to you. Online advertisements you see without these cookies will be less tailored to you and your preferences. Additionally, we permit certain advertising partners to set cookies expressly for the purpose of enabling them to track the effectiveness of their campaigns.
Data Processing
The company only handles personal data as needed and in compliance with the GDPR and other relevant privacy laws. The company has made sure that every processing of the personal data of EEA data subjects has a valid legal basis. Furthermore, the company has made sure that all legal documents—including agreements and privacy policies, among others—comply with the GDPR.
Organizational And Security Standards in Technology
The Company has finished a thorough audit that involved mapping out all of the Personal Data and data sets that it handles, along with the organizational and technical security measures that were put in place to keep such data safe.
Education
The company provides regular training to its staff members about the GDPR, the company’s data practices, and the value of data security.
User Rights
According to GDPR, individuals have the following rights: (i) to request access to personal data; (ii) to request its rectification; (iii) to request its erasure; (iv) to request that processing of personal data be restricted; (v) to object to processing of personal data; (vi) to request the exercise of the right of data portability; (vii) to file a complaint with a supervisory authority; and (viii) to withdraw consent, if applicable. In order to respond to such requests and uphold the principles of privacy by design and privacy by default when creating new platforms, features, products, and services, we have also trained our assigned privacy and security team.
Incident Responsiveness
The company has put in place a procedure for handling data breaches, and it will notify data controllers, regulators, and end users as soon as possible, as required by applicable law.
Our Set of Cookies
Newsletters via email linked cookies
This website provides email and newsletter subscription services; cookies may be used to remember if you have previously registered and whether to display specific notifications that may be exclusive to users who have subscribed or unsubscribed.
Cookies pertaining to forms
When you fill out a form, like the ones on contact pages or comment sections, cookies might be used to store your user information for use in future communications.
Third-Party Cookies
We occasionally utilize cookies supplied by reliable third parties. Which third-party cookies you might come across on this website are described in the section below.
- Google (_ga; _gat; _gid) – This website makes use of Google Analytics, one of the most popular and reliable online analytics tools, to better understand how users interact with the site and identify areas for improvement. We use these cookies to get data about how users interact with our website. We utilize the data to create reports and to make improvements to the website. The information gathered by the cookies, which do not personally identify users, includes the quantity of visitors to the website, their origin, and the pages they have viewed. In order to keep creating interesting content, these cookies may track things like how long you spend on the website and the pages you visit. Visit the official Google Analytics page or read Google’s overview of data privacy and security at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245 for more information on Google Analytics cookies.
- We periodically test new features and tweak the site’s delivery mechanism in small ways. In the process of testing new features, these cookies might be used to make sure you have a consistent experience on the site and to help us figure out which user-appreciated optimizations are the most popular.
- This is the kind of data that these cookies will track because we sell products and it’s important for us to know statistics about how many visitors to our site actually make a purchase. You should care about this because it means we can accurately project our business expenses, which enables us to keep an eye on our advertising and product costs and guarantee the best possible pricing.
- A DoubleClick cookie is used by the Google AdSense service, which we use to deliver “advertising,” to deliver more relevant ads throughout the internet and restrict the frequency with which a particular ad is displayed to you.
Visit the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ for additional details on AdSense. - Advertisements help us defray operating expenses and fund future development of this website. Through anonymously tracking your interests and presenting related content that might be of interest, the behavioural advertising cookies that this website uses are intended to make sure that we give you the most relevant advertisements possible.
- A number of partners run advertisements for us, and affiliate tracking cookies just let us know if visitors arrived at the website via one of our partner websites so we can give them the proper credit and, if applicable, let our affiliate partners to offer you any bonuses they might have for making a purchase.
- On this website, we also make use of social media buttons and/or plugins that let you interact in different ways with your social network. The following social media platforms, such as Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/business/learn/facebook-ads-pixel), Pinterest, and Twitter, will set cookies through our site in order for these to function. These cookies may be used by the platforms to improve your profile on their site or add to the data they store for a variety of purposes that are detailed in each privacy policy.
Disabling Cookies
By making the necessary changes to your browser’s settings (see Help for instructions on how to do this), you can stop cookies from being set. Note that this website, along with many others you visit, will not function properly if you disable cookies. Generally speaking, turning off cookies will also turn off some of this site’s features and functionality. Consequently, it is advised against disabling cookies.
How can I modify my cookie preferences?
Most cookies can be partially controlled by most web browsers through the settings. Go to www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org to learn more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set.
Learn how to control cookies on widely used browsers:
Go to the website of the browser developer for information about other browsers.