1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to the website owners.

Cookies serve various functions, such as enabling websites to remember your preferences, allowing you to navigate between pages efficiently, and generally improving your user experience. They can also help ensure that advertisements you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.

Other Similar Technologies

In addition to cookies, we may use other similar technologies on our Website, including:

• Web Beacons: Small graphic images (also known as "pixel tags" or "clear GIFs") that may be included on our Website, which typically work in conjunction with cookies to identify our users and user behavior.
• Local Storage: Technologies like HTML5 localStorage and indexedDB, which allow data to be stored locally on your device and function similar to cookies.

For simplicity, we refer to all of these technologies as "cookies" throughout this policy.

2. Types of Cookies We Use

We use different types of cookies for various purposes. These include:

2.1 Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for you to browse the Website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. These cookies are strictly necessary for the proper functioning of our Website and cannot be turned off in our systems.

Examples of necessary cookies we use include:

• Cookies that enable our Website to remember information when you navigate from one page to another during a browsing session
• Cookies that maintain your preferences and selections on the Website
• Cookies used for security purposes, such as authentication and fraud prevention

2.2 Performance Cookies

These cookies collect information about how you use our Website, such as which pages you visit most often and if you receive any error messages. They help us improve how our Website works and understand which parts of the Website are most popular.

Examples of performance cookies we use include:

• Analytics cookies that collect aggregated and anonymous data on how visitors interact with our Website
• Cookies that help us test different designs and features for our Website
• Cookies that measure the effectiveness of our communication efforts

2.3 Functional Cookies

These cookies enable enhanced functionality and personalization on our Website. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages.

Examples of functional cookies we use include:

• Cookies that remember your preferences (such as language or region)
• Cookies that enable personalized content based on your interactions
• Cookies that remember information you have filled in forms to save you re-entering it

2.4 Targeting/Advertising Cookies

These cookies are used to deliver advertisements more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.

Examples of targeting/advertising cookies we use include:

• Cookies used to show you relevant advertisements based on your interests
• Cookies that track whether you have clicked on an advertisement
• Cookies used to limit the frequency of advertisements you see

3. Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies are placed by third parties on our Website. These third parties may include analytics providers, advertising networks, and social media platforms. The third-party cookies used on our Website include:

3.1 Analytics Cookies

We use Google Analytics to collect information about how visitors use our Website. These cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the Website, where visitors have come from, and the pages they visited. We use this information to compile reports and to help us improve the Website.

3.2 Social Media Cookies

Our Website includes features from social media platforms, such as the Facebook "Like" button and Twitter "Tweet" button. These features may collect your IP address and which page you are visiting on our Website, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing them.

3.3 Advertising Cookies

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve advertisements when you visit our Website. These companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Please note that we do not have control over the cookies placed by third parties. For more information about these cookies, please refer to the third party's privacy policy.

4. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

4.1 Our Cookie Consent Tool

When you first visit our Website, you will see a cookie banner that allows you to accept or decline different types of cookies. You can change your preferences at any time by clicking on the "Cookie Settings" link in the footer of our Website.

4.2 Browser Settings

You can also control cookies through your web browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block or delete cookies. The methods to do this vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can get information about blocking or deleting cookies for your specific browser by visiting its help page.

Please note that if you choose to block cookies, you may not be able to use all the features of our Website.

4.3 Opting Out of Specific Third-Party Cookies

Some third-party advertising networks allow you to opt out of targeted advertising through their own opt-out tools. For example:

• Google Analytics: You can opt out of Google Analytics by downloading and installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
• Network Advertising Initiative: You can opt out of targeted advertising delivered by Network Advertising Initiative member companies by visiting https://optout.networkadvertising.org/.
• Digital Advertising Alliance: You can opt out of targeted advertising delivered by Digital Advertising Alliance member companies by visiting https://optout.aboutads.info/.

5. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, regulation, or our business practices. Any changes will be posted on this page, and if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our cookie practices.

6. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us:

SparkleClean Pro
123 Clean Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 4Y8
Canada

Email: privacy@sparklecleanpro.ca
Phone: (604) 555-1234