Cookies Policy
At Aegis Communications, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring you have a positive experience on our website. This Cookies Policy explains how we use cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website, what these technologies are, why we use them, and your rights to control our use of them.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies enable the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.
How We Use Cookies
Aegis Communications uses cookies for a variety of reasons, including:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies help us to improve the way our website works.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features.
- 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 the advertising campaign. We don’t currently use advertising cookies, but we reserve the right to do so in the future. If we implement advertising cookies, we will update this policy.
Specifically, we may use cookies to:
- Help us remember your browser as a previous visitor and save any preferences that may have been set while you were browsing our site.
- Measure how many people use our website, and how they use it, so that we can keep it running quickly and efficiently.
- Help us customize the content you see when you visit our website.
Types of Cookies We Use
We use both first-party and third-party cookies on our website:
- First-party cookies: These are cookies that are set by the Aegis Communications website itself.
- Third-party cookies: These are cookies that are set by a domain other than that of the website you are visiting. We use third-party cookies for analytics purposes, such as with Google Analytics to help us understand how users interact with our website.
Here’s a breakdown of the specific cookies we may use:
- Session Cookies: These are temporary cookies that expire when you close your browser. They are used to track your activity during a single browsing session.
- Persistent Cookies: These cookies remain on your device for a set period specified in the cookie. They are activated each time you visit the website that created that particular cookie.
- Google Analytics: This third-party service uses cookies to collect information about website usage, including the number of visitors, the pages visited, and the source of the traffic. This information is used to compile reports and improve our website. You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Managing Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by using the cookie consent tool provided on our website, or by setting or amending your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As an example, you may not be able to stay logged in.
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. These settings are usually found in the "options" or "preferences" menu of your browser. In order to understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, or you can use the "Help" option in your browser:
- Cookie settings in Chrome
- Cookie settings in Firefox
- Cookie settings in Edge
- Cookie settings in Safari
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer's website.
Changes to this Cookies Policy
We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookies Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookies Policy, please contact our Data Protection Officer, Annelise Schmidt, at privacy@aegiscomms.net, or write to us at: Aegis Communications, 12 Harbour Street, Toronto, ON M5J 1B7, Canada. You can also call us at +1 822-313-6354. Our team is dedicated to ensuring your data is handled with the utmost care and transparency. We are based in Toronto, and comply with all applicable Canadian data privacy laws.