for Makaton North America
Web Privacy
Makaton North America is committed to protecting the personal information of its website users as per legislative requirements in the Province of Ontario and Canada. Makaton North America will only use this information internally and will use all available means to protect the information it collects.
Cookies
Makaton North America uses cookies for optimizing the user experience of its website. Cookies are small data files that are stored within the users’ web browser which contain information about our website and which remember information that enhances the users visits to our website as well as being used to measure analytics or improve security. Cookies do not contain any personal information about users. Cookies also do not control users’ computers or have any impact on the operation of their computers. In addition, cookies can be managed by users and can be accepted or rejected. It is important to note that rejection of some or all cookies may impact the user experience of our website and platform including the inability to access some content.
What types of cookies are we using?
There are two types of cookies, sessional and persistent. Sessional cookies expire and are deleted when users close their web browsers. Persistent cookies expire when they have fulfilled their purpose or when deleted by users.
Cookies can be first-party or third-party. First-party cookies are administered by Makaton North America. Third-party cookies are stored on users’ web browsers by others. While Makaton North America does not use third-party cookies, it does use third-parties for advertising and analytics.
Why do we use cookies?
Makaton North America uses cookies for the following:
- To analyze how many people visit our website and how the website is used so that we can enhance the performance of our website.
- Allow users to access certain functions to enable our website to deliver our programming.
Information collected is managed according to the terms in our Privacy Policy.
Opting out
By accepting the terms of the cookies policy, users consent to their use. Users do however, have the ability to manage their cookie preferences and can withdraw consent at any time by changing the cookies preferences within their web browser. To manage cookies preferences, users should check how to do this through the web browsers’ support pages.
When users reject or withdraw consent to the use of cookies, they may not be able to access certain parts or functions of the website.