smart Canada uses cookies to record the preferences of visitors, and therefore to be able to optimize the design of its web site. Cookies are small files which are stored on your hard drive. They ease navigation, and increase the user-friendliness of a web site. Cookies also help us to identify the most popular sections of our web site. This enables us to provide content that is more accurately suited to your needs, and in so doing improve our service. Cookies can be used to determine whether there has been any contact between ourselves and your computer in the past. Only the existence of the cookie on your computer is determined, with no relation to your person.

In addition, smart Canada uses pixels, or transparent GIF files, to help manage online advertising. These files enable us to recognize a unique cookie, placed by us, on your web browser, which in turn enables us to learn which advertisements bring users to our website. With both cookies and Spotlight technology, the information that we collect and share is anonymous and not personally identifiable. It does not contain your name, address, telephone number, or email address.

Of course, you can also visit our web site without cookies. Most browsers automatically accept cookies. You can prevent cookies from being stored on your hard drive by setting your browser to not accept cookies. The exact instructions for this can be found in the manual for your browser. You can delete cookies already on your hard drive at any time. However, if you choose not to accept cookies, this may have a detrimental effect on the service provided by our web site.