Pink’nClean Cleaning Services – Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are the most basic and fundamental units of storage associated with any specific website. They are simply bits of text stored in files located in specific locations on different internet communication devices (Web Browsers, Phones, Tablets, etc.) Cookies are used in one form or another by most websites to:

• Allow session data for shopping carts
• Remember user state, such as log-in status, including user identification and administration level.
• Keep track of user location in multi-part or multi-page forms.
• Retrieve values associated with visitor-specific settings (i.e. language, font size, colours)
• Enable analytics for monitoring website traffic
• Personalize the advertising choices of users

Laws Regarding Cookies

Countries worldwide have different rules, regulations, and laws regarding the use of cookies, reflecting the global nature of online privacy concerns. These laws deal with specific privacy aspects associated with using cookies, ensuring a comprehensive approach to data protection.

• Canada has the PIPEDA (Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act), which requires websites to obtain meaningful consent for the collection and use of personal information, including the usage of cookies for that purpose.
• In California, USA, the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) requires websites to disclose if they use cookies to collect personal information and allow users to opt out of such data collection practices.
• In the European Union, it is the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), which mandates clear disclosure of the use of cookies and obtaining user consent before using various types of cookies (ePrivacy Directive).
• The UK has the PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations), which require websites to inform users if the website uses cookies as well as the purpose for using those cookies.

As a Canadian website specifically targeting Canadian visitors, Pink’nClean strictly adheres to the PIPEDA regulations. However, we also strive to comply with all regulations of authoritative bodies to best safeguard the personal privacy of all users on the World Wide Web. To that end, we will describe not every cookie type and possible usage thereof but specifically the types of cookies used by this website and how those cookies are used, ensuring transparency and user confidence.

Types of Cookies

Cookies come in two basic types:

• Temporary (“Session Cookies“) used only to maintain operational integrity during your current connection to the website.
• Saved (“Stored Cookies“) is used to save data (see above) between different connections to the same website by the same browser.

How Pink’nClean Uses Cookies

Without Session Cookies, this website would not work well at all. The WordPress content management system generates and uses these cookies, and we do not use them other than to allow WordPress to operate. The volatile nature of Session Cookies makes them unsuitable for anything other than temporary (while connected) use.

Stored Cookies remain on your computing device for a limited period (i.e. 30 days), after which they are deleted. We use Stored Cookies to hold specific data you have volunteered to provide a better web experience. Such data may include your name or location, language or viewing preferences, or other items shown in the list above.

We do not use Stored Cookies to track users. We use cookies only temporarily to provide statistics on the popularity of various portions of our website. Our statistics data is anonymous and does not contain data associated with personally identifiable users.

No cookie or other personal information is ever shared with anyone by Pink’nClean without the user’s explicit consent.

Third-Party Cookies

These are cookies placed onto a user’s device while connected to the Pink’nClean website that were not put on by Pink’nClean. These may include cookies written by YouTube when watching a video, cookies used by Google for Captcha or ad tracking, or cookies written by messaging services or any of the outside services embedded into the operation of this website. Pink’nClean has no control over these types of cookies. For details, the websites associated with the various services should be consulted.

Your Rights to Manage or Disable Cookies

While some countries require user opt-out capabilities for some cookies, the best way to manage cookies is through the web browser. All browsers and virtually all web communications devices provide some form of cookie control to allow viewing, modifying, or erasing the cookie data associated with any website. Examples are:

• Firefox – Managing cookie data in Firefox (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox)
• Chrome – Managing cookie data in Chrome (https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en-TW&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop)
• Edge – Managing cookie data in Microsoft Edge (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/manage-cookies-in-microsoft-edge-view-allow-block-delete-and-use-168dab11-0753-043d-7c16-ede5947fc64d)

Cookie Policy Updates

A change in the posting date at the top of this policy will reflect any updates to this Cookie Policy. We will also attempt to place a notification in conspicuous locations throughout the website. You should check all our legal policies periodically when you can use the “last modified” date to indicate changes.