Cookie Policy

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, smartphone, or tablet) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and provide information to website owners. Cookies help us remember your preferences and understand how you interact with our website.

2. How We Use Cookies

Elvirax Café uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience, analyze website traffic, and deliver personalized content. We use cookies for the following purposes:

• Essential website functionality and security
• Remembering your preferences and settings
• Analyzing how visitors use our website
• Improving our services and user experience
• Delivering relevant advertising and marketing content

3. Types of Cookies We Use

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are essential for the website to function properly. They enable core functionality such as security, network management, and accessibility. Without these cookies, services you have requested cannot be provided. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

Examples: Session cookies, security cookies, load balancing cookies

Duration: Session-based or up to 24 hours

Preference Cookies

These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make (such as language preferences, region, or cookie consent choices) and provide enhanced, more personalized features. They may also be used to remember changes you've made to text size, fonts, and other customizable parts of web pages.

Examples: Language preference cookies, cookie consent cookies

Duration: Up to 12 months

Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website by collecting and reporting information anonymously. This helps us improve the way our website works, for example by ensuring users can find what they are looking for easily. We use Google Analytics and similar services for this purpose.

Examples: Google Analytics cookies (_ga, _gid, _gat)

Duration: Up to 24 months

Marketing Cookies

These cookies track your online activity to help advertisers deliver more relevant advertising or to limit how many times you see an advertisement. They may be set by advertising networks with our permission and remember that you have visited a website and share this information with other organizations such as advertisers.

Examples: Social media cookies, advertising network cookies

Duration: Up to 12 months

4. Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies are placed by third-party services that appear on our pages. We do not control these cookies or the data they collect. Third parties may use cookies to track your internet activity. These may include:

• Google Analytics: For website analytics and performance tracking
• Social Media Platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter for social sharing and widgets
• Advertising Networks: To deliver personalized advertisements

We recommend that you check the third-party websites for more information about their privacy practices and use of cookies.

5. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can manage your cookie preferences through:

Our Cookie Consent Banner

When you first visit our website, you'll see a cookie consent banner that allows you to:

• Accept all cookies
• Decline optional cookies (essential cookies will still be used)
• Manage your preferences to choose which types of cookies to accept

You can change your preferences at any time by clicking the "Cookie Settings" link in the footer of our website.

Browser Settings

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. You can set your browser to refuse cookies or delete certain cookies. Please note that if you choose to block all cookies, you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

Here's how to manage cookies in popular browsers:

• Google Chrome: Settings > Privacy and security > Cookies and other site data
• Mozilla Firefox: Options > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data
• Safari: Preferences > Privacy > Cookies and website data
• Microsoft Edge: Settings > Privacy, search, and services > Cookies and site data

Opt-Out Tools

You can opt out of targeted advertising by visiting:

• Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada: youradchoices.ca
• Google Ads Settings: adssettings.google.com
• Facebook Ad Preferences: Available in your Facebook account settings

6. Cookies We Use in Detail

Cookie Name	Type	Purpose	Duration
elvirax_consent	Necessary	Stores your cookie consent preferences	12 months
session_id	Necessary	Maintains your session across pages	Session
_ga	Analytics	Google Analytics - distinguishes users	24 months
_gid	Analytics	Google Analytics - distinguishes users	24 hours
_gat	Analytics	Google Analytics - throttles request rate	1 minute

7. Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers have a "Do Not Track" feature that lets you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. At this time, we do not respond to browser "Do Not Track" signals, but you can manage cookies through our cookie consent banner and your browser settings.

8. Impact of Declining Cookies

If you choose to decline optional cookies:

• Essential cookies will still be used to ensure the website functions properly
• Your preferences and settings may not be remembered between visits
• We won't be able to personalize your experience
• Some features of the website may not work as intended
• You may see less relevant advertising on other websites

9. Updates to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or other factors. We will post the updated policy on this page with a new "Last Updated" date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

10. Contact Us About Cookies

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

Elvirax Café
9016 129b Ave NW
Edmonton, AB T5E 0P5
Canada
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +1 250-233-1024