This statement sets out the cookie policy of this website and its owner Nik Rilkoff.
Our websites may use cookies. A cookie is a small piece of data or a text file that is downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you access certain websites. Cookies may contain text that can be read by the web server that delivered the cookie to you. The text contained in the cookie generally consists of a sequence of letters and numbers that uniquely identifies your computer or mobile device; it may contain other information as well.
By agreeing to accept the use of cookies, you will be giving us permission to place, store, and access some or all the cookies described below on your computer.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of websites, such as displaying content, logging in, validating your session, responding to your request for services, and other functions. Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of cookies. However, if you disable cookies, you may not be able to access some features on our website correctly or at all
Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information about the use of websites, such as pages visited, traffic sources, users’ interests, content management and other website measurements
Functional Cookies
These cookies enable websites to remember a user’s choices – such as their language, user name, and other personal choices – while using the websites. They can also be used to deliver services, such as letting a user make a blog post, listen to audio, or watch videos on the website.
Media Cookies
These cookies can be used to improve a website’s performance and provide special features and content.
Advertising or Targeting Cookies
These cookies are usually placed and used by advertising companies to develop a profile of your browsing interests and serve advertisements on other websites that are related to your interests. You will see less advertising if you disable these cookies.
Session Cookies
These cookies allow websites to link the actions of a user during a browser session. They may be used for a variety of purposes, such as remembering what a user has put in their shopping cart as they browse a website. Session cookies also permit users to be recognised as they navigate a website so that any item or page changes they make are remembered from page to page. Session cookies expire after a browser session, meaning that they are not stored long term.
Persistent Cookies
These cookies are stored on a user’s device in between browser sessions, which allows the user’s preferences or actions across a website (or, in some cases, across different websites) to be remembered. Persistent cookies may be used for a variety of purposes, including remembering users’ choices and preferences when using a website or to target advertising to them.
We may also use cookies for:
- Identifying the areas of our website that you have visited
- Personalising content that you see on our website
- Our website analytics
- Remarketing our products or services to you
- Remembering your preferences, settings, and login details
- Targeted advertising and serving advertisements relevant to your interests
- Affiliate marketing
- Allowing you to post comments
- Allowing you to share content with social networks
Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of cookies. However, if you disable cookies, you may not be able to access features on our website correctly or at all.
Web Beacons
We may also use a technology called web beacons to collect general information about your use of our website and your use of special promotions or newsletters. The information that we collect by web beacons allows us to statistically monitor the number of people who open our emails. Web beacons also help us to understand the behaviour of our customers, members and visitors.
Google Ad and Content Network privacy notice
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s past visits to our website. Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visits to our website and/or other websites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ European users should visit http://www.youronlinechoices.eu
Google Analytics
Our website may from time to time use Google Analytics to collect information about the use of the website.
Google Analytics collects information from users such as age, gender, interests, demographics, how often they visit our website, what pages they visit, and what other websites they have used before coming to our website.
We may use the information that we get from Google Analytics to analyse traffic, remarket our products and services to users, improve our marketing, advertising, and to improve our website.
We may enable Google Analytics advertising features such as remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our website. Google Analytics does not collect your name or any other identifying information.
We do not combine any information collected via Google Analytics with any personal data.
Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our website. This cookie can be used only by Google – it cannot be used by anyone else. Google also uses specific identifiers to help collect information about the use of websites.
For more information on how Google collects and processes your data, please visit: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/
You can prevent Google Analytics from using your information by opting out at this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Disputes
You agree to use binding arbitration for any claim, dispute, or controversy of any kind (whether in contract, tort or otherwise) arising out of or relating to your use of this website and its material, including solicitation issues, privacy issues, and terms of use issues. You agree that any such arbitration will take place in and shall be subject to the laws of Canada. You further agree that in the event that you should be the prevailing party in any such action, you shall bear the cost of your own legal fees and other expenses. Notwithstanding anything stated herein to the contrary, we reserve the right to litigate you in a court of law in the jurisdiction of our choice.
In no case shall you have the right to go to court or have a jury trial. You will not have the right to engage in pre-trial discovery except as provided in the rules; you will not have the right to participate as a representative or member of any class of claimants pertaining to any claim subject to arbitration; you agree that an arbitrator’s decision will be final and binding with limited rights of appeal.
Changes to this policy
We reserve the right to change this policy at any time and without notice in order to further protect you and ourselves and/or to comply with relevant changes in international laws.
If we should decide to change this policy, we may post notice of such change(s) on our website(s) and blogs but at all times it shall remain your responsibility to frequently check this page for any changes or updates. You should always presume that no notice of change will be given before or after any updates of this statement.
In all cases, your continued use of our website, services, and products after any change to this policy will constitute your acceptance of such change(s).
Questions
If you have any questions regarding this policy, please contact us at:
PO Box 907
Invermere BC
VOA 1KO
Canada
Email: Via the contact form on this website.
This policy was last updated on 16th February, 2022.