Cookie Policy
We would like to inform you in a simple, clear, and transparent manner about our use of cookies and similar technologies before you browse our site.
When does this policy apply?
This policy describes the personal information we may collect on our site and how we use it. Please read it in conjunction with our website privacy policy, which is available here.
What are cookies?
A cookie is a very small text file stored on your computer or other device (and stored by your browser) when you visit a website. It often includes a randomized unique identifier so that a website can “recognize” that cookie again on your next visit. Cookies help make websites work, improve navigation, or provide certain information to website owners, such as audience measurement.
Cookies do not cause any damage to your device, but they make it easier, for example, to find preferences, fill in certain fields in advance, or adapt the content of services on the site visited. This data allows us to improve the ergonomics of our site and our services according to your interests.
What is interest-based advertising and do we use it?
Applicable laws may require us to disable by default and request your permission to enable technological features that allow us to locate, identify, or profile you. If applicable, we will comply with these requirements.
Interest-based advertising (also known as targeted or behavioral advertising) means that we learn about your preferences and interests through cookies or otherwise, and then use them to show you advertisements and marketing materials that are relevant to you (based on those preferences and interests).
Without interest-based advertising, you would still receive advertisements when you browse the internet. However, these advertisements would not be personalized to your preferences and interests—so they would be less relevant to you and less effective for us.
We engage in interest-based advertising. For example, we use partners to serve you ads based on your browsing history and search queries and to serve you personalized ads based on the content you have viewed.
Do we use cookies and why?
We install our own and third-party cookies on your browser or device through our site. Some of these cookies are automatically uninstalled at the end of your browsing session. Others are persistent, meaning they remain installed for up to 24 months if you do not uninstall them.
We use cookies to make our site work as expected, to conduct marketing activities, analyze our performance, and ensure our websites are secure. Cookies are also useful for identifying bugs and errors.
We collect cookies in each of the following categories:
- • Essential Cookies: Essential cookies are required to operate the core functions of our websites. These include login cookies, session ID cookies, language cookies, and security cookies.
- • Functional Cookies: Functional cookies are used to provide you with certain website features and to remember your preferences, consents, and settings.
- • Analytical Cookies: Analytical cookies are used to generate aggregated statistical data about our website traffic and user behavior. For example, we use cookies to determine how visitors use our websites, such as the number of visitors, where our visitors come from on the web, the pages they visited, and the time spent on our websites. We only see this data in an aggregated, traffic-based format and cannot see the data for each visitor individually.
- • Marketing Cookies: We use marketing cookies to provide you with advertisements and marketing materials that are more relevant to your interests.
The cookies we use may be set directly by our site and therefore managed by us (first-party cookies); or by partners and service providers, which are therefore managed by third parties (third-party cookies).
How can you manage your cookie preferences?
From time to time, you will have the opportunity to allow all cookies, accept only certain cookies, or reject all cookies (via a cookie banner). This last option may result in the non-delivery of certain personalized services, and you may not be able to fully benefit from all the features offered by our site.
Some cookies and other tracking devices will be disabled by default, which means we will ask your permission to enable them. These are technological features that allow us to locate, identify, or profile you.
You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser, for example, by uninstalling and blocking certain cookies. Click on your browser below for instructions.
• Google Chrome
• Firefox
• Safari
• Microsoft Edge
• Opera
• Brave
You can install the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on, which prevents Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visitor activity. To learn more about Google’s privacy practices, please visit the Google Terms and Privacy.
Some of the cookies we use are essential or recommended for the use of our websites and services, and you may not be able to access and use all services without these cookies.
How to contact us?
Our Privacy Officer will respond to your requests for access or correction and will handle any complaints you may have regarding our privacy practices.
If you have any questions or comments about this policy or the protection of your personal information, please contact our Privacy Officer at the following address:
Privacy Officer
EssilorLuxottica Canada Inc.
371, rue Deslauriers, Saint-Laurent (Québec) H4N 1W2
dpo-rprp@essilor.ca
Will we update this policy?
Yes, we will update this Cookie Policy. We may change this Cookie Policy for many reasons, such as if the law or how we process your personal information changes. Any changes to this policy will be indicated by a notice posted on the website. If you continue to use our services, we will assume that you have accepted these changes. This policy is effective as of the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.