Menard Canada may install cookies on your devices when you visit our website and may use cookies in the electronic messages that are sent to you.

Our cookies policy is designed to inform you about the various cookies used, their purposes and your rights, for instance, when it comes to configuring your browser.

Cookies or connection trackers are used on the website and are temporarily stored on the terminals or devices of our users, such as computers, tablets and/or smartphones, in order to facilitate their browsing and optimize the quality of the website. These cookies may be rejected by users subject to the choices and options that they may express at any point in time.

The cookies used on this website may be deposited either by our website or by a third-party website. These cookies can be session or persistent cookies: a session cookie is a cookie that is automatically erased when the user leaves the browser, whereas a persistent cookie remains stored in the user’s computer until its expiry date.

The cookies used on our website have a maximum lifespan of 12 months.

CATEGORIES

We use a number of different types of cookies on this website:

  • Mandatory technical and session cookies:

These cookies are vital for users to browse through our website and benefit fully from its functionalities, such as access to certain secure web pages. Without these cookies, it may not be possible to provide you with certain services that you might request.

The following mandatory cookies are used on the website:

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    • JSESSIONID
    • wp-wpml_current_language

       

  • Functional and performance cookies:

These cookies enable the website to record your configuration choices in order to provide you with enhanced and personalized functionalities. These cookies can, for instance, be used to memorize the modifications that you have made to the text size, font and other parts of the web pages that you have visited. They can also be used to provide you with certain services that you may have requested, such as watching a video.

These cookies cannot monitor your browsing activity on other websites and do not gather any information about you that may be used for advertising purposes.

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    • Ggpht.com
    • Linkedin
    • Addtoany
    • Instagram
    • Ytimg.com
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    • lissc

The following performance cookies are used on the website:

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    • Licdn.com

       

  • Audience analytics cookies:

These cookies are used to gather information about the way in which visitors use our websites, such as the most visited pages or the displaying of error messages on certain pages. All the information gathered by these cookies is anonymized, and it is gathered for the sole purpose of developing and monitoring the traffic trends on our website in order to improve the way in which it operates.

This information is used solely by Menard Canada and is not shared with third parties.

The following analytics audience measurement cookies are used on the website:

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    • _gat
    • _gid

       

  • Targeted advertising cookies:

Targeted advertising cookies are used to assess the effectiveness of an advertising campaign by enabling the insertion of advertisements specifically targeted to users whose recurrence is limited.

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    • DSID
    • IDE
    • test_cookies
    • APISID
    • CONSENT
    • GPS
    • HSID
    • LOGIN_INFO
    • PREF
    • SAPISID
    • SID
    • SSID
    • VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
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USE

The cookies that are deposited or used may lead to the gathering of personal data, such as identifying data (IP address), connection and acceptance data, information about a user’s identity and contact details.

Third-party social media sites may gather some information (such as the IP address, the type of browser, the language used, or the access time) if you are connected to these sites while browsing our website. These websites can also cross-reference the information that they gather against information from your profile available on their own website. We cannot monitor these third-party tracking technologies, so we recommend that you become acquainted with the terms of use and the data protection policies of these third-party sites before using them.

Other cookies may gather personal data (including information held by cookies positioned by our advertising links on third-party sites):

  • If a user is a registered user;
  • If we send you a targeted e-mail comprising web beacons, cookies or similar technologies, we will know if you open, read or delete this message.

OTHER TRACKERS

Menard Canada also uses technologies that are significantly similar to cookies, such as web beacons and other devices that might be contained in promotional electronic messages or newsletters, in order to determine whether these messages have been seen or whether you clicked on the links that they contain. The web beacons do not insert any data into your device but can be used in parallel with cookies to analyze a user’s browsing of the website.

ACCEPTING OR REJECTING COOKIES

Menard Canada enables you to manage and configure the cookies that you accept as well as to decide whether to accept or reject all or part of the cookies that are inserted on your device.

Please note, however, that the deactivation of cookies may lead to the alteration or loss of some settings or information. Should you opt to reject cookies, this might alter your browsing experience or make it difficult to browse our website. In order to enable continuous access to your cookies settings and your full control of the collected data, Menard Canada provides you with a consents managing tool by clicking on the button below:

[ultimate_gdpr_cookie_popup]Please click here to change the accepted cookies levels.[/ultimate_gdpr_cookie_popup]

Should you not wish to receive cookies from our website, you can configure your browser accordingly. To that end, please follow the appropriate instructions below depending on what browser you use:

  1. Select the “Tools” menu, then “Internet Options”.
  2. Click on the “Confidentiality” tab.
  3. Select the desired level using the slide.
  1. Select “Tools” > “Options”.
  2. Click on the “Privacy & Security” option.
  1. Select the “Safari” menu.
  2. Click on the “Preferences” option.
  3. Click on the “Privacy” option.
  4. Click on “Manage Website Data”.
  1. Open Chrome.
  2. At the top right-hand corner, click on “More parameters”.
  3. Under “Confidentiality and security ”, click on “ Cookies and Other Website Data”.
  4. Click on “Show all cookies and website data”.
  5. Click on “Erase”.
  6. Confirm by clicking on “Delete all”.

MODIFICATION

This policy was last updated on 15/06/2021.

We may modify this policy from time to time to keep up with changes in the law, court precedents or recommendations from Canada’s data protection office.