Cookie Policy

Thank you for visiting www.marinethinking.com and your interest in our Company, Products and Services. In this Cookie Policy, we, Marine Thinking Inc., would like to inform you how our website uses cookies, what they are, what purposes they serve and how you can manage them.

Why do we use cookies?

In general, we use cookies to distinguish users and visitor of our website from another and to make the website secure and appealing as possible. Doing so we follow the strict provisions of Canada’s Anti-spam legislation (“CASL”) and the EU`s Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive (“PECD”).

If you have any questions or concerns about the cookies, we use please contact us using the details provided at the end of this policy. Please read this Cookie Policy in line with our Privacy Policy as it forms part of our Data Protection Regime.

What types of cookies do we use?

We use both first party cookies, which are issued from our website’s own domain, and third-party cookies, which belong to and are managed by other parties, such as our partners or service providers.

The cookies used on our website can be divided into two categories:

Session cookies: These are temporary cookies that will be deleted from your device once you close your browser. They are used to remember your device as you move within our website.

Persistent cookies: These are longer-lasting cookies that remain on your device even after you close your browser. They are used to recognize your device each time you use our website and to remember your preferences.

Nonetheless, the classification as technically necessary or technically non-necessary also determines the cookies we use:

Technically necessary cookies

Technically necessary cookies are required for our website to function properly; they enable you to navigate our website efficiently and use its functional features. An example of this is, the reminder of recently performed actions (e.g., entered text) when you return to a page within the same session.

Technically non-essential cookies

Technically non-essential cookies are not necessary for the proper functioning of our website, but they enable us to improve the content of our website, compile statistics for internal market analysis purposes, provide you with a more personalized online experience or provide additional features. In particular we use analytical cookies.

Analytical cookies

Analytical cookies are used by third parties. These cookies allow third parties to recognize that you have visited our website. We and our third-party providers may also combine information obtained from these cookies with Personal Information available from other sources, including data collected about you when you use other websites and data collected about you when you are offline, whether on our website or data maintained by the third-party provider.

The Cookies that require your consent

Hotjar

We use Hotjar, a web analytics service provided by Hotjar Ltd, Level 2, St Julian’s Business Centre, 3, Elia Zammit Street, St Julian’s STJ 1000, Malta (“Hotjar”), to better understand usage patterns, the needs of our users and to optimize our services and user experience. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect information about user behavior and user devices (in particular, a device’s IP address (which is collected and stored in anonymized form), screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic information (on a country-by-country basis only), preferred language for viewing our website). Hotjar stores this data in a pseudonymized user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we will use this information to identify individual users, nor will the data be merged with other data about individual users. You can object to the creation of user profiles, the storage of data about your use of our website by Hotjar, and the use of tracking cookies by Hotjar on other sites at any time by following this link https://www.hotjar.com/opt-out. The use of Hotjar is based on your consent.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a service provided by Google Inc. This means that the data collected can in principle be transmitted to a Google server in the USA, whereby the IP addresses are anonymized by means of IP anonymization so that an allocation is not possible. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. You can object to the collection and processing of this data by Google Analytics by setting an opt-out cookie that prevents the future collection of your data when you visit this website: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is based on your consent.

How can you configure or disable your cookies?

You can allow, block, or delete the cookies installed on your device via the “Settings” option in your internet browser. If you set your browser settings to not allow cookies to be installed, you may not be able to use some of the services and your user experience on our website may be affected.

Please bear in mind that deleting and blocking cookies will have an impact on your user experience as parts of our website may no longer work.

Does this policy change?

We may update our Cookie Policy from time to time. This might be for a number of reasons, such as to reflect a change in the law or to accommodate a change in our business practices and the way we use cookies. We recommend that you check here periodically for any changes to our Cookie Policy.

Who should I contact for more information?

If you have any questions or comments about our Cookie Policy or wish to exercise your rights under applicable laws, please contact us using the following contact details:

Marine Thinking Inc.

Suite 110, 1096 Marginal Road

Halifax, NS B3H 4N4

E-Mail: info@marinethinking.com

Tel: +1 902 422-6888

This Cookie Policy was last updated on Thursday, February 9, 2023.