Privacy

Last updated: November 14, 2026.

The Canada Magazine is published by 16292984 Canada Inc., 155 Suffolk St W, Guelph, Ontario N1H 2J6. This page explains what this website collects when you visit, why, and the choices you have. It covers thecanadamagazine.ca.

What we collect when you visit

Visit counts, always on. Our publishing platform, Ghost, counts page views so we know which stories are read. Each count records the page, the site that sent you to it, your browser's type and language, and a country worked out from your device's time zone, and is sent to Ghost. It stores nothing in your browser to do this.

Analytics, your choice. We use Google Analytics to see how many people visit, which pages they read and roughly where they are (country, region and city, worked out from your internet address). It sets cookies named _ga and _ga_CSPB659Y33, which last up to two years (most browsers cut that to about 13 months). Google's advertising features are switched off.

Visitor identification, your choice. Businesses that might advertise with us visit this site. We use HubSpot to try to recognise the company a visit comes from, from the internet address of the network it comes from. It receives your internet address and the pages you view, and sets cookies that recognise your browser: hubspotutk and __hstc, which last six months, __hssc, which lasts 30 minutes, and __hssrc, which lasts until you close your browser. If you have filled in one of our forms or clicked a link in one of our marketing emails, HubSpot can connect your visits to the contact record we hold for you. Our sales team uses this to follow up with businesses that have shown interest. We also use ZoomInfo WebSights for the same purpose. It receives your internet address and the pages you view, and sets a cookie named _zitok, which lasts a year.

Your region, to apply the right rule. When you first arrive, the site asks a small program we run at Cloudflare which country and region your internet address is in, so it knows whether to ask you before anything runs. Our program keeps nothing. Your browser remembers the answer until you close the tab.

Your choice itself. Your answer is kept in your browser's storage for this site for up to six months, so we do not ask on every page. Some browsers, Safari among them, delete it sooner if you have not visited for about a week, and then we ask again as if you were new. If you turned something off, we ask you again rather than turning it back on.

Your choices

In Quebec, in Europe (the EU, the EEA, the UK and Switzerland) and in California, analytics and visitor identification stay off unless you accept them. Everywhere else they run unless you turn them off, and anything you turn off stays off for as long as your browser keeps your answer. When we cannot tell where you are, we ask you first. You can change your mind at any time with "Cookie settings" at the foot of every page. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we ask you first wherever you are, and nothing runs unless you accept (an answer you gave us before still stands until you change it). You can also block or delete cookies in your browser's own settings.

Who receives it

Google (Analytics), HubSpot, ZoomInfo, Cloudflare (the region lookup) and Ghost (hosting, pictures and visit counts) handle this information for us under their own terms, on servers that may be in the United States or elsewhere outside Canada. The site's search box is delivered by jsDelivr, which, like any web server, sees your internet address when your browser fetches it.

How long it is kept

The cookies last as described above. Google Analytics keeps visit records for 14 months. HubSpot and ZoomInfo keep their records under their own policies.

If you write to us

We keep your message and contact details so we can answer you.

Questions and requests

You can ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct or delete it, or withdraw your consent. Write to info@thecanadamagazine.ca or to the address above. The person responsible for privacy at The Canada Magazine is Tyler Saik, Publisher.

If our answer does not settle it, you can take a complaint to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, at priv.gc.ca.

Changes

We update this page when what the site does changes, and we ask for your choice again when the change matters.