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Cookie Policy
Last updated: May 27, 2026
This policy explains how Snow Day Predictor Canada uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit snowdaypredictorcanada.com. It covers what cookies are, which ones may appear on this site, the third-party services that set them, and the practical steps you can take to manage or opt out — including under Canadian PIPEDA and the European GDPR.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website asks your browser to store on the device you’re using — a phone, tablet, or computer. They typically contain an identifier plus the name of the website that set them, and they’re sent back to that website on each subsequent visit.
Cookies are described as first-party when they’re set by the website shown in the browser address bar, and third-party when they’re set by a different domain — typically an analytics, advertising, or embedded-content provider whose code runs inside the page you’re viewing.
In practice, cookies help websites recognise repeat visitors, remember user preferences (like language or region), measure aggregate traffic, and — in the case of advertising cookies — deliver and report on ads. Similar technologies include local storage, session storage, and pixel tags; this policy uses “cookies” as shorthand for all of them.
2. Cookies set by Snow Day Predictor Canada
We do not set any first-party tracking cookies of our own. The snow day predictor runs entirely client-side in your browser, and it does not persist any state between visits — your postal code, your forecast, and your prediction history are not saved on a server, and we do not write them to a cookie either.
If we ever add a strictly necessary cookie — for example, a small preference flag to remember whether you’ve dismissed a notice — we will update this page and describe its purpose and lifetime.
3. Third-party cookies that may appear
The services we embed on the site may set their own cookies in your browser. The most likely categories are below.
Google Analytics 4 — analytics
Cookies typically named _ga and _ga_* with a retention of approximately two years. Google Analytics tracks aggregate site usage — page views, country, device type, and the referring URL — so we can see which provincial pages and guides Canadians are using. We do not enable Google’s advertising features in our GA configuration, so this data is not used to build advertising profiles.
Google AdSense — advertising (if enabled)
If display ads are running on a page, Google may set cookies including NID, IDE, _gads, and __gpi. These are used to deliver and measure advertising and may produce personalised ads based on the profile Google holds for your browser. You can review and turn off ad personalisation at adssettings.google.com.
Open-Meteo and WeatherAPI — functional
Our forecast engine queries Open-Meteo and WeatherAPI on demand to retrieve overnight forecast data for your coordinates. These services do not set persistent cookies in your browser through our site — the requests go to their APIs without any tracking payload from us.
4. How to manage cookies
Browser controls. Every modern browser — Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge — lets you block cookies, delete cookies for a single site, or wipe all cookies in its privacy settings. You can usually find these controls under Settings → Privacy and security. Blocking all cookies will not break the snow day predictor itself, but it will also stop the third-party services described above from functioning.
Google Analytics opt-out. Install the official browser add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout to prevent your visits from being measured by Google Analytics on any site that uses it.
Google AdSense opt-out. Visit adssettings.google.com to turn off personalised advertising across Google’s network.
Industry-wide opt-outs. The Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada and its European equivalent let you opt out of many advertising networks at once: optout.aboutads.info and youronlinechoices.eu.
5. Do Not Track signals
We honour browser-level Do Not Track (DNT) signals where it is technically feasible to do so. When DNT is set, our embedded Google Analytics implementation will skip event tracking on your session, and we will not pass any custom analytics events from our own code.
Third-party advertising networks have their own DNT behaviour, which we do not control. The opt-out tools listed above are the most reliable way to disable advertising cookies.
6. Cookies and Canadian privacy law
Under Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), cookies that track personal information require meaningful consent from the person whose information is being collected.
This page is our disclosure: it describes which cookies may be set, who sets them, and what they’re used for. Continuing to use the site after reviewing this policy is your consent to those cookies. You may withdraw consent at any time by blocking cookies in your browser, using the opt-out tools in section 4, or simply choosing not to use the site.
7. GDPR and European visitors
We acknowledge the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its cookie-consent regime. European visitors may see a consent banner before any analytics or advertising cookies are set, with separate controls for each category.
You can change your selections at any time through that banner, and you can also exercise the additional rights GDPR gives you — including the right to access, correct, or erase your data — by writing to us at the address in section 9.
8. Updates to this cookie policy
We may revise this cookie policy as our services change — for example, if we add a new analytics provider, change advertising partners, or introduce a preference cookie of our own. The “last updated” date at the top of the page always reflects the most recent revision.
We do not maintain a separate mailing list for policy changes; the canonical version of this document lives at snowdaypredictorcanada.com/cookie-policy/.
9. Questions about cookies
If anything in this policy is unclear, or if you’d like a cookie-specific question answered, email us at admin@snowdaypredictorcanada.com. A subject line like “Cookies: [your question]” helps us route the message to the right person.
For broader privacy questions, see our Privacy Policy. For the terms that govern use of the site, see our Terms of Service.
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