GDPR & COOKIE CONSENT POLICY

CafesVancouver.com — Independent Vancouver Café & Coffee Shop Directory

Effective Date: October 30, 2026

1. Introduction

Welcome to CafesVancouver.com.

We respect the privacy of visitors, café owners, advertisers, and business representatives who use our website.

This GDPR & Cookie Consent Policy explains how cookies and similar technologies may be used on our website, the choices available to visitors, and how personal information is handled under applicable Canadian and international privacy laws.

CafesVancouver.com is an independent online directory designed to help consumers discover cafés, coffee shops, specialty coffee establishments, espresso bars, bakery cafés, and related businesses throughout Vancouver and Metro Vancouver.

This Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

2. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites may place on a visitor's device through a web browser.

They can help websites remember preferences, maintain sessions, support security, measure website activity, and provide certain advertising functions.

Similar technologies may include tracking pixels, tags, scripts, and local storage.

Not every technology described in this Policy is necessarily used by CafesVancouver.com.

3. Why Websites Use Cookies

Depending on the technologies installed, cookies may help us:

Maintain essential website functionality
Support website security
Remember visitor preferences
Improve navigation
Understand website traffic
Measure content performance
Support advertising services
Detect technical problems
Maintain cookie consent choices

We aim to limit cookie use to legitimate, necessary, and appropriately disclosed purposes.

4. Categories of Cookies

A. Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies support essential website functions, such as security, session management, and storing privacy preferences.

Where permitted by law, strictly necessary cookies may operate without optional cookie consent.

B. Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies may help us understand website traffic, popular pages, referral sources, and overall performance.

Where required by law, analytics cookies will be activated only after valid consent.

C. Functional Cookies

Functional cookies may remember visitor settings or provide optional convenience features.

Where legally required, visitors will be asked for consent before optional functional cookies are activated.

D. Advertising and Marketing Cookies

Advertising cookies or similar technologies may be used to measure advertising campaigns, understand promotional performance, or support personalized advertising.

If these technologies are introduced, they will be disclosed and subject to applicable consent requirements.

Important: These categories describe possible website technologies. They do not confirm that every category is currently installed.

5. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are generally set by the website being visited.

Third-party cookies may be associated with external services, including analytics providers, advertising platforms, embedded media services, or other integrated technologies.

Third-party providers may have their own privacy policies.

Where required, we will identify relevant third-party technologies in our cookie disclosures.

6. Our Approach to Cookie Consent

Where applicable law requires consent, CafesVancouver.com will request valid consent before activating non-essential cookies or similar tracking technologies.

Visitors should be provided with meaningful choices, including:

Accepting optional cookies
Rejecting optional cookies
Customizing cookie preferences
Changing preferences later
Withdrawing consent

Rejecting optional cookies should be as straightforward as accepting them.

7. No Preselected Optional Consent

Where affirmative consent is required, optional cookie categories should be disabled by default.

Visitors should not be required to accept optional cookies simply to browse publicly available café listings.

Consent should not be obtained through prechecked boxes, inactivity, or misleading interface design.

8. Managing Cookie Preferences

Where implemented, visitors may manage their cookie preferences through a clearly accessible Cookie Settings link.

This link should remain available in the website footer or another consistently accessible location.

Visitors may also use browser settings to restrict or delete cookies.

Browser controls may not replace website consent requirements where those requirements apply.

9. Withdrawing Consent

Where processing is based on consent, visitors may withdraw that consent at any time.

Withdrawal should be as easy as giving consent.

Withdrawal does not necessarily affect processing lawfully completed before withdrawal.

Where feasible and legally required, the website should stop further optional tracking and address relevant cookies after consent is withdrawn.

10. Cookie Duration

Cookies may be classified as:

Session Cookies: Usually expire when a browser session ends.

Persistent Cookies: Remain on a device until they expire or are deleted.

Actual cookie durations depend on the specific technologies used.

Where required, a cookie inventory should identify cookie names, providers, purposes, and retention periods.

11. Website Analytics

We may use analytics technologies to evaluate traffic, navigation, and website performance.

Analytics information may include:

Pages visited
General device information
Browser categories
Referral sources
Approximate location
Website interaction patterns

If analytics technologies require consent under applicable law, they will not be activated before consent is obtained.

12. Café Directory Advertising and Sponsored Listings

CafesVancouver.com may offer paid business listings and sponsored placements to eligible cafés, coffee shops, bakery cafés, and related establishments.

A sponsored listing does not automatically require tracking cookies.

If advertising measurement, retargeting, or personalization technologies are used, we will provide appropriate disclosures and consent choices where required.

Paid business placements should be clearly identified as advertising.

13. Personal Information and Cookies

Some cookies or similar technologies may involve information that identifies or can reasonably be linked to an individual.

Where such information qualifies as personal information or personal data under applicable law, relevant privacy protections apply.

Further details are provided in our Privacy Policy.

14. Canadian Privacy Requirements

Depending on the circumstances, our website operations may be subject to Canadian privacy legislation, including:

British Columbia's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA)
The federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), where applicable
Other applicable provincial privacy requirements
Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL)

We aim to provide appropriate transparency, consent, and privacy choices under applicable requirements.

15. GDPR Applicability

The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation may apply to certain processing activities where its territorial requirements are met.

Operating a Canadian website that can be accessed from Europe does not, by itself, necessarily mean GDPR applies.

Where GDPR applies, we will process personal data under an appropriate lawful basis and respect applicable individual rights.

Cookie consent requirements may also arise under relevant European electronic communications and national privacy laws.

16. Lawful Bases for Processing

Where GDPR applies, relevant lawful bases may include:

Consent
Contractual necessity
Compliance with legal obligations
Legitimate interests, where appropriate
Other legally recognized grounds

The appropriate lawful basis depends on the processing activity.

Consent will be obtained where legally required for optional tracking technologies.

17. GDPR Rights of Individuals

Where applicable, individuals may have rights to:

Access personal data.
Request correction of inaccurate information.
Request erasure in qualifying circumstances.
Restrict certain processing.
Object to certain processing.
Request data portability where applicable.
Withdraw consent.
Lodge complaints with an appropriate supervisory authority.

These rights are subject to applicable legal conditions and exceptions.

18. International Data Transfers

Certain website service providers may process information outside Canada.

Where international transfers occur, we will use appropriate safeguards and disclosures required by applicable law.

Where GDPR applies, relevant international transfer requirements will be considered.

19. Children's Privacy

Our directory is intended primarily for general café discovery and business advertising.

We do not knowingly use the website to target children with behavioural advertising.

Where children's personal information is processed, applicable consent and data protection requirements will be respected.

20. Data Security

We aim to use reasonable technical, organizational, and administrative safeguards appropriate to the information handled.

These may include access restrictions, secure website configurations, and service-provider protections, as implemented.

No internet-based service can guarantee absolute security.

21. Data Retention

Information obtained through cookies and similar technologies should be retained only for appropriate and disclosed purposes.

Actual retention periods depend on the technology and applicable legal requirements.

Where required, specific retention details should be made available through the cookie preferences interface or cookie inventory.

22. Third-Party Websites

CafesVancouver.com may contain links to independent cafés, coffee shops, ordering platforms, social media pages, and other websites.

Those websites may use their own cookies and tracking technologies.

Our cookie preferences do not control technologies operating on independent third-party websites.

Visitors should review the relevant third-party privacy policies.

23. Privacy Complaints and Requests

Visitors may contact us regarding cookie consent, personal information, or applicable privacy rights.

Privacy Contact: Roger Prabhu

Email: MonacoAds@gmail.com

Text / WhatsApp: +1-604-833-1055

Where applicable, individuals may also contact the relevant privacy regulator.

Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia: https://www.oipc.bc.ca/

Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada: https://www.priv.gc.ca/

24. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy to reflect changes in website technologies, privacy requirements, or directory operations.

The revised Policy will be published with an updated effective date.

Where material changes require additional notice or renewed consent, we will take appropriate steps.

25. Contact Information

For questions about this Policy or requests concerning personal information, contact:

CafesVancouver.com

Contact Person: Roger Prabhu

Email: MonacoAds@gmail.com

Text / WhatsApp: +1-604-833-1055

Website: https://cafesvancouver.com/