Cookie Policy
This cookie policy (“Cookie Policy”) is intended to inform you of how we use “cookies” and similar technologies on our website at www.mccarthy.ca (“Website”) and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our Website. Please take a moment to read and understand this Cookie Policy.
What are cookies?
Cookies and similar technologies are very small text documents or pieces of code, which often include an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website or use a mobile application, a computer asks your computer or mobile device for permission to store this file on your computer or mobile device and access information from it. Information gathered through cookies and similar technologies may include the date and time of visits and how you are using the particular website or mobile application. Cookies are used by us as part of our Website and they are also used by some of our third party partners.
For more details on cookies and similar technologies please visit All About Cookies. For the purposes of the remaining sections of this Cookie Policy we will refer to all technologies using the above features as “cookies”.
Consent to our use of cookies
By using the Website, you acknowledge that we may store and access essential cookies on your computer or other devices. Essential cookies are cookies which are essential for the operation of our Website. Please note that we do not need your consent to store and access essential cookies as we have a legitimate interest (i.e. the functionality of the Website) for doing so.
Further, by using the Website, you consent to us storing and accessing certain non-essential cookies on your computer or other devices. These cookies are not essential to the operation of our Website but allow us to provide additional functionality or to gather additional information about your use of our Website.
If you wish to block or delete cookies, or if you would like to withdraw consent to our use of non-essential cookies, you can find out how to do so below.
What do we do with cookies?
Essential cookies
We use essential cookies where they are essential for the operation of the Website.
Session cookies
We use session cookies to allow the Website to uniquely identify your browsing session on our Website, which allows us to coordinate this information with data from our Website server.
Analytics cookies
We use “analytics” cookies. These, along with other information, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people using the Website and see which features of our Website are most popular.
We use this information to improve the Website, such as to understand what content is most popular so we can produce similar content. We do not generally store any information that you provide to us in a cookie.
What cookies do we use on our Website?
| Cookie Name | Description | Expiry Duration |
| _ga | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. | 1 Years |
| _gid | This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics. This appears to be a new cookie and as of Spring 2017 no information is available from Google. It appears to store and update a unique value for each page visited._gid | 0 Days |
| _ga_xxxxxxxxxx | NAUsed by Google Analytics to identify and track an individual session with your device. | 1 Years |
| _gat_UA-XXXXXX-X | Google Analytics Cookies | 0 Days |
| sp_t | This domain is owned by Spotify, a USA based music streaming service. Spotify provides a number of tools to embed into websites, which enable the tracking of users and non-users across domains. | 1 Years |
| sp_landing | This domain is owned by Spotify, a USA based music streaming service. Spotify provides a number of tools to embed into websites, which enable the tracking of users and non-users across domains. | 0 Days |
| _cfuvid | This domain is owned by Vimeo. The main business activity is: Video Hosting/Sharing | 0 Days |
| __cf_bm | This is a CloudFoundry cookie | 0 Days |
| vuid | This domain is owned by Vimeo. The main business activity is: Video Hosting/Sharing | 1 Years |
| pardot | Cookie name associated with services from marketing automation and lead generation platform Pardot. | 0 Days |
| pardot | This domain is owned by Pardot, a marketing automation platform which provides lead generation services to businesses. | 0 Days |
| pardot | This domain is owned by Pardot, a marketing automation platform which provides lead generation services to businesses. | 0 Days |
| __Secure-xxxxxxx | YouTube is a video-sharing platform owned by Google. It uses cookies for various purposes including improving user experience, tracking user preferences, and serving targeted advertisements. | 5 Months |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos | 5 Months |
| sc_anonymous_id | This domain is owned by Soundcloud, a German company providing social sharing services centred around soundclips. The data that is collected through its services can be used for profiling and targeted advertising. | 9 Years |
| bcookie | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active LinkedIn profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 1 Years |
| lidc | This domain is owned by LinkedIn, the business networking platform. It typically acts as a third party host where website owners have placed one of its content sharing buttons in their pages, although its content and services can be embedded in other ways. Although such buttons add functionality to the website they are on, cookies are set regardless of whether or not the visitor has an active LinkedIn profile, or agreed to their terms and conditions. For this reason it is classified as a primarily tracking/targeting domain. | 0 Days |
| _hjSessionUser_xxxxxx | Hotjar cookie that is set when a user first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. | 1 Years |
| _hjTLDTest | When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. | 0 Days |
| _hjSession_xxxxxx | A cookie that holds the current session data. This ensues that subsequent requests within the session window will be attributed to the same Hotjar session. | 0 Days |
| visitor_id##### | This is a cookie pattern that appends a unique identifier for a website visitor, used for tracking purposes. The cookies in this domain have a lifespan of 10 years. | 9 Years |
| visitor_id | This is a cookie pattern (visitor_id) that appends a unique identifier for a website visitor, used for tracking purposes. The cookies in this domain have lifespans of 10 years.This is a cookie pattern that appends a unique identifier for a website visitor, used for tracking purposes. The cookies in this domain have a lifespan of 10 years. | 9 Years |
Others websites
Visitors are provided with the option to navigate to a variety of external websites where McCarthy Tétrault, or users may have a presence or wish to visit. When visitors select the option to view content from these websites, they are directed away from the McCarthy Tétrault website and to the other site, where a variety of cookies may be used throughout the visit. McCarthy Tétrault is not responsible for any cookies used once a visitor leaves the McCarthy Tétrault website.
Can you block cookies?
You can block the use of cookies altogether by activating the relevant settings in your browser. You can find out how to do this for a variety of browsers at All About Cookies. For more information on cookie management and blocking or deleting cookies for a wide variety of browsers, visit All About Cookies.
Last updated: May 2025