Cookie Policy
Last updated: September 21, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how RareKids-CAN and the Maternal, Infant, Child and Youth Research Network (MICYRN) use cookies and similar technologies on the RareKids-CAN website. It should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
1. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file stored on your browser or device when you visit a website. Cookies can help a website function, remember preferences, protect against abuse, and provide information about how the website is used. Similar technologies include local storage, tags, and pixels.
First-party cookies are set by the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies are set by another organization whose service is used or embedded on the website.
2. How we use cookies
Necessary cookies
Necessary cookies support core operation and security and do not require optional consent. They may be used to:
- store your cookie choices;
- protect the website from malicious traffic, spam, and abuse;
- balance traffic and maintain reliable website delivery;
- support secure WordPress administration and login sessions for authorized users; and
- maintain basic form and website functionality.
Examples may include client_tools_cookie_consent and wp_consent_* cookies used to remember consent choices, WordPress session cookies for authorized users, and short-lived security cookies set by our hosting or security providers. Consent preference cookies may remain for up to 180 days unless you clear them sooner.
Functional cookies and storage
Functional technologies can remember choices or support enhanced features. For example, the website uses Weglot to provide language selection and may store a language preference. Pages containing Google Maps or other embedded services may connect to those providers and use cookies or local storage to deliver the requested feature.
Analytics cookies
With your permission, we may use analytics services, including Google Analytics delivered through Google Tag Manager, to understand how visitors use the website. Analytics may collect information such as pages viewed, approximate location, device and browser information, referring pages, and interactions with website features. We use this information in aggregate to maintain and improve the website.
Advertising and marketing cookies
We do not currently use cookies on this website to deliver targeted advertising. If that changes, we will update this Policy and request any consent required by law.
3. Third-party services
Depending on the page and your choices, the website may interact with third-party services such as:
- Pantheon and Cloudflare, for website hosting, delivery, reliability, and security;
- Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager, for optional website analytics;
- Google Maps, for interactive maps;
- Weglot, for language translation and preferences;
- WPForms, for website forms and spam prevention; and
- embedded media, social media, event, registry, research, or document providers when you open or interact with their content.
These providers may process technical information, including your IP address and device information, according to their own privacy and cookie policies. Following a link to another website may also allow that website to set its own cookies.
4. Your cookie choices
When you first visit the website, you can accept or reject optional cookies. You can review or change your choice at any time using the Cookie Preferences control available on the website.
You can also delete or block cookies through your browser settings. Browser controls vary, and blocking all cookies may affect website features. Your choices generally apply only to the browser and device on which they were made. If you clear cookies or use another browser or device, you may need to choose again.
Where supported, the website also respects Global Privacy Control for analytics and marketing consent.
5. Changes to this Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when our website, service providers, or legal requirements change. We will post the revised Policy on this page and update the date above.
6. Contact us
Questions about cookies or privacy may be directed to:
RareKids-CAN / MICYRN
V2-230, 950 West 28th Avenue
Vancouver, BC V5Z 4H4
Email: rarekidscan@micyrn.ca
Website: Contact Us