Cookie Policy for Bestax Accountants

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help the site function, remember your preferences, and provide information to the site owner.

Cookies may be “session” cookies, which are deleted when you close your browser, or “persistent” cookies, which remain until they expire or you delete them.

We also use similar technologies such as pixels, tags, and software development kits, which we refer to collectively as “cookies” in this Policy.

2. Why We Use Cookies

We use cookies to operate and secure the Site, remember your settings, understand how the Site is used, measure the performance of our content, and, with your consent where required, analyse traffic and support marketing.

3. Categories of Cookies We Use

a) Strictly necessary cookies. These are essential for the Site to function and to keep it secure. These do not require consent.

b) Performance and analytics cookies. These help us understand how visitors use the Site so we can improve it. We use tools such as Google Analytics via Google Site Kit for this purpose.

c) Functional cookies. These remember your choices and support embedded content such as maps, forms, appointment booking, and webinar tools.

d) Advertising and marketing cookies. These may be set by us or our partners to measure campaigns and show relevant content on other sites.

In line with Quebec’s Law 25, technologies used to identify, locate, or profile you are not activated by default. Where such technologies are used, we rely on the consent required by applicable law.

4. Cookies and Third Parties on Our Site

The specific cookies on the Site may include those below. This table should be verified against an actual cookie scan of the live Site and updated accordingly.

5. Your Choices and Consent

Strictly necessary cookies do not require consent. For other cookies, you can control their use through your browser settings and, where we offer one, through our cookie preference tool.

Implementation note: The Site does not currently display a cookie consent banner. Because Google Analytics and any advertising or marketing pixels set non-essential cookies, and because Quebec Law 25 regulates profiling and tracking technologies, a consent management banner that lets visitors accept or reject non-essential cookies before they are set is recommended.

Once a banner is in place, this section should be updated to describe how visitors accept, reject, and change their preferences.

6. How to Control Cookies Through Your Browser

Most browsers let you block or delete cookies and alert you when cookies are set. Note that blocking strictly necessary cookies may stop parts of the Site from working.

• Google Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data.
• Mozilla Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security.
• Safari: Settings → Privacy.
• Microsoft Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions.

To opt out of Google Analytics across all websites, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

7. Do Not Track

As there is currently no consistent industry standard for “Do Not Track” signals, the Site does not respond to them differently.

You can manage cookies through your browser settings as described above.

8. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time for operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Changes will be posted here with a revised “Last Updated” date.