How WhyCrew Uses Cookies

1. What Is a Cookie?#

A cookie is a small text file placed on your device when you visit a website. Cookies help the site remember information about your visit, like your preferences or how you interact with the pages, which can make your next visit easier and the site more useful, or help us understand how the site is used.

2. Categories of Cookies We Use#

We group the cookies on whycrew.com into four categories, in line with standard industry practice:

Strictly necessary cookies

These are required for the Site to function properly, such as maintaining basic security, load balancing, and remembering your cookie preferences themselves. They don't require consent under GDPR/ePrivacy because the Site cannot work properly without them, and they can't be switched off.

Performance and analytics cookies

These help us understand how visitors use the Site, such as which pages are most visited, how long people stay, and whether pages load correctly, so we can find and fix problems and improve the experience. These cookies are not strictly necessary and are only set with your consent.

Functional cookies

These remember choices you've made on the Site, such as language or display preferences, to make your next visit more convenient. Also not strictly necessary, and only set with consent.

Targeting and advertising cookies

These would be used to make marketing more relevant to you and measure the effectiveness of campaigns. We do not currently use this category of cookie on whycrew.com. If that changes, we'll update this policy and our consent options accordingly before any such cookie is set.

3. Cookies Used on This Site#

The specific cookies active on whycrew.com at any given time, along with their name, provider, purpose, and expiry, are listed in our cookie preference centre, accessible from the link in the site footer. We keep that list there rather than in this document so it always reflects what's actually running on the Site, rather than going out of date here every time a tool changes.

4. Your Consent#

WhyCrew is based in Ontario, Canada, where PIPEDA generally allows implied consent for non-sensitive analytics cookies as long as we give you clear notice, which this policy does. However, because our visitors and clients include people located in the EU, and EU law (GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive) requires opt-in consent before any non-essential cookie is set, we apply that stricter standard site-wide rather than running two different experiences depending on where a visitor is located. When you first visit whycrew.com, you'll be shown a cookie banner where you can accept or decline non-essential cookies, and change your choice at any time.

If you decline non-essential cookies, the Site will still function normally, we simply won't collect performance data from your visit or apply any saved preferences.

5. How to Manage Cookies#

You can manage or withdraw your cookie consent at any time:

• On this Site: use the cookie preferences link in the site footer to update your choices.
• In your browser: most browsers let you block or delete cookies through their settings. Note that blocking all cookies, including strictly necessary ones, may affect how parts of the Site function.
• General opt-out resources: independent sites like Your Online Choices and About Cookies explain how to manage cookies across the websites you visit, not just this one.

6. Changes to This Policy#

We may update this Cookie Policy if the cookies or tracking tools we use change. We will post the updated version here with a revised “Last updated” date, and where the change is material, we'll prompt you to review your cookie preferences again.

7. Contact Us#

If you have questions about our use of cookies, contact us at: