GDPR & COOKIE CONSENT POLICY
PizzasToronto.com — Independent Toronto Pizza Restaurant Directory
Effective Date: October 30, 2026
1. Introduction
Welcome to PizzasToronto.com.
We respect the privacy of visitors, restaurant owners, advertisers, and business representatives using our website.
This GDPR & Cookie Consent Policy explains how cookies and similar technologies may be used on our website, what choices visitors have, and how we handle personal information in accordance with applicable privacy and data protection requirements.
PizzasToronto.com is an independent pizza restaurant information and advertising directory serving Toronto, Ontario, and the Greater Toronto Area.
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 pixels, tags, scripts, and local storage.
Not every technology described in this Policy is necessarily used by PizzasToronto.com.
3. Why Websites Use Cookies
Depending on the technologies installed, cookies may help us:
- Maintain website functionality
- Support website security
- Remember visitor preferences
- Improve navigation
- Understand website traffic
- Measure content performance
- Support advertising services
- Detect technical problems
We aim to limit cookie use to legitimate and 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 how visitors use the website, including pages viewed, approximate visitor activity, and website performance.
Where required by law, analytics cookies will be activated only after valid consent.
C. Functional Cookies
Functional cookies may remember selected settings and improve convenience.
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 advertisements, understand campaign performance, or support personalized advertising.
If these technologies are introduced, they will be disclosed and subject to applicable consent requirements.
Important: The categories above 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, such as analytics providers, advertising networks, embedded media platforms, or other integrated technologies.
Third-party providers may have their own privacy policies.
We will identify relevant third-party technologies in our cookie disclosures where required.
6. Our Approach to Cookie Consent
Where applicable law requires consent, PizzasToronto.com will request valid consent before activating non-essential cookies or similar tracking technologies.
Visitors should be provided with meaningful choices.
Our consent approach is intended to include:
- 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 restaurant 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 using 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-level 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 the 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 website analytics technologies to evaluate traffic, navigation, and content 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. Restaurant Advertising and Sponsored Listings
PizzasToronto.com may offer paid directory listings and sponsored placements to eligible pizza restaurants.
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 restaurant 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:
- The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)
- British Columbia's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA)
- Other applicable provincial privacy legislation
- 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 restaurant 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
PizzasToronto.com may contain links to independent pizza restaurants, food delivery platforms, 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 Privacy Commissioner of Canada: https://www.priv.gc.ca/
Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia: https://www.oipc.bc.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:
PizzasToronto.com
Contact Person: Roger Prabhu
Email: MonacoAds@gmail.com
Text / WhatsApp: +1-604-833-1055
Website: https://pizzastoronto.com/
Location: British Columbia, Canada
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