Cookie policy

We use cookies on our website to ensure our site runs properly, to collect browsing data, and to enhance your online experience. You can adjust your preferences on any browsing device, at any time and choose to opt-in or out of each cookie category.

For the proper functioning of our website and to access the full content on our website, your browser must accept Necessary cookies.

CMPA MEMBERS: Web data collected using cookies will NOT impact your eligibility for assistance or your membership fees.

We understand members’ concerns around their privacy and data. CMPA has robust privacy and security measures in place to protect member data, and our privacy policies and procedures meet or exceed all relevant legislation and regulation standards.

Read our Privacy Policy for more information about data collection.

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Types of cookies on the CMPA website

The CMPA uses the following types of cookies:

Necessary cookies

These cookies are essential for the proper functioning of the website. Without these cookies, the website would not work properly.

Performance and Analytics cookies

These cookies allow the website to remember the choices you have made in the past and measure traffic to analyze and improve our website’s performance.

Personalized Experience Cookies

These cookies allow the website to present you with additional content relevant to you and dependent on your browsing behaviour.

FAQs

What are cookies?

Cookies are messages that web servers pass to your web browser when you visit websites. Cookies are helpful to you because they enable websites to "remember" specific user preferences, which means you may not need to re-enter information about yourself if you've already done it once before.

Cookies are also helpful to the CMPA because they help our website tools “remember” whether you’ve visited the website before, what pages you’ve visited on the website, and technical information about your device/browser.

What kinds of cookies does the CMPA use?

There are different types of cookies: first-party and third-party cookies. The CMPA exclusively uses cookies in first-party contexts to ensure our site runs properly and securely, to collect browsing data, and to enhance your online experience.

Specifically, first party cookies used by the CMPA include Session and Persistent cookies:

• Session cookies: The CMPA website uses session cookies to track website usage. Session cookies track a user's progression through our website(s) in a single visit. These cookies enable our web server to remember things as you progress from one page to another. Session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your browser. If you leave your browser open for a prolonged period, the cookies on our website are not set to erase themselves automatically after a short period of time. They will, however, be deleted when you shut down your browser.
• Persistent cookies: The CMPA website uses persistent cookies in limited circumstances, namely to maintain specific information related to an authorized user's access to the CMPA's Good Practices Guide and other similar resources, where required. Persistent cookies remain on your computer until you erase them using your browser settings.

The CMPA does not sell, trade, barter, exchange, or disclose for consideration any personal information.

Visitors to the CMPA website may also receive cookies from certain third parties, such as Google. For example, some video content stored on YouTube is available on the CMPA website. These cookies may allow Google to track your online activities across other websites and for advertising purposes.

For more information, visit the Google privacy policy. You can also block third party cookies by changing the settings on your browser.

Are cookies used by the CMPA safe?

Web browser cookies are used by the CMPA to improve the website experience and collect browsing data. They do not provide access to your device and are only maintained for as long as required and in accordance with the retention periods set out in this policy. Browser cookies cannot carry viruses and cannot install malware on your computer.

We use cookies on our website to ensure the basic functionalities of our site and to enhance your online experience when accessing resources like the Good Practices, eLearning, and member self-services. These types of cookies are commonly used across websites on the Internet.

Will my choice of cookies impact my protection and assistance?

No. The data that CMPA obtains using cookies will NOT be used to determine the protection and assistance individual members receive, nor will they impact fees. Fees are only differentiated based on the type of work a member does and the province/territory in which a member practices.

What steps has the CMPA taken to protect the privacy of website data?

We understand members’ concerns around their privacy and data, so we have designed our privacy policies and procedures to meet or exceed all relevant legislation and regulation standards.

CMPA also has robust privacy and security measures in place to protect member data, including through contractual means, in line with our commitment to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of data entrusted to us.

We only use cookies for one of the reasons listed in this policy, for purposes consistent with them or as otherwise permitted by law.

The more we know what content our members are most interested in on our website, the better we can customize their online experience with the advice, information, and learning they need.