Website Cookie Notice

Last update on 12 June 2024 

The purpose of this Notice is to explain how Alira Health is using cookies on the QUVIVIQ landing page 

This Information is provided in application of following data protection laws: 

• The General Data Protection Regulation N°EU 2016/679 (hereinafter, the "GDPR"), including any EU member state laws intended to implement the GDPR ;  

• The General Data Protection Regulation as it forms part of the law of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland by virtue of section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (hereinafter the "UK GDPR") and the UK Data Protection Act 2018 (amended 2020) (hereinafter the "Data Protection Act");  

• The EU ePrivacy Directive; 

• The Swiss revised Federal Act on Data Protection 2020 ("FADP"), whereby any reference to the FADP herein always includes a reference to the Swiss revised Ordinance on Data Protection 2022 (“FODP”); 

• The California Consumer Privacy Act 2018 (hereinafter the "CCPA"), The California Consumer Privacy Rights Act 2020 (hereinafter "CPRA"), The Californian Online Privacy Protection Act 2003 (hereinafter the "CalOPPA");  

• The California Online Privacy Protection Act of 2003 (CalOPPA) ; 

• The Canadian privacy laws, including but not limited to the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act S.C. 2000 (“PIPEDA”), c. 5 as last amended on 2019, June 21 and any applicable provincial laws; 

• Canadian Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL); 

• And any other applicable laws and regulations regarding data privacy. 

Collectively referred as "Data Privacy Laws". 

These Data Privacy Laws laws create obligations for digital publishers such as Alira Health to give visitors of their sites and apps information about how they will use and share their personal data, as well as about the use of cookies, mobile ad IDs, and other forms of local storage.  

Since Alira Health is using cookies on its platform, clear and mandatory information must be mentioned in this Cookies notice, as set out below.  

INFORMATION ABOUT COOKIES 

1. What is the purpose of cookies?  

Alira Health and its affiliates use cookies or similar technologies to collect and store certain information. These typically involve pieces of information or code that a website transfers to or accesses from your computer hard drive or mobile device to store and sometimes track information about you. Cookies allow us to create a unique device ID, enable you to be remembered when using that computer or device to interact with websites and online services, and can be used to manage a range of features and content, including storing searches and presenting personalized content. 

2. What types of cookies are there? 

Cookies can be classified as follows, depending on the owner:  

• First-party cookies: They are created, sent to your device and stored by the website you are visiting directly. They allow Alira Health to collect customer analytics data, remember language settings, and carry out other useful functions that help provide a good user experience.  

• Third-party cookies: They are created and placed by third parties other than the website you are visiting directly. They are not managed by Alira Health, but by the third party that processes the data obtained from the cookies.  

Cookies can also be classified depending on the purpose of their placement. Main categories are:  

• Strictly necessary cookies (also called “technical cookies”):  

They allow you to browse a website, a platform, or an app, and to use the various options or services on it (e.g., control traffic, identify data or session, access to restricted access sections or content, etc.).  

• Functional cookies:  

They help Alira Health to make the website usable by providing you some basic features and by remembering your preferences and choices of using Alira Health platform (e.g., language, the region from where the service is accessed, etc.). Not accepting cookies may cause slow website performance or poorly adapted recommendations. 

• Analytical cookies:  

they allow Alira Health to recognize and count the number of visitors, to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it, and so to have a better understanding of how visitors interact with the platform (e.g., which pages are visited the most) in order to improve the functioning of the website. 

• Advertising cookies:  

they enable Alira Health to monitor your behavior on the website. The aim is to display advertisements that are meaningful and attractive to you and therefore more useful to third party publishers and advertisers, as well as to make promotional and specific information available to you on the website.  

Cookies may also be divided into two categories depending on the period for which they are stored: 

• Session cookies: they allow Alira Health to recognize and link your actions during a browsing session. When you go to the login page, these temporary cookies will be created to determine whether or not your browser accepts cookies. 

• Persistent cookies: they are placed on your device between sessions. They can be used to remember your preferences or actions on Alira Health’ website.  

3. How to use cookies? 

Cookies in no way give Alira Health access to your device or any information other than the data you choose to share with Alira Health. 

Concretely, these cookies help to improve the functioning of the website of Alira Health and can be used for several purposes: 

• Help you connect to the platform; 

• Analyze traffic to the website; 

• Monitor your browsing behavior; 

• Recognize your device; 

• Make the platform more efficient;  

• Event tracking 

4. How to manage cookies? 

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can change your browser settings to prevent that. The effect of disabling cookies depends on which cookies you disable but, in general, our Site may not operate properly, and you may not be able to take full advantage of our Site if all cookies are switched off. If you only disable third-party cookies, you will not be prevented from making purchases on our Site. 

 If you want to disable cookies on our Site, you need to change your website browser settings to reject cookies. How you can do this will depend on the browser you use. Further details on how to disable cookies for the most popular browsers are set out below: 

5. Who placed cookies? 

The information stored through cookies is only used by Alira Health except those identified in section 3 as “Third-Party cookies”, which are used and managed by external entities aiming to improve Alira Health’ services and your experience when browsing on the website. 

Alira Health collaborates with the following third-parties: 

• Squarespace.com  

Please note that Alira Health do not have any control over how the information in these cookies is used by these external parties nor do Alira Health have access to it. Please refer to the cookies policies of the relevant party for more information. 

6. How to contact us  

For any question regarding this Cookies notice, you may contact Alira Health, who, if required, will contact its Data Protection Officer ("DPO"), using the information below: 

 
https://www.healthstorylines.com/ 
 

Alira Health Inc 

30 Adelaide St. E, 12th Floor (Industrious) 

Toronto, ON M5C 3G8, Canada 

Alirahealth.HSL.dpo@mydata-trust.info