Cookie Policy

Effective Date: September 21, 2025

H.H. Tile & Stone Inc. ("H.H. Tile & Stone Inc.", "we", "us", or "our") operates the website hhtileandstone.ca (the "Website").

This Cookie Policy explains how cookies and similar technologies may be used when you visit our Website, including through our Squarespace website platform, Google Analytics, and Google Ads.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files or similar technologies that are stored on, or accessed from, your device when you visit a website.

Cookies can help a website operate properly, remember certain preferences, understand how visitors use the website, measure website traffic, and support advertising and other website functionality.

Some cookies are necessary for the Website to function, while others are used for analytics or advertising and may only be used after you provide consent through our cookie banner.

2. How We Use Cookies

Depending on your cookie preferences and the services enabled on our Website, cookies and similar technologies may be used to:

  • Operate and secure the Website

  • Maintain basic website functionality

  • Remember certain preferences

  • Understand how visitors use our Website

  • Measure website traffic and Website performance

  • Analyze which pages and content are viewed

  • Measure the effectiveness of our advertising

  • Track conversions resulting from Google advertising

  • Support advertising and, where applicable, personalized or remarketing advertising

  • Help us improve our Website and services

We do not use cookies to process online payments because H.H. Tile & Stone Inc. does not currently accept payments through the Website.

3. Types of Cookies We Use

A. Necessary Cookies

Necessary cookies help the Website operate properly and securely.

These cookies may be placed by Squarespace, our website hosting platform, or other services necessary to provide the Website.

Because these cookies are required for basic Website functionality, they may not be subject to the same consent requirements as non-essential cookies.

B. Analytics Cookies

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors interact with our Website.

Google Analytics may collect information such as:

  • Pages visited

  • How visitors navigate the Website

  • Approximate geographic information

  • Device and browser information

  • How long visitors remain on the Website

  • Website interactions and events

  • Information about how visitors arrive at the Website

We use this information to understand Website traffic and improve the Website and our services.

Analytics cookies are non-essential cookies and are managed through our cookie-consent process.

C. Advertising Cookies

We use Google Ads to advertise H.H. Tile & Stone Inc. and to measure the effectiveness of our advertising.

Depending on your consent and our Google Ads configuration, Google Ads may use cookies or similar technologies to:

  • Measure advertising conversions

  • Determine whether visitors reached our Website after interacting with an advertisement

  • Measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns

  • Support advertising and remarketing

  • Help deliver more relevant advertising where applicable

Advertising cookies and related technologies are non-essential and are subject to our cookie-consent process.

Google's consent mechanisms allow advertising and analytics technologies to respond to a visitor's consent choices.

D. Squarespace Cookies

Our Website is hosted and operated using Squarespace.

Squarespace may use cookies and similar technologies that are necessary for website functionality, security, performance, and other website services.

Squarespace may also use analytics or other non-essential technologies depending on the features and settings enabled on our Website.

The exact cookies used by Squarespace may change as Squarespace updates its services or as we add or remove Website features.

4. Cookie Consent

Our Website uses a cookie banner to provide visitors with choices regarding non-essential cookies.

Depending on the options presented in the cookie banner, you may be able to:

  • Accept non-essential cookies

  • Decline non-essential cookies

  • Manage your cookie preferences

Where applicable, non-essential analytics and advertising technologies are restricted until you provide the appropriate consent through the cookie banner.

If you decline non-essential cookies, certain analytics or advertising-related functionality may not operate.

Google Consent Mode can communicate a visitor's consent choices to Google and adjust the behaviour of Google Analytics and Google Ads technologies according to those choices.

5. Changing or Withdrawing Your Cookie Preferences

You may change or withdraw your cookie preferences where our Website's cookie-consent tools provide this functionality.

You can also control or delete cookies through your web browser settings.

Please note that deleting or blocking certain cookies may affect the functionality of the Website.

If our cookie banner provides a cookie-preferences option, you may use that option to review or change your choices. Squarespace allows website owners to provide visitors with cookie-management options through its cookie banner.

6. Third-Party Services

Our Website uses third-party services, including:

Squarespace — our Website hosting and website platform provider.

Google Analytics — used to measure Website traffic and understand how visitors interact with our Website.

Google Ads — used for advertising, advertising measurement, and related conversion tracking.

These third-party providers may process information collected through cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own policies and terms.

Google's use of information collected through its services is governed by Google's applicable privacy policies and terms.

7. Information Collected Through Cookies

Depending on the type of cookie or technology involved, information collected may include technical and usage information such as:

  • IP address or other network information

  • Browser type

  • Device type

  • Operating system

  • Referring website or source

  • Pages viewed

  • Dates and times of Website visits

  • Interactions with the Website

  • Advertising or campaign information

  • Approximate geographic information

We do not use cookies to intentionally collect sensitive personal information.

8. How Long Cookies Remain on Your Device

Cookies may be either:

  • Session cookies, which generally expire when you close your browser; or

  • Persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a period of time or until they are deleted.

The duration of individual cookies varies depending on the service that places them and the purpose of the cookie.

Because our Website uses third-party services such as Squarespace, Google Analytics, and Google Ads, the specific cookies and their retention periods may change over time.

For this reason, this Cookie Policy describes the categories and purposes of cookies rather than providing an exhaustive list of every individual cookie that may be placed on your device.

9. Third-Party Privacy Policies

Third-party services used on our Website may have their own privacy policies describing how they collect, use, and retain information.

We encourage visitors to review the applicable privacy information provided by Google and Squarespace for more information about their respective services.

10. Children's Privacy

Our Website is intended for a general audience and is not directed specifically toward children.

We do not knowingly use the Website to collect personal information from children for advertising purposes.

11. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to:

  • Our Website

  • Cookies and similar technologies we use

  • Third-party services

  • Our business practices

  • Applicable legal or regulatory requirements

When we make changes, we will post the updated Cookie Policy on this Website and revise the Effective Date above.

12. Contact Us

If you have questions about our use of cookies or similar technologies, please contact us:

H.H. Tile & Stone Inc.

Email: hhtilestone.ca@gmail.com
Phone: (647) 701-2343
Website: hhtileandstone.ca