Last Updated: September 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how GoldCalculator.ca (“GoldCalculator.ca,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit or use our website.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which provides additional information about how we collect, use, and protect information.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites may store on your browser or device when you visit them.
Cookies can perform various functions, such as enabling website functionality, remembering preferences, understanding how visitors use a website, measuring performance, and supporting advertising.
Cookies may be:
- Session cookies, which generally expire when you close your browser; or
- Persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a specified period or until they are deleted.
Cookies may also be set directly by GoldCalculator.ca (“first-party cookies”) or by third-party services used on the Website (“third-party cookies”).
2. How We Use Cookies
GoldCalculator.ca may use cookies and similar technologies for purposes including:
- operating and securing the Website;
- providing Website and calculator functionality;
- remembering user preferences;
- understanding how visitors interact with the Website;
- measuring Website traffic and performance;
- identifying and resolving technical issues;
- measuring advertising performance; and
- displaying contextual or, where permitted, personalized advertising.
The specific cookies used may change as we update the Website or the third-party services we use.
3. Types of Cookies We May Use
Essential Cookies
Essential cookies support functions necessary for the Website to operate properly and securely.
These cookies may be used for purposes such as security, network management, fraud prevention, remembering privacy choices, or maintaining Website functionality.
Where permitted by applicable law, these cookies may operate without consent because they are necessary to provide the Website or a service requested by the user.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
We may use analytics and performance cookies to understand how visitors interact with GoldCalculator.ca.
These technologies may collect information about:
- pages visited;
- time spent on the Website;
- referring pages or websites;
- browser and device characteristics;
- approximate geographic location;
- Website interactions; and
- errors or performance issues.
This information helps us understand Website usage and improve our calculators, content, functionality, and overall user experience.
Advertising Cookies
GoldCalculator.ca may use third-party advertising services, including Google AdSense, to display advertisements.
Advertising providers may use cookies and similar technologies to deliver, measure, limit, and improve advertisements.
Depending on your location, consent choices, and applicable law, these technologies may be used to provide personalized or non-personalized advertising.
Personalized advertising may use information about a user’s interests or previous browsing activity. Non-personalized advertising is generally selected using contextual information, such as the content being viewed and general location, although cookies or similar technologies may still be used for purposes such as frequency capping, aggregated reporting, fraud prevention, and measurement.
Preference and Functionality Cookies
These cookies may allow the Website to remember choices or settings to provide a more convenient experience.
For example, they may be used to remember certain Website, calculator, currency, or privacy preferences where such functionality is available.
4. Google Analytics
GoldCalculator.ca may use Google Analytics to help us understand Website traffic, usage, and performance.
Google Analytics may use cookies or similar technologies to collect information about how visitors interact with the Website.
Information collected through Google Analytics is processed according to Google’s applicable terms, settings, and privacy practices.
More information about how Google uses information from websites and applications that use its services is available through Google’s privacy documentation.
5. Google AdSense and Advertising Cookies
GoldCalculator.ca may use Google AdSense to display advertisements.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve advertisements based on a user’s previous visits to GoldCalculator.ca or other websites.
Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve advertisements to users based on visits to this Website and/or other websites on the Internet, where permitted.
Depending on applicable law and your consent choices, Google may provide personalized or non-personalized advertisements.
You can learn more about Google’s advertising technologies and privacy practices through:
Google Advertising Technologies:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
How Google Uses Information From Sites or Apps That Use Its Services:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
Google My Ad Center:
https://myadcenter.google.com/
6. Other Third-Party Cookies
In addition to Google services, GoldCalculator.ca may use other third-party services that place or access cookies or similar technologies.
These may include services related to:
- website hosting and infrastructure;
- analytics;
- advertising;
- security;
- content delivery;
- Website performance; and
- other functionality.
Third-party providers control their own cookies and process information according to their respective privacy policies.
The presence and functionality of particular third-party services may change over time.
7. Cookie Consent
Depending on your location and applicable law, GoldCalculator.ca may request your consent before placing or accessing certain non-essential cookies.
Where a cookie consent or privacy management interface is provided, you may be able to:
- accept certain categories of cookies;
- reject certain non-essential cookies;
- customize your preferences; and
- change or withdraw your previous choices.
The options available to you may vary depending on your location and applicable privacy requirements.
Refusing certain non-essential cookies should not prevent access to the basic content of GoldCalculator.ca, although some functionality may be affected.
8. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You can manage cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow users to view, block, restrict, or delete cookies.
The exact controls vary depending on your browser and device.
Please note that deleting cookies may also remove preferences previously stored on your device. Blocking certain cookies may affect some Website features or functionality.
Where GoldCalculator.ca provides a cookie consent or privacy preferences interface, you may also use that interface to manage applicable choices.
9. Personalized Advertising Choices
Where personalized advertising is used, you may be able to manage how Google personalizes advertisements through Google My Ad Center:
Depending on your jurisdiction, additional rights or opt-out mechanisms may also be available under applicable privacy laws.
10. Similar Technologies
In addition to traditional cookies, GoldCalculator.ca and its service providers may use technologies such as pixels, tags, local storage, scripts, or similar technologies.
For the purposes of this Cookie Policy, references to “cookies” generally include these comparable technologies where appropriate.
11. International Visitors
GoldCalculator.ca is operated from Canada and is accessible to users worldwide.
Cookie, consent, and advertising requirements differ between jurisdictions. We seek to provide appropriate privacy choices where required by applicable law.
Visitors in certain jurisdictions may therefore see different consent options or advertising experiences.
Nothing in this Cookie Policy is intended to limit privacy rights available to you under applicable law.
12. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes to the Website, the technologies or third-party services we use, or applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
When this Policy is updated, we will revise the Last Updated date at the top of this page.
We encourage users to review this Cookie Policy periodically.
13. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or how GoldCalculator.ca uses cookies and similar technologies, please contact us through the GoldCalculator.ca Contact page.