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CIM Cookie Policy

EFFECTIVE DATE: MAY 3, 2025

This policy outlines how the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM), its affiliates, and related entities ("CIM," "We," "Us," or "Our") use various cookies with your consent to communicate and provide our services to you. It also offers information on how you can manage these cookies. We may update this Cookie Policy at any time. Please refer to the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page to see when it was last revised. Any changes to this Cookie Policy will take effect as soon as we make the revised version available on or through our websites (https://www.cim.org/; https://store.cim.org/; https://magazine.cim.org/) and any other website(s) under the cim.org domain name. For more information about how we use the personal information you provide, please see our Privacy Policy.

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What are Cookies?

A cookie is a text file that contains small amounts of data and information downloaded to your computer and stored on your hard drive or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies enable a website to recognize your device and enhance your online experience. Cookies placed by CIM are known as "first-party cookies," while cookies placed by third parties are referred to as "third-party cookies," as explained below.

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How We Use Cookies:

We aim to make the experience simple and practical when you visit any of our websites. One of the ways we achieve that goal is by placing cookies on your device, including desktops and mobile devices, following your preferences set through our Cookie Settings options. As you navigate through and interact with our websites, the tracking technologies enable the automatic collection of information about your equipment, Browse actions and patterns, IP address and browser information, and the resources you access and use on the Site. If you access our websites via your mobile device, we may collect your unique device identifier, IP address and information about your device's operating system. This information helps our marketing, allows us to estimate our audience size and website usage patterns, and recognizes you when you return to our websites, thereby improving our website’s design, functionality, and content to deliver better and more personalized content and services relating to your professional membership of CIM. We also use our cookies for marketing purposes.

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Types of Cookies:

  • Strictly Necessary Cookies: These are used to make our websites usable by enabling essential functions such as page navigation and access to secure site areas. Strictly necessary cookies are first-party cookies placed by CIM. CIM’s websites cannot function properly or provide essential services without these cookies.
  • Functionality Cookies: These are used to remember user preferences and settings to enhance the Browse experience. These cookies allow our websites to maintain personalized interactions, storing data such as login details, language settings, and other user preferences.
  • Targeting and Advertising Cookies: These are used to track visitors across websites. These cookies help advertisers deliver relevant and engaging content for the individual user and/or limit the number of times a visitor sees a given advertisement. These are persistent cookies and are almost always placed by third parties.
  • Tracking Cookies: These help us understand and analyze how visitors interact with and use our websites. These analytic services enable us to know how many users we have, which parts of our websites are most popular, what browsers are used, the country or region where users are located, and the demographics and interests of users. The information collected through these tracking and performance cookies does not identify any individual visitor.

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First and Third-party Cookies:

  • First-Party Cookies: First-party cookies are delivered by, or on behalf of, the company whose website you visit. CIM utilizes first-party cookies on our websites.
  • Third-Party Cookies: Third-party cookies are delivered by, or on behalf of, a company other than the one whose website you visit. CIM also utilizes third-party cookies.

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Cookies We Use

Our websites use Google for marketing and analytics. Google places cookies on your computer that generate specific information we select about your website use, such as your computer’s IP address. That information is transmitted to and stored by Google. CIM will use the information to evaluate the use of the website, compile reports on website activity, and provide other services relating to website activity and usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required by law or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf.

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How You Can Manage Cookies

Cookies used on our websites can be turned on or off through your browser. To turn off cookies through your browser, follow the instructions usually located within the "Help," "Tools", or "Edit" menus in your browser. Please note that disabling a cookie or category of cookies does not delete the cookie from your browser unless manually deleted through your browser function. You can also manage your Cookie setting by using the “Change My Preferences” tab in the pop-up banner that shows upon your arrival on our websites.

Disabling cookies may impact your ability to use certain features of our website. If you choose to disable a previously placed cookie on your device, we will cease collecting any further information from your user experience. However, the information collected before the preference change may still be used. When a visitor opts out of tracking for marketing cookies, a new cookie is placed on their device to prevent future tracking. If you wish to withdraw your previously provided consent for CIM to use marketing cookies, you may contact us via privacy@cim.org.

To learn more about the choices that advertisers generally provide individuals to influence how information is collected and used about their online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services, visit:

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to block and delete cookies, please visit: http://www.aboutcookies.org/.

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Contact Information

If you have any questions now or during your visit, please submit your request through privacy@cim.org.