Cookie Policy

This cookie policy (“Cookie Policy”) is intended to inform you of how Home Counsel Legal Services Professional Corporation ("Home Counsel Legal Services", "our" or "we") uses “cookies” and similar technologies on our website at www.hc-ls.ca (“Website”) and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our Website. Please take a moment to read and understand this Cookie Policy.

Cookies and similar technologies are very small text documents or pieces of code, which often include an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website or use a mobile application, a computer asks your computer or mobile device for permission to store this file on your computer or mobile device and access information from it. Information gathered through cookies and similar technologies may include the dates and times of visits and how you use the particular website or mobile application. 

We use cookies on our website, and some of our third-party partners also use them.

For more details on cookies and similar technologies, please visit All About Cookies. For the purposes of the remaining sections of this Cookie Policy, we will refer to all technologies using the above features as “cookies”.

By using the Website, you acknowledge that we may store and access essential cookies on your computer or other devices. Essential cookies are cookies which are essential for the operation of our Website. Please note that we do not need your consent to store and access essential cookies, as we have a legitimate interest (i.e., the functionality of the Website) in doing so.

When you first visit our Website, a cookie banner allows you to accept or decline non-essential cookies (including analytics and advertising cookies). Subject to the choices you make in that banner, you consent to us storing and accessing certain non-essential cookies on your computer or other devices. These cookies are not essential to the operation of our Website, but allow us to provide additional functionality or to gather information about your use of our Website.

If you wish to block or delete cookies, or if you would like to withdraw consent to our use of non-essential cookies, you can find out how to do so below.

Essential cookies

We use essential cookies where they are essential for the operation of the Website.

Session cookies

We use session cookies to allow the Website to uniquely identify your browsing session on our Website, which allows us to coordinate this information with data from our Website server.

Analytics and advertising cookies

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how visitors find and use our Website — for example, which pages are viewed, how visitors arrived, and which content is most useful — so that we can improve it. Google Analytics sets cookies (such as _ga and _ga_<container-id>) that help distinguish unique visitors and sessions.

We have also enabled Google Analytics “Advertising Features,” including Google Signals. Where you are signed in to a Google account and have turned on Ads Personalization, Google may associate your visit information with your Google account, including across the different devices you use, and may provide us with aggregated demographic and interest reporting. We do not receive information that personally identifies you through these features. You can opt out at any time by adjusting your Google Ads settings at adssettings.google.com, by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout, or by declining non-essential cookies in our cookie banner. For more information about how Google uses data from sites that use its services, see policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.  

Visitors can navigate to a variety of external websites where Home Counsel Legal Services or users may have a presence or wish to visit. When visitors select the option to view content from these websites, they are redirected from the Home Counsel Legal Services website to the other site, where a variety of cookies may be used throughout the visit. Home Counsel Legal Services is not responsible for any cookies used once a visitor leaves the Home Counsel Legal Services website.

You can block the use of cookies altogether by activating the relevant settings in your browser. You can find out how to do this for a variety of browsers at All About Cookies. For more information on cookie management and blocking or deleting cookies for a wide variety of browsers, visit All About Cookies.

Last updated: June 14, 2026