This Cookie Policy was last updated on Oct. 27, 2026 and applies to visitors in the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
1. Introduction
Our website, https://www.archipelago.ca (the website), uses cookies and other related technologies. For convenience, all of these technologies are referred to as “cookies”. Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. This page explains how we use them.
2. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small file that a website sends to your browser and your browser stores on your device. The information in it may be returned to our servers, or to the servers of the relevant third parties, during a later visit.
3. What are scripts?
A script is a piece of program code that makes a website work properly and interactively. The code runs on our server or on your device.
4. What is a web beacon?
A web beacon (or pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic. Various data about you may be stored using web beacons.
5. Types of cookies we use
5.1 Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies remember your cookie choice. We place them without asking for your consent.
5.2 Analytics cookies
These cookies count visits and page views, so we can see how the website is used and improve it. We ask for your permission before we place them.
5.3 Marketing cookies
Some pages use third-party services, such as Google reCAPTCHA and embedded YouTube videos, that can set cookies from their providers. Our cookie banner groups these services under Marketing. We ask for your permission before we load them.
6. Placed cookies
The services in this table place cookies or similar data on your device.
| Service | What it does | When it loads | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Complianz | Remembers your cookie choice. The Complianz cookies last 12 months. The WP Consent API cookies, which pass your choice to other tools, last about 30 days. | Always | Strictly necessary |
| Google Analytics 4 (ID G-NY9YWTBVPF) | Counts visits and page views | Only after you allow Analytics | Analytics |
| Jetpack Stats (Automattic, stats.wp.com) | Counts visits and page views | Only after you allow Analytics | Analytics |
| YouTube videos (youtube-nocookie.com) | Plays videos embedded on several pages, including product pages, training and overview video pages and news posts | Only after you allow Marketing | Marketing |
| Google reCAPTCHA (Google) | Helps protect our contact, careers and registration forms from spam | Only on the contact, careers application and registration forms pages, and only after you allow Marketing | Marketing |
7. Your choices
When you first visit the website, a banner offers three choices: Accept all, Reject all and Manage preferences. Analytics and Marketing cookies stay off until you allow them. You can change your choice at any time with the Cookie preferences tab at the bottom right of every page.
If you reject after accepting, we stop sending data to Google. The Google cookies stay on your device until they expire. You can delete them in your browser settings.
8. Enabling, disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your browser to delete cookies automatically or manually. You can also set your browser to block certain cookies or to warn you each time a cookie is placed. The Help section of your browser explains how. Some parts of the website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you delete cookies, the website asks for your choice again on your next visit.
9. Your rights with respect to personal data
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
- Right of access: you have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
- Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
- If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
- Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
- Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.
To exercise these rights, please contact us using the details below. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Data Protection Authority).
10. Contact details
For questions or comments about this Cookie Policy, please contact us:
Archipelago Marine Research Ltd
525 Head St, Victoria, BC V9A 5S1
Canada
Website: https://www.archipelago.ca
Email: privacy@archipelago.ca
Phone: (250) 383-4535
