Cookie Policy

Effective Date: August 29, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Compact Living Digest (“Compact Living Digest,” “CLD,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit this website.

Compact Living Digest is operated from Ontario, Canada.

This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains more generally how personal information may be collected, used, disclosed, and protected.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites place on your computer, phone, tablet, or other device when you visit them.

Cookies can perform many different functions. They may help a website operate correctly, remember preferences, understand how visitors use it, track referrals, measure advertising performance, or support other website features.

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada notes that cookies can store information about browsing patterns and preferences and may also be used by third parties to track activity across websites. (Office of the Privacy Commissioner)

How Compact Living Digest Uses Cookies

Compact Living Digest may use cookies and similar technologies for purposes including:

  • operating and securing the website;
  • remembering visitor preferences;
  • understanding how visitors use the site;
  • measuring website traffic and article performance;
  • identifying technical problems;
  • supporting affiliate tracking;
  • measuring referrals and qualifying purchases;
  • supporting advertising, if advertising is added to the website;
  • preventing spam or abuse; and
  • improving the website and its content.

The cookies used on Compact Living Digest may change as the website develops or as service providers are added, removed, or replaced.

Types of Cookies We May Use

Necessary Cookies

Necessary cookies are essential for the website to operate properly.

They may be used for purposes such as:

  • website security;
  • fraud or spam prevention;
  • remembering privacy or cookie choices;
  • maintaining website functionality; and
  • supporting forms or other features requested by the visitor.

Because these cookies are required for basic website functionality or for services specifically requested by the visitor, disabling them may cause parts of the website to stop working correctly.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies may remember choices you make when using the website, making certain features more convenient on future visits.

Depending on the features enabled in Compact Living Digest, these cookies may store settings or preferences, such as consent choices or other website options.

Analytics and Performance Cookies

Compact Living Digest may use analytics and performance cookies to understand how visitors use the website.

These technologies may collect information such as:

  • pages viewed;
  • referring websites;
  • approximate location;
  • browser and device information;
  • time spent on pages;
  • links clicked;
  • general navigation patterns; and
  • website errors or performance information.

This information can help determine which articles are useful, how visitors find Compact Living Digest, and where the website can be improved.

Analytics providers may process information in accordance with their own privacy policies.

Affiliate Cookies

Some articles on Compact Living Digest contain affiliate links.

When you click an affiliate link, the retailer or affiliate network may place a cookie or use another tracking technology to identify that the visit originated from Compact Living Digest.

This allows the retailer or affiliate network to determine whether a qualifying purchase occurred and whether Compact Living Digest should receive a commission.

Affiliate tracking may involve information such as:

  • the referring website;
  • the date or time of the referral;
  • a tracking or referral identifier;
  • pages or products visited; and
  • information about qualifying transactions.

Compact Living Digest generally does not receive your full payment information or other information you provide directly to the retailer as part of the purchase.

The retailer or affiliate network controls its own cookies and tracking technologies and processes information in accordance with its own privacy practices.

Amazon Affiliate Tracking

Compact Living Digest may participate in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program or related Amazon affiliate programs.

When you follow an Amazon affiliate link, Amazon may use cookies, referral identifiers, or other technologies to determine whether a qualifying purchase resulted from that referral.

Amazon controls its own tracking technologies and privacy practices.

As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.

Advertising Cookies

Compact Living Digest may add display advertising or other advertising services in the future.

If advertising services are used, advertising providers may use cookies or similar technologies to:

  • deliver advertisements;
  • measure advertisement performance;
  • limit how often an advertisement appears;
  • understand whether an advertisement was viewed or clicked; or
  • personalize advertisements where permitted and where appropriate consent has been obtained.

If personalized or behavioural advertising is introduced, Compact Living Digest will update this policy and its consent controls as necessary.

Canadian privacy guidance recognizes that tracking technologies used for behavioural advertising can raise privacy concerns and states that individuals should be informed about tracking and given meaningful choices regarding its use. (Office of the Privacy Commissioner)

First-Party and Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies may be placed directly by Compact Living Digest. These are generally referred to as first-party cookies.

Other cookies may be placed by companies whose services are used on the website. These are known as third-party cookies.

Third parties may include providers of:

  • website analytics;
  • affiliate tracking;
  • advertising;
  • spam protection;
  • security;
  • embedded content;
  • email or marketing services;
  • cookie-consent management; and
  • other website technology.

Third-party providers control their own cookies and may use information in accordance with their respective privacy policies.

Session and Persistent Cookies

Cookies may also differ based on how long they remain on your device.

Session cookies generally remain only while your browser is open and are deleted after you close it.

Persistent cookies remain for a specified period or until they are deleted. These cookies may be used to remember settings, track referrals, or recognize a browser on a later visit.

The length of time a particular cookie remains depends on its purpose and the provider that placed it.

Similar Technologies

Compact Living Digest and its service providers may use technologies that function similarly to cookies.

These may include:

  • pixels;
  • tags;
  • tracking identifiers;
  • local storage;
  • scripts; and
  • similar website technologies.

For simplicity, references to “cookies” in this policy generally include these similar technologies where appropriate.

Your Cookie Choices

Where required or appropriate, Compact Living Digest may provide a cookie banner or consent management tool that allows you to choose which non-essential cookies you permit.

Canadian privacy guidance emphasizes that consent should be meaningful and that people should have a clear, easily accessible choice regarding the use of personal information that is not necessary to provide a service. (Office of the Privacy Commissioner)

Depending on the technologies used on the website, available choices may include:

  • accepting all cookies;
  • rejecting non-essential cookies;
  • choosing particular categories of cookies; or
  • changing a previous choice.

Necessary cookies may remain active when required to operate the website or to provide a feature you requested.

Changing Your Cookie Preferences

If Compact Living Digest uses a cookie consent management tool, you may be able to reopen the cookie settings via a link on the website and update your preferences.

You may also be able to control or delete cookies through your browser settings.

Most browsers allow you to:

  • view stored cookies;
  • delete individual cookies;
  • delete all cookies;
  • block cookies;
  • block third-party cookies; or
  • receive a warning before cookies are stored.

The exact controls depend on the browser and device you use.

Blocking all cookies may cause some website functions to stop working as intended.

Withdrawing Consent

Where a particular use of cookies depends on your consent, you may withdraw that consent, subject to reasonable technical and legal limitations.

Canadian privacy principles generally require organizations to allow individuals to withdraw consent where processing relies on consent. (Office of the Privacy Commissioner)

Withdrawing consent does not invalidate processing that occurred before the withdrawal.

Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers provide a “Do Not Track” or similar setting.

There is not necessarily a single universally implemented technical standard governing how websites must respond to these signals. Compact Living Digest may instead provide privacy or cookie controls through its own consent management system, where applicable.

This section may be updated if applicable laws, browser standards, or website technology change.

Cookies and Children

Compact Living Digest is intended for a general adult audience and is not specifically directed toward children.

We do not knowingly use the website to build advertising profiles of children.

Changes to This Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy may be updated as Compact Living Digest:

  • adds or removes website features;
  • changes service providers;
  • begins using analytics or advertising platforms;
  • changes affiliate programs;
  • implements different consent technologies; or
  • responds to changes in privacy requirements.

The current version will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.

Contact

Questions or concerns about the use of cookies or similar technologies on Compact Living Digest may be directed to:

Compact Living Digest
Ontario, Canada
privacy@contactlivnigdigest.com