Cookie Policy
Effective date: October 7, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Black Birch Contracting Inc. ("we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies on our website at blackbirchcontracting.ca (the "Site"). It supplements our Privacy Policy.
1. What Cookies Are
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites operate efficiently, to keep them secure, and to provide reporting information to site operators.
References to "cookies" in this policy include similar technologies, such as local storage, that perform comparable functions.
2. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies to:
- Protect the Site and its forms from automated abuse.
- Record the cookie preferences you select.
- Measure how the Site is used and improve its content and performance.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
Necessary cookies are required for the Site to operate and cannot be declined while continuing to use the Site.
Cloudflare
Delivers and secures the Site, and runs the Turnstile check on the referral form.
zaraz-consent
Until preferences are changed or cleared
Records the cookie preferences you have selected.
__cf_bm
30 minutes
Distinguishes automated traffic from human visitors.
_cfuvid
Session
Enables rate limiting to distinguish visitors sharing a single IP address. Set when the Turnstile check runs.
cf_clearance
30 minutes
Records that a security challenge has been completed.
Analytics cookies are optional and are set only where consent has been given.
Google Analytics 4
Measures Site traffic and how visitors arrive.
_ga
2 years
Distinguishes individual browsers for visit measurement.
_ga_<property ID>
2 years
Retains session state for the Google Analytics property.
Microsoft Clarity
Records how pages are used, including session replays and heatmaps. See section 4.
_clck
1 year
Associates the browser with a Clarity user identifier.
_clsk
1 day
Groups page views from a single visit into one session.
CLID
1 year
Records the first occasion on which Clarity observed this browser on any site using the service.
MUID
1 year
A Microsoft browser identifier set by the Clarity script.
ANONCHK
10 minutes
Indicates whether MUID may be transferred for advertising purposes. Clarity sets this value to 0.
SM
Session
Synchronises MUID across Microsoft domains.
4. Session Recordings & Heatmaps
Where analytics cookies have been accepted, Microsoft Clarity records a replay of your visit: the pages viewed, scrolling, pointer movement, clicks and taps. That activity is aggregated into heatmaps.
Clarity operates in its default masking mode, which excludes text entered into form fields. We do not use recordings to identify individuals or to link them to information submitted through forms on the Site. Recordings are processed by Microsoft Corporation under the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
5. Third-Party Content
The contact page includes a booking calendar provided by LeadConnector. The calendar is loaded from LeadConnector's servers and may set its own cookies, which are governed by LeadConnector's privacy policy rather than this one.
6. Managing Cookies
On your first visit you are asked whether to accept optional cookies. None are set before consent is given, and clearing the Site's cookies will present the request again.
Most browsers can refuse cookies, delete those already stored, or warn before one is set, usually under Settings, then Privacy. Disabling necessary cookies may prevent the Site's forms from functioning.
Google provides a Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on. Microsoft’s controls are described in the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
7. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. Changes are posted on this page with an updated effective date, and where a change materially alters the information collected, consent is requested again.
8. Contact Us
Black Birch Contracting Inc.
Address: 4313 Wilson Rd, Chilliwack, BC V2R 4N3
Phone: (604) 799-4484
Email: sales@blackbirchcontracting.ca
You may also raise a concern with the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia.