Cookie Policy
Effective Date: May 22, 2025
Last Updated: May 22, 2025
This Cookie Policy explains how CAD Railway Industries (“we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on our website cadrail.ca (the “Website”).
About CAD Railway Industries
Founded in 1968, CAD Railway Industries is a Quebec-based manufacturing company serving the rail transportation sector. We offer integrated repair, maintenance, and refurbishment services for locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars, and diesel engines and their components across North America.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They help websites remember information about your visit, which can make your next visit easier and the website more useful to you.
Types of Cookies We Use
Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms.
Analytics Cookies
We use analytics cookies to understand how visitors interact with our website. These cookies help us analyze website traffic, measure performance, and improve our services. This information helps us enhance user experience and optimize our website functionality.
Marketing and Advertising Cookies
Through our digital marketing partner Grenismedia and their demand-side platform (DSP) partners, we use marketing cookies to:
- Deliver targeted advertisements based on your interests in rail transportation services
- Limit the number of times you see the same advertisement
- Measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns
- Improve our digital marketing services
- Retarget visitors who have shown interest in our locomotive repair and rail services
Technologies We Use
Pixels and Web Beacons
We employ technology called “pixels” (also known as web beacons or web bugs) that help us better manage advertising content across our network of third-party sites. Pixels may be:
- Image pixels: Practically invisible images embedded on web pages
- JavaScript pixels: Lightweight JavaScript code that performs similar functions but operates faster
Unlike cookies, which are stored on your device, pixels are embedded invisibly on web pages and help us track how users navigate around the web.
Information We Collect
We collect non-personally identifiable information through various methods:
- On our website
- On publisher websites that use our advertising pixels or beacons
- When we serve online advertisements through our marketing partners
- From third-party data providers
This anonymous data may include:
- IP address
- Web pages you have viewed on our site
- Date and time of visits
- Domain type
- Your responses to advertisements about our rail services
- Browser and device information
- Geographic location (general area, not specific address)
Important: We do not link the information stored in cookies or collected through pixels to any personally identifiable information you may submit on our Website.
How We Use This Information
The collection of anonymous data allows us and our advertising partners to:
- Better target advertising about our locomotive repair and rail fleet services to your interests
- Provide improvements to our services and website functionality
- Improve the effectiveness of advertisements delivered to users
- Limit the number of times you see a given advertisement
- Analyze website traffic and usage patterns
- Enhance user experience on our website
Our Digital Marketing Partners
We work with Grenismedia, a digital marketing agency that uses the following technologies on our behalf:
- Simpli.fi: A demand-side platform (DSP) for programmatic advertising
- AdRoll: For retargeting campaigns to visitors interested in our rail services
- HubSpot: For marketing automation and customer relationship management
These partners help us reach potential customers who may be interested in our locomotive repair, freight car maintenance, and other rail transportation services.
Data Sharing
We do not share data collected through cookies and pixels with other third-party vendors or platforms beyond our authorized marketing partner Grenismedia and their approved DSP network partners.
Your Choices and Rights
Managing Cookies
You can control and manage cookies in several ways:
Browser Settings: Most web browsers allow you to refuse cookies or alert you when cookies are being sent. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions in your browser’s “help” file.
Continued Use: If you reject cookies, you may still navigate our Website, but your ability to use some areas may be limited.
Opt-Out Options
If you prefer not to receive targeted advertising about our rail services, you can opt out through:
- Your browser’s privacy settings
- Industry opt-out tools such as the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out page
- Directly contacting us using the information below
Your Rights Under Canadian Privacy Laws
Under the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and Quebec’s Law 25, you have the right to:
- Know what personal information we collect and how it’s used
- Access your personal information
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Withdraw consent for non-essential cookies
- File a complaint with the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Cookie Categories and Retention
Necessary Cookies
- Duration: Session or up to 1 year
- Purpose: Essential website functionality and security
Analytics Cookies
- Duration: Up to 2 years
- Purpose: Website performance analysis and improvement
Marketing Cookies
- Duration: Up to 13 months
- Purpose: Advertising delivery and campaign effectiveness measurement through Grenismedia partners
Updates to This Policy
As internet technology evolves, we may use different types of technologies to collect anonymous, non-personally identifiable information. We will update this Cookie Policy accordingly and post the revised version on our Website with a new effective date.
We may also update this policy to reflect changes in our digital marketing partnerships or to comply with evolving privacy regulations.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, our use of cookies, or your privacy rights, please contact us at:
CAD Railway Industries
155 Montreal-Toronto Blvd
Lachine, QC H8S 1B4
Canada
Email: info@cadrail.ca
For privacy-related inquiries specifically, please include “Privacy Inquiry” in your email subject line.
Complaints
If you believe we have not complied with Canadian privacy laws, you may file a complaint with:
Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Website: priv.gc.ca
Phone: 1-800-282-1376
This Cookie Policy applies specifically to cadrail.ca and our rail transportation services including locomotive repair, freight car maintenance, and rolling stock refurbishment.
PRIVACY POLICY
At Cad Railway Industries Ltd. (the “Company”), we realize that personal information is important for the privacy of our users. The following Privacy Policy is designed to inform you, as a user of our website, https://www.cadrail.ca/, of the types of information that we collect from you, how that information will be used and how it will be protected. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully so that you understand your rights in relation to your personal information. This Privacy Policy only governs your activities on the website, and it does not govern activities that are offline or unrelated to the Website.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
Personal Information means any information which relates to a natural person and allows that person to be identified, such as name, email address or phone number. We collect personal information if you submit it to us through the “Career” and “Contact” pages of the Website.
We consider the personal information we collect to be confidential and will use it only to the extent necessary to respond to your request and as discussed herein. We will not reveal or disclose your personal information to third parties without your permission except
(i) if we are ordered to provide or disclose information by order of court, legal authority, or other governmental authority,
(ii) as permitted by law to protect the rights or property of the Company, our affiliates, customers, the Website, or other users, and
(iii) as required for the Website’s operation and handling inquiries.
Protecting Personal Information
We have established certain reasonable electronic safeguards and take reasonable precautions to protect personal information in our possession from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. We make no warranty or representation that this level of security meets or exceeds any particular standard. You should keep in mind that no internet transmission is ever completely secure or error-free and we cannot guarantee that information, during transmission or in our care, will be absolutely safe from unauthorized intrusion by third parties.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of information that a website stores on a user’s computer, and that the user’s browser provides to the website each time the user submits a query to the website using that browser. We may use “cookies” from time to time to allow us to determine that a visit has occurred within our site, as well as which pages were viewed. You can decide if and how your computer will accept cookies by configuring the preferences option within your web browser, using the instructions provided in your browser.
Access from outside Canada
If you are visiting our website from a location outside of Canada, your connection will be through and to servers located in Canada. Any information you provide during your visit will be processed and maintained on our web server and other internal systems located within Canada. Canada may not always provide or offer the same level of protection for personal information as certain other countries, including those who are in the European Economic Area.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to modify, alter or otherwise update this Privacy Policy at any time and you agree to be bound by such modifications, alterations or updates. We will notify you of material changes to this Privacy Policy by posting the revised policy with the date it was revised on this page. Any revised Privacy Policy will apply only to information collected after such time as the revised Privacy Policy takes effect, and not to information collected under any earlier Privacy Policies. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to stay informed about any changes to this Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If you would like to contact us about this policy or our Website, please reach out to us via the “Contact Us” page. The privacy officer of the Company is Mikael Levy – Vice President Supply Chain, IT and Legal Affairs and can be contacted at info@cadrail.ca or by mail at 155 Montreal-Toronto Blvd., Lachine, Quebec H8S 1B4.