Privacy Policy

The “Where Work Meets Play blog” (herein known as “the blog”) is a project of the Town of Newmarket’s Economic Development and Communications offices.  The Town of Newmarket is committed to providing our residents and visitors to our sites with information and services in a manner that respects and protects their privacy. This page summarizes the privacy statement and practices applicable to the interactions with the Town of Newmarket website.

e do not automatically gather any personal information from you unless it is supplied voluntarily. Any personal information you do provide is managed according to the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (Ontario).

The blog collects visitor data using Google and Squarespace Analytics. This allows the Town of Newmarket to access user reports such as the Demographics and Interest Report. This feature is a web analysis service provided by Google. Google collects data about your visits to, from, and within our website through cookies, usage data and anonymous identifiers. Google utilizes the data collected about your visits to, from, and within our website in order to prepare reports on the performance of our website and marketing/communication efforts. Google also shares the collected data with other Google services and may use it to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. For more information, refer to Google's privacy policy.

We use Google Analytics "first-party" cookies to help us understand how visitors are using our website. We use "third-party" cookies to understand age, gender, interest categories, and user flows. This analysis will assist us in understanding the characteristics and interests of our users so we can refine our ad campaign strategies.

Anonymous information collected via Google Analytics will not be combined with any personally-identifiable information collected by the Town (such as information collected during program registration, ticket payments etc).

You can opt out of Google Analytics, including "third-party" cookies, by downloading and installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on on your computer (visit the add-on site for browser compatibility).

The blog contains links to other sites. Please be aware that the Town of Newmarket is not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. When you leave our site, we encourage you to read the privacy statement of each and every website that you visit before you provide any personal information. The Town's privacy statement applies solely to information collected on the Town's website.

For the Town of Newmarket's Privacy Policy please visit www.newmarket.ca/privacy.  If you have any questions or comments regarding this statement, please contact the Town Clerk, Town of Newmarket, 395 Mulock Dr., P.O. Box 328, Station Main, Newmarket, ON L3Y 4X7, telephone 905-895-5193, fax 905-953-5100.


Accessibility

The Town of Newmarket is committed to creating an accessible environment by removing barriers for people of all abilities in our community. This includes Town staff, community and business partners, residents and visitors. 

The Where Work Meets Play Blog (The Blog) adheres to the same policy and standards as all Town of Newmarket projects.  For further information on the Town's accessibility policy please visit www.newmarket.ca/accessibility.