This website does not use cookies. It does not run analytics, it loads no third-party script, and it builds no profile of anyone who visits it.

You do not have to take that on trust. Open your browser's developer tools on any page of this site, look at the Application or Storage panel, and the cookie list is empty. Look at the Network panel and every request goes to this domain: no font provider, no tag manager, no measurement endpoint. The rest of this document explains the one item you will find in session storage, and what the practice undertakes should any of the above ever change.

The vocabulary in this area is used loosely in ordinary speech, and the difference between these technologies matters to what the law requires. The following meanings apply throughout this policy.

Cookie

A small file a website asks your browser to store and hand back with every subsequent request to that site. Because it is returned automatically, a cookie can be used to recognize a browser across pages, across visits and — when set by a third party present on many sites — across the web.

Local storage

A store in your browser that keeps values for a site indefinitely, until the site or you delete them. It is not sent with requests, but it persists after the browser is closed.

Session storage

The same idea, with a shorter life. A value written to session storage exists only for that browser tab, is never transmitted with a request, and is discarded when the tab closes. This is the only browser storage this site uses.

Pixel or tag

A small image, script or beacon loaded from a third party for the purpose of reporting your visit to that third party. This site loads none.

Fingerprinting

Identifying a browser from the combination of characteristics it exposes — fonts, screen size, time zone, rendering quirks — rather than from anything stored on the device. This site performs none, and loads no script capable of it.

Identifying technology

In section 8.1 of the Québec Act, technology that allows a person to be identified, located or profiled. An enterprise using one must inform the person and offer the means to deactivate it. See section 5.

The complete inventory

One entry. Not one category of entries, and not one example among several — one entry, described in full:

Why it exists

The site opens with a short dark animation before the first page appears. Watching it once is part of the design; watching it again on every internal navigation would be an irritation. The entry is how the site knows the difference. It is a courtesy to the reader, and nothing else uses it.

Why the practice treats it as strictly necessary

It is set by the site itself and never read by a third party; it is discarded with the tab; it carries no identifier and cannot be correlated with any other visit, on this site or anywhere else; and it exists solely to render the interface the way the reader has already indicated, by having seen it, that it should be rendered. On any reasonable reading it falls outside what requires consent, and it plainly falls outside section 8.1 of the Québec Act, which is concerned with technology that identifies, locates or profiles. Section 8 sets out how to remove or block it in any event.

The list

Each of the following is absent from this website — not disabled by a setting that could be flipped, but absent from the code that is served to you:

• Analytics of any kind: no Google Analytics, no Google Tag Manager, no Vercel Analytics, no Plausible, Fathom or Matomo, and no self-hosted event collection.
• Advertising and measurement: no Meta pixel, no LinkedIn Insight Tag, no Google Ads conversion tag, no remarketing audience, no attribution parameter.
• Social embeds: no share widget, no like button, no embedded feed. The LinkedIn mark in the footer is a shape drawn in the page and a plain hyperlink.
• Behavioural tooling: no session replay, no heat map, no scroll or rage-click tracking, no A/B testing framework, no personalization engine.
• Fingerprinting and device probing of any kind.
• Consent management platforms — there is nothing for one to manage.
• Any third-party JavaScript at all.

Fonts, images and other assets

The site's typefaces are downloaded at build time and served from this domain, so your browser never contacts a font provider and no font provider learns that you visited. Images, icons and the paper texture behind the page are likewise served from here. Everything the page needs comes from one origin.

What the host records

The hosting provider keeps short-lived technical logs of requests to the server — the requesting IP address, the timestamp, the page, the HTTP status, the user-agent string. That is a property of how the internet delivers a page, not a technology placed on your device, and no cookie is involved. Those logs, and their retention, are described in the privacy policy.

The obligation

An enterprise that collects personal information from a person by using technology allowing that person to be identified, located or profiled must first inform the person of the use of that technology and of the means available to deactivate it.

The position of this site

Orée Conseil uses no such technology on this website. The single session-storage entry described in section 3 does not identify, locate or profile anyone, and no other mechanism on the site is capable of it. There is accordingly nothing to deactivate, which is why this site presents no banner and no toggle.

The undertaking

Should the practice ever deploy technology that identifies, locates or profiles a visitor, it will inform you of it before that technology is activated, will provide the means to deactivate it, and will amend this policy to describe it. The default will be off.

The consent rule

European law requires consent before storing information on, or gaining access to information already stored in, a user's terminal equipment, unless the storage is strictly necessary to provide the service the user has expressly requested. That rule is about storage, not only about cookies, so session storage is within its scope and is dealt with here rather than left unmentioned.

How it applies here

The single entry described in section 3 is set by the site itself, is confined to one tab, is never transmitted, and carries no identifier. It supports the delivery of the interface and serves no analytical, advertising or profiling purpose. On that basis the practice does not present a consent banner, and does not consider one to be required. No other storage or access occurs, so no other question of consent arises.

If you would rather that entry were never written, section 8 explains how to prevent it, and the site works normally without it — the animation simply plays each time.

This site links out to the Commission d'accès à l'information, the Barreau du Québec, the Chambre des notaires du Québec, the Institut de la statistique du Québec, and the founder's LinkedIn profile. Those are ordinary hyperlinks: nothing is requested from those organizations while you are on this site, and none of them learns of your visit unless you click. Once you arrive, that organization's own cookie and privacy practices apply, and this policy stops.

Inspect it

Open your browser's developer tools (F12 on Windows, Option-Command-I on macOS) and look under Application or Storage. Session storage for this domain will show the single entry named in section 3, and the cookie list will be empty.

Erase it

Close the tab. That is the whole of it — session storage does not survive the tab that created it. You can also delete it by hand in the same developer-tools panel, or through your browser's clear-browsing-data function.

Prevent it

• Browse in a private or incognito window: storage is discarded when the window closes.
• Block site data for this domain in your browser's settings for cookies and site data — the same control governs session storage.
• Use an extension that blocks storage. Nothing on this site will break; the opening animation will simply play on each load.

Some browsers send a Do Not Track header or a Global Privacy Control signal expressing an objection to tracking and to the sale or sharing of personal information. This site does not track, sell or share, so there is nothing for such a signal to switch off. The practice states its position anyway: those signals are treated as a valid expression of your choice, and would be honoured as such if it ever deployed anything they could apply to.

A practice that advises on privacy obligations should be held to the ones it publishes. Accordingly:

• No cookie or storage technology that is not strictly necessary will be deployed on this site before a compliant consent mechanism is in place, with refusal as easy as acceptance and no pre-ticked box.
• No third-party analytics, advertising or profiling technology will be deployed without this policy being amended first, and the amendment naming the technology, its purpose, its provider and its retention.
• The version number and effective date at the head of this page will change whenever the substance does, and superseded versions are kept and provided on request.

This policy is drawn up in French and translated into English for convenience. In the event of any discrepancy between the two versions, the French version prevails.

Questions about this policy, and about anything you find in your browser's storage after visiting this site, go to the person in charge of the protection of personal information.