COOKIE POLICY

Effective Date: 2026-08-03

Last Updated: 2026-08-03

BYD Canada Company Limited (“we” or “us” or “our”) may use cookies and other tracking technologies when you visit our website www.byd.com/en-ca  (“Site”) to help customize the Site and improve your experience by remembering visitor preferences.

 

What is a cookie?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners to enable their websites to function effectively, or more efficiently, and to report information to them. Cookies help us understand how the Site is being used and improve your user experience.

Cookies set by website owners (i.e. BYD Canada Company Limited) are called "first-party cookies". Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third-party cookies". Third-party cookies are able to provide features or functionality (such as interactive content and analytics) on or through the website. In our Site, we use third-party cookies provided by third-party vendors on which you can find more information in the section “Types of cookies and similar technologies”.

 

Types of cookies and similar technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies, such as pixels, tags, and local storage, when you visit the Site. These technologies may collect information about your browser or device, your interactions with the Site, and your preferences. Some of this information may constitute Personal Information because it identifies you or could be associated with you.

1. Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are necessary to operate, secure, and provide the Site or a feature that you request. They are used to:

· Enable navigation and the correct display of the Site;

· Maintain sessions and authorize access to protected content;

· Detect and prevent security threats, fraud, excessive traffic, and denial-of-service attacks; and

· Record and apply your cookie choices.

These cookies may process information such as session and security identifiers, consent choices, IP address, and browser or device information. They are active by default and cannot be disabled through our cookie settings. Blocking them through your browser may cause parts of the Site to not work.

2. Functional Cookies

If you enable functional cookies, they support optional or enhanced features, including interactive images and videos, and remember temporary settings such as the content being viewed or whether a message or note has already been displayed.

These cookies may process a session identifier, content-viewing information, and your selected settings. If you do not enable them, some optional media or personalization features may not be available.

3. Analytics Cookies

If you enable analytics cookies, they help us understand how visitors use the Site and improve its performance and usability. The information collected may include a randomly assigned identifier, pages visited, features used, interactions, timestamps, referring pages, IP address, approximate location derived from an IP address, and browser or device information.

We and our analytics service providers use this information to measure traffic, identity usage patterns, diagnose performance issues, and improve the Site. We do not use analytics cookies unless you enable the analytics category.

4. Marketing and Advertising Cookies

Where we use marketing or advertising cookies, they are activated only if you enable that category. They may record identifiers, pages visited, interactions, referring pages, and information about your interests inferred from your browsing activity. We and our advertising or marketing partners may use this information to measure campaigns, create interest or audience categories, and provide advertising that is more relevant to you.

These technologies may allow a browser or device to be recognized over time or across websites and may involve profiling. If you do not enable them, you may still see advertising, but it should not be selected using information collected through these cookies.

Cookie providers, duration, and international transfer

Cookies may be placed by us or by service providers that support our consent-management, website security, content-delivery, interactive-media, analytics, and where applicable, advertising functions. These service providers may receive or process the information described above only for the applicable purposes, subject to their own responsibilities and our contractual arrangements with them.

Cookies may last only for your browsing session or remain on your device until their stated expiry, until they are replaced, or until you delete them. We limit their duration to what is reasonably necessary for the applicable purpose.

Personal Information collected through cookies may be accessed from, transferred to, or stored in Canada or other countries. Where Personal Information is processed outside Canada, it may be subject to the laws of the jurisdiction where it is processed. Where service providers process Personal Information on our behalf, BYD uses contractual, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect the information’s confidentiality, integrity, and security. However, safeguards applicable in other countries may differ from those available in Canada.

Additional information about our service-provider arrangements, international transfer, safeguards, retention practices, and Privacy Officer is available in our Privacy Policy or upon request.

 

How can you control, delete or withdraw your consent to the use of cookies?

You can always withdraw your consent. You can make a choice and indicate specifically which cookies to allow when you first access the site by using the cookie banner. You can change your cookie setting choices at any time by using the cookie button in the footer of the Site.

You can also authorize, block or delete (in whole or in part) cookies through the specific functions of your browser. In order to deactivate these cookies or to obtain more information on how to set preferences on the use of cookies through your browser, you can consult the instructions of the respective browser by clicking on the link below:

Internet Explorer

Firefox

Chrome

Safari

Please note that if you set your browser to block Strictly Necessary Cookies, you may not be able to use the Site, view its contents and take advantage of its services. Inhibiting Functional Cookies may result in some services or certain functions of the Site not being available or not working properly, and you may have to change or manually enter certain information or preferences each time you visit. Disabling other cookies, including third party cookies, on the other hand, will not affect the operation of the Site.

You are also reminded that the choices you make in relation to the Site's cookies will in turn be recorded in a special technical cookie, with the characteristics set out above.
If you use different devices or browsers to access the Site, you will need to set cookie preferences for each of the devices or browsers you use.

 

Privacy Policy

For more information, please refer to our Privacy Policy posted on the Site.

 

Contact us

If you have questions or comments about this Cookie Policy or Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

BYD Canada Company Limited

60 Travail Road, Markham, ON L3S 3J1, Canada

privacy.ca@byd.com

 

We are continuously working on adding to and improving this Cookie Policy. We therefore recommend that you check this statement regularly to keep updated of any changes.