Cookie policy

This Cookie Policy explains how topsearchtool.com (the "Site") uses cookies and similar technologies, what information they collect and how you can control them. It supplements, and should be read together with, our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

Last updated: 5 August 2026

Who we are

The Site is operated by Psquared Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4C 2B5. If you have any questions about this policy, you can reach us at info@psquared.io.

What cookies are

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They allow the site to recognise your device, remember your actions and preferences, and understand how the site is being used. Alongside cookies, we and our partners may use similar technologies that serve comparable purposes — including web beacons, tracking pixels, software development kits, device identifiers and browser local storage. Everything set out in this policy applies to those technologies as well.

Cookies may be session cookies, which are deleted when you close your browser, or persistent cookies, which remain on your device until they expire or you delete them. They may be set by us (first-party cookies) or by another organisation whose service appears on our pages (third-party cookies).

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are required for the Site to work. They support core functions such as page navigation, security, load balancing, fraud prevention and — where the Site offers accounts — keeping you signed in during a session. They also record the cookie choices you make. Because the Site cannot function properly without them, they cannot be switched off through our preference controls, although you can block them in your browser at the cost of some features no longer working.

Functional and preference cookies

These cookies allow the Site to remember choices you make — such as language, region or display settings — so that your experience is consistent between visits. They are not essential, and you may decline them.

Analytics and performance cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors find and use the Site: which pages are viewed, how long people stay, which links are clicked and where errors occur. We use this information in aggregate to measure audience and improve content and performance. Information collected through these cookies does not identify you by name to us.

Advertising and targeting cookies

The Site may carry advertising. These cookies are set by us or by our advertising partners to build a profile of your interests, to show you advertisements that are more relevant to you both on this Site and elsewhere online, to limit how often you see the same advertisement, and to measure whether a campaign worked. They may record your browsing across different websites over time.

Social media features

Some pages may include features from social media platforms — for example sign-in through Facebook, share buttons or embedded content. Where you choose to use these features, or where such content is embedded, the relevant platform may set its own cookies and receive information about your visit, whether or not you interact with the feature. As set out in our Terms of Use, if you access the Services through Facebook you allow us to receive certain information from your Facebook profile, which you can control through your Facebook privacy settings. These platforms act as independent organisations, and we recommend reviewing their own privacy and cookie policies.

Third-party cookies used on this Site

Some cookies are set by companies other than us. We do not control these cookies or the information they collect, and their use is governed by each provider's own policies.

[TO BE COMPLETED: list the third-party providers actually in use, with name, purpose, cookie duration and a link to their privacy policy — e.g. Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager, Meta Pixel.]

Your choices and how to withdraw consent

Where the Site displays a cookie banner or preference centre, you can accept or decline non-essential categories when you first visit and change your choices at any time through the "Cookie preferences" link in the footer.

You can also control cookies directly in your browser, which lets you block or delete cookies, block third-party cookies specifically, or ask to be notified before a cookie is set. Instructions are available in the help section of each browser. Please note that blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent parts of the Site from working, and that deleting cookies removes your saved preferences along with them.

To opt out of interest-based advertising from participating companies, you can use the industry tools at:

https://youradchoices.ca/en/tools (Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada)
https://optout.aboutads.info/
https://www.youronlinechoices.com/ (Europe)

Most mobile operating systems also offer a device-level setting to limit ad tracking or reset your advertising identifier.

Do Not Track

Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" signal. There is no common industry standard for how such signals should be interpreted, and the Site does not currently respond to them. You can still control tracking through the options described above.

How long cookies last

Session cookies expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies remain for the period set by whoever placed them, which varies by purpose — typically from a few days for functional cookies up to two years for analytics and advertising cookies. Exact durations for each cookie are shown in our cookie preference centre.

Your privacy rights

Where information collected through cookies constitutes personal information, it is handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy and with applicable Canadian privacy legislation, including the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and any applicable provincial privacy laws. Subject to certain exceptions, you may request access to the personal information we hold about you and ask that it be corrected, and you may withdraw your consent to non-essential processing at any time. To make a request, write to info@psquared.io.

If you are not satisfied with how we have handled a privacy concern, you may contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, or the privacy regulator in your province or country of residence.

If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic, and we share information about your use of the Site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners. Where required, non-essential cookies are placed only after you have given your consent, which you may withdraw at any time through the cookie preference controls, and you have the right to access, correct, erase or restrict the processing of your personal data, to object to it and to lodge a complaint with your national data protection authority. For information on how Google uses data when you use the sites of its partners, see https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

California residents

Companies that collect personal information from California residents and disclose it to third parties for marketing purposes must either provide, on request, a list of the categories of information shared and the entities it was shared with, or offer a way to opt out. We have chosen the second option: you may ask that your personal information not be shared with third parties in this way by contacting us at info@psquared.io.

Changes to this policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time, including when we introduce new technologies or when the applicable rules change. The version published on this page, showing the date it was last updated, is the one that applies.