Cookie Consent Notice

Effective Date: March 1, 2026
Version: U.S._2.0

This Cookie Consent Notice (the “Cookie Notice”) provides you with the information relating to how we collect, use and disclose your information when you visit our website and any of its related webpage (hereinafter referred as “this website” or “our website”).

"Applicable Law" refers to laws relating to the protection of personal data.
“Cookie Consent tool” means the Didomi cookies management platform. 
“Cookies” means the cookies referred to in Sections 2 and 3 below.
"Third party" means someone who is not you or us.
“User” means visitors or users of the website.
“Veolia,” "Our,” “Us,” or “We" means Veolia North America and the company referred to in Section 1, as the case may be, acting as publisher (the “Publisher”).

This Cookie Notice can be updated at any time in the event of changes in the applicable regulations.

Our United States Privacy Policy (“Privacy Notice”) can be reviewed by visiting or clicking on the following link: https://www.veolianorthamerica.com/privacy-notice. Our Canadian Privacy Notice can be viewed by visiting or clicking on the following link: https://www.veolia.ca/en/privacy-policy. Each Privacy Notice will provide you with more details on the information We collect, use, disclose, your privacy rights under Applicable Laws, and other information relating to your Personal Data.

The legal terms and conditions (“Terms of use” also called “Legal notice”) of our website can be here https://www.veolia.ca/en/legal-notice.

1. Who are we and how do we manage our website? 

We administrate our website directly. The type of cookies we use and their respective purposes are detailed below.

2. What are cookies? 

A cookie is a small data file containing unique identifiers that are stored, among other places, on your device when you visit a website and can later remember you when you revisit that website. Cookies are widely used to make websites work or to work more efficiently, as well as to monitor a website’s performance using analytical information. Certain cookies can store your information until you terminate the browser session (i.e., session cookies), whereas other cookies can permanently store your preferences for successive visits until you delete it or are deleted periodically by your browser (i.e., persistent cookies).

• Cookies set by Us are called first-party cookies. We use first-party cookies to provide basic functionality to our Site(s), such as logging into the system, maintaining session information, and enhancing access to the features of our Site(s).
• Cookies set by parties other than the Us are called third-party cookies. We use third-party cookies to enable features or functionality provided by third parties in connection with our Site for advertising, marketing, interactive content, promotion of our brand, and analytics. We allow third parties to place certain cookies on our Site, such as pixels, web beacons or clear gifs that can recognize your device when it visits our Site and/or when it visits certain other websites. Based on your interactions with our Site or on other websites you may have visited before viewing our Site, third-party cookies may build a profile of topics that interest you and display information about us based on those interests on those other sites. To a limited extent, we may use certain cookies to inform us if you opened an email.
• One third-party service we use is Google Analytics, which is a service provided by Google. Google utilizes the data collected to track and examine the use of our Site and may disclose this data to other Google services. You can learn more about Google Analytics and Google’s privacy practices by visiting Google’s Privacy & Terms (https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies?hl=en-US). 

3. What cookies do we use? 

The use of cookies allows us to recognize devices that interact with our Site, analyze site traffic (through plug-ins, widgets, and embedded content), and optimize your user experience. Other cookies, including third-party cookies, enable more relevant advertising and better analytics. We collect this information mainly to generate aggregate data, statistical information, and to facilitate the operation of our Site, system administration, and computer forensic investigation. Additionally, we collect this information to improve our content and content delivery on the Site, as well as your experience with our Services. 

3.1 - Strictly necessary cookies - always ON 

Strictly necessary cookies are solely intended to allow or facilitate access to the website. These cookies are necessary for the website to function 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. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies are not subject to the prior authorisation of the User since they do not store any personally identifiable information. 

3.2 - Marketing cookies - always OFF, unless you provide us with your consent. 

Marketing cookies make it possible to : 

• measure the performance of the website
• detect browsing problems
• organise content
• collect and communicate information in an anonymous way, to understand how Users who have consented to it interact with their website (sections and contents visited, path on the site) in order to establish statistics on visits and to detect potential errors. 

These cookies also make it possible to identify which information on the website may be of most interest to the User, in order to adapt the website to the User, and the relevance of the messages that may be sent to the User. 

The data generated by these cookies concern: 

• your visits to the website;
• your IP address in order to determine the city where the connection originates.

3.3 - Preferences cookies - always OFF, unless you provide us with your consent 

Preference cookies allow our website to give you access to personalised content or targeting advertising depending on your consent. The Publisher can also use certain services offered by third party websites to enable Users to share the content of the website on their social networks or else to following accounts on social networks. These are in particular the share button, lists of posts and videos published on the Website. 

If you consent, these third parties are able to collect your browsing data and use the data collected via their cookies for purposes they have determined in accordance with their own privacy policy. The User is advised to read and review the Cookie policy of those third-party services used by visiting the relevant websites directly. 

4. Cookies inventory 

You can view our cookies inventory list below: