Cookies and Similar Technologies
1. How analytics choices work
These rules apply to tools.tnaado.ca, answers.tnaado.ca, travel.tnaado.ca, dispatch.tnaado.ca, mrbuff.ca, cinematicaddict.com and tnaado.ca. service.tnaado.ca is different: it sets Google Analytics and Google Ads cookies and has its own page, Cookies and measurement. The region rules below do not yet apply to it.
- Opt-in regions. In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Quebec, 13 overseas territories of EU member states and the UK, and wherever the site cannot tell your region, Google Analytics is off until you press Accept.
- Everywhere else Google Analytics is on from the first page view, with a notice that links to the Privacy page. You can turn it off there.
- Browser signals. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, analytics stays off in every region.
- Where to change it. For tools, answers, travel, dispatch and tnaado.ca the control is at the top of the shared Privacy page (#analytics-choices) and behind the "Privacy settings" or "Cookie settings" link in each site's footer. Mr Buff and CinematicAddict have their own. Opting out stops collection and removes the Google Analytics cookies on that site.
- Region lookup. The site asks its own /api/region address, which returns the country (and, in Canada, the province) that Vercel or Cloudflare derives from your IP address. The result is not stored on our servers. If the lookup fails, analytics stays off.
- One opt-out for every tnaado.ca site. An opt-out is saved in the cookie tn-consent-v1, set for .tnaado.ca, so it follows you between tools, answers, travel, dispatch and tnaado.ca; an opt-in is remembered only by the site where you accepted it. A choice saved earlier in a site's local storage is copied into the cookie the first time that site reads it. Status at 8 November 2026: dispatch.tnaado.ca and tnaado.ca already use the cookie (merged); tools, answers and travel are moving to it and keep their local-storage record until their update is live.
- Analytics only. These choices control analytics. They do not control Google's advertising cookies. See Advertising.
2. What is stored
| Name | Set by | Type | Purpose | Lifetime | Sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics | Cookie | Tells visits from one browser apart | Up to 2 years; 90 days on CinematicAddict | The seven sites above, when analytics is on |
| _ga_Y561C98Y8Q | Google Analytics | Cookie | Session state for the TNAADO GA4 property | Up to 2 years | tools, answers, travel, dispatch, tnaado.ca |
| _ga_6CT1YR5CP2 | Google Analytics | Cookie | Session state for the Mr Buff property | Up to 2 years | mrbuff.ca |
| _ga_9VYGDYKT4T | Google Analytics | Cookie | Session state for the CinematicAddict property | 90 days | cinematicaddict.com |
| tn-consent-v1 | TNAADO | Cookie on .tnaado.ca (local storage copy kept as a fallback) | Remembers your analytics choice | 1 year | tools, answers, travel, dispatch, tnaado.ca, legal.tnaado.ca (as each moves to the shared cookie; local storage only until then) |
| tn-notice-v1 | TNAADO | Local storage | Remembers you closed the notice | 1 year | answers, travel |
| tn-region-v1 | TNAADO | Session storage | Holds the region result for the tab | Until the tab closes | answers, travel, until they move to the shared cookie |
| tn-loc-v2 | TNAADO | Session storage | Holds the region result for the tab | Until the tab closes | dispatch, tnaado.ca |
| tn-loc-v1 | TNAADO | Session storage | Holds the country result for the tab | Until the tab closes | tools, until it moves to the shared cookie |
| mrbuff-consent, mrbuff-notice | TNAADO | Local storage | Your choice; notice closed | Up to 12 months | mrbuff.ca |
| mrbuff-region | TNAADO | Session storage | Holds the region result for the tab | Until the tab closes | mrbuff.ca |
| cinematicaddict-consent-v1 | TNAADO | Local storage | Your analytics choice | 6 months | cinematicaddict.com |
| cinematicaddict-notice-v1 | TNAADO | Local storage | Remembers you closed the notice | Not stated by the site | cinematicaddict.com |
| cinematicaddict-region-v1 | TNAADO | Session storage | Holds the region result for the tab | Until the tab closes | cinematicaddict.com |
| IDE | Google (doubleclick.net) | Third-party cookie | Ad delivery and measurement | About 13 months | Sites showing ads |
| __gads, __gpi | Google AdSense | Cookie | Ad delivery, limiting repeats, fraud detection | About 13 months | Sites showing ads |
| __eoi | Google AdSense | Cookie | Ad delivery and measurement | About 6 months | Sites showing ads |
| cf_clearance and similar | Cloudflare | Cookie | Security and bot checks, when triggered | Per Cloudflare | Sites behind Cloudflare |
Lifetimes for Google cookies are Google's and can change. Google may set other identifiers depending on your region, device and settings. The table was assembled from the sites' own cookie and privacy pages on 9 November 2026; the last full browser test of ad cookies was 26 October 2026.
3. Other measurement
Cloudflare Web Analytics counts visits without cookies or identifiers stored on your device. Where a site uses it, it follows the same region rules above. Vercel and Cloudflare keep standard request logs (IP address, page, time, browser). tnaado.ca runs a first-party page-view counter at site.tnaado.ca when you opt in.
4. Fonts and embeds
Some sites load fonts from Google Fonts (tools, answers, travel and tnaado.ca). Your browser then requests them from Google, which receives your IP address; we saw no cookie set. Tools such as My IP and IP Lookup on tools.tnaado.ca send your request to ipify and ipwho.is.
5. How to opt out
- Use the choice on the site's Privacy page or the footer link.
- Install the Google Analytics opt-out add-on.
- Turn off personalised ads in Google Ads Settings, or use optout.aboutads.info, youradchoices.ca or the NAI.
- Block or delete cookies in your browser. The sites work without them.
6. Who sees what
See Service providers. Your rights and our contact are in Privacy rights.
7. Sources and basis
- Replaces the per-site cookie pages (/answers/cookies-and-ads/, /travel/…, /tools/…, /mrbuff/…, /tnaado-ca/…). Those described an older consent model (analytics only after Accept, GPC not read) that no longer matches the sites.
- Google, Cookies used by Google Analytics (developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/ga4/cookies-user-id) and How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
- The shared cookie contract of 8 November 2026 (cookie tn-consent-v1, Domain=.tnaado.ca). Each site's own cookie or privacy page and live consent script, read 8 November 2026: answers and travel (tn-consent-v1, tn-notice-v1, tn-region-v1), dispatch and tnaado.ca (tn-consent-v1, tn-loc-v2), tools (tn-consent-v1, tn-loc-v1), mrbuff.ca/cookies/ and its script, cinematicaddict.com/cookies/ and its script.