Cookies contain data collected from websites that you visit and are stored in the form of a small text file in your browser. Cookies, like pixels, beacons, and web analytic services, provide us with information about your activity on our mobile apps, website and third-party sites and apps. When we refer to "cookies" in this policy, this includes these similar technologies. Cookies save your preferences for a specific website and make browsing online easier. They can also show you relevant CIBC ads on our mobile apps, website and third-party websites or apps.  These technologies collect information about how you use our website or apps, like your browsing activity and which pages you visit, information about your interests and preferences, location, and technical information about the device, operating system, and web browser you use.

The information these technologies collect helps us to operate, improve and protect our website and apps. Some of these technologies may also help us authenticate you. We, and third parties we permit, may use these tools to track which of our ads you interact with on our website and on the websites or other platforms of companies who help us advertise. We may use this information for analytics and reporting, to learn more about how you interact with us, and promote our products and services. These technologies may also be used to help us make automated, real-time decisions regarding the security of our website and apps to help us prevent fraud and other unauthorized activities.

These cookies are necessary for the operation and protection of our website and mobile app. They are turned on by default and cannot be turned off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you, such as setting your privacy preferences, signing on, filling in forms or selecting your language. You can set your browser or device to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the website or mobile app may not function.

These cookies tell us how you use the website and mobile app and help us to improve their performance. For example, these cookies allow us to count the number of visitors to our website and understand how visitors move around when using it. This helps us to improve how our website and mobile app work, by ensuring that users can quickly find what they are looking for.

These cookies are set by third-party social media platforms that have been integrated into our website and mobile app. For example, a cookie placed on a website by YouTube to track the number of views of an embedded video is a social media cookie. Social media cookies allow us to provide you with content that we feel may be relevant to you. Without these cookies, you may not be able to use or view these sharing tools.

Currently there are no social media and content sharing third party cookies being utilized by CIBC.

AdChoices is a self-regulatory program that provides Canadians with greater transparency and control over the interest-based advertising they receive. It also lets them opt out of interest-based advertising from participating companies online or on their mobile device.

To learn more about this program, visit DAAC AdChoices Opens in a new window.. Here, you can opt out of data collection and use for interest-based advertising by companies participating in the AdChoices program (including CIBC) by using the Opt-Out Tool they provide. If you opt out of interest-based advertising, you may still get CIBC advertising, but it won’t be personalized.

If you have one of our mobile apps, the ability to access certain personal information can be managed through your device settings and the app’s settings. Your device support will have instructions for how to manage these permissions.

We use Google Analytics to better understand your use of our website. Google Analytics collects information on user behaviour on our website, which includes how many times a user visits our website, what pages they visit, and where they were referred from. Advertising identifiers for mobile devices are also collected. Google may use the data collected for its own purposes, including to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

To learn more about how Google uses data when you visit websites using Google Analytics, review Google's Privacy and Terms Opens in a new window.. You can deactivate the Google Analytics function by downloading Google's browser add-on Opens in a new window..

We use Facebook Pixel to better understand your use of our website. Facebook Pixel collects information on user behaviour on our website, which includes how many times a user visits our website, what pages they visit, and where they were referred from. Facebook (including its owner, Meta), uses the data collected through cookies to track and examine the use of the website, to prepare reports on its activities, and share them with other Facebook services. Advertising identifiers for mobile devices (such as Android and iOS Advertising Identifiers) are also collected. Facebook may provide us with information associated with your Facebook account, such as your likes, location and age. Facebook may use the data collected on the websites to contextualize and personalize the ads on its own advertising network.

Learn more about how to limit the data Facebook Pixel shares and uses about you by visiting Facebook's Help Center Opens in a new window.. You can read more about how Facebook Pixel works by visiting Facebook's Data Policy Opens in a new window. (review "Information from partners").

If you delete your browser cookies, you’ll need to opt out again.

Please note that blocking cookies or opting out of ad customization will not eliminate all CIBC advertising in digital channels. Instead, CIBC advertising will not be customized for you using your cookie data and may be less relevant.

CIBC does not manage, and is not responsible for, the digital marketing and cookie practices of third-parties, for example, third-party websites linked to or from CIBC's websites or mobile apps.