# Canadian Cookie Consent: PIPEDA & Quebec Law 25

> Serve province-specific cookie consent across Canada, with Quebec Law 25 opt-in, PIPEDA opt-out where permitted, bilingual banners and audit-ready logs.

Canonical page: https://cookiechimp.com/canada

> This page describes how CookieChimp is configured for Canadian visitors. It is not
> legal advice.

## A different banner for every province and territory

Create a customisable banner for every Canadian region, then apply the appropriate
Law 25, provincial PIPA, PIPEDA or health-law consent model to each one.

### Quebec — Law 25 (opt-in)

Law 25 requires prior notice before technology identifies, locates or profiles a
visitor. Create a Quebec-specific opt-in banner with a bilingual English/French
experience. Key settings: express opt-in, bilingual EN/FR, consent records.

### Alberta & British Columbia — provincial PIPA (mixed)

Their private-sector laws allow notice-and-decline for non-sensitive tracking when
visitors have a clear, reasonable opportunity to opt out. Key settings: clear notice,
easy decline, opt-in when sensitive.

### Other provinces and territories — PIPEDA + provincial health laws (mixed)

Configure an independent banner for every remaining region. Apply PIPEDA's
meaningful-consent baseline, use opt-out for non-sensitive advertising where the OPC's
conditions are met, and switch to opt-in when tracking touches health or other
sensitive data. Key settings: meaningful consent, persistent withdrawal, opt-in for
health data.

## How it works

1. Detect the province.
2. Apply the right consent model.
3. Serve it bilingually.
4. Log and prove consent.

## What CookieChimp provides

- **Provincial geo-targeting** — target all ten provinces and three territories, from
  CA-QC to CA-YT, in one account.
- **Bilingual EN/FR** — serve English or French per visitor, matched by page or browser
  language detection.
- **Opt-in and opt-out modes** — run Law 25 opt-in in Quebec and opt-out where PIPEDA
  permits it elsewhere.
- **Sensitivity-ready** — use opt-in for health, location and other sensitive tracking.
- **Audit-ready records** — export consent choices, consent type, country and detected
  region as CSV.
- **Signals to your stack** — sync Canadian choices to Google Consent Mode, Meta and
  Microsoft.
- **Automatic cookie scans** — discover trackers automatically and keep banner
  disclosures accurate.
- **Persistent withdrawal** — let visitors revisit and change their choices at any time.

## FAQ

**Is a cookie banner legally required in Canada?**
Canada has no single universal "cookie banner required" rule. The requirement comes
from privacy-law consent obligations when cookies, pixels or SDKs collect personal
information. Because online behavioural advertising usually involves personal
information, a banner or equivalent notice-and-choice mechanism is the practical way to
comply.

**How does CookieChimp target individual Canadian provinces?**
Create and fully customise an independent banner for each province or territory.
CookieChimp geolocates each visitor, resolves their Canadian region — for example
CA-QC, CA-ON or CA-BC — and automatically serves the banner targeted there.

**Does Quebec require opt-in for all cookies?**
Necessary cookies genuinely required to deliver the requested service are treated
differently from advertising, retargeting, behavioural analytics and profiling tools.
For technologies that identify, locate or profile a person, Quebec's Law 25 should be
treated as opt-in. With auto-blocking enabled and the CookieChimp tag placed before
other scripts, those tools stay off until the visitor consents.

**Do Alberta and BC have stricter cookie rules than PIPEDA?**
Alberta and British Columbia have their own private-sector privacy laws. For ordinary
non-sensitive tracking, the practical banner can still look like a PIPEDA opt-out
model: clear notice, a reasonable opportunity to decline, sensitivity analysis and real
withdrawal. Where the data use is sensitive, unexpected or high risk, use an opt-in
banner instead.

**What about health-related sites in Ontario, Nova Scotia or New Brunswick?**
Those provinces add health-sector privacy laws. When tracking touches health
information, use an opt-in banner, minimise vendors and remove advertising trackers
from sensitive pages such as patient portals and booking pages. Manitoba (PHIA) and
Saskatchewan (HIPA) have their own health-information rules too.

**What is the safest Canada-wide setting?**
Opt-in everywhere is the safest and simplest from a risk perspective. A more tailored
setting is opt-in for Quebec and sensitive contexts, with opt-out for non-sensitive
online behavioural advertising elsewhere in Canada when the OPC's conditions are
satisfied.

**Are CookieChimp's Canadian banners bilingual?**
Yes — bilingual banners are available on paid plans, with English and French banners
and automatic translations. Browser language auto-detect serves French to
French-speaking visitors, with the account's default language as the fallback.

**Should US or international companies care about Canadian province targeting?**
Yes, if they serve Canadian visitors and use cookies or tracking that collect personal
information. Province targeting avoids applying the wrong Canadian consent model — most
importantly, avoiding an opt-out banner in Quebec where opt-in is expected.

## Related pages

- Full page: https://cookiechimp.com/canada
- USA: https://cookiechimp.com/usa.md
- Consent banners: https://cookiechimp.com/features/consent-banners.md
- Index of all markdown pages: https://cookiechimp.com/llms.txt