Cookie Policy
Effective Date: July 21, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Western Site Services (“Western Site Services,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit https://westernsiteservices.com/.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which provides additional information about how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect personal information.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites place on a visitor’s computer, mobile device, or other internet-connected device. Cookies allow websites to recognize a browser or device and may store information about website activity, preferences, or previous visits.
Cookies may be placed directly by our website or by third-party service providers whose technologies are used on our website.
Similar Technologies
In addition to cookies, we and our service providers may use similar technologies, including pixels, tags, scripts, local storage, software development tools, device identifiers, and other technologies that collect or store information about website activity.
References to “cookies” in this Cookie Policy include these similar technologies unless otherwise stated.
Types of Cookies We Use
The cookies and similar technologies used on our website may fall into the following categories.
Essential Cookies
Essential cookies are required for the website to operate properly and securely. These cookies may support functions such as:
- Website security
- Fraud prevention
- Network management
- Session management
- Form functionality
- Saving cookie and privacy preferences
- Maintaining website stability and performance
Essential cookies may be placed without prior consent when they are necessary to provide the website or a service requested by the visitor.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics and performance cookies help us understand how visitors find and use our website. They may collect information about:
- Pages viewed
- Time spent on the website or on particular pages
- Links, buttons, or other website elements selected
- Navigation paths
- Referring websites or marketing sources
- Browser and device type
- Operating system
- Approximate geographic location
- Website errors and performance
- Other interactions with the website
We use this information to understand website traffic, evaluate website performance, improve website content, and make our services easier to find and use.
Advertising and Targeting Cookies
Advertising and targeting cookies may be used to measure advertising results, understand whether a visitor completed an action after viewing or selecting an advertisement, create advertising audiences, and display advertisements that may be more relevant to a visitor’s interests.
These technologies may collect information about website visits, advertising interactions, referral sources, device identifiers, browser activity, and actions completed on the website.
Under certain privacy laws, the disclosure of information through advertising cookies, pixels, or similar technologies may be considered a “sale,” “sharing,” or use of personal information for targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising, even when no money is exchanged.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies may remember choices or preferences and provide enhanced website functionality. These cookies may support features such as:
- Remembering visitor preferences
- Maintaining information entered during a website session
- Displaying embedded website features
- Supporting forms, maps, videos, or other interactive content
Cookie Consent
Our website displays a cookie banner that allows visitors to:
- Accept all cookies
- Decline non-essential cookies
- Manage available cookie preferences
Where consent is required, non-essential cookies are intended to be placed only after a visitor accepts them through the cookie banner or cookie management tools.
Essential cookies may continue to operate because they are necessary for the website’s security, functionality, and operation.
A visitor may withdraw or change consent using the cookie management options made available on the website. A visitor may also clear stored cookies through the settings of the browser or device being used.
Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.
Squarespace
Our website is hosted and operated using Squarespace. Squarespace may place essential, functional, analytics, or performance cookies to provide and secure the website and related services.
Squarespace may process information such as:
- IP address
- Browser and device information
- Website activity
- Session information
- Security information
- Cookie preferences
Information processed by Squarespace is governed by Squarespace’s applicable privacy terms and policies.
Learn more through the Squarespace Privacy Policy.
Google Analytics 4
We use Google Analytics 4, commonly called GA4, to understand how visitors find and interact with our website.
Google Analytics may collect or receive information such as:
- IP address
- Device and browser information
- Approximate geographic location
- Pages viewed
- Website navigation
- Website interactions and events
- Time and duration of visits
- Referring websites
- Advertising or campaign source information
We use Google Analytics reporting to evaluate website traffic and improve our website and marketing.
We do not intentionally send Google Analytics a visitor’s name, email address, phone number, or information entered into free-form website fields.
Learn more through the Google Privacy Policy.
Visitors may also use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Google Tag Manager
We use Google Tag Manager to manage website tags, scripts, and measurement technologies.
Google Tag Manager generally functions as a tag-management system rather than an independent analytics service. However, it may load or manage other technologies that collect information, including Google Analytics, Google Ads, and other third-party services.
Tags managed through Google Tag Manager are intended to operate in accordance with the cookie choices available through our website.
Google Ads
We use Google Ads to advertise our services, measure advertising performance, and understand whether visitors take certain actions after viewing or selecting an advertisement.
Google Ads cookies and similar technologies may be used for:
- Advertising conversion measurement
- Campaign attribution
- Advertising audience creation
- Remarketing
- Advertising personalization
- Fraud prevention
- Frequency control
Depending on our configuration and a visitor’s consent choices, Google may associate website activity with information from other websites, applications, devices, or Google services.
Visitors may manage certain Google advertising preferences through Google My Ad Center.
Meta Pixel
We may use Meta Pixel or related Meta advertising technologies in connection with advertising on Facebook and Instagram.
Meta Pixel may help us:
- Measure advertising conversions
- Evaluate advertising performance
- Understand actions taken after an advertisement is viewed or selected
- Create advertising audiences
- Deliver advertisements to potentially interested audiences
- Limit repetitive advertisements
If Meta Pixel is active, Meta may collect information about a visitor’s device, browser, website activity, advertising interactions, and other identifiers in accordance with the visitor’s cookie choices and Meta’s applicable terms.
Learn more through the Meta Privacy Policy.
Cookies That May Be Used
The cookies placed on a visitor’s device may vary based on the services active on the website, the visitor’s browser or device, the visitor’s location, and the visitor’s cookie choices.
Examples of cookies or identifiers that may be associated with our current website technologies include:
| Provider | Examples | General Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Squarespace | Essential, security, session, preference, analytics, and performance cookies | Operate, secure, and maintain the website and remember visitor choices |
| Google Analytics | _ga, _ga_<container-id> | Distinguish website visitors and measure website activity |
| Google Ads | _gcl_au, advertising and conversion identifiers | Measure advertising activity, conversions, and campaign performance |
| Meta | _fbp, _fbc, and related identifiers | Measure Meta advertising, attribute conversions, and support advertising audiences |
This list is illustrative and may not include every cookie or identifier used at all times. Cookie names, purposes, and durations may be changed by the providers that operate these technologies.
Cookie Duration
Cookies may be either session cookies or persistent cookies.
Session cookies generally expire when a visitor closes the browser. Persistent cookies remain on the visitor’s device for a defined period or until they are deleted.
The duration of a cookie depends on its purpose, the provider that places it, the website configuration, and the visitor’s browser settings. Some cookies may be refreshed when a visitor returns to the website.
Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
Most browsers allow visitors to view, block, restrict, or delete cookies through browser settings.
Blocking all cookies may prevent some website features from operating properly. Browser settings may also need to be adjusted separately on each browser or device used to access the website.
Instructions for managing cookies are generally available through the browser provider’s help or settings menu.
California Privacy Choices
California residents may have the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended, when that law applies.
Although we do not sell personal information in exchange for money, certain disclosures involving advertising cookies, pixels, tags, and similar technologies may be considered “selling” or “sharing” under California law.
California visitors may exercise available cookie-related choices by:
- Selecting “Decline All” on the website’s cookie banner
- Using the website’s available cookie management options
- Configuring a supported browser-based opt-out preference signal
- Contacting us using the information provided below
Where required by applicable law and supported by our website technology, we will treat a recognized opt-out preference signal, such as Global Privacy Control, as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information associated with that browser or device.
A browser-based signal generally applies only to the browser or device from which it is sent. A visitor may need to enable the signal separately on other browsers or devices.
Visitors will not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising applicable privacy rights.
Do Not Track
Some browsers provide a “Do Not Track” setting. There is not currently a universally accepted technical or legal standard for responding to all Do Not Track signals.
A general Do Not Track signal is different from a legally recognized opt-out preference signal, such as Global Privacy Control.
Third-Party Services
Third-party providers may process information collected through their technologies according to their own privacy policies, terms, and business practices.
We encourage visitors to review the privacy information provided by Squarespace, Google, Meta, and any other third-party services they use.
Future Tracking Technologies
We may add, remove, or change website technologies as our services and marketing practices evolve.
For example, we may later use call tracking, online scheduling, customer relationship management, chat, video, mapping, or other analytics and advertising services.
If we make a material change to the technologies we use or the ways information is collected, used, sold, or shared, we will update this Cookie Policy and our related privacy disclosures as appropriate.
Call tracking is not currently described as an active technology under this Cookie Policy. If call tracking is implemented, we will review the provider’s data collection, consent requirements, recording features, and privacy practices before activating it.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in our website, technologies, service providers, legal obligations, or privacy practices.
Changes become effective when the revised Cookie Policy is posted on this page. The Effective Date at the top of the policy indicates when it was most recently updated.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, our use of cookies, or your available privacy choices, please contact us.
Western Site Services
1860 S. 7th Street
San Jose, CA 95112
Phone: (408) 298-4545
Email: westernsiteservices@gmail.com
Website: https://www.westernsiteservices.com/