Cookies Policy | Slade’s Locksmith

1. Introduction

This Cookies Policy explains how Slade’s Locksmith (“we”, “us”) uses cookies and similar technologies on sladeslocksmith.com. The short version: we don’t use cookies to show you ads. We use Google Analytics cookies to count visits and see how the site is used.

2. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that a website stores in your browser. Websites use them to remember things, such as keeping you signed in or recognizing returning visitors. Similar technologies include your browser’s local storage and offline cache.

3. What We Use

a. Strictly necessary security: Our hosting provider, Cloudflare, may use strictly necessary cookies or similar signals to protect the website and our contact form from bots and abuse, for example during the Turnstile check. The site can’t work safely without these, so they don’t need your consent.

b. Offline storage: Our website can be installed like an app. It saves copies of pages, images and styles in your browser so it loads faster and still shows something when you’re offline. This storage stays on your device and is not used to identify you.

c. Analytics: We use Google Analytics to count visits, see how people find the site, which pages are useful and how many visitors tap to call. Cloudflare runs it for us from our own website, so your browser doesn’t load Google’s code. It sets two cookies on our website, zaraz_google-analytics_v4 and zarazs_google-analytics_v4, to recognize a returning browser and its current visit. They don’t tell us who you are, and Google’s advertising features are switched off. See how Google uses information from sites that use its services. We also use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which does not use cookies.

We do not use advertising, social media tracking or third-party marketing cookies.

4. Other Websites

Links to Facebook, Instagram, Threads, LinkedIn and Google take you to their websites, which have their own cookie policies.

5. Your Choices

You can delete cookies and saved site data at any time in your browser’s settings, and most browsers let you block cookies entirely. Blocking analytics cookies doesn’t change how the site works. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may stop the contact form from working; if that happens, please call us instead.

6. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Cookies Policy from time to time. When we do, we’ll post the new version on this page and change the “Last Updated” date above.

7. Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this policy, please contact us.