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Amity Website Design: What Cookies We Use & How to Control Them
Small text files placed on your device by a website. They help sites remember information about your visit.
Google Analytics cookies, Cloudflare security cookies, and a contact-form draft kept in your own browser. No advertising cookies.
Block or delete cookies in your browser, or opt out of Google Analytics with Google’s add-on. The Site keeps working either way.
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store on your device (computer, phone, or tablet). The website can read it on your next visit to recognize your browser or remember information about the visit. Cookies are not programs and cannot carry viruses or read other files on your device.
First-party cookies are set under our own domain, amitywebsitedesign.com. Third-party cookies are set by another company's domain, for example YouTube when you play a video.
Browsers can also keep small amounts of data in “local storage”. Unlike a cookie, it is not sent to our server with each request. We use it only for the contact-form draft described in Section 2.
This is the complete list. We do not use any cookie or tracking tool that is not listed here.
| Name | Set By | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga, _ga_<id> | Google Analytics (first-party) | Counts visits and shows which pages are used. See Section 3. | Up to 2 years |
| Cloudflare security cookies | Cloudflare (first-party) | Cloudflare protects the Site and may set short-lived cookies when it checks that a visitor is not an automated bot. Our forms also run a Cloudflare Turnstile check. | Short-lived |
amity:contact-draft (local storage) | Amity Website Design | Keeps an unsent contact-form message on your device so a refresh does not erase it. Never sent to us until you press send. Cleared when you send the form or choose “Start fresh”. | 7 days |
| YouTube cookies | YouTube / Google (third-party) | Our videos load from youtube-nocookie.com only after you press play. From then on, YouTube may set cookies under Google's privacy policy. | Set by YouTube |
If you choose to book a call, you are taken to Calendly's own site, which uses its own cookies. That happens on calendly.com, not on our Site.
Google Analytics 4 (GA4) shows us which pages are visited, how long people stay, where they come from, and which devices they use. We use it only to improve the Site. Google uses your IP address to estimate approximate location; we never see or receive it.
| Cookie | Type | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
_ga | First-party | A random ID that tells one browser from another, used to count visits and sessions. It does not contain your name or contact details. | Up to 2 years |
_ga_<id> | First-party | Keeps session state (session number and engagement) for our GA4 property. | Up to 2 years |
GA4 data is stored on Google's servers, which may be in the United States or other countries, under Google's Privacy Policy. More detail: How Google uses information from sites that use its services.
We do not use advertising cookies, retargeting pixels (such as the Meta Pixel), fingerprinting, or any tool that tracks you across other websites.
We do not currently show a cookie consent banner. The only non-essential cookies on the Site are the Google Analytics cookies in Section 3, and you can block them at any time with the options in Section 5 without losing any part of the Site.
If we ever add advertising or other non-essential tracking, we will update this Policy before it goes live and ask for consent wherever the law requires it.
All major browsers let you view, block, and delete cookies and site data. Blocking Cloudflare's security cookies may stop our contact forms from working; blocking the others does not affect the Site.
Install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, or block _ga cookies in your browser.
Our Site does not change its behavior based on “Do Not Track” or Global Privacy Control signals. We do not sell personal data or use it for cross-site advertising, so there is no sale or sharing for these signals to stop.
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the cookies we use, legal requirements, or updates to third-party services (such as Google Analytics). All updates are reflected in the Effective Date at the top of this page. We encourage you to review this Policy periodically.
If we introduce new cookies or tracking technologies not listed in this Policy, we will update this page before deploying them and, where required by law, ask visitors for consent first.
This Cookie Policy is governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Any disputes are resolved in the courts of Dukes County, Massachusetts, consistent with our Terms and Conditions.
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Policy, please contact us: