Most sites need cookies to work at all, and this page says exactly which ones this site uses — by name, with what each one does and how long it stays. It also says what this site does not do, and how to change your mind about the one optional thing on it.
What a cookie is
A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to keep, and sends back on the next request. It cannot run code, read other files on your device, or identify you by itself. This page also covers the closely related storage a site can use — in this case one entry in your browser’s session storage.
The cookies this site sets
This group is strictly necessary: without it the pages and the sign-in do not work. None of them exists to follow you around, and none of them is shared with an advertising network.
- wordpress_test_cookie — set when you open the sign-in page, and used once to check that your browser accepts cookies at all. It is deleted when you close the browser.
- wordpress_logged_in_… and wp-settings-… — set only if you sign in to the administration area of this site. They keep you signed in and remember how the admin screens are laid out. They last for the session, or up to a year if you choose to stay signed in.
- comment_author_…, comment_author_email_…, comment_author_url_… — set only if you write a comment on a post and tick “remember me”. They fill the comment form back in for you next time. They last for a year, or until you clear them. Without the tick they end with the session.
Your choice about analytics
This site uses Google Analytics 4, measurement ID G-6PGCD5XXSY, to count visits and see which pages are read. The tag sits in the page inert until you answer the bar at the bottom, and the bar offers two answers of one click each:
- Accept — the analytics starts at once, together with the two Google cookies listed below.
- Essential only — no analytics cookie is written and no request goes to Google on any page you visit. The pages, the quote form and the WhatsApp links all work exactly the same.
Either answer is remembered for 180 days, so the bar does not ask again. To change it, use the Cookie settings link in the footer of every page — it brings the bar back with both answers.
- wb_consent — records your answer so the bar does not ask on every page. It holds two true/false values (analytics, marketing) and a timestamp, nothing that identifies you. It lasts 180 days.
- _ga — tells one browser apart from another so a visit can be counted. Written by Google only if you accept. It lasts two years.
- _ga_G-6PGCD5XXSY — keeps the state of a visit for this measurement ID. Also only if you accept, and it lasts two years.
What Google receives, if you accept
The analytics tag tells Google which page you opened, the site you arrived from if your browser passes it, an approximate location derived from your IP address, the browser and device you use, and simple interactions such as reaching the end of a page. We read the result as counts and trends, never as a list of people. Google handles that data as our processor under its own terms; to read how it does so, see Google’s privacy policy. To refuse analytics on every site that uses it, you can also install Google’s Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
What this site does not set
- No advertising or remarketing cookies, and no social media pixels.
- No heat maps, no session recording, and no measurement tool other than the Google Analytics described above.
- No third-party embedded content: no video player, no map, no chat widget, no social feed. Fonts are served from this site itself, not fetched from Google or anywhere else.
- Nothing about your visit reaches Google unless you accept — the choice comes first, not after.
What is stored without being a cookie
When you open the quote form, the page keeps one record in your browser’s session storage: the page you landed on, the site that referred you here, and any campaign parameters (such as utm_source) that were in the link you arrived through. If you submit the request, that record travels with it so we can tell which of our own channels it came from; if you do not submit it, nothing is sent and the record disappears when you close the tab. It never leaves your browser on its own.
The form also carries two hidden fields as anti-spam measures: a short-lived token and a field real people never fill in. Neither identifies you.
Links that leave this site
The WhatsApp buttons are ordinary links. They open WhatsApp — in a browser tab or in the app — where WhatsApp’s own cookies and privacy policy apply. Nothing about WhatsApp is loaded until you click one, and any Google Analytics request is sent by this site, not by that link. The same is true of any other site you reach from a link here.
How to control cookies
Every browser lets you see the cookies stored for a site, block them, or delete them; the setting usually lives under Privacy or Site data in the browser’s preferences. Blocking all cookies still leaves the public pages and the quote form working, but the sign-in area will not keep you signed in and the comment form will not remember you. Deleting this site’s cookies removes the wb_consent record and, if you had accepted, the two Google cookies: the bar asks once more on your next visit, and until you answer it nothing is measured. If you would rather not hunt through browser settings, the Cookie settings link in the footer changes the answer in one click. To clear the quote form’s record before it expires, close the tab — session storage is not kept beyond it.
If this changes
If we add anything else that reads or stores something on your device, this page gains the cookies and their durations before that thing loads, and the bar gains that choice too. Nothing here describes a feature that is switched on quietly.
Questions
If you want to know whether a particular cookie came from this site, ask us on WhatsApp at +86 180 5790 6514 and tell us its name. The rest of what we do with information is in our Privacy Policy.