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Cookie Policy

At White Shovel Landscapes, we use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your browsing experience and improve our services. This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, and how you can manage your preferences.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that a website, or a service it uses, stores in your browser. Two similar technologies work the same way for the purposes of this policy: browser storage, which keeps information in your browser for a website to read back, and tags and pixels, which are small pieces of code or images that send information about your visit to the company that operates them. In this policy, “cookies” covers all of these.

2. Types of Cookies We Use

We use the following types of cookies on our website:

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Our own storage:

• Our website’s own code does not set any cookies, and there are no accounts to sign in to.

• If you arrive by clicking one of our ads, our estimate form keeps the ad campaign details from the web address (UTM parameters and the Google click ID) in your browser’s session storage, under the name “whiteshovel.leadForm.utm”, and sends them with your estimate request if you submit one. Session storage is cleared when you close the browser tab.

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Analytics cookies:

• Purpose: These cookies help us understand how visitors find and use our website.

• Set by: Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity and Ahrefs Web Analytics (see section 3).

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Advertising cookies:

• Purpose: These cookies measure which of our ads lead to visits, phone calls and estimate requests, and let us show our ads to people who have visited our website.

• Set by: Google Ads and Meta (Facebook) pixels (see section 3).

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Embedded maps:

• Many of our service and service area pages show an embedded Google map. Google may set cookies when the map loads.

3. Third-Party Cookies

Our website loads the following tools. Some are loaded directly by our pages and some through Google Tag Manager, a Google service that loads other tools. Each tool is operated by the company named, receives information about your visit directly from your browser, and may set its own cookies:

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• Google Analytics, to measure how visitors use our website, including the pages they view, how they arrived, and clicks on our phone number links.

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• Google Ads, to measure which ads lead to visits, to calls from the phone links on our pages, and to estimate requests, and to show our ads to people who have visited our website. This includes Google’s conversion linker, which keeps ad click details in cookies under our website’s address, and a call conversion tag that measures phone calls from people who came from our ads.

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• Meta (Facebook) pixels, three in total, which record the pages you view so that ads on Meta’s platforms can be measured and targeted.

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• Microsoft Clarity, which records how you use our pages, including clicks, scrolling and mouse movement, as session recordings and heatmaps.

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• Ahrefs Web Analytics, to measure visits to our website.

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• Google Maps, for the embedded maps described in section 2.

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For how these companies use the information they collect, see their privacy policies: Google (https://policies.google.com/privacy, and how Google uses information from websites that use its services: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites), Meta (https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/), Microsoft (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/privacystatement) and Ahrefs (https://ahrefs.com/legal/privacy-policy).

4. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies to:

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• Understand how visitors find and use our website, so that we can improve it.

• Measure which of our ads lead to visits, phone calls and estimate requests.

• Show our ads to people who have visited our website, on Google and on Meta’s platforms.

• Send the ad campaign details with your estimate request, if you arrived from one of our ads.

5. Managing Cookies

You can block or delete cookies, and clear stored website data, in your browser settings. Our website and its estimate form keep working if you do.

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Instructions for common browsers:

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• Google Chrome: Manage cookies in Chrome

• Mozilla Firefox: Manage cookies in Firefox

• Microsoft Edge: Manage cookies in Edge

• Safari: Manage cookies in Safari

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You can also opt out of Google Analytics in any browser with Google’s opt-out add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

6. Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in how we use cookies or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Updates will be posted on this page with an updated "Effective Date."

7. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, contact us at:

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 256-612-4439

Address: White Shovel Landscapes, Madison, Alabama

Serving Morgan, Madison, and Limestone Counties