Your choice matters: Necessary technologies support security and core website functions. Where applicable United States federal or state law requires notice, consent, or an opt-out, optional analytics, preference, or marketing technologies will be managed through the appropriate choice mechanism.
1. What cookies and similar technologies are
Cookies are small text files placed on a device when a website is visited. They can help a website remember choices, maintain security, understand performance, or support embedded services. Cookies may last only for a browsing session or remain for a defined period.
Similar technologies include local storage, pixels, tags, scripts, software development kits, and identifiers used by website, analytics, scheduling, form, video, or advertising services. In this policy, “cookies” includes these comparable technologies where appropriate.
2. How Phillforce uses cookies
Phillforce may use cookies to:
- Load and operate website pages and forms.
- Protect the website from spam, fraud, abuse, and malicious traffic.
- Remember cookie choices and basic preferences.
- Understand which pages, campaigns, and resources are useful.
- Measure audit starts, calculator completions, bookings, downloads, and inquiries.
- Diagnose errors and improve accessibility, speed, navigation, and conversion paths.
- Support embedded scheduling, video, meeting, or social-media features.
- Support marketing measurement when such tools are enabled and lawful consent or another legal basis exists.
3. Categories of cookies
| Category | Purpose | Typical status |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Supports page delivery, security, spam prevention, load balancing, consent storage, and other functions required for the site to operate. | Usually active because the requested website service cannot operate properly without them. |
| Functional | Remembers optional choices or enables enhanced features such as embedded scheduling, video, chat, or form convenience. | Used according to the feature and applicable consent requirements. |
| Analytics | Helps us understand visits, navigation, traffic sources, events, downloads, form activity, and overall website performance. | Where consent is required, activated only after consent. |
| Marketing | May measure campaigns, limit repeated messages, build audiences, or understand whether marketing contributed to a visit or inquiry. | Not intentionally activated without any notice and choice required by applicable law. |
Session and persistent cookies
Session cookies generally expire when the browser closes. Persistent cookies remain until their stated expiry date or until they are removed. Exact durations depend on the tool, configuration, and purpose.
First-party and third-party cookies
First-party cookies are set through the Phillforce domain. Third-party cookies are set or read by an external provider whose service appears on or supports the website.
4. Third-party services
Depending on the features currently enabled, the website may use providers for:
- WordPress hosting, content delivery, page building, forms, backups, and security.
- Website analytics, search performance, and conversion measurement.
- Appointment scheduling and calendar invitations.
- Google Meet, Zoom, video, or other embedded content.
- Email delivery, customer relationship management, and form notifications.
- Spam prevention and traffic protection.
- Advertising and campaign measurement, if enabled.
Third parties may process technical information under their own terms and privacy policies. The exact cookie inventory can change when a plugin, embed, analytics tag, or website feature is added, removed, or updated.
Cookie register: Phillforce should maintain a current cookie list through the website’s consent tool or periodic cookie scan. That register should identify each active cookie or tracker, provider, purpose, category, and duration. If a consent panel is displayed, the information in that panel forms part of this policy.
5. Managing your choices
Where a cookie-preference tool is available, you can use it to accept, reject, or change optional cookie categories. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that took place lawfully before the withdrawal.
You can also control cookies through browser settings. Most browsers allow you to view, block, or delete cookies and limit tracking. Blocking all cookies may prevent forms, bookings, downloads, embedded content, preference storage, or other site functions from working correctly.
Clearing cookies may also remove your saved preference, so the website may ask you to choose again.
6. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
Some browsers offer “Do Not Track” or Global Privacy Control signals. Browser signals are not interpreted uniformly across all websites and services. Where Phillforce is legally required to recognize an applicable opt-out preference signal, we will configure relevant covered technologies to honor that requirement.
Phillforce does not sell personal information for money. If future advertising technology creates a legally regulated sale or sharing activity, this policy and the website’s choice mechanism must be updated before or when that activity begins.
7. Changes to this policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when technology, providers, configurations, or legal requirements change. The effective date at the top shows the latest revision.
8. Contact Phillforce
For questions about cookies or privacy choices, contact:
Phillforce
Mailing address: 8 Wading Bird Loop
Blythewood, SC 29016
United States
philip@phillforce.com
www.phillforce.com