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Cookie Policy
Last updated October 28, 2026
Effective date: October 28, 2026. This Cookie Policy explains how George Hardscaping uses cookies and similar browser storage on this website.
What this website uses
This website uses cookies and browser storage to remember your cookie choices, support chat, measure visits, identify marketing sources, and support advertising. It also uses services for security, hosting, maps, and other page features. When you visit, we automatically collect your IP address, browser and device type, pages visited, and time on the site.
Your cookie choices
Analytics and advertising tools stay off until you click "Accept all" on the cookie banner or scroll the page while the banner is showing. Scrolling while the banner is showing counts as accepting these tools. Use the "Cookie settings" link at the bottom of any page to switch analytics or advertising cookies off, or back on, at any time. Embedded content is separate from these controls, as explained below.
Our cookie banner remembers your choices. If you allow analytics, your browser may also send this site a list of the names of cookies and similar storage it holds for this site, at most once a day. This report never includes their contents. The list is not stored with anything that identifies you. It is used only to keep this Cookie Policy accurate.
Embedded content and outside services
Some pages show embedded content from other services, such as videos, maps, social media posts, or reviews. Your browser requests this content from its provider. The provider receives request information and may use its own cookies or browser storage. Our cookie banner does not control the provider's embedded frame. For example, Google receives your IP address when a Google Maps embed loads and may set its own cookies.
The chat assistant uses browser storage for your chat session, attention-message dismissal, and mute setting. Its replies are generated using Anthropic's AI service. George Hardscaping and its marketing agency, AQ Marketing, keep your chat messages and any details you provide. Chat details are also sent to our LeadConnector / HighLevel CRM so we can respond.
Providers, purposes, and storage
The table below lists the providers used on this website, their purposes, and available cookie and storage details. Cloudflare Web Analytics counts page views and page speed without cookies. Other services listed here may receive browser requests even where no cookie is listed.
| Tool | What it does | Cookies / storage (how long) | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics 4 Google LLC | Measures how visitors find and use the website (pages viewed, approximate location, device and browser type) so we can improve it. | _ga cookie — 2 years (typical; not measured on this site)_ga_<id> cookie — 2 years (typical; not measured on this site) | Privacy policy Opt out |
| Cloudflare Turnstile Cloudflare, Inc. | Checks that form submissions come from a person rather than an automated bot. | None found by our scan | Privacy policy |
| AQ website chat assistant AQ Marketing; replies are generated using Anthropic's AI service | Answers visitor questions in a chat window and, if the visitor chooses, collects contact and project details so the business can follow up. Chat messages and any details provided are kept by the business and its marketing agency, AQ Marketing. | agency-chatbot:session:<site> local storage — Until you clear your browser storageagency-chatbot:attention-dismissed:<site> session storage — Until you close the browser tabagencyChatbot.muted local storage — Until you clear your browser storage | — |
| Pressable website hosting Automattic Inc. (Pressable) | Hosts the website; its servers process standard request data such as IP addresses in server logs. | None found by our scan | Privacy policy |
| Google Maps embed Google LLC | Shows an interactive map on some pages; your browser loads it from Google, which receives your IP address and may set its own cookies. | None found by our scan Google may set its own cookies when the map loads. | Privacy policy |
| Gauges website statistics Gauges (provided with Pressable hosting) | Counts page views for hosting-level traffic statistics. | None found by our scan | — |
| AQ marketing attribution cookie AQ Marketing (first party) | Remembers which ad or campaign link brought you to the site (from the page address) so form submissions can be credited to the right source. | aq_trk cookie — 90 days | — |
| Cookie consent banner (part of this website) AQ Marketing (first party; no outside company involved) | Remembers the cookie choices you make on this site. If you allow analytics, your browser may also send this site, at most once a day, a list of the names of the cookies and similar storage it holds for this site — never their contents. The list is not stored with anything that identifies you, and it is used only to keep this Cookie Policy accurate. | aq_consent cookie — 180 daysaq_consent_report local storage — Until you clear your browser storage or withdraw analytics consent | — |
| Cloudflare Web Analytics Cloudflare, Inc. | Counts page views and page speed without cookies, so we can see how the website is used and how fast it loads. | None found by our scan | Privacy policy |
| SEO and site tools LinkStorm, NytroSEO, Google Translate / GTranslate, PrintFriendly, Better Business Bureau seals, Adobe Fonts | Internal-link, translation, trust-seal and font services some pages load; each receives your IP address and the page address. | None found by our scan | — |
| Anthropic API Anthropic, PBC | Generates the chat assistant's replies from the messages you type. | None found by our scan | Privacy policy |
| LeadConnector (HighLevel) CRM HighLevel, Inc. (LeadConnector) | Our customer relationship management (CRM) system. Contact form and chat details are stored here so we can respond. Any HighLevel widget on the site (for example a booking or audit form) also runs on it. | None found by our scan | Privacy policy |
| Google Ads conversion tracking Google LLC | Measures which Google ads lead to calls, form requests or visits, and lets Google show our ads to people who visited this site. | None found by our scan | Privacy policy |
| Image, file and code hosting outside image, storage and code-library services (for example Unsplash, Pexels, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, jsDelivr) | Some images, files and code libraries on the website are loaded from outside services, which receive your IP address and browser details. | None found by our scan | — |
| Cloudflare security and delivery Cloudflare, Inc. | Protects the website and its forms from attacks and automated bots and helps deliver pages quickly. Cloudflare receives your IP address and browser details. | __cf_bm cookie — session (typical; not measured on this site)_cfuvid cookie — session (typical; not measured on this site) | Privacy policy |
How long storage lasts
- Google Analytics cookies _ga and cookies whose names begin with _ga_ last for 2 years.
- The marketing attribution cookie aq_trk lasts for 90 days.
- The cookie-choice cookie aq_consent lasts for 180 days.
- The aq_consent_report local storage entry lasts until you clear your browser storage or withdraw analytics consent.
- The chat session and mute-setting local storage entries last until you clear your browser storage. The attention-dismissal session storage entry lasts until you close the browser tab.
- Cloudflare's __cf_bm and _cfuvid cookies are session cookies.
Tracking across websites
Yes. Third parties may collect personal information about your online activity over time and across different websites when you use this website. Google Ads collects activity across other websites and lets Google show our ads to people who visited this site. We share data for targeted advertising.
Browser signals and controls
This website does not respond to browser Do Not Track signals. We do honor Global Privacy Control signals. You can also use the "Cookie settings" link at the bottom of any page to turn analytics or advertising cookies off or back on.
To remove the chat entries kept in local storage, clear your browser storage. Closing the browser tab removes the chat attention-dismissal entry. You can remove the cookie-report local storage entry by clearing your browser storage or withdrawing analytics consent through "Cookie settings".
Updates and questions
We post the updated policy on this page with a new effective date. If you have questions about this policy, email service@georgehardscaping.com or call (781) 222-0805.
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