Cookie Policy

Most websites open with a modal asking you to accept a hundred and forty advertising partners. We thought about that and decided against it. Here is the complete list of what breezynyc.com puts in your browser:

• _ga, set by Google Analytics, expires after 2 years. Distinguishes one visitor from another so a repeat visit is not counted as a new person.
• _ga_<container>, set by Google Analytics, expires after 2 years. Keeps the state of the current visit.

That is it. No advertising or remarketing pixels, no session replay, no heat maps, no fingerprinting, no third-party trackers, and no cookies from anyone we have not named on this page.

You can verify it yourself. Open your browser's developer tools on any page of this site, look under Application or Storage, and those two are what you will find.

We have also turned off the parts of Analytics that exist to serve advertising: Google Signals is disabled, ad personalization signals are disabled, and IP addresses are anonymized. Your visit is counted. It is not followed.

A cookie is a small text file a site asks your browser to store, which the browser then hands back on later requests. Cookies are how a shopping cart survives a page change, how a site keeps you logged in, and, less charmingly, how an ad you looked at once follows you across the internet for a month. The same broad idea covers related technologies such as local storage, pixels, and web beacons.

• Strictly necessary. Cookies a site cannot function without, such as login sessions and cart contents. This site is a set of static pages with a contact form, so it needs none, and it uses none.
• Preferences. Cookies that remember a setting you chose. We do not store any settings, so there are none.
• Analytics. Cookies that count visits and measure which pages get read. This is the one category we use, and it is Google Analytics 4, named in full above. It tells us which pages office managers actually read and which ones nobody finishes. That is the extent of our curiosity.
• Advertising and tracking. Cookies that build a profile of you across websites to sell you things. We do not use these and we will not. We have gone a step further and disabled the advertising features inside Analytics itself, which most sites running the same tag leave switched on. That is a decision about the kind of company we want to be, not a temporary state of affairs.

Consent banners exist because of laws written for sites that share your behavior with advertising networks. We do not do that. Under the New York and other US state privacy laws that apply to a business like ours, analytics of this kind, with advertising features disabled and no sale or sharing of personal information, does not require an interstitial before you can read the page.

We would rather spend that screen space telling you about cleaning your office. If we ever add something that genuinely requires consent, you will get a real choice rather than a banner engineered so that refusing takes six clicks.

If you would prefer not to be counted at all, the next section is for you, and nothing on this site breaks if you opt out.

Loading any web page means your browser talks to whoever serves the files:

• Netlify, our host, delivers every page and keeps standard server logs including your IP address, as any host must.
• Google Analytics receives the page you viewed, roughly where in the world you are, and what kind of device and browser you used. IP anonymization is on, so Google receives a truncated address rather than your full one.
• Google Fonts serves the typefaces this site is set in. Your browser requests those font files from Google, which means Google sees the IP address making the request. Google states that it does not set cookies on Google Fonts requests and does not use them for advertising.

If you submit the walk-through form, Netlify processes that submission and forwards it to our inbox. Analytics is told that a form was submitted, and nothing else: not your name, not your email, not your phone number, not a word of what you wrote. See the Privacy Policy for what happens to the submission itself.

Every major browser lets you view, block, and delete cookies site by site, and lets you send Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signals. Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge all keep these under Privacy in their settings. Safari and Firefox already block cross-site tracking by default.

Google also publishes a browser add-on that opts you out of Google Analytics on every site, not just this one.

Opt out by any of these routes and this website works exactly as it does now. Nothing here is gated behind being measured.

If we ever add another cookie or measurement tool, we will name it on this page, say what it does and how long it lasts, and put a proper consent mechanism in front of it where the law requires one. The effective date at the top will tell you when that happened. This page was last changed the day we added Analytics, which is the standard we intend to hold ourselves to.