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Cookie Policy
In short: our website sets no cookies of its own. Here is what it does keep in your browser, why, and how you choose.
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This Cookie Policy explains how Digital Storming LLC uses cookies and similar technologies on digitalstorming.com, and the choices you have.
What Cookies Are
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your device and that your browser sends back with later requests. Similar technologies include local storage, pixels, tags and scripts. Some are needed for a website to work; others measure visits or advertising.
Your Choices
On your first visit, a small notice at the bottom of the screen lets you accept or reject the optional items below, or open the settings and choose each one. “Accept all” and “Reject all” are equal choices: the site works the same either way.
You can change your mind at any time with , which is also at the foot of every page. We keep your choice for six months, then ask again.
If you visit from Europe (judged by your device’s time zone), the optional items stay off until you accept them.
What This Website Keeps in Your Browser
digitalstorming.com is a static website and sets no cookies itself. It has no logins, advertising pixels, retargeting tags, chat widgets or call-tracking scripts. It keeps these records in your browser’s local storage. Local storage is never sent with page requests; the lead-source records reach us only inside a form you choose to submit.
| Name | Kind | What it holds and why | How long |
|---|---|---|---|
ds_consent | Strictly necessary | Your privacy choices, when you made them and a random ID, so the notice doesn’t come back on every page | 6 months |
ds_topbar | Strictly necessary | That you closed the announcement bar at the top of the page, so it stays closed | Until you clear this site’s data |
ds_src | Analytics and lead source | The first page you landed on, the website that sent you, any campaign tags in the link (UTM tags, gclid, fbclid) and the date. Sent with a form you submit, so we know how you found us | 90 days |
ds_src_last | Analytics and lead source | The same details for your latest visit from another website or a tagged link | 90 days |
When you turn “Analytics and lead source” off, the two lead-source records are deleted from your browser and no new ones are made. The forms still work without them.
Fonts
The site’s fonts are served from our own server, so no font service (such as Google Fonts) is contacted when you view a page.
Third-Party Content
Embedded posts from X (Twitter)
One older blog post, Google Business Profile Updates 2014–2021, quotes several posts from X. They show as plain quotes with links unless you allow “Content from X” in Cookie settings or press “Show posts from X” on that page. Then your browser loads X’s script from platform.twitter.com to display them; X may set or read its own cookies and receive your IP address and the address of the page, under X’s privacy policy. We ask X not to use the visit for personalization (its do-not-track setting). No other page loads content from X.
Links to other sites
Links to Facebook, LinkedIn and other sites take you to services that use their own cookies under their own policies.
Analytics (Not Active Today)
We don’t use Google Analytics or any other analytics service at the moment. The site is built so that Google Analytics 4 can be turned on later. If we turn it on, it will run only for visitors who allow “Analytics and lead source”, without Google signals or ad personalization, and it will set Google’s own cookies (_ga and _ga_<ID>, kept up to 13 months) to count visits and see which pages people use. We will update this policy and our Privacy Policy before we switch it on.
Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track
If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, we treat it as a request to opt out: “Analytics and lead source” and “Content from X” stay off unless you turn them on yourself in Cookie settings, which then show “Opt-Out Request Honored.” We don’t sell personal information or share it for advertising in any case; see Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information.
Browsers can also send an older “Do Not Track” signal. There is no common standard for it, so the site doesn’t change what it does when it receives one; use Cookie settings or GPC instead. Apart from X’s posts when you allow them, no third party can collect information about your visits to our site over time or across other websites.
Your Browser’s Own Controls
You can also block or delete cookies and site data in your browser settings. Clearing this site’s data removes the records above, including your privacy choices, so the notice will ask again. Blocking third-party cookies stops X from setting cookies when you view the embedded posts.
Changes to This Policy
We update this policy when we add or remove a tool that stores or reads information in your browser. The Last updated date above shows when this page was last revised.