Legal
Cookie Policy
Last updated October 16, 2026
Effective date: October 16, 2026. This policy explains how Steve’s Services uses cookies and similar browser storage on this website.
What the website uses and why
The website uses tools to remember your cookie choices, support chat and shopping, protect forms, display content, measure visits and track advertising results. Some tools use cookies or browser storage. Others receive information when your browser requests content from their servers.
The table below shows the companies involved, what their tools do, and the cookies or browser storage identified for them. Some storage durations have not been verified.
| Tool | What it does | Cookies / storage (how long) | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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, and sent to the business's CRM. | 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 | — |
| Google Fonts Google LLC | Delivers the website's typefaces; your browser requests them from Google's servers, which receive your IP address. | None found by our scan | Privacy policy |
| 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 Tag Manager Google LLC | Loads the website's other measurement and advertising tags from one place. It runs only after a visitor accepts, because the tags it loads can track activity for advertising. | None found by our scan | Privacy policy |
| Gauges website statistics Gauges (provided with Pressable hosting) | Counts page views for hosting-level traffic statistics. | None found by our scan | — |
| Elfsight widgets Elfsight LLC | Shows embedded content widgets from Elfsight on some pages; your browser loads them from Elfsight, which receives your IP address and browser details. | elfsight_viewed_recently cookie — not verifiedElfsight sets its own cookie on its servers (elfsight_viewed_recently) to load and count widget views. | Privacy policy |
| Font Awesome icons Fonticons, Inc. | Delivers the icons used on the website; your browser requests them from Font Awesome's servers, which receive your IP address. | None found by our scan | Privacy policy |
| Akismet spam filtering Automattic Inc. | Checks form submissions for spam. What you submit in a form, with your IP address and browser details, is sent to Akismet to decide whether it is spam. | None found by our scan | Privacy policy |
| hCaptcha spam protection Intuition Machines, Inc. | Checks that form submissions come from a person rather than an automated bot; hCaptcha receives your IP address and browser details. | None found by our scan | Privacy policy |
| WooCommerce shop this website (WooCommerce) | Keeps your shopping cart and order details while you shop. | None found by our scan | — |
| 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 |
| 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 | — |
| 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)_gid cookie — 24 hours (typical; not measured on this site)_ga_G5LSXGPVPQ cookie — not verified_gat_UA-3515492-85 cookie — not verified | Privacy policy Opt out |
| Search Atlas SEO tools Search Atlas (used by AQ Marketing) | Applies search-engine improvements to the website's pages (titles, descriptions, structured data); your browser loads it from Search Atlas, which receives the page address and your IP address. | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | — |
How long browser storage lasts
- Google Analytics: _ga lasts 2 years and _gid lasts 24 hours. The durations of _ga_G5LSXGPVPQ and _gat_UA-3515492-85 have not been verified.
- Cloudflare: __cf_bm and _cfuvid are session cookies.
- Cookie choices: aq_consent lasts 180 days. The aq_consent_report browser-storage entry lasts until you clear your browser storage or withdraw analytics consent.
- Chat: the entry beginning with agency-chatbot:session: and the agencyChatbot.muted entry remain until you clear your browser storage. The entry beginning with agency-chatbot:attention-dismissed: remains until you close the browser tab.
- Elfsight: the duration of elfsight_viewed_recently has not been verified.
Tracking across other websites
When you use this website, other companies may collect information that identifies you and tracks your online activity over time and across different websites. Google Ads collects activity across other websites to measure advertising results and show our ads to people who have visited this site. We share data for targeted advertising.
Google Tag Manager loads measurement and advertising tags. Tag Manager itself sets no cookies, but the tags it loads may set them.
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 counts as accepting them.
Use the "Cookie settings" link at the bottom of any page to switch analytics or advertising cookies off, or back on, at any time.
Clearing your browser storage removes the chat entries that remain until you clear them. It also removes the aq_consent_report entry. Withdrawing analytics consent removes that report entry as well.
The cookie banner remembers your choices. If you allow analytics, your browser may also send this website a list of the names of cookies and similar storage it holds for this site, at most once a day. It does not send their contents. The list is not stored with anything that identifies you. It is used only to keep this Cookie Policy accurate.
Browser privacy signals
This website does not respond to browser Do Not Track signals. It honors Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals. You can also change your analytics and advertising cookie choices using the Cookie settings link at the bottom of any page.
Document version ce5627c908a5