Cookie Policy for Affordable Contracting, Inc.

1. Overview

Affordable Contracting, Inc. (“Affordable Contracting,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) may use cookies, local storage, tracking pixels, tags, scripts, analytics tools, security technologies, embedded content, advertising technologies, and similar browser-based or device-based technologies (“Cookies and Similar Technologies”) on this website and future connected systems.

These technologies may be used to operate the website, improve user experience, remember settings, understand website traffic, evaluate marketing performance, protect against misuse, support future portal access, maintain business records, and improve communication with customers, prospective customers, employment applicants, vendors, subcontractors, employees, and other visitors.

This Cookie Policy applies to Affordable Contracting’s public website, legal-document pages, service pages, estimate request pages, contact pages, gallery pages, public forms, future QR-code intake pages, future employment application pages, future vendor/subcontractor onboarding pages, and future portal-related pages where cookies or similar technologies may be used.

2. What Cookies and Similar Technologies Are

Cookies are small files placed on your browser or device by a website. Local storage is a browser feature that can store information on your device. Pixels, tags, and scripts are pieces of code that may help collect information about website activity, measure performance, support analytics, or help marketing tools function.

These technologies may recognize your browser or device, remember preferences, measure activity, help forms work, protect website features, detect repeat visits, and support future login or portal functions.

3. Types of Cookies and Similar Technologies We May Use

The website may use several categories of Cookies and Similar Technologies, including:

4. Why We Use Cookies and Similar Technologies

We may use Cookies and Similar Technologies for legitimate business, website, security, marketing, operational, and customer-service purposes, including to:

• Operate and maintain the website.
• Support website navigation, page loading, forms, and future portal sessions.
• Remember visitor preferences and cookie choices.
• Evaluate website performance and improve page design.
• Understand how visitors use service pages, estimate pages, gallery pages, contact pages, and legal pages.
• Measure the effectiveness of advertising, social media, search, referral, or marketing campaigns.
• Support future customer, employee, vendor, and subcontractor portal access.
• Protect against spam, fraud, misuse, unauthorized access, and security threats.
• Improve customer service, showroom scheduling, estimate intake, employment applications, and vendor/subcontractor onboarding.
• Preserve records and support legal, safety, operational, quality-control, and business-protection needs.

5. Current Local Preview Notice

The current version of the website may be viewed locally in Chrome using file:// for development and preview purposes. During local preview, not all cookies, analytics tools, tracking pixels, Firebase tools, hosted forms, portal features, or third-party services described in this policy may be active.

This Cookie Policy is written to apply to the website after it is moved from local preview mode to a hosted live website and after future business systems may be connected, including Firebase Authentication, Firestore, Firebase Storage, Firebase Hosting, analytics, advertising tools, portal access, and live form submissions.

6. Analytics and Website Measurement

We may use analytics tools to help understand how visitors interact with the website. Analytics may help us identify popular pages, broken links, device types, referral sources, approximate traffic trends, time on site, navigation patterns, and other information that helps improve website usability and marketing effectiveness.

Analytics information may be collected by third-party service providers. These providers may use cookies, scripts, tags, or similar technologies to collect usage data. Analytics information may be aggregated, statistical, or tied to browser/device information depending on the tool used.

Before the website goes live, analytics tools should be configured to collect only information reasonably needed for business purposes and to avoid collecting unnecessary sensitive information from forms or portal areas.

7. Advertising Pixels and Marketing Technologies

In the future, Affordable Contracting may use advertising or marketing technologies such as pixels, tags, campaign tracking, conversion tracking, remarketing tools, social media pixels, search advertising tools, or similar technologies to evaluate advertising performance and promote company services.

These technologies may help us understand whether visitors interacted with an ad, visited certain pages, submitted an estimate request, clicked a contact button, or returned to the website after viewing marketing content. Some advertising tools may allow third-party platforms to associate website activity with your browser, device, account, or advertising profile.

8. Embedded Content, Maps, Reviews, Videos, and Third-Party Tools

The website may include embedded or linked content such as maps, social media content, reviews, videos, scheduling tools, payment tools, manufacturer information, vendor resources, or other third-party features.

Third-party embedded content may use cookies or similar technologies even if you do not interact directly with the feature. Third parties may collect information under their own privacy policies, cookie policies, terms, and settings.

Affordable Contracting does not control all third-party cookies, technologies, data practices, or privacy settings. You should review third-party policies if you use or interact with third-party features.

9. Future Portal, Login, Security, and Business Record Technologies

When customer, employee, vendor, subcontractor, or other portal access is connected, cookies and similar technologies may be used to support login sessions, role-based permissions, account access, security, fraud prevention, activity logs, audit logs, read/unread status, form progress, file uploads, and business recordkeeping.

Portal-related technologies may help protect company records, customer records, employee records, vendor records, subcontractor records, job records, photos, documents, receipts, time entries, purchases, messages, payment records, and other business data.

Portal users should also review the Messaging / Portal Monitoring Notice because company portal activity may be monitored, reviewed, preserved, exported, and used for business, safety, legal, quality-control, training, compliance, audit, insurance, collection, or dispute-resolution purposes.

10. Your Cookie Choices and Browser Controls

You may be able to manage cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block cookies, delete cookies, receive alerts before cookies are stored, or limit certain types of tracking. Browser settings vary by browser and device.

Blocking or deleting cookies may affect website functionality. Some features may not work properly without cookies or local storage, including preference settings, form features, security features, future portal login sessions, or certain embedded third-party tools.

If a cookie banner or preference tool is added to the live website, you may be able to manage certain cookie categories through that tool. Essential cookies or security technologies may remain active because they are needed to operate or protect the website.

You may also be able to adjust privacy settings directly through third-party platforms, advertising networks, analytics services, social media platforms, or browser privacy controls.

11. Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers or devices may provide “Do Not Track” or similar signals. There is not currently one uniform industry standard for how websites should respond to such signals. Unless required by applicable law or unless a specific tool is configured to honor such signals, our website may not respond to all Do Not Track signals in the same way.

You can still use browser settings, cookie controls, third-party opt-out tools, and privacy settings to manage many forms of browser-based tracking.

12. Third-Party Cookies and Service Providers

Third-party providers may place or read cookies and similar technologies when they provide services to us or when their content is embedded on the website. These providers may include hosting companies, analytics providers, advertising platforms, security providers, map providers, payment processors, review platforms, social media platforms, scheduling tools, email providers, customer management tools, and future portal technology providers.

We may not control third-party cookie settings, expiration periods, collection practices, or use of information. Third-party providers may use information according to their own privacy policies, cookie policies, service terms, and account settings.

13. Retention of Cookie-Related Information

Cookies and similar technologies may remain on your device for different periods depending on their purpose and configuration. Session cookies may expire when your browser closes. Persistent cookies may remain until they expire, are deleted, or are replaced.

Information collected through cookies, analytics, security tools, marketing tools, portal tools, or related technologies may be retained for business, operational, security, legal, reporting, analytics, marketing, quality-control, audit, compliance, dispute-resolution, or recordkeeping purposes as described in our Privacy Policy.

14. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time as the website, technology, analytics tools, advertising tools, portal access, forms, laws, or business operations change. When we update this policy, we may revise the effective date.

Your continued use of the website after an updated Cookie Policy is posted means you accept the updated policy to the extent permitted by law.

15. Contact Us

Questions about this Cookie Policy may be directed to Affordable Contracting, Inc.