Cookie Policy

Effective date: April 19, 2026

1. What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files that a website places in your browser when you visit. They are stored on your device and can be read by the site on subsequent visits. Cookies serve different purposes depending on who sets them and why. Some cookies are essential for a site to function. Others track behavior across sessions for analytics or advertising purposes.

This policy explains exactly which cookies sfmarketing.agency sets, who sets them, what they do, and how long they last. We have written this policy to be specific and honest, not to justify uses we do not actually have.

2. Summary: What This Site Does and Does Not Do

sfmarketing.agency does not use advertising cookies, retargeting cookies, or behavioral tracking cookies of any kind. We do not run Google Ads remarketing, Meta Pixel, LinkedIn Insight Tag, or any similar advertising technology on this site. We do not use Google Analytics, Hotjar, Mixpanel, Segment, or any client-side analytics platform that sets cookies.

The only cookies set on this site come from Cloudflare, our hosting and CDN provider, as part of their standard infrastructure security services. These are essential cookies that cannot be disabled without disrupting site delivery.

3. Cloudflare Security Cookies

This site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages and delivered via Cloudflare's CDN. As part of Cloudflare's standard security and performance infrastructure, Cloudflare may set the following cookies in your browser:

Cookie Name Purpose Duration Type
__cf_bm Bot management. Cloudflare sets this cookie to distinguish human visitors from automated bots and to prevent malicious automated traffic from reaching the site. It is required for Cloudflare's bot protection to function. Session (expires when the browser is closed, or after 30 minutes of inactivity) Essential / Security
cf_clearance Security challenge clearance. Set when Cloudflare presents a browser challenge and the visitor passes it. Allows the visitor to proceed without repeated challenges during the same session. This cookie is only set in cases where Cloudflare's security systems have challenged your browser. 30 minutes to 24 hours depending on challenge configuration Essential / Security

These cookies are set by Cloudflare's infrastructure, not by Stan Consulting LLC directly. They are essential security cookies. We have no mechanism to disable them without removing Cloudflare's security protections from the site entirely. They contain no personally identifiable information. They are not used for advertising or behavioral profiling.

For complete information on how Cloudflare uses these cookies, see Cloudflare's Cookie Policy at cloudflare.com/cookie-policy/ and their Privacy Policy at cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.

4. No Advertising Cookies

We do not run any advertising or retargeting technology on sfmarketing.agency. Specifically, the following are not present on this site:

If you visit this site and then see ads for SF Marketing Agency on other platforms, it is not because we placed a tracking pixel here. Those ads, if they exist, would be served using platform-native audience tools that do not require first-party cookie placement on this site.

5. No Analytics Cookies

We do not use any client-side analytics platform that sets cookies in your browser. We do not use Google Analytics (Universal Analytics or GA4), Hotjar, Mixpanel, Amplitude, Heap, FullStory, or any similar tool.

Traffic data for this site is collected at the infrastructure level by Cloudflare. Cloudflare provides aggregate page view counts, referrer data, and country-level visitor data as part of its hosting analytics. This data is collected at the network level without placing analytics cookies in your browser. It is aggregate data, not tied to individual user profiles or browsing sessions.

6. No Persistent First-Party Cookies

This site does not set any persistent first-party cookies. We do not use cookies to remember your preferences between visits, maintain a logged-in session, or track your return visits. There is no login system, no user account system, and no personalization layer on this site.

7. Google Fonts

This site loads web font files (Inter, Fraunces, JetBrains Mono) from Google's font CDN at fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com. When your browser loads a page on this site, it makes HTTP requests to Google's servers to download these font files.

Google's servers may log these requests in their standard server logs, which could include your IP address, browser type, and the page that made the request. Google may set cookies as part of this process per their standard privacy and security practices. These are functional cookies related to font delivery, not advertising or tracking cookies.

If you prefer not to have any data transmitted to Google in connection with font loading, you can use a browser extension that blocks Google Fonts requests, or configure your browser to block requests to fonts.googleapis.com.

8. Your Cookie Choices

Because this site uses only essential Cloudflare security cookies and does not use advertising or analytics cookies, there are no non-essential cookies for which we would seek your consent under GDPR or the ePrivacy Directive. We do not display a cookie consent banner for this reason. The cookies in use are strictly necessary for the secure delivery of the site.

You can control cookies using your browser's built-in settings. Most browsers allow you to block all cookies, delete existing cookies, or block cookies from specific domains. If you block Cloudflare's security cookies, the site may not function correctly or Cloudflare's bot protection may repeatedly challenge your browser. Instructions for managing cookies in common browsers:

9. Do Not Track

Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" (DNT) signal that can be sent with web requests to indicate a preference that sites not track behavior. Because this site does not perform behavioral tracking or use tracking cookies, the DNT signal has no functional effect on what this site does. We do not modify the site's behavior based on a DNT signal because there is no tracking behavior to modify.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy if our use of cookies changes. If we were to add analytics, advertising technology, or any other cookie-based service in the future, we would update this policy before doing so and reassess whether consent mechanisms are required. The effective date at the top of this page reflects the most recent revision.

11. Contact

Questions about cookies on this site can be submitted via the contact form at sfmarketing.agency/contact/. For full privacy details, see our Privacy Policy.