Cookie Policy

This policy explains how VCweb Digital Agency uses cookies, local storage and similar technologies on this website. It sits alongside our Privacy Policy, which covers personal data more broadly — enquiry forms, server logs, retention and your rights — and our Terms of Service, which covers the contractual side.

1. What cookies and similar technologies are

A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to store and send back on later requests. Local storage and session storage do a related job: they keep a small value on your device, but the value is never attached to a request automatically — a script has to read it deliberately. Pixels, beacons and SDKs are the same idea implemented differently.

The distinction matters here, because this site does not use cookies for its consent mechanism at all. It uses local storage, which means the value stays on your machine and is never transmitted to our server. We still call this a Cookie Policy, because that is the page people look for.

2. Who is responsible

VCweb Digital Agency operates vcweb.net and decides the purpose of anything this site stores directly. Our contact details are at the bottom of this page and on the contact page. Where we work inside a client’s own analytics, advertising or hosting accounts, that data belongs to the client and their own cookie and privacy notices govern it — this policy covers our website only.

3. How consent works on this site

On your first visit you see a small banner at the bottom of the page with exactly two buttons: Accept all and Essential only. There is no pre-ticked box, no hidden “legitimate interest” tab, and no third option that quietly means yes.

• Choosing either button writes a single value into your browser’s local storage under one site-specific key, then removes the banner.
• Because that value persists, the banner is not shown again on the next page or the next visit.
• If local storage is blocked or unavailable in your browser, the script exits silently: the banner is not shown, nothing is stored, and no optional script is loaded. We read a blocked storage API as a preference, not an obstacle to work around.
• Nothing about your choice is sent to our server. We cannot see, on our side, which option you picked.

Declining is a real decline. Choosing Essential only does not load optional scripts in a reduced mode or queue them for a later page — nothing optional is loaded at all.

4. What this site actually stores

The table below is the complete inventory. We have deliberately not listed “typical” or “illustrative” cookies that this site does not set, because a padded inventory is worse than none — it makes the honest entries impossible to trust.

Two things this table does not contain are worth saying out loud. This site sets no HTTP cookies from our server — not for sessions, not for load balancing, not for form handling. And there are no advertising or social pixels on any page: no tag manager, no remarketing tag, no conversion pixel belonging to an ad network.

5. Categories, and which ones we use

Strictly necessary

Storage without which the site cannot do what you asked it to. Here that is exactly one entry: the record of your own consent choice. Under cookie rules this category does not require consent, for the obvious reason that remembering a refusal is only possible if the refusal can be stored.

Functional

Preferences such as a remembered display setting. We do not currently store any. Where the site respects a preference — reduced motion, for example — it reads it from your operating system through a media query rather than storing anything of its own. More on that in our accessibility statement.

Analytics — optional

Aggregate measurement of which pages are read and where people leave. This is the only category the Accept all button unlocks, and it runs on consent alone. If we enable analytics, this policy is updated with the real identifier name and lifetime before the script ships, and the entry above stops being hypothetical.

Marketing and advertising

We do not operate advertising or cross-context behavioural tracking on vcweb.net. We run Google Ads programmes for clients inside accounts those clients own, which is a different thing entirely from tracking visitors to our own marketing site. If that ever changes, it changes here first and in the banner second.

6. Changing or withdrawing your choice

Because your choice lives in your own browser rather than in an account with us, you change it the same way you would delete any other site data:

• Clear site data or local storage for vcweb.net in your browser settings. The stored key disappears, the banner returns on your next visit, and you can choose again.
• Or open the site in a private or incognito window, which starts with empty storage.

There is no account to log into and no preference centre to hunt through, because there is nothing stored on our side to change. If you would rather we handled it, email [email protected] and we will talk you through it for your browser.

7. Third-party content and web fonts

We keep third-party code off this site as a rule, and that includes the typefaces. Our fonts are self-hosted and served from vcweb.net itself, so loading a page here does not make a request to Google Fonts or any other font provider, and no third party learns your IP address from simply reading this site.

Articles on our blog may in future embed media hosted elsewhere — a video, for example. Providers of embedded media can set their own cookies when you interact with the embed, under their policies rather than ours. Where we use an embed we say so on the page, and our Terms of Service covers third-party content generally.

8. Browser-level controls

Every current browser lets you block or delete cookies and site data, either globally or per site, and most offer a stricter mode for third-party storage. Those controls sit above anything a website offers, and we do not attempt to work around them. Blocking storage on vcweb.net costs you nothing except that the consent banner may reappear each visit, because the record of your answer is the thing being blocked.

9. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

There has never been an agreed standard for how a site should respond to a Do Not Track header, which is why most sites ignore it. Ours is a moot point: with no analytics loaded and no advertising trackers on any page, there is nothing for a DNT or Global Privacy Control signal to switch off. If we add optional analytics, an opt-out preference signal will be treated as a decline without you needing to touch the banner.

10. Children

This site is directed at businesses and the people who run them. We do not knowingly use storage of any kind to profile children, and nothing we sell would sensibly be marketed to them.

11. International visitors

We are a United States business serving US clients, and our servers are located in the United States. If you visit from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or another region with specific consent rules, the arrangement described above is intended to meet them: nothing non-essential loads before you agree, refusing is exactly as easy as accepting, and your refusal is remembered. This site has no contact form and collects no personal data from you at all; where you choose to email us, the Privacy Policy explains what happens to that message.

12. Changes to this policy

We update this page when the technology changes, not on a schedule. Adding an analytics provider, an embed that sets cookies, or any new storage key means this policy and the inventory table are updated before the change goes live, and the effective date above is revised. Where a change materially affects what we do with non-essential storage, we will ask for consent again rather than treat an old answer as covering a new question.

13. Contact

Questions about this policy, or about anything you have found in your browser storage on our site: [email protected], or [email protected] for anything general. You can also write to VCweb Digital Agency, 214 Commerce St, Suite 300, Dallas, TX 75201, United States. Our office hours are Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Central Time and we reply within one business day.

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Related pages

The Privacy Policy covers what happens to the data you actually send us, and the Terms of Service covers the agreement between us. If you are reading this while deciding whether to make contact, the FAQ answers the commercial questions most people ask first — including the fact that clients own their ad, analytics and hosting accounts outright — and the about page explains who does the work. When you are ready, send us an enquiry.