Cookie Policy

What A Cookie Actually Is

A cookie is a small text file a website asks your browser to keep. Next time you show up, the browser hands it back, so the site can recognise the same visit — that’s how a shopping cart remembers what’s in it, or how a site remembers you’re logged in.

A first-party cookie is set by the site you’re actually on. A third-party cookie is set by something else embedded in the page — a map, a video player, an ad network. Related technologies like local storage and session storage do a similar job: they park a bit of data in your browser. We treat those the same way here, because from your side the question is the same — what’s being kept, and by whom.

What This Site Uses

gtatvwallmounting.ca sets no cookies of its own. There’s no login, no cart, no saved preferences, nothing that needs one. The only thing on the page that can drop a cookie in your browser is the Google map we embed on our contact and service-area pages.

That’s the whole list. If you were expecting more, so were we.

What We Don’t Use

Worth stating plainly, because most cookie policies bury it. As of the date at the top of this page, this site carries:

• No analytics. No Google Analytics, no Google Tag Manager, no visitor counter of any kind.
• No advertising or retargeting pixels. No Meta/Facebook pixel, no ad-network trackers. We don’t follow you around the internet after you leave.
• No session-recording or heatmap tools. Nobody’s watching a replay of your mouse.
• No cookie consent banner. There isn’t one, because there’s nothing here to consent to. If we ever add tracking, this page changes first and we’ll deal with consent properly then.

If a future version of the site adds any of the above, this policy gets updated to say so before it goes live.

The Google Map, In Detail

Our contact page, our home page and our city and service-area pages embed a Google map so you can see where we’re based and where we work. The map loads from Google, inside a frame on our page. When it loads, Google can set its own cookies and read them — that’s their system, on their domain, under their rules, and we can neither see those cookies nor control them.

The maps are set to load lazily, so they generally don’t load at all until you scroll far enough down the page to reach one. The specific cookie names and how long Google keeps them are Google’s to publish, not ours to guess. For what Google does with that data, you’d need to read Google’s own privacy and cookie documentation.

reCAPTCHA On The Contact Form

Our contact form is protected by Google reCAPTCHA v3, which is what stops us drowning in bot submissions. It works by scoring how the interaction looks, and to do that Google’s script sets its own cookies and reads its own storage on google.com and recaptcha.net. Same situation as the map: their domain, their rules, and we can’t see or control what they store.

Two things worth knowing. It doesn’t load when you land on a page — the script is only fetched at the moment you open the contact form, so simply reading the site never pulls it in. And there’s no checkbox or puzzle to solve; v3 runs quietly in the background. If you’d rather not involve Google at all, call us or email us instead — both reach the same people, and neither loads anything from Google.

Links Out Are Not Embeds

Our header and footer link to our profiles on Google, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Yelp, Houzz, YellowPages, 411.ca and HomeStars, and there’s a WhatsApp link on mobile. Those are plain links, not embedded widgets — nothing from those companies loads on our pages, and none of them can set a cookie until you actually click through. Once you’re on their site, you’re on their cookie policy, not ours.

How To Control Cookies

Your browser is the control panel, and it beats any banner we could put on a page. Every major browser lets you:

• See every cookie currently stored, and delete them individually or all at once.
• Block third-party cookies while still allowing first-party ones — on this site that would block the map’s cookies and leave nothing else affected.
• Block all cookies, for every site.
• Clear cookies and site data automatically every time you close the browser.
• Browse in a private or incognito window, which throws the whole lot away when you close it.

You’ll find these under Settings → Privacy (the exact wording varies by browser and version). Mobile browsers have the same controls, usually a level or two deeper in the menu. Browser vendors publish step-by-step instructions for their current versions — those are the ones to follow, since they change more often than this page does.

What Breaks If You Block Them

Almost nothing, here. Since we don’t use cookies for anything, blocking them costs you exactly one feature: the embedded map may not load, or may load in a reduced form. Every page, every price, every phone number and every word of content works the same either way.

If the map doesn’t appear for you, we’re at 111 Inverlochy Blvd, Unit 903, Thornhill, Ontario, and we cover the Greater Toronto Area. Problem solved without a single cookie.

Blocking cookies globally will, of course, affect other sites that genuinely rely on them — anything you log into, mostly. That’s a you-and-them situation, not a you-and-us one.

Changes To This Policy

If what the site uses changes, this page changes with it, and the “last updated” date at the top moves. There’s no mailing list for policy updates — check the date if you want to know whether anything’s shifted.

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