Cookie Policy

Effective date: August 9, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Southern Dreams Mechanical Services LLC (“Southern Dreams Mechanical Services”) uses cookies and similar technologies on https://southerndreams-mechanical.com/. Read it alongside our Privacy Policy, which covers personal information more broadly.

What Are Cookies?

A cookie is a small text file a website stores on your device. Cookies let a site remember your actions and preferences between pages and visits. Similar technologies (pixels, tags, local storage and scripts) do comparable jobs, and everything said here about cookies applies to them too.

Cookie Categories We Use

Strictly necessary

Needed for the site to work: page delivery, security, spam and abuse prevention on forms, and remembering your cookie choices. These cannot be switched off through our consent tool, because the site would not function correctly without them.

Analytics

Help us understand which pages people read, how they arrived, and where they run into trouble. We use this to improve the site. It is aggregated reporting, not an attempt to identify you personally.

Advertising and measurement

Where enabled, these tell us whether an advertisement led to a visit or an enquiry, and may support audiences on advertising platforms.

Functional

Remember preferences and support embedded content such as maps and video.

Tools We Use On This Website

Not every tool is active on every page, and some run only if you accept the relevant category.

• Google Analytics: measures site usage and traffic sources
• Meta Pixel: advertising measurement and audiences, where enabled
• Google reCAPTCHA: protects forms from automated abuse
• WS Form: runs our contact and quote forms
• Embedded maps and media: load content directly from the provider
• Consent tool: records your cookie choices

Examples Of Cookies You May See

Exact names and lifetimes change as providers update their products, so treat this as illustrative rather than exhaustive.

Cookie	Provider	Category	Purpose	Typical duration
_ga, _ga_*	Google Analytics	Analytics	Distinguishes visitors and holds session state	Up to 2 years
_fbp	Meta	Advertising	Attributes visits and conversions to advertising	Up to 3 months
_GRECAPTCHA	Google	Strictly necessary	Detects bots and abusive form submissions	Around 6 months
Consent record	This website	Strictly necessary	Remembers your cookie choices	Up to 12 months
Session cookies	This website	Strictly necessary	Page delivery and security	Until you close the browser

Managing Your Choices

Where a consent banner is shown, you can accept or decline non-essential categories and change your mind later through the same control. You can also manage cookies in your browser settings. Every major browser lets you block or delete them. Blocking strictly necessary cookies will stop parts of the site working, including forms.

Browsers also offer a “Do Not Track” signal. There is no common standard for how sites should respond, so we do not currently respond to it. Where the law recognises an opt-out preference signal such as Global Privacy Control, we honour it.

Third-Party Cookies

Some cookies are set by other companies whose tools appear on our pages. We do not control those cookies, and their use is governed by the provider’s own policy. Loading an embedded map or video is usually enough for that provider to see your IP address, whether or not you interact with it.

California Privacy Rights

California residents have rights over personal information collected through cookies, including the right to know, delete, and correct. We do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioural advertising in exchange for payment. See our Privacy Policy for how to make a request.

Changes To This Policy

We update this policy when the tools on our website change or the law does. The effective date above shows the latest revision.

Contact Us

Southern Dreams Mechanical Services LLC
Watson, LA 70786
Email: info@southerndreams-mechanical.com
Phone: (225) 772-4703