What a cookie is
A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to keep, so that it can recognise the same browser again later. Some are essential to making a site work. Others, like the ones here, are used to count visitors. You are in charge of all of them, and the last section explains how.
The cookies this site sets
Google Analytics is the only thing on this website that sets a cookie. It tells us how many people visit, which pages they read, and roughly where in the world they are, so we know what the site is being used for.
- _ga
- Set by Google Analytics to tell one browser apart from another, so that two visits from the same browser are not counted as two different people. Expires two years after your most recent visit.
- _ga_2SCSGV3MHH
- Also set by Google Analytics, this one to keep track of a single visit — where you arrived, and which pages you read before you left. Expires two years after your most recent visit.
Google documents its own cookies in full, and the list can change without us being told, so if you want the authoritative version it is in Google’s privacy and terms and in their Analytics cookie usage documentation.
Measurement that sets no cookies
We also use two tools from Vercel, who host this website. Neither sets a cookie and neither follows you to any other site. They are named here because “we use analytics” is usually read as something more invasive than this:
- Vercel Web Analytics counts page views in aggregate, without cookies and without building a profile of you.
- Vercel Speed Insights records how long pages took to load for real visitors, so we can find and fix the slow ones.
The map on our contact page
Our contact pageembeds a Google map so you can see where the yard is. Loading that page loads content from Google, and Google may set its own cookies when it does. That is Google’s doing rather than ours, and it happens on that page alone — no other page on this site loads a map. If you would rather not load it, the full address and a plain directions link sit on the same page, above the map, and work without it.
Why there is no cookie banner
Because we do not think you should have to dismiss a box to read about stone. Nothing on this site advertises to you, profiles you, or follows you elsewhere, and the rules that apply to a Dallas supplier serving the Dallas–Fort Worth area ask us to tell you plainly what we set and give you a way to refuse it. That is what this page is. If that ever stops being true of the site, this page will change before the practice does.
How to turn cookies off
Any of these will stop Google Analytics from measuring your visit. None of them will stop the site from working — nothing here depends on a cookie.
- Google’s own opt-out. Google publishes a browser add-on that switches Google Analytics off on every website you visit, not just this one.
- Your browser’s settings. Every major browser can block or delete cookies, and most can block third-party cookies by default. Look under Privacy in Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Edge.
- Global Privacy Control. Some browsers and extensions can send an automatic signal asking every site you visit not to sell or share your information. We do neither in the first place, but the signal is a good habit and it works far beyond this site.
- Private or incognito browsing discards cookies when you close the window.
Questions
Our Privacy Policy covers what we do with information more broadly. If something here is unclear, email info@klzstone.com or call 1 (972) 807-6187 and ask.