Cookie Policy
The cookies and similar technologies on our website, and how to control them.
David Smith Radon Remedies
Effective Date: November 13, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how David Smith Radon Remedies (“we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on davidsmithradonremedies.com (the “Site”). Please read it together with our Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website stores in your browser. Similar technologies, such as local storage, pixels, and scripts, work in much the same way. We use the word “cookies” for all of them in this policy. Some are set by us (“first-party”); others are set by the services we use (“third-party”).
2. Your Choices
When you first visit the Site, a banner asks you to choose. Accept turns on the Analytics category (Google Analytics 4 and Ahrefs Web Analytics); Reject keeps it off; Manage Preferences lets you choose category by category. Until you choose, only strictly necessary cookies are used and nothing is requested from Google or Ahrefs. We keep your choice for 12 months and ask again if we add a new category. You can change your mind at any time with the link at the bottom of every page; turning Analytics off deletes the Google Analytics cookies we can reach and reloads the page so nothing further is collected.
- Global Privacy Control: if your browser sends a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal and you have not yet made a choice, we apply the opt-out for you: optional cookies, including analytics, stay off, and we tell you so. You can still turn them on in Cookie Settings.
- Browser controls: you can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may stop parts of the Site from working.
Withdrawing consent stops future collection; it does not affect anything collected before you changed your choice.
3. Cookie Categories
Strictly Necessary: required for the Site to work and to keep it secure, including protecting our forms from spam and abuse and remembering your cookie choice. These cannot be switched off. Our own cookie-free site analytics (SEO Hub) is in this group: it uses no cookies and no cross-site profile, so it is not something you switch on or off here.
Analytics (off until you choose Accept): helps us understand which pages are
useful and how visitors find us, reported in aggregate. Two services are in this category.
Google Analytics 4 (Google LLC) sets the first-party cookies _ga and
_ga_KDCTT00TKQ, each kept for two years, to tell returning visits apart; it records
the pages you view, the referring site, an approximate location from your IP address, device and
browser information, and events such as a quote form submission (never the form contents). Google
states that it does not log or store the IP address; see the
Google privacy policy and the
Google Analytics opt-out browser
add-on. Ahrefs Web Analytics
(Ahrefs Pte. Ltd.) is cookieless: it sets no cookies and uses no local storage. It receives the page
URL, referrer, title, screen size, language, user agent and IP address; the IP address is discarded
and a salted hash that changes daily counts unique visitors for one day only, not across days. See the
Ahrefs privacy policy.
We do not use Functional or Marketing cookies. If we add any in the future, we will update this policy and ask for your consent first.
Map images: the service-area map on our homepage is drawn by map software (Leaflet) hosted on this Site, using map images (tiles) that load from tile.openstreetmap.org, run by the OpenStreetMap Foundation, a third party. It sets no cookies, but when the tiles load with the page OpenStreetMap may receive your IP address and browser information. See the OpenStreetMap Foundation privacy policy.
Videos: a few blog posts include a YouTube video. The page itself loads nothing from Google; it shows a preview image stored on this Site and a Play button. If you press Play, the video loads from youtube-nocookie.com, run by Google, which may then receive your IP address and browser information and may set its own cookies. See the Google privacy policy. Because this happens only when you choose to play a video, it is not a category you switch on or off here.
4. Cookies We Use
| Provider | Category | Cookie or technology | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| David Smith Radon Remedies | Strictly Necessary | sc_consent |
Remembers your cookie choices | 12 months |
| SEO Hub (ISC Media Group) | Strictly Necessary | None (cookie-free). A visitor identifier is computed from your IP address and browser and changes every day; your IP address is not stored. | First-party site analytics and lead attribution: pages viewed, referring site, form submissions, phone and email clicks | None |
| Google Analytics 4 (Google LLC) | Analytics (only after you choose Accept) | _ga (first party, set by Google) |
Tells one visitor's browser apart from another so visits can be counted | 2 years |
| Google Analytics 4 (Google LLC) | Analytics (only after you choose Accept) | _ga_KDCTT00TKQ (first party, set by Google) |
Keeps the current session together for our Google Analytics property | 2 years |
| Ahrefs Web Analytics (Ahrefs Pte. Ltd.) | Analytics (only after you choose Accept) | None (cookieless; no cookies, no local storage). The IP address is discarded and a daily salted hash counts unique visitors for one day only. | Page-view statistics: page URL, referrer, title, screen size, language, user agent | None |
| Cloudflare (hosting and security) | Strictly Necessary | __cf_bm; cf_clearance (only when a security check is shown) |
Delivers the Site and protects it from bots and attacks | 30 minutes; up to 1 year |
| OpenStreetMap (tile.openstreetmap.org, homepage map) | Third-party map images | None (map tiles load with the page; the Leaflet map software is hosted on this Site) | Shows our service-area map; OpenStreetMap may receive your IP address and browser information | No cookie |
| YouTube (Google; youtube-nocookie.com, some blog posts) | Third-party video, loads only when you press Play | Set by Google in its own domain, if any, once a video is playing | Plays the embedded video; Google may receive your IP address and browser information | Set by Google |
Third-party providers may change the names or lifetimes of their cookies. Their own privacy policies, linked in our Privacy Policy, describe how they handle data.
5. Do Not Track
Browsers’ “Do Not Track” setting has no agreed industry meaning, so the Site does not respond to it. We do honor Global Privacy Control as described above.
6. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when we add or remove services. The effective date at the top shows when it last changed. If we add a new category of optional cookies, we will ask for your consent again.
Contact Us
David Smith Radon Remedies
16758 E Cheyenne Rd, Heyworth, IL 61745
Phone: (309) 777-3910
Email: daniel@davidsmithradonremedies.com