Cookie Policy | Gatestile

How we use cookies

Cookies and local storage let a site remember information between page loads and visits. We group them into three purposes:

Essential: needed for the site to work, such as keeping you signed in, remembering your cart, and recording your cookie choices. These are always on.
Analytics: help us understand how the site is used so we can improve it (Google Analytics). Off unless you accept.
Advertising: measure and improve our ad campaigns (Google Ads and LinkedIn). Off unless you accept, and separately controllable through Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information.

Consent Mode and default-off tracking

We use Google Consent Mode v2. Before you make a choice, analytics and advertising storage default to denied, so Google’s analytics and advertising cookies do not run. Only the essential, functionality, and security categories are active by default.

When you select Accept, we update your consent so analytics and advertising may run. When you select Essential only, they stay off. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, we honor it as an opt-out of advertising automatically. Our web fonts are self-hosted, so loading a page does not send a request to a third-party font service.

Cookies and local storage we use

The table below lists the main first-party storage keys and the Google cookies that load only after you accept. Advertising tags are managed through Google Tag Manager, so exact ad cookies can vary by campaign.

Name	Type	Provider	Purpose	Duration
gatestile-consent	Local storage	Gatestile	Remembers your analytics and advertising consent choices so we can honor them.	Until you clear it
sb-* (Supabase auth)	Cookie	Gatestile / Supabase	Keeps you signed in and refreshes your session. Strictly necessary when you have an account.	Session and refresh token lifetime
gatestile-cart-v1	Local storage	Gatestile	Remembers the items in your shopping cart between visits.	Until you clear it
gatestile:recent-searches	Local storage	Gatestile	Remembers your recent on-site searches for quicker access.	Until you clear it
gs_attribution	Local storage	Gatestile	Records how you first arrived (campaign parameters, Google gclid, LinkedIn li_fat_id) so we can attribute an inquiry to a campaign. Not written when you have opted out of advertising or sent a Global Privacy Control signal.	90 days
_ga, _ga_*	Cookie	Google Analytics	Distinguishes visitors and measures site usage. Set only after you accept analytics.	Up to 2 years
_gcl_au	Cookie	Google Ads	Measures ad conversions. Set only after you accept advertising cookies.	Up to 90 days
NID	Cookie	Google Maps	Set by the Google Maps embed on our contact page, which loads only when you choose to open the map.	Up to 6 months

How to change your choices

Select Cookie Preferences in the site footer to re-open the consent banner and change analytics and advertising consent at any time.
Use Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information to opt out of advertising specifically.
Turn on Global Privacy Control in a supported browser or extension, and we will treat it as an advertising opt-out automatically.
Block or delete cookies in your browser settings.

Third parties

The analytics and advertising cookies above are set by Google and LinkedIn. For the full list of service providers that may process your information and links to their privacy policies, see the subprocessor list in our Privacy Policy.