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Which cookies this site uses, what they do, and how to turn them off.
Last updated: 19 August 2026
What a cookie is
A cookie is a small file a website asks your browser to keep. It is how a site remembers something between one page and the next. Cookies cannot run programs, and they cannot read anything else on your computer.
We set none of our own
Nothing on this site needs a cookie to work. There is no login, no basket and no saved settings, so we do not set any cookie of our own. Turn the lot off and every page still behaves exactly the same.
The advertising cookies we do use
We advertise on Google. To know which of our ads actually leads to an enquiry — rather than guessing — we run Google’s advertising tag (AW-18398289249). It and Google’s own domains set the following:
| Cookie | Set by | What it does | How long |
|---|---|---|---|
_gcl_au | This site, for Google | Links an ad click to an enquiry so we can tell which advertising works | About 90 days |
_gcl_aw, _gcl_dc | This site, for Google | Set only if you arrived by clicking one of our ads | About 90 days |
IDE, test_cookie | doubleclick.net | Google’s own advertising cookies, used to measure and to show you our ads again elsewhere | Up to 13 months |
Exact names and lifetimes are set by Google and can change. We run no other analytics, no heatmaps, no session recording and no social media pixels.
Turning them off
Every browser can block or delete cookies — usually under Settings, then Privacy. You can also switch off personalised Google advertising at myadcenter.google.com, and add the Google opt-out browser add-on. None of it will stop you using this site or getting a quote from us.
You can also for this site at any time.
Changes
If we ever add another tag, this page will name it before it starts collecting anything, and the date at the top will change.
Ask us
Questions about any of this: business@smartechllc.tech or +1 (860) 899-8069. Our Privacy Policy covers everything else we hold about you.