Cookie Policy
1. What this page covers
This page lists everything Fast Appliance Repair Pro stores in your browser when you visit https://fastrepairpro.ca, who puts it there and how long it stays. It sits alongside our Privacy Policy, which covers the information you send us through a form.
This is a small marketing site. There is no login and no shopping cart. What follows is two Google tools — one that measures how the site is used, one that measures the advertising that brings people to it — plus the hosting platform.
2. What is stored, and when
| Name | Set by | What it does | Kept for | Loaded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| far-consent | This website | Browser storage, not a cookie. Remembers whether you accepted or declined, so you are not asked on every page. | 12 months | After you answer |
| _ga, _ga_… | Google Analytics | Tells a returning browser from a new one, so a person who reads three pages is not counted as three people. | 12 months | Only after you press Accept |
| _gcl_…, _gac_… | Google Ads | Records that you arrived from one of our ads, so we can see which ads lead to a real booking, and lets Google show you our ads on other websites. | Up to 90 days | Only after you press Accept |
| None | Cloudflare Web Analytics | Counts page views in aggregate. Sets no cookie and stores nothing in your browser. | — | Every page |
| Cloudflare platform cookies | Cloudflare | Short-lived cookies our host uses to keep the site available and tell automated traffic from real visitors. Our own code cannot read them and they are not used to build a profile of you. | Up to 30 minutes | Every page |
| Cloudflare Turnstile | Cloudflare | The check beside our forms that confirms a submission came from a person. It runs only on pages with a form. | Session | Pages with a form |
3. What we ask you about, and what we do not
We ask about two things, and they are asked together: Google Analytics and Google Ads. Between them they store the only cookies here that can recognise your browser on a later visit, and neither cookie is written until you press Accept. We would rather be exact about what happens before you answer: Google's tag is present on the page, but held in a restricted mode where it writes no cookie, records no advertising identifier and cannot tell that you have been here before. In that state it reports only that a page was opened, with nothing attached that points back to you.
We do not ask about the rest, because the rest cannot follow you. Counting page views without a cookie, and checking that a form was filled in by a person rather than a script, are part of running the site — there is no profile behind them and nothing to opt out of.
We would rather be plain about the advertising one. If you accept, Google Ads can recognise that you visited this site and show you our ads on other websites, and it tells us which ads led to a real booking. That is the extent of it: we run no social media trackers, we do not sell any of this, and we do not share it with anyone for their own marketing.
4. If you decline
Nothing further goes to Google. Declining switches Google Analytics off outright, so even the anonymous page-open signal stops; no Google cookie is written, no page view reaches Google and you are not added to any advertising audience.
We keep counting visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and cannot tell one visitor from another. So we still see that a page was opened; we no longer see that it was opened by the same browser that came back a week later.
The spam check on our forms keeps running, because without it the forms fill up with bot submissions and real requests get lost.
Nothing else changes. Every page, phone number and booking form works the same whether you accept or decline. Your answer is not a condition of using the site or of booking a repair.
5. Changing your mind
Select Cookie settings at the bottom of any page. The same two buttons come back and whichever you choose replaces your earlier answer.
If you accepted and then decline, we switch both Google tools off in that moment rather than at your next visit, and delete the Google cookies we are able to reach from this site.
We remember your answer for twelve months and then ask again, because an answer given years ago is not really an answer any more. We treat Accept and Decline exactly the same way here: neither is re-asked sooner than the other.
If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat it as a decline and do not show the banner at all.
6. Doing it through your browser instead
Every major browser can block or delete cookies for a single site or for all sites, and can be set to clear them each time you close it. Those controls sit under Settings, usually beside Privacy.
Blocking cookies will not break this site. The pages are plain HTML and the forms post normally without any cookie at all.
7. Who receives the data
Google — only if you accept. Google Analytics and Google Ads process data on servers outside Canada, including in the United States, where it can be subject to the laws of those countries.
Cloudflare — hosts this website, protects it from automated abuse and provides the cookieless visit counter.
Neither is given information you typed into a form. Form submissions go by a separate route described in our Privacy Policy.
We do not sell any of this, and we do not share it with anyone for their own marketing.
8. Changes and contact
If we add a tool that stores something new, this page is updated and the question is asked again rather than quietly re-using your old answer.
Questions about anything here: info@fastrepairpro.ca or +1 (416) 885-0963.