Cookie Policy

Effective Date: October 29, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how MacMillan Design (“we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on macmillandesign.com (the “Website”). It should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle personal information generally.

1. What Cookies Are

A cookie is a small text file that a website stores in your browser. Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser (session cookies); others stay until they expire or you delete them (persistent cookies). Cookies set by the Website itself are “first-party” cookies. Cookies set by other companies whose tools run on the Website are “third-party” cookies.

Similar technologies, such as browser storage, tracking pixels, and tags, work in a comparable way. We use the word “cookies” for all of them in this policy.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for four purposes:

Security and operation. To protect the Website from attacks and automated bots, to keep forms working, and to remember basic choices during your visit. These cookies are necessary for the Website to work.
Analytics. To count visits and understand which pages are useful, so we can improve the Website. This data is collected using a random identifier and does not tell us who you are.
Advertising measurement. To measure whether our Google advertising leads to enquiries, and to show our ads to people who have previously visited the Website.
Embedded content. Some pages embed content from third parties, such as a Google map. Those services may set their own cookies when you interact with the embedded content.

We do not use cookies to sell your information, and we do not use session recording tools that replay what you do on the Website.

3. Cookies We Use

The table below lists the cookies you are most likely to see. Exact names and lifetimes are set by the providers and may change.

Necessary cookies

__cf_bm, cf_clearance, _cfuvid (Cloudflare) – distinguish people from bots and let legitimate visitors through our security checks. Last from 30 minutes to 1 year.
Cloudflare Turnstile and Google reCAPTCHA – run on pages with forms to tell people from automated submissions. reCAPTCHA sets the Google _GRECAPTCHA cookie, which lasts 6 months.
wordpress_test_cookie, wordpress_*, wp-settings-* – set only when someone logs in to the Website’s administration area. Ordinary visitors never receive these.

Analytics cookies

_ga (Google Analytics) – a random identifier used to tell visits from different browsers apart. Lasts 2 years.
_ga_* (Google Analytics) – keeps the state of the current visit. Lasts 2 years.

Advertising cookies

_gcl_au, _gcl_aw, _gcl_gs (Google Ads) – record that you arrived from a Google ad, so we can measure which ads lead to enquiries. Last up to 90 days.
IDE, test_cookie, ar_debug (Google, set on the doubleclick.net domain) – used by Google for advertising measurement and remarketing. Last up to 13 months.

Third-party embedded content

Google Maps – may set Google cookies such as NID when a map is displayed or used. Lasts 6 months.

4. How to Control Cookies

Browser settings. You can block or delete cookies in your browser’s settings and set it to warn you before a cookie is stored. Instructions for the most common browsers are at allaboutcookies.org. If you block all cookies, the forms on the Website may not work, because the bot-protection tools that guard them need to store a cookie.
Google Analytics. Install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout to stop Google Analytics on every website.
Google advertising. Manage personalised ads at adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of interest-based advertising from many companies at optout.aboutads.info.
Mobile devices. iOS and Android both let you limit ad tracking in their privacy settings.

The Website does not currently respond to browser “Do Not Track” or Global Privacy Control signals, because there is no common standard for how to do so. The controls above work regardless.

5. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when the tools we use change. The effective date at the top shows when it was last changed.

6. Contact Us

Questions about cookies on the Website can be sent to [email protected] or to MacMillan Design, 8533 Cumming Highway, Canton, Georgia 30115.