Cookie notice
How this website uses cookies and similar browser storage, and how you can change your choice.
Effective date: October 14, 2026.
This notice explains the cookies and similar browser storage this website uses, what each category does and how you can change your choice. You can change your choice at any time with the controls at the end of this page or with Cookie preferences in the site footer. Our privacy policy explains how we handle the information you send us.
Necessary storage
Necessary storage keeps the site and its request forms working. It remembers your cookie choice, your accessibility and display settings, and the state of a request form while you fill it in.
It stays on whatever you choose, because the site needs it to respect your choices and accept a request. Necessary storage does not load analytics or advertising tools.
Analytics, if you allow it
When you allow analytics, our own analytics records the pages you view, how you reached the site, such as a search engine or an ad, an approximate location based on your network address, and clicks on phone numbers and links to other sites. We use this to learn which pages help visitors and which need work.
When we have Google Analytics turned on, it also loads after you allow analytics. Google Analytics is a Google service and sets the Google cookies listed in the table below.
Marketing, if you allow it
When you allow marketing, we may load Google Tag Manager and the Google Ads and call tracking tags our advertising uses. These tags measure whether our online ads lead to calls and requests. Google and the call tracking provider handle that data under their own terms.
Allowing analytics alone does not load these marketing tags.
How we ask and how long your choice lasts
Until you make a choice, only necessary storage runs and no analytics or marketing tool loads.
Accept all turns on analytics and marketing. Necessary only keeps both off. Save choices keeps exactly the categories you switch on.
We keep your choice for 12 months. After that, or if you clear this site's cookies, we ask again.
When you turn a category off, we stop our own analytics, tell Google tags on the page that consent is withdrawn, delete the Google cookies and analytics storage this site can reach, and pass the change to your other open tabs on this site. Tags that already loaded stop completely on your next page load.
Global Privacy Control
Global Privacy Control is a setting in some browsers and browser extensions that asks websites not to sell or share your information.
When your browser sends this signal, we keep analytics and marketing off and do not load those tools, even if you choose Accept all. Necessary storage still runs. The cookie banner and this page tell you when we detect the signal.
Cookies and storage we use
The table below lists the cookies and browser storage this website sets for visitors, plus the sign-in cookies used only by our staff. Analytics and marketing items appear only after you allow that category.
If marketing tags load, Google Tag Manager or call tracking tags may set their own cookies under their providers' terms.
| Name | Category and type | What it does | How long it lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
cit_consent | Necessary. Cookie. | Records your cookie choice so the site and our server can respect it. | 12 months from the day you choose. It is deleted if you clear your choice. |
cit-consent | Necessary. Local storage. | Keeps a copy of your cookie choice and the date you made it. | Until you change it. We ask again after 12 months. |
cit-a11y | Necessary. Local storage. | Remembers your accessibility settings, such as text size, contrast, motion, link and focus styles. | Until you change the settings or clear site data. |
cit-theme and bpl-quote-v0-ads-theme | Necessary. Local storage. | Remembers your light or dark display setting where the site offers one. | Until you clear site data. |
bpl-lead-request-id: followed by a form name | Necessary. Session storage. | Holds a random request number so the same request is not submitted twice. | Until the request is sent or you close the tab. |
bpl-lead-form-started: followed by a form name | Necessary. Session storage. | Notes when you opened a request form. Our spam filter uses the time taken to help tell people from automated submissions. | Until the request is sent or you close the tab. |
cit_attribution_session, cit_session_ts and cit_session_src | Analytics. Local storage. | Holds a random visit number, the time of your last page view and how you reached the site, for our own analytics. | Replaced after 30 minutes without activity. Deleted when you turn analytics off. |
cit_session_sig | Analytics. Cookie that scripts cannot read. | Confirms that analytics events come from the browser that started the visit. | 30 minutes. |
cit_fi_, cit_ff_ and cit_de_ followed by a form name | Analytics. Session storage. | Notes that a form interaction was already counted so it is not counted twice. | Until you close the tab. Deleted when you turn analytics off. |
_ga and _ga_ followed by an ID | Analytics. Google Analytics cookies. | Set by Google Analytics, when we have it turned on, to tell visits and visitors apart. | Up to 2 years under Google's settings. We delete them when you turn analytics off. |
_gid | Analytics. Google Analytics cookie. | Set by Google Analytics, when we have it turned on, to group page views into a visit. | 24 hours. We delete it when you turn analytics off. |
_gcl_au and other _gcl_ cookies | Marketing. Google Ads cookies. | May be set by Google Ads tags to connect an ad click with a later call or request. | Up to 90 days under Google's settings. We delete them when you turn marketing off. |
_ud and keys named after the contact form | Necessary when you use the contact form. Local storage. | Set by the HighLevel (LeadConnector) form script that runs our contact form, so the form can keep the details you entered and confirm that your request was sent. | Until you clear site data. |
Supabase sign-in cookies, named sb- followed by a project ID | Staff only. Cookies. | Keep authorized Boston Pipelining staff signed in to the site administration area. Public visitors do not receive them. | Until the staff member signs out or the sign-in session ends. |
sidebar_state | Staff only. Cookie. | Remembers whether the administration sidebar is open. | 7 days. |
How to change or remove your choice
Use the controls at the end of this page or Cookie preferences in the site footer. Your change takes effect right away.
You can also delete this site's cookies and site data in your browser settings. If you do, we ask for your choice again on your next visit, and your accessibility settings return to their defaults.
If you have a question about this notice, email bostonpipelining@gmail.com or call 617-699-5384.