Cookie notice
This notice explains how our website uses cookies and similar browser storage, and how you can change your choice.
Effective date: October 15, 2026.
This notice explains the cookies and similar browser storage our 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 keeps our site and 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 never sets Google analytics or advertising cookies.
We measure visits and lead sources on our own site, whatever you choose.
Our own first-party measurement records the pages you view, how you reached our site, such as a search engine, an ad or another website, any ad click identifier in the page address, an approximate location based on your network address, the first visit we recorded from your browser, and clicks on phone numbers and links to other sites. We use it to know where each request came from and which pages help visitors.
This data stays in our own website and database. We do not share it with Google or any other company, and we do not use it for advertising. It runs whatever you choose in the cookie banner, including Necessary only and Global Privacy Control, because we need it to handle your requests.
Our Google tags wait for your permission before they use cookies.
Our pages load Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager, with the Google Ads tags our advertising uses. Until you allow analytics or marketing, these tags set and read no cookies and use no advertising identifiers.
Without cookies, they send Google basic signals: the page address, the time, your browser type, the referring page, whether you arrived from an ad click and your cookie choice. Your network address reaches Google with each signal, as it does with any web request. Google uses these signals to estimate visits and ad results in aggregate, and we ask Google Ads to remove ad click identifiers from its signals.
We use Google Analytics cookies only if you allow them.
When you allow analytics, Google Analytics, a Google service, sets the cookies listed in the table below so it can tell visits apart and show us which pages help visitors.
We use advertising cookies only if you allow marketing.
When you allow marketing, the Google Ads and call tracking tags our advertising uses can set cookies and use your visit to measure and personalize our ads. These tags show us 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 keeps advertising cookies and ad personalization off.
We ask for your choice and keep it for 12 months.
Until you make a choice, our Google tags send only the signals without cookies described above. Necessary storage and our own first-party measurement run either way.
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 tell Google tags on the page to stop using cookies and identifiers, delete the Google cookies this site can reach, and pass the change to your other open tabs on this site. Google tags then go back to sending signals without cookies. If you turn off both optional categories after allowing one, we also delete our first-party visit identifiers from your browser, and our measurement starts a new record of your visit.
We keep Google analytics and advertising off when your browser sends 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, Google tags use no cookies or advertising identifiers, and the banner offers Choices in place of Accept all. Google Analytics and Google Ads turn on only if you switch them on yourself in Choices or on this page. Our own first-party measurement still runs, and we do not share it. The cookie banner and this page tell you when we detect the signal.
This table lists the cookies and storage our site uses.
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 you allow marketing, Google Ads 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. |
bpl-inquiry-journey | Necessary. Session storage. | Remembers which button opened the request form, so your request tells us what you asked about. It never stores what you type. | Until you close the tab. |
bpl-native-conversion-sent: followed by a request number | Necessary. Session storage. | Notes that we already counted your sent request, so it is not counted twice. | Until you close the tab. |
cit_attribution_session, cit_session_ts and cit_session_src | Necessary (first-party measurement). Local storage. | Holds a random visit number, the time of your last page view and how you reached the site, for our own first-party measurement. | Replaced after 30 minutes without activity. Deleted if you turn off both optional categories after allowing one. |
cit_session_sig | Necessary (first-party measurement). Cookie that scripts cannot read. | Confirms that our visit records and a request you send come from the browser that started the visit. | 30 minutes after your last page view. We ask the server to delete it if you turn off both optional categories after allowing one. |
bpl_first_touch | Necessary (first-party measurement). Cookie that scripts cannot read. | Points to the first visit we recorded from your browser, so a request you send can show how you first found our site, such as a search, an ad or another website. | 90 days. We ask the server to delete it if you turn off both optional categories after allowing one. |
cit_fi_, cit_ff_ and cit_de_ followed by a form name | Necessary (first-party measurement). Session storage. | Notes that a form interaction was already counted so it is not counted twice. | Until you close the tab. |
_ga and _ga_ followed by an ID | Analytics. Google Analytics cookies. | Set by Google Analytics, only if you allow analytics, 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, only if you allow analytics, 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, only if you allow marketing, 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. |
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. |
You can change or remove your choice at any time.
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.