Reading the current setting.
Default state
A first visit does not open a measurement popup. Google Analytics helps us understand visits and contact-button use, alongside separate daily totals. The two measures are not added together. Persisting our first-touch record or linking a visit to a customer conversation still requires your explicit choice.
Essential only stops all website measurement. We also respect an existing refusal and browser DNT/GPC signals. Aggregate only turns off Google Analytics and keeps the separate daily totals. Your preference is saved locally to remember this setting, not to identify you. An older detailed-analytics choice is not automatically upgraded to the new permission.
The hosting service may still process network information needed for delivery, security and reliability; this is distinct from our aggregate measurement store. Source categories come from recognizable browser referrers or campaign labels, not proof that an AI system recommended or cited us.
WhatsApp and email contact
Website WhatsApp buttons open Vincent's number directly and prepare a project message based on the page you selected. You can edit it in WhatsApp before sending.
Contact drafts may include one editable line naming this website and a recognizable source on the current page, such as ChatGPT or Google. You can change or remove it. Contacting us does not require choosing a source or allowing analytics. This feature adds no storage, visitor identifier or analytics request. An existing refusal or DNT/GPC signal suppresses the automatic platform label. Opening a contact link passes the draft to WhatsApp or your email app; we receive the message after you choose to send it.
Project information you choose to send is used for project follow-up, sourcing and delivery coordination. Contact our published email to access or correct contact records.
What we use
Cookieless totals
Our service stores daily counts by page category, language, recognizable source category and WhatsApp click. The measurement database stores no visitor ID, IP address, full URL, raw referring URL or form content. These totals are not forwarded to Google.
Google Analytics website measurement
Google Analytics measures visits and contact-button use by default, using analytics cookies and pseudonymous session identifiers for up to 180 days. In the EEA, UK and Switzerland, analytics cookies stay off until you enable analytics; only limited measurement signals are sent. Choose Aggregate only or Essential only to stop Google Analytics. Advertising personalisation and session recording stay off.
Advertising and session recording
This version does not load Google Ads, Reddit Pixel or Microsoft Clarity. Detailed analytics permission is not treated as advertising permission.
OpenStreetMap map tiles
Requested only when you open the global service-location map. The public tile request is handled by OpenStreetMap's tile service.
FoshanBuild attribution record (optional)
After you explicitly enable detailed analytics and click a WhatsApp entry, limited source and page information and pseudonymous identifiers can be retained to check actual inbound conversations. A click is not a received inquiry.
Retention and data types
- Daily aggregate rows are retained for up to 180 days and expired rows are removed as new counts arrive. There are no individual event records to reconstruct a person's activity.
- Only after consent, first-touch attribution may remain in browser storage for up to 30 days.
- Optional WhatsApp-entry attribution is retained for up to 90 days. It excludes names, email, phone and advertising click IDs, but can contain analytics client/session IDs. Withdrawal removes the matching intent and delivery details. A minimal irreversible dispatch fingerprint is retained for up to 90 days to prevent the same processed inbound from being sent again.
- Project information you actively send through WhatsApp or email is customer correspondence and is separate from the website analytics record described here.
Changing your choice
Return here at any time to choose Essential only and stop future measurement, or switch to Aggregate only. We stop subsequent detailed analytics and attempt to clear attribution storage, controllable analytics cookies and matching intent records; failed withdrawals are retried. Data already sent to Google follows its policies and applicable law, and cannot be promised to disappear immediately. Counts without personal identifiers cannot be retrieved or removed for a specific visitor.
For questions about website data, contact info@foshanbuild.com.