Cookie Policy
F&W Lawn Care & Landscaping · Effective Date: October 1, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how F&W Lawn Care & Landscaping ("we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies on fwlawncare.com (the "Site"). It should be read together with our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that a website stores in your browser. Similar technologies, such as local or session storage, pixels and scripts, work in much the same way. We use the word "cookies" for all of them in this policy. Some are set by us ("first-party"); others are set by the services we use ("third-party").
2. Your Choices
When you first visit the Site, a banner lets you Accept All, Reject All, or Manage Preferences for each category below. Optional analytics cookies stay off until you choose, and you can change your mind at any time using the Cookie Settings link at the bottom of every page. We keep your choice for 12 months, then ask again.
- Global Privacy Control: if your browser sends a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, we treat it as a request to opt out of marketing cookies and do not set them.
- Browser controls: you can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may stop parts of the Site, such as our forms, from working.
- Google Analytics opt-out: Google offers a browser add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Withdrawing consent stops future collection; it does not affect anything collected before you changed your choice.
3. Cookie Categories
Strictly Necessary: required for the Site to work and to keep it secure, including protecting our forms from spam and abuse and remembering your cookie choice. These cannot be switched off.
Functional: enable features you ask for, such as the embedded Google map on our Contact page and our YouTube video. If you turn these off, those features will be hidden.
Analytics: help us understand how visitors use the Site (which pages are viewed, how people arrive, and whether forms work) so we can improve it. Reports are aggregated; we do not use them to identify you. Google Analytics, loaded through Google Tag Manager, uses Google Consent Mode: until you allow analytics it sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device, but it may send Google basic, cookieless signals (such as that a page was viewed) that Google uses to estimate visitor totals.
4. Cookies We Use
| Provider | Category | Cookie or technology | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F&W Lawn Care & Landscaping | Strictly Necessary | sc_consent (cookie) | Remembers your cookie choices | 12 months |
| F&W Lawn Care & Landscaping | Strictly Necessary | fw_attr (session storage) | Remembers the page you arrived on, the referring site and any campaign tags so they can be sent with your quote request. It never leaves your browser unless you submit the form. | Until you close the tab |
| Cloudflare | Strictly Necessary | __cf_bm; cf_clearance (only if a security check is shown) | Hosting security: tells people from malicious bots | 30 minutes; up to 1 year |
| Google Fonts | Strictly Necessary | None (font request) | Loads the Site's typefaces; Google receives your IP address with the request | None |
| Google Tag Manager | Strictly Necessary | None (script loader) | Loads our Google tags; sets no cookies itself; the tags inside it follow your choices | None |
| Google Maps | Functional | Google cookies such as NID | Displays the map on our Contact page and remembers map preferences | Up to 6 months |
| YouTube (privacy-enhanced mode) | Functional | None until you press play; then YouTube cookies and local storage | Plays our video and measures playback | Session to 2 years |
| Google Analytics 4 | Analytics | _ga, _ga_<ID> | Distinguishes visitors and sessions to measure site usage, only if you allow analytics | 2 years |
Third-party providers may change the names or lifetimes of their cookies. Their own privacy policies, linked in our Privacy Policy, describe how they handle data.
5. Do Not Track
Browsers' "Do Not Track" setting has no agreed industry meaning, so the Site does not respond to it. We do honor Global Privacy Control as described above.
6. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when we add or remove services. The effective date at the top shows when it last changed. If we add a new category of optional cookies, we will ask for your consent again.
7. Contact Us
Questions about this policy? Contact us:
F&W Lawn Care & Landscaping
2405 E. Empire St.
Bloomington, IL 61704
Phone: (309) 664-2666
Or use our contact form