Cookies & Storage Choices

Separate the requested function from the optional measurement.

Storage has different jobs

A cookie is a small value kept by a browser and sent with relevant requests. Local storage keeps values in that browser without attaching them to every page request. The distinction matters for chat: a conversation token can remain in local storage even after cookies have been cleared. This notice covers both forms of storage.

Strictly necessary: The saved consent choice lets the website remember a refusal or permission. A chat token supports a conversation that you choose to start. These functions are not permission to build an advertising profile.
Analytics: Optional analytics storage supports measurement of visits and activity on the website. It is held off until permission is given. Reading service information does not depend on that permission.
Advertising: Optional advertising storage supports attribution and permitted advertising uses across visits. It is subject to the choice described here, including the separate Consent Mode signals for ad-related data and personalization.
Information sent to the server: An inquiry or chat message is a submitted record, not a browser cookie. Declining optional storage does not prevent the server from receiving a message that you deliberately send.

There is no customer account or password on this website. No payment is taken and no card data is requested. Browsing contract review information or asking about a one-time legal consultation in Austin does not require signing in.

Storage names and retention

The consent record has one site-owned key: site_consent_v2. A chat token is a separate functional value, not a second consent record. The click identifiers below name URL parameters; their presence in a landing-page address does not itself establish permission to keep them in optional storage.

Browser records and advertising identifiers
Name or value	Who sets or supplies it	Purpose and duration
`site_consent_v2`	gromzi.com	Stores your optional-storage choice with its policy version. The consent record lasts 6 months unless cleared earlier in the browser.
`gromzi_chat_token` Chat conversation token	gromzi.com through the requested support chat	Lets the browser return to the conversation. It is kept in local storage for continuity until removed or cleared. Chat transcripts are retained for 6 months; token presence does not extend transcript retention.
`gclid`	Google Ads	Identifies an advertising click. It arrives in the landing URL. The site does not persist it in optional storage before consent; any permitted platform storage has the duration described in Google's own policy.
`msclkid`	Microsoft Advertising	Identifies a Microsoft advertising click in the landing URL. Optional persistence requires consent. Microsoft determines the duration of its permitted platform records under its privacy statement.
`fbclid`	Meta Ads	Identifies a Meta advertising click in the landing URL. It is not saved in optional storage before permission. Meta's policy governs the duration of records it receives.

The platform entries are not invented cookie names or fixed browser lifetimes. A URL identifier, a browser value and a platform's server record are different things. Check the platform references under Further information for their handling; ask us about an unfamiliar value rather than treating this table as permission for every cookie carrying a similar name.

For records held by Gromzi, enquiries and their email copies are retained for 24 months, chat transcripts for 6 months, and server and access logs for 90 days. The consent-choice record is retained for 6 months. Those periods describe the records, not a promise that clearing a browser deletes them from the server. The privacy notice explains submitted information in more detail.

Paid clicks arrive with identifiers, not permission.

Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising and Meta Ads

Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising and Meta Ads send traffic here. An advertisement for legal consultation in Austin or contract review in Austin can carry a click identifier in its destination address. That identifier helps connect a visit with an advertising click; it does not tell Gromzi to accept a legal matter or change the inquiry process.

Click identifiers can appear in URLs before a storage choice is made. Do not include a full advertising URL in a message if you only need to identify a page; the page name is usually enough. The website does not persist advertising click identifiers in optional browser storage before permission.

Consent Mode v2 starts denied

The consent mode default applies before the advertising integration runs. Consent Mode v2 holds ad_storage, ad_user_data, ad_personalization and analytics_storage denied until you allow optional storage. Declining or withdrawing permission sets all four back to denied immediately. The default and subsequent updates are passed to the advertising integration before applicable tags act on that choice.

The four signals controlled by your choice
Signal	What it controls	Without permission
`ad_storage`	Storage for advertising purposes.	Denied before choice and on decline or withdrawal.
`ad_user_data`	Consent for sending user data for advertising purposes.	Denied before choice and on decline or withdrawal.
`ad_personalization`	Consent for personalized advertising uses.	Denied before choice and on decline or withdrawal.
`analytics_storage`	Storage for analytics measurement.	Denied before choice and on decline or withdrawal.

Denied storage is not the same as no network communication. Cookieless measurement or consent signals can still be sent while storage is denied. They can convey the consent state and limited request information without granting permission for optional browser storage. We do not describe refusal as a switch that makes every advertising-related request disappear.

Withdrawing consent affects subsequent handling. It does not recall data already lawfully received by a platform or automatically delete a platform's existing records. To ask about information already held, use the data-request route and, where relevant, the platform's own privacy controls.

You can change your decision here.

Allow, decline or withdraw

Select Allow optional storage to permit optional analytics and advertising storage. Select Decline optional storage to refuse it, or to withdraw an earlier permission. Merely opening this page, following a link or submitting an inquiry does not count as allowing optional storage.

The same controls are in the nonblocking storage banner. To return later, choose Storage settings in any page footer, or follow the Cookies footer link and open Your choice. This part also has a direct address: gromzi.com/cookies.html#your-choice. There is no need to contact the practice to turn optional storage off.

Global Privacy Control, communicated through the Sec-GPC header, is honoured as an opt-out without asking again. An opt-out signal is not an instruction to stop a requested chat or reject a privacy request. It applies to the optional advertising handling covered by that signal.

The choice is saved under site_consent_v2 with a policy version for 6 months. It is device- and browser-specific, not a preference attached to an account. Clearing website data, using another browser or opening a private session can remove access to a previous choice. Until a valid permission is available, the four consent signals remain denied.

A blocked storage API can prevent the choice from surviving a reload. The current session can still operate without optional storage. Browser cookie settings can impose further limits, but they do not replace the controls here or necessarily clear local storage. On a shared device, remember that another person may be using the same saved browser choice.

Declining does not close the practice website

You can read all service information, use the inquiry form and send a data request after declining. Requested support chat can use its functional conversation token. A refusal does not make a legal consultation available on different terms, and permission does not give an inquiry priority.

Optional analytics and advertising storage stop being authorized. The four consent signals return to denied; optional persistence of advertising identifiers is not permitted. Necessary preference storage remains available so the website can remember the refusal. Cookieless signals can still be sent, as explained under Advertising.

If you clear the chat token, this browser can lose its route back to the conversation. Clearing it is not a deletion request for the transcript. For that, use Data request. Do not send a token in a public post or include confidential case details when asking about storage.

Optional storage stays off until you allow it.

Separate the requested function from the optional measurement.

Storage has different jobs

Storage names and retention

Paid clicks arrive with identifiers, not permission.

Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising and Meta Ads

Consent Mode v2 starts denied

You can change your decision here.

Allow, decline or withdraw

Optional storage preference

Declining does not close the practice website

Ask about a value you do not recognize.

The platforms explain their own handling

Contact Gromzi about storage