Cookie Policy
Every tool this website loads that can set a cookie, named, and how to turn each one off. Last updated October 18, 2026.
What a cookie is
A cookie is a small file a website stores in your browser so it can remember something between one page and the next. Similar tools do the same job another way, such as your browser's local storage and session storage. Where we say cookies below, we mean those too.
A plain fact first
This site has no cookie banner and no cookie settings button. Instead, the Meta Pixel and Microsoft Clarity do not load at all if you are in California, Canada, the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, or if your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal. The other tools below load as described, and the rest of the control is in your browser, covered at the bottom.
Strictly necessary
Cloudflare Turnstile checks that an inquiry came from a person and not a bot. It loads on the pages with an inquiry form. It is a security check, not advertising.
Session storage holds a few short notes that vanish when you close the tab. am_attr_v1 records the first page of your visit, the website that sent you and any campaign tags, and it leaves your browser only inside an inquiry you choose to send. sv_lead, sv_lead_kind and sv_nl_email carry the result of an inquiry from the form to the thank-you page, so a lead is counted once and the next step fits what you asked about.
Analytics
Google Analytics 4, loaded through Google Tag Manager, shows us which pages people visit and how they found us. It sets cookies that begin with _ga so it can tell a returning browser from a new one. Tag Manager is the container that loads it and sets nothing on its own.
These run under Google Consent Mode, set by place. If you are in California, Canada, the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, analytics starts switched off. With no banner, nothing switches it on, so Google's tags run in a mode that sets no analytics cookies. Everywhere else in the United States it starts on.
Advertising
The Meta Pixel tells us whether people who see Stem & Vine on Facebook or Instagram visit the site, tap our phone number or send an inquiry. It does not load if you are in California, Canada, the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, or if your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal. If we cannot tell where you are, it does not load either. Everywhere else it loads, and Google's consent settings play no part in it. It can set cookies and send what it collects to Meta, which handles it under its own privacy policy. To tell where you are, the page asks our host for a single yes or no. It is not stored with your location, and your browser keeps the answer for 30 days in local storage under the name sv_geo_ask_v1.
Session replays and heatmaps
Microsoft Clarity shows us heatmaps and where people scroll and tap, so we can see which parts of a page help. It follows the same rule as the Meta Pixel: it does not load in California, Canada, the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, when your location is unknown, or when your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal. Where it does load, we set it to run with analytics and ad storage denied, which is Clarity's no-consent mode. Microsoft handles what it collects under its own terms.
Other services you may meet
The map on the home page is a Google Maps embed that loads as you scroll to it, and Google may set its own cookies. The newsletter form sends you to Square in a new tab, and Eventbrite handles ticketing on its own site. Once you are on Square or Eventbrite, their cookies and policies apply.
How to change what loads
Your browser holds the off switch. Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge all let you block cookies, delete the ones already stored, or warn you before one is set. Blocking trackers or cookies will not break this site: the pages, the inquiry form and the phone link all keep working.
Google publishes an opt-out add-on for Analytics at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout, and Facebook and Instagram have their own ad settings inside each app. To ask us to delete what we hold about you, use the contact page or call (410) 429-7095. The wider picture is in our Privacy Policy.
When this policy changes
We rewrite this policy in the same change as the tracking code it describes, so it can't drift into describing a different site. The date at the top moves when that happens.