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Privacy Policy
Last updated October 16, 2026
Effective date: October 16, 2026. This policy explains how Hawthorne Builders handles information collected through this website.
Information you give us
When you use our contact form, we collect your name, contact details, and message. The form sends your information to our team by email so we can respond to your request. This website does not have chat.
Information collected automatically
When you visit, the website collects your IP address, browser and device type, pages visited, and time on site. The tools listed below also collect information through cookies, similar storage, and requests your browser makes to their servers.
How information is used and shared
Outside services receive information to provide website hosting, traffic statistics, fonts, embedded widgets, spam filtering, security, and delivery of pages, images, files, and code libraries. For example, Akismet receives your form submission, IP address, and browser details to check for spam. Google Analytics measures how you find and use the website so we can improve it. The table below describes these services. It also lists our first-party cookie banner, which remembers your choices and does not involve an outside company.
| Tool | What it does | Cookies / storage (how long) | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Fonts Google LLC | Delivers the website's typefaces; your browser requests them from Google's servers, which receive your IP address. | None found by our scan | Privacy policy |
| Pressable website hosting Automattic Inc. (Pressable) | Hosts the website; its servers process standard request data such as IP addresses in server logs. | None found by our scan | Privacy policy |
| Gauges website statistics Gauges (provided with Pressable hosting) | Counts page views for hosting-level traffic statistics. | None found by our scan | — |
| Elfsight widgets Elfsight LLC | Shows embedded content widgets from Elfsight on some pages; your browser loads them from Elfsight, which receives your IP address and browser details. | elfsight_viewed_recently cookie — not verifiedElfsight sets its own cookie on its servers (elfsight_viewed_recently) to load and count widget views. | Privacy policy |
| Akismet spam filtering Automattic Inc. | Checks form submissions for spam. What you submit in a form, with your IP address and browser details, is sent to Akismet to decide whether it is spam. | None found by our scan | Privacy policy |
| hCaptcha spam protection Intuition Machines, Inc. | Checks that form submissions come from a person rather than an automated bot; hCaptcha receives your IP address and browser details. | None found by our scan | Privacy policy |
| Image, file and code hosting outside image, storage and code-library services (for example Unsplash, Pexels, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, jsDelivr) | Some images, files and code libraries on the website are loaded from outside services, which receive your IP address and browser details. | None found by our scan | — |
| Google Analytics 4 Google LLC | Measures how visitors find and use the website (pages viewed, approximate location, device and browser type) so we can improve it. | _ga cookie — 2 years (typical; not measured on this site)_gid cookie — 24 hours (typical; not measured on this site) | Privacy policy Opt out |
| Cloudflare security and delivery Cloudflare, Inc. | Protects the website and its forms from attacks and automated bots and helps deliver pages quickly. Cloudflare receives your IP address and browser details. | _cfuvid cookie — session (typical; not measured on this site)__cf_bm cookie — session (typical; not measured on this site) | Privacy policy |
| Cookie consent banner (part of this website) AQ Marketing (first party; no outside company involved) | Remembers the cookie choices you make on this site. If you allow analytics, your browser may also send this site, at most once a day, a list of the names of the cookies and similar storage it holds for this site — never their contents. The list is not stored with anything that identifies you, and it is used only to keep this Cookie Policy accurate. | aq_consent cookie — 180 daysaq_consent_report local storage — Until you clear your browser storage or withdraw analytics consent | — |
We do not sell your personal information or share it for targeted advertising.
Cookie choices
Analytics and advertising tools stay off until you click "Accept all" on the cookie banner or scroll the page while the banner is showing. Scrolling counts as accepting them. Use the "Cookie settings" link at the bottom of any page to switch analytics or advertising cookies off, or back on, at any time.
The cookie banner remembers your choices. If you allow analytics, your browser may also send this website a list of the names of cookies and similar storage it holds for this site, at most once a day. It does not send their contents. The list is not stored with anything that identifies you and is used only to keep the Cookie Policy accurate.
Browser signals and tracking across websites
This website does not respond to browser Do Not Track signals. It honors Global Privacy Control signals.
Other parties may collect personal information about your online activities over time and across different websites when you use this website.
Review or change your information
Call us at (781) 848-4470 to review, correct, or delete the contact information you gave us.
Children
This website is not directed to children under 13.
Changes to this policy
When we change this policy, we post the updated policy on this page with a new effective date.
Contact us
For privacy questions, contact Hawthorne Builders by calling (781) 848-4470.
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