Last updated: July 24, 2026
This Cookies Policy explains how S. F. Shaw uses cookies and similar tools on sfshaw.com.
In this policy, the words we, us, and our refer to S. F. Shaw. The word Site refers to sfshaw.com and its public pages.
Please read our Privacy Policy for more information about how we collect, use, store, and protect personal information.
What Cookies Are
Cookies are small files that a website may save on your computer, phone, tablet, or other device.
Cookies can help a website work, remember a choice, protect a form from spam, measure visits, or show ads.
Some cookies last only while your browser is open. These are called session cookies. Other cookies stay on your device for a set period or until you delete them.
We may also use tools that work like cookies. These tools may include local storage, pixels, tags, scripts, and device identifiers. This policy uses the word cookies to cover these tools as well.
Who Places Cookies
Some cookies are placed by sfshaw.com. These are called first party cookies.
Other cookies may be placed by services that work with the Site. These are called third party cookies.
Third party services may include website security providers, analytics services, advertising partners, video platforms, social media services, and newsletter providers.
Each third party controls its own technology and handles information under its own privacy terms.
Cookies We Use
The cookies used on the Site depend on the pages you visit, the choices you make, and the services that are active at that time.
We group cookies by their purpose.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Strictly necessary cookies help the Site perform basic tasks.
They may help pages load, protect the Site from harmful traffic, remember your cookie choice, keep forms secure, or prevent repeated spam submissions.
These cookies do not exist mainly to track you for advertising.
Where the law allows, strictly necessary cookies may be used without asking for consent because the Site cannot provide the requested feature safely without them.
Blocking these cookies through your browser may cause part of the Site to stop working.
Preference Cookies
Preference cookies remember choices that improve your visit.
They may remember display settings, language choices, consent settings, or information entered during a session.
These cookies are not required for the main Site to work. Where consent is required, they will remain off until you choose to allow them.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how people use the Site.
They may tell us which pages receive visits, how visitors reach the Site, how long pages take to load, which devices are used, and whether a page causes an error.
We use this information to improve navigation, fix problems, and learn which content readers find helpful.
Analytics reports are normally viewed as combined information about many visits. A service provider may still receive information such as an internet address, browser details, device details, page address, referral source, and time of visit.
Where consent is required, analytics cookies and related scripts will remain off until you allow them.
If Google Analytics or another analytics service is active, its name, cookie details, purpose, and storage period must appear in the cookie list shown through Cookie Settings.
Advertising Cookies
The Site may use Google AdSense to display and measure advertising.
When Google advertising is active, Google and other approved advertising vendors may use cookies or similar technology to serve, limit, measure, and report ads.
Third party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to show ads based on a visitor’s earlier visits to this Site or other websites.
Google advertising cookies may allow Google and its partners to show ads based on visits to this Site and other places on the internet.
Advertising may be personalized or nonpersonalized.
Personalized ads may use information about earlier activity, interests, or visits to select an ad.
Nonpersonalized ads are based mainly on factors such as the content being viewed, a broad location, and current search terms. Cookies may still be used for tasks such as fraud prevention, frequency limits, combined reporting, and ad measurement.
Visitors may manage personalized advertising through Google Ads Settings. Visitors may also use recognized advertising choice services that allow them to opt out of interest based advertising from participating companies.
Where consent is required, advertising cookies will remain off until the visitor makes a choice.
A visitor who rejects advertising cookies may still see ads. Those ads should not be selected from that visitor’s earlier activity where the applicable consent choice or privacy signal prevents such use.
Other Advertising Partners
Google AdSense may work with other approved advertising technology providers.
The providers available through an advertising system may change over time.
When third party advertising partners are allowed to serve ads on the Site, their identities and purposes should be available through the consent message or Cookie Settings panel.
Advertising partners may process information for purposes such as showing ads, measuring ad performance, preventing fraud, limiting repeated ads, studying audiences, and improving advertising services.
Their use of information is also governed by their own privacy notices.
Embedded Videos and Social Content
A page may include a video, social media post, audio player, or other content provided by an outside service.
Services such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, or another media platform may receive information when their content loads. They may also place cookies or connect the visit with an account held by that visitor.
Where consent is required, an embedded service that uses nonessential cookies should remain blocked until the visitor allows the relevant cookie category.
A visitor may still follow an ordinary link to an outside service. The outside service will apply its own privacy and cookie rules after the visitor leaves the Site.
Forms and Newsletter Features
The Site may provide contact forms and newsletter signup forms.
These features may use cookies or similar tools to protect forms, stop spam, remember a submission, or record a consent choice.
A newsletter provider may also measure whether an email was delivered or opened and whether a link was selected.
More information about newsletter records and contact information appears in our Privacy Policy.
Your Cookie Choices
When required, the Site will display a consent message before using nonessential cookies.
You may choose to accept all optional cookies, reject them, or select the categories you wish to allow.
Rejecting optional cookies should not prevent you from reading the main public content on the Site.
You may change or withdraw your choice at any time by opening Cookie Settings.
A new choice normally applies to the browser and device you are using. You may need to repeat the choice on another browser or device.
Withdrawing consent does not make earlier lawful processing invalid. It stops the relevant optional technology from being used after the new choice is recorded, subject to the time needed for the setting to take effect.
Cookie Settings
Use the Cookie Settings control in the footer of the Site to review or change your choices.
The control must remain available on every public page.
The Site should offer clear choices for accepting and rejecting optional cookies. Optional categories should not be turned on before a visitor gives consent where prior consent is required.
If Cookie Settings does not open, please contact us at info@sfshaw.com.
Browser Controls
Most browsers allow you to view, block, or delete cookies.
Browser controls may also allow you to block third party cookies or clear stored website data.
The steps differ between browsers and devices. Please read the help section of your browser for current instructions.
Blocking all cookies may prevent consent controls, forms, security features, or other parts of the Site from working correctly.
Visitors in Europe, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland
For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, we seek consent for cookies and local storage when consent is required by law.
Strictly necessary cookies may be used without consent when they are needed to provide a service requested by the visitor or to keep the Site secure.
Analytics, advertising, preference, and media cookies remain off until the visitor gives the required consent.
When Google personalized advertising is available in these regions, the Site uses a consent management platform approved for use with Google advertising services.
The consent message provides information about relevant purposes and advertising providers. It also allows visitors to make and change their choices.
Privacy Choices in the United States
Some United States privacy laws give eligible residents a right to opt out of certain uses of personal information for targeted advertising, sale, or sharing.
We do not sell personal information in exchange for money.
Some advertising activity may be treated as sharing, targeted advertising, or a sale under the broad definitions used by certain state laws.
Where an applicable law gives you an opt out right, you may use Cookie Settings or another privacy choice control provided on the Site.
Where required by law and supported by our consent system, we also process a recognized browser based opt out preference signal, such as Global Privacy Control.
We will not treat you unfairly because you used a privacy right.
More information about privacy requests appears in our Privacy Policy.
How Long Cookies Last
A session cookie normally expires when the browser session ends.
A persistent cookie remains for a set period or until it is deleted.
The storage period depends on the purpose of the cookie and the provider that placed it.
We aim to keep cookies only for as long as reasonably needed for their stated purpose.
The current storage period for each detected cookie should appear in the cookie list provided through Cookie Settings.
Current Cookie List
The list below must be generated from a live scan of the Site.
It must show the real cookie name, provider, purpose, category, storage period, and whether it is placed by the Site or a third party.
The list should update when a new service or cookie is added.
Insert the automatic cookie declaration supplied by the consent management platform here.
Do not insert sample cookie names or cookies that have not been found during a live scan.
Children
The Site is not directed to children under 13 years old.
We do not knowingly use optional advertising cookies to create profiles of children under 13.
A parent or guardian may contact us if they believe a child has provided personal information through the Site.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Cookies Policy when the Site, its services, advertising partners, consent tools, or legal duties change.
The date at the top of this page shows when the policy was last updated.
A material change may also be explained through the cookie consent message or another notice on the Site.
Contact
Questions about cookies or privacy choices may be sent to info@sfshaw.com.
You may also contact us through the Contact page on sfshaw.com.