Cookie Policy

Effective date: September 29, 2026

Last updated: October 14, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Black Heron LLC ("Black Heron," "we," "us," or "our") uses cookies and similar technologies on blackheroncreativestudio.com, what each one does, and how you can control them.

It should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle personal information more broadly.

1. What Cookies Are

Cookies are small text files a website stores in your browser. Similar technologies, such as browser local storage, work the same way but stay on your device and are not sent with each request. In this policy, "cookies" covers both.

2. What We Use Today

Until you make a choice, our website sets no cookies. We store one item in your browser's local storage:

bh-cookie-consent: remembers whether you accepted or declined analytics, and when. It is strictly necessary to respect your choice, is kept for about six months before we ask again, and never leaves your device.

3. Analytics Cookies: Only With Your Consent

If you select Accept in our cookie banner, we load Google Analytics 4, provided by Google, to understand how the site is used: pages viewed, time on site, device and browser type, and approximate location. Nothing loads if you decline, or if your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal. Once you accept, Google Analytics sets these cookies:

_ga: a random identifier that lets Google Analytics tell visits apart without knowing who you are. Kept for 13 months.

_ga_6PWSQWHQ1K: keeps track of your current visit, such as the pages you view in one session. Kept for 13 months.

We have turned off Google signals and advertising features, Google Analytics keeps the data it collects for 14 months, and we use it only to improve this website. If you change your mind, select "Cookie Settings" in the footer and choose Decline: analytics stops and we delete these cookies from your browser.

Declining has no effect on how the website works.

4. Third-Party Services

To deliver the website, your browser loads files from the providers below. Like any web server, they receive your IP address and basic browser information in order to send those files. Only Google Analytics sets cookies, and only after you accept:

Webflow: hosts the website and delivers its pages, images, and code (website-files.com and cloudfront.net).

Google Fonts: delivers some of the typefaces used on the site (fonts.googleapis.com).

Google Hosted Libraries: delivers the script that loads our fonts (ajax.googleapis.com).

Google Analytics: loads only after you select Accept, and sets the cookies described in Section 3 (googletagmanager.com and google-analytics.com).

5. Managing Your Choices

Cookie Settings: select "Cookie Settings" in the footer of any page to reopen the banner and change your choice at any time.

Global Privacy Control: if your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, we treat it as a decline and do not show the banner.

Browser settings: you can delete or block cookies and local storage in your browser's settings. If you clear local storage, we will simply ask for your choice again.

6. Changes to This Policy

We will update this policy whenever the cookies or services we use change. The dates at the top show the most recent revision.

7. Contact Us

Questions about this policy can be sent to:

Black Heron LLC

hello@blackheroncreativestudio.com