Every cookie, advertising parameter, and tracking signal on this site requires explicit consent before storage.

This Cookie Policy took effect on October 13, 2026 (2026-10-13). It is issued by Thechiveclub, trading online at thechiveclub.com, with physical and registered studio premises located at 1100 Congress Ave, Austin, Texas 78701, Austin, Texas, United States. Telephone contact: 512-555-0123. Electronic inquiries: [email protected]. Operating under Texas business registration #123456789.

This policy applies to every visitor navigating thechiveclub.com. It governs the deployment of cookies, browser local storage, session storage, and outbound telemetry tags across mobile and desktop viewports.

We group browser storage mechanisms into three distinct functional categories: strictly necessary, analytics, and advertising. We do not conflate functional necessities with commercial ad tracking.

The following table enumerates all cookies and browser storage keys currently deployed or supported across thechiveclub.com. Lifecycles are enforced strictly as stated below. Retention periods across our studio operations are defined as follows: project enquiries and their email copies are kept for 24 months; customer support chat transcripts are retained for 12 months; server access and security logs are kept for 90 days; your consent preference choice is retained in browser storage for 12 months; and all data requests are answered within 7 days.

This website receives active, paid commercial traffic from google ads, Microsoft Advertising, and Meta Ads. We state this transparently in the present tense: when you click an ad promoting our turnkey web design or hourly engineering services, the advertising network appends a specific query parameter to the landing page URL.

We actively process the following platform click identifiers:

• gclid: Google Click Identifier appended by google ads. It transmits campaign metadata to measure lead quality without exposing personal account credentials.
• msclkid: Microsoft Click Identifier appended by Microsoft Advertising (Bing Ads) to evaluate campaign return on investment.
• fbclid: Meta Click Identifier appended by Meta Ads (Facebook and Instagram) when campaigns route prospective clients to our studio.

When a URL containing gclid, msclkid, or fbclid loads on this site, our front-end scripts inspect your consent state before passing the identifier to any external endpoint. If storage is denied, the click parameter is dropped from storage. Under no circumstances do we assert or imply that Google Ads, Microsoft Advertising, or Meta Ads has reviewed, certified, or endorsed our business.

We implement Google consent mode v2 across the entire domain. By default, before you interact with our consent banner, the global tracking layer is initialized in a hard-denied posture across all four core parameters:

These four signals remain strictly denied until you explicitly click the "Accept" button on our cookie consent banner. If you accept, the script issues an update event releasing ad_storage, ad_user_data, ad_personalization, and analytics_storage to granted status. If you click "Decline" or subsequently withdraw permission, every signal immediately reverts back to denied.

When you first land on theCHIVE Club, an unobtrusive banner appears at the base of your viewport. You are presented with two clear, equal options: "Accept" or "Decline". No dark patterns, pre-checked checkboxes, or endless layered mazes are used.

Your decision is saved locally in your browser under the key site_consent_v2 with a retention window of 12 months. Nothing else on this site persists your choice. You may modify or withdraw your consent at any time. Simply click the button below or use the "Manage Cookie Preferences" link present in the footer of every page:

Activating this control re-opens the consent banner immediately, permitting you to switch your status from accepted to declined, or vice versa, in a single tap.

If you decline consent, our website remains 100% operational. You will experience no degradations, broken layouts, blocked content, or forced paywalls. Specifically:

• You can view portfolio details, pricing benchmarks ($2,500–$8,000 turnkey; $100–$175/hr hourly), specifications, and studio essays without hindrance.
• Our inquiry form (sema7e1.php) functions normally, sending your quote specifications directly to our Austin studio desk.
• Our customer support desk (mino431.php) remains functional, maintaining session continuity via local state.
• All third-party marketing tags, Google Ads conversion beacons, Microsoft Advertising UET trackers, and Meta pixels remain dormant.

Furthermore, our platform natively honors the Global Privacy Control signal. If your browser broadcasts the Sec-GPC: 1 HTTP request header, our server and client scripts treat that broadcast as an immediate, binding opt-out request for analytics and advertising storage without presenting a banner prompt.

When you grant consent to advertising and analytics storage, tracking telemetry is processed under the independent privacy statements of our service partners. Entities receiving data include Google Ireland Ltd / Google LLC, Microsoft Ireland Operations Ltd, Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd, the hosting provider that serves this site and stores the enquiry database, and the mail provider that carries notifications to the operator's inbox. We encourage you to review their formal privacy disclosures:

• Google LLC / Google Ireland Ltd (Google Ads & Analytics): Read their terms and data handling procedures at policies.google.com.
• Microsoft Ireland Operations Ltd (Microsoft Advertising): Read the complete Microsoft privacy statement at privacy.microsoft.com.
• Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd (Meta Ads): Review Meta data practices at facebook.com/privacy/policy.

You can also manage network-wide interest-based advertising preferences across American and European industry opt-out portals:

• Digital Advertising Alliance (US): optout.aboutads.info
• Network Advertising Initiative: optout.networkadvertising.org
• European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA): youronlinechoices.eu

For any question regarding a specific cookie, session key, or advertising parameter deployed on this site, or to exercise your rights under state privacy statutes (including California CCPA/CPRA, Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, and European GDPR where applicable), direct your inquiry to our Austin operations desk:

All formal data inquiries and cookie inspection requests are logged and answered in writing within 7 calendar days. If you reside in California or Texas and believe your tracking preferences were not honored, you have the right to lodge a formal complaint with the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) or your state Attorney General.