Cookies and local storage serve different purposes; neither is automatically essential.
The saved showroom route is browser-local functionality.
Google analytics and advertising tags are separate from the inquiry form.

This page explains the cookies, local storage and tags involved in browsing sourcefoshan.com and saving a showroom route, and the controls available to you.

What cookies and local storage do

Cookies are small records that a browser sends back to a matching website or service. Local storage keeps values in the browser for a website to read later. Tags are small pieces of code that can load third-party services and send technical or event information to them.

This page covers cookies and similar storage together, not only records with the word cookie in their name.

Website delivery and requested features

Our hosting and security services (Kinsta, with a web application firewall) deliver the site and protect it from abuse. Their storage is limited to what is needed to serve pages and block malicious traffic.

When you save a showroom route, sourcefoshan-showroom-route-v2 holds the saved venue identifiers in this browser’s local storage. It has no set expiry. Use Clear route in the directory or your browser’s site-data controls to remove it. Exporting the route downloads a text file to your device rather than sending it to us.

WordPress sets authentication and preference cookies only for people who sign in to administer the site. Ordinary visitors do not receive them.

Analytics and advertising

The site uses Google Tag Manager to load Google Analytics and Google Ads tags. Analytics measures how the website is used (pages viewed, approximate location, device and browser type, how you arrived). Advertising tags help us measure whether our advertising leads to inquiries and can be used for Google advertising features.

_ga and _ga_*: Google Analytics identifiers that distinguish visitors and sessions. Google’s default lifetime for these cookies is up to 2 years.
_gcl_au and _gcl_ls: Google Ads conversion-linking records. Google’s default lifetime is 90 days.

Lifetimes are set by Google and may change; see Google’s cookie information and how Google uses information from partner sites. Analytics and advertising tags are separate from the inquiry form: sending a brief does not depend on them.

Your choices

Google controls: you can opt out of Google Analytics with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on and manage advertising personalisation at Google Ads Settings.
Browser settings: every major browser lets you block or delete cookies and site storage, and block third-party cookies. Removing this site’s storage also removes your saved showroom route.
Do not track and consent signals: where your browser or a consent tool sends a signal that applicable law requires us to honour, we honour it.
Ask us: you can use the inquiry form or WhatsApp to ask about sourcing without agreeing to any marketing. For the information handled in your inquiry, see the Privacy Policy.

Other third-party connections

Pages request web fonts from Google Fonts. Links to WhatsApp, WeChat, maps and supplier or source-reference sites take you to services with their own notices. A third-party request is not necessarily a cookie, and deleting a cookie does not prevent every third-party request.

The furniture-district map is hosted on this website; any external destination you open from it is separate.

Updates and questions

We review this list when tags, providers or settings change and show the date of the last update at the top of the page. Contact hello@sourcefoshan.com with questions about a specific record or feature.