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Cookies & Tracking
How authentication, service technology and optional media work on this site.
Last updated: November 1, 2026
Your browsing location
The homepage can use an approximate city and region supplied by our hosting provider to suggest relevant professionals. It does not request precise device location. You can choose a different city or all locations. When you make that choice, a first-party preference cookie remembers it for 30 days on this browser. We do not add a visitor identifier or save raw IP addresses for this personalization feature. Hosting and security logs are handled separately as described in our Privacy Policy.
Essential service technology
The public directory can be browsed without signing in. Account and administration features use authentication cookies to maintain and refresh sessions. Hosting and security systems process request and device information to deliver pages and protect against abuse. Blocking necessary cookies can prevent signed-in features from working.
Matching feedback and measurement
Our first-party system records bounded public-page views, searches, link/contact clicks, contact-form starts and scroll milestones, alongside server-side guided matching, accepted inquiries and voluntary quality feedback. The footer control disables optional browser measurement and we honor Global Privacy Control for those browser events. A local browser preference remembers that choice; no analytics visitor ID or session replay is used. This is separate from a third-party advertising cookie. The current directory implementation does not include advertising pixels or a cross-site advertising-cookie feature. See the Privacy Policy for the information recorded and retention behavior.
Videos and external destinations
Profile videos load an embedded player when you choose to play them. The video provider may then receive technical information and use its own cookies or similar technology. Video images can be fetched through the site’s image delivery service. External website, map and business-profile links are subject to the destination’s policies when opened.
Your controls
You can inspect, block and delete cookies in your browser, decline microphone permission and choose not to play embedded media. The directory does not currently alter its behavior in response to the legacy Do Not Track setting. If tracking features change, we will update these disclosures and implement choices required by applicable law. Contact Optimize5 using the address below with a question about a specific technology.