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COOKIE POLICY

Effective Date: July 16, 2026
Last Updated: July 16, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Mendez Painters Inc. (“Mendez Painters,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar tracking technologies when you visit or interact with our website at www.mendezpainters.com.

This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions.

By continuing to use our website after receiving any applicable cookie notice, you acknowledge the use of cookies as described in this policy. Where consent is legally required, we will request your permission before placing non-essential cookies or similar technologies on your device.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, smartphone, tablet, or other device when you visit a website.

Cookies allow websites to recognize a browser or device and may store information about:

  • Website preferences;

  • Session activity;

  • Security settings;

  • Pages visited;

  • Buttons or links clicked;

  • Forms submitted;

  • Advertising interactions;

  • Website performance; and

  • Other browsing activity.

Cookies may help websites function properly, remember visitor preferences, improve performance, measure traffic, prevent fraud, and provide more relevant advertising.

2. What Are Similar Tracking Technologies?

In addition to cookies, our website and service providers may use similar technologies, including:

  • Tracking pixels;

  • Web beacons;

  • Tags;

  • Scripts;

  • Local storage;

  • Software development kits;

  • Device identifiers;

  • Embedded content;

  • Log files;

  • Session-storage technologies; and

  • Advertising identifiers.

In this Cookie Policy, references to “cookies” also include these similar technologies unless otherwise stated.

3. Who Places Cookies?

Cookies used through our website may be placed by Mendez Painters or by third parties.

First-Party Cookies

First-party cookies are placed directly through the Mendez Painters website. These cookies may be used for website security, form functionality, visitor preferences, website performance, and other basic operations.

Third-Party Cookies

Third-party cookies are placed by outside companies whose services, applications, tools, content, or code may be used on our website.

These third parties may include:

  • Website-hosting providers;

  • Analytics providers;

  • Advertising platforms;

  • Social-media platforms;

  • Video providers;

  • Map providers;

  • Form providers;

  • Security providers;

  • Customer-management platforms;

  • Financing providers; and

  • Other technology or marketing providers.

Third parties may use information collected through their cookies according to their own privacy policies.

4. Website-Hosting Cookies

Our website may be hosted and operated using Wix or related Wix services.

Wix may place essential cookies that support:

  • Website security;

  • Fraud and attack detection;

  • Website stability;

  • Session management;

  • API protection;

  • Page rendering;

  • Network management;

  • Website experiments;

  • Error detection;

  • System performance; and

  • Other core website functions.

Certain essential Wix cookies may be placed automatically because the website may not function properly without them.

5. Categories of Cookies We May Use

The cookies used on our website may fall into the following categories.

A. Essential Cookies

Essential cookies are necessary for the website to operate safely and properly.

They may be used to:

  • Load and display website pages;

  • Protect the website against malicious activity;

  • Prevent fraud;

  • Submit contact or estimate forms;

  • Maintain website sessions;

  • Apply security settings;

  • Protect website forms and APIs;

  • Remember privacy preferences;

  • Manage network traffic; and

  • Provide other basic website functions.

Essential cookies generally cannot be disabled through our cookie-preference tool because they are necessary for website operation.

You may still be able to block essential cookies through your browser. However, doing so may cause parts of the website to stop working correctly.

Examples of essential Wix cookies that may be used on Wix websites include:

CookieGeneral purposeTypical duration

XSRF-TOKENHelps detect fraud and protect website requestsSession

hsSupports website securitySession

svSessionSupports website security, stability, and core functionsUp to 12 months

SSR-cachingSupports page rendering and website performanceApproximately 24 hours

TS*Helps detect attacks and protect the websiteSession

bSessionMeasures system effectiveness and performanceApproximately 24 hours

fedops.logger.sessionIdHelps identify website errors and operational issuesUp to 12 months

_wixAB3|*Supports website testing and platform experimentsUp to 6 months

server-session-bindHelps protect website APIsSession

client-session-bindHelps protect website APIsSession

oAuthStateSupports session identification and authentication processesSession

wixSessionSupports website security, stability, and core functionsUp to 12 months

sec-fetch-unsupportedIdentifies browser limitations affecting security featuresSession

The exact names and durations may change as Wix updates its platform.

B. Functional Cookies

Functional cookies support optional website features and improve visitor convenience.

They may be used to:

  • Remember choices and preferences;

  • Remember language or region selections;

  • Display maps;

  • Load videos or embedded media;

  • Support chat or communication tools;

  • Remember form information;

  • Personalize website features; and

  • Provide enhanced third-party functionality.

If you decline functional cookies, certain website features or embedded content may not display or operate correctly.

C. Analytics and Performance Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors find, access, and use our website.

They may collect information about:

  • Number of website visitors;

  • Unique visitors and sessions;

  • Pages viewed;

  • Time spent on pages;

  • Website navigation;

  • Referring websites;

  • Search terms;

  • General device information;

  • Browser type;

  • General geographic location;

  • Website errors;

  • Page-loading times;

  • Form interactions; and

  • Advertising or marketing campaign performance.

We may use Wix Analytics, Google Analytics, or other analytics services.

Analytics information is generally used to:

  • Understand website traffic;

  • Improve website design;

  • Identify popular services;

  • Diagnose website errors;

  • Improve page performance;

  • Measure marketing results; and

  • Improve the visitor experience.

Where consent is required, analytics cookies will not be activated until you approve them.

D. Marketing and Advertising Cookies

Marketing cookies may help us measure advertising campaigns and show advertisements that are more relevant to potential customers.

They may be used to:

  • Identify whether a visitor arrived through an advertisement;

  • Measure advertisement conversions;

  • Limit how often an advertisement is displayed;

  • Build audiences for advertising campaigns;

  • Retarget previous website visitors;

  • Understand interactions with advertisements;

  • Measure calls, forms, or estimate requests generated by advertising; and

  • Improve advertising effectiveness.

Marketing technologies may be provided by platforms such as:

  • Google Ads;

  • Google Tag Manager;

  • Meta or Facebook;

  • Instagram;

  • YouTube;

  • Microsoft Advertising; and

  • Other advertising providers.

These companies may combine information collected through our website with information collected from other websites, applications, or services.

Where legally required, marketing cookies will be activated only after you provide consent.

E. Social-Media Cookies

Our website may contain links, buttons, videos, feeds, or other features connected to social-media services such as:

  • Facebook;

  • Instagram;

  • YouTube;

  • Yelp; and

  • Other platforms.

These services may recognize your browser or device when you interact with embedded content or visit their platforms.

Social-media providers may collect information about your activities according to their own privacy policies. This may occur even when you do not have an account with the relevant platform or are not logged in.

A standard link to an outside social-media website generally transfers you to that website. Once you leave our website, the third party’s privacy and cookie practices apply.

F. Security and Fraud-Prevention Cookies

Security cookies may be used to:

  • Detect malicious activity;

  • Prevent spam submissions;

  • Prevent fraudulent form activity;

  • Protect website infrastructure;

  • Identify unusual browser behavior;

  • Protect APIs;

  • Manage website traffic; and

  • Reduce automated attacks.

Some security cookies are considered essential and may operate without consent where permitted by law.

6. Cookies Used With Contact and Estimate Forms

Our website contains forms through which visitors may request information or a free estimate.

Cookies and similar technologies may support:

  • Secure form submission;

  • Spam prevention;

  • Fraud detection;

  • Session management;

  • Form-performance measurement;

  • Confirmation that a form was submitted;

  • Attribution of an inquiry to an advertisement or referral source; and

  • Remembering form preferences.

Information entered into a form, such as your name, email address, telephone number, and project message, is personal information and is handled as described in our Privacy Policy.

Cookies generally do not contain the complete message you enter into a form. However, analytics or advertising tools may record that a form interaction or submission occurred.

7. Cookies Used for Advertising Measurement

We may advertise Mendez Painters through search engines, social-media platforms, directories, or other online services.

When you click or view one of our advertisements, cookies or similar identifiers may help us determine:

  • Which advertisement you interacted with;

  • Which platform displayed the advertisement;

  • Whether you visited our website afterward;

  • Whether you called or submitted a form;

  • Which service page you viewed;

  • The general effectiveness of the campaign; and

  • Whether we should display related advertising later.

We may receive reports from advertising providers containing aggregated or pseudonymous information about campaign performance.

8. Google Services

Our website may use services provided by Google, including:

  • Google Analytics;

  • Google Ads;

  • Google Tag Manager;

  • Google Maps;

  • YouTube; and

  • Other Google services.

Depending on the service used and your cookie preferences, Google may collect:

  • IP address;

  • Device and browser information;

  • Pages viewed;

  • Approximate location;

  • Website interactions;

  • Advertising identifiers;

  • Referral information; and

  • Information regarding advertisement conversions.

Google processes information according to its own policies and settings.

Visitors may be able to control personalized advertising through their Google account or Google advertising settings. Google also provides a browser add-on that can be used to opt out of certain Google Analytics tracking.

9. Meta and Facebook Technologies

Our website or advertising campaigns may use technologies provided by Meta, including the Meta Pixel or related advertising tools.

These technologies may help us:

  • Measure Facebook or Instagram advertisements;

  • Understand whether an advertisement resulted in a website visit;

  • Measure contact-form or estimate-request conversions;

  • Create advertising audiences;

  • Display advertisements to previous website visitors; and

  • Improve campaign performance.

Meta may collect information according to its own privacy and advertising policies.

Visitors may be able to control advertising preferences through their Facebook or Instagram account settings.

10. Embedded Videos, Maps, and Third-Party Content

Our website may display or link to third-party content, including:

  • Videos;

  • Maps;

  • Reviews;

  • Color-selection tools;

  • Financing information;

  • Social-media posts;

  • Supplier websites; and

  • Manufacturer websites.

Third-party content may place cookies when:

  • The content loads;

  • You click the content;

  • You play a video;

  • You interact with a map;

  • You open a review widget; or

  • You visit the third party’s website.

Where our consent-management tool supports it, third-party components may remain blocked until you approve the relevant cookie category.

11. Session Cookies and Persistent Cookies

We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies.

Session Cookies

Session cookies generally remain on your device only while your browser is open. They are usually deleted when you close the browser.

Session cookies may support:

  • Website navigation;

  • Form security;

  • Session identification;

  • Temporary preferences; and

  • Fraud prevention.

Persistent Cookies

Persistent cookies remain on your device after you close your browser until they expire or are deleted.

Persistent cookies may support:

  • Remembering cookie preferences;

  • Recognizing returning visitors;

  • Analytics;

  • Advertising;

  • Website testing; and

  • Long-term security or stability functions.

The duration of a persistent cookie depends on its purpose and the provider that places it.

12. How Long Cookies Remain on Your Device

Cookies may remain on your device for different periods.

They may last:

  • For the current browsing session;

  • For several hours;

  • For several days;

  • For several months; or

  • Until manually deleted.

Cookie providers may change cookie durations as their technologies and services evolve.

The current duration of cookies may be available through:

  • Our cookie-preference center;

  • Your browser’s cookie storage;

  • A website cookie scan;

  • The applicable third party’s cookie documentation; or

  • The privacy policy of the provider that placed the cookie.

13. Cookie Consent and Preferences

Where required or made available, our website may display a cookie banner or privacy-preference tool.

The tool may allow you to:

  • Accept all cookies;

  • Reject non-essential cookies;

  • Approve selected cookie categories;

  • Review cookie purposes;

  • Change previous choices; and

  • Withdraw consent.

Essential cookies may remain active because they are necessary for website security and operation.

Your cookie choices may be saved through a cookie. If you delete that cookie, clear your browser data, use another browser, use another device, or browse privately, you may need to make your selections again.

14. Withdrawing or Changing Consent

You may withdraw or change your consent to non-essential cookies at any time by:

  • Opening the cookie-preference tool on our website;

  • Selecting the privacy or cookie-settings link in the website footer;

  • Clearing stored website cookies;

  • Changing browser privacy settings; or

  • Contacting us for assistance.

Withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of cookie use that occurred before consent was withdrawn.

Changing your preferences may not remove information already processed by a third party. You may need to contact the third party or change your account settings directly.

15. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser

Most browsers allow you to:

  • View stored cookies;

  • Delete cookies;

  • Block all cookies;

  • Block third-party cookies;

  • Allow cookies only from selected websites;

  • Clear cookies when the browser closes;

  • Send privacy signals; and

  • Control tracking permissions.

Cookie controls are commonly located under browser settings labeled:

  • Privacy;

  • Security;

  • Cookies;

  • Site Data;

  • Tracking Protection; or

  • Website Permissions.

Browser controls vary depending on the browser, operating system, and device.

Blocking all cookies may prevent portions of the website from operating properly, including contact forms, preference settings, embedded content, and security features.

16. Mobile-Device Controls

Mobile devices may provide settings that allow you to:

  • Limit advertising tracking;

  • Reset advertising identifiers;

  • Restrict application tracking;

  • Block cross-site tracking;

  • Clear browser data;

  • Disable location access; and

  • Control website permissions.

These controls are generally available through the privacy or advertising settings of the device.

Disabling a mobile advertising identifier does not necessarily prevent all advertising or analytics activity.

17. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track

Certain browsers and extensions may send signals such as:

  • Global Privacy Control;

  • Do Not Track;

  • Opt-out preference signals; or

  • Other automated privacy requests.

There is not one universally accepted standard for every browser privacy signal.

Where applicable law requires us or our service providers to recognize a valid opt-out preference signal, we will take reasonable steps to process it as required.

Our website may not respond to every traditional Do Not Track signal.

18. Opting Out of Targeted Advertising

Depending on your location, you may have the right to opt out of:

  • Targeted advertising;

  • Cross-context behavioral advertising;

  • The sharing of personal information for advertising; or

  • Certain uses of advertising cookies.

You may exercise available choices by:

  • Rejecting marketing cookies;

  • Using our cookie-preference tool;

  • Enabling a recognized browser opt-out signal;

  • Changing advertising settings with the relevant provider; or

  • Contacting us.

Opting out of targeted advertising does not mean you will stop seeing advertisements. It generally means that advertisements may be less personalized.

19. Cookie Information and Personal Information

Some cookie information may be considered personal information under applicable privacy laws.

Cookie information may be connected with:

  • An IP address;

  • A browser identifier;

  • A device identifier;

  • A customer inquiry;

  • An advertising conversion;

  • A website session; or

  • Other information reasonably associated with a person or device.

Our handling of personal information collected through cookies is described in our Privacy Policy.

20. Legal Bases for Using Cookies

Where applicable data-protection law requires a legal basis, we may use cookies based on:

Necessity

Essential cookies may be used when necessary to operate, secure, and provide the website.

Consent

Functional, analytics, and marketing cookies may be used with your consent where required.

Legitimate Interests

In jurisdictions where permitted, certain limited technologies may be used for legitimate interests such as:

  • Website security;

  • Fraud prevention;

  • Service improvement;

  • Audience measurement; and

  • Business administration.

We will balance these interests against applicable privacy rights.

Legal Obligations

Cookies or related records may be used where necessary to comply with a legal requirement or demonstrate consent choices.

21. Disclosure of Cookie Information

Information collected through cookies may be disclosed to:

  • Wix and website-hosting providers;

  • Website developers and administrators;

  • Analytics providers;

  • Advertising providers;

  • Social-media platforms;

  • Security and fraud-prevention providers;

  • Customer-management providers;

  • Professional advisors;

  • Government authorities where legally required; and

  • Other service providers supporting our website or advertising.

These recipients may process cookie information on our behalf or for their own purposes, depending on the service and applicable agreement.

22. International Processing

Certain cookie providers may process or store information outside Massachusetts or outside the United States.

When information is transferred across borders, it may be subject to different privacy and government-access laws.

The applicable third-party provider is responsible for its own international transfers and privacy practices.

23. Children’s Privacy

Our website is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly use cookies to create advertising profiles of children under 13.

If we learn that information was knowingly collected online from a child under 13 without appropriate authorization, we will take reasonable steps to address the matter.

Parents or guardians may contact us with concerns.

24. Updates to Our Cookie List

The cookies used by our website may change when we:

  • Update the website;

  • Add or remove services;

  • Change advertising providers;

  • Add videos, maps, forms, or widgets;

  • Install applications or custom code;

  • Change analytics tools;

  • Modify security services; or

  • Receive platform updates from Wix or other providers.

For that reason, the examples in this policy may not include every cookie used at every moment.

We may use a cookie scanner or consent-management platform to identify and categorize cookies currently used on the website.

25. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in:

  • Website technology;

  • Cookie practices;

  • Analytics tools;

  • Advertising platforms;

  • Third-party integrations;

  • Legal requirements; or

  • Our business operations.

When we update this policy, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of the page.

Material changes may also be communicated through the website or cookie banner when appropriate.

26. Relationship to Other Policies

This Cookie Policy should be read together with our:

  • Privacy Policy;

  • Terms and Conditions;

  • Cookie-preference settings; and

  • Any additional notices displayed when information is collected.

If this Cookie Policy conflicts with a mandatory legal requirement, the applicable legal requirement will control.

27. Contact Us

Questions, concerns, or requests regarding cookies or similar technologies may be directed to:

Mendez Painters Inc.
5 MacKenzie Lane
Wakefield, Massachusetts 01880

Phone: (781) 309-2565
Email: mendezpaintersinc@gmail.com
Website: www.mendezpainters.com

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