Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how Guangdong Sanon Metal Products Co., Ltd. utilizes essential and analytical tracking technologies across our digital platform. As a direct manufacturer specializing in stainless steel railing systems, architectural profiles, and hardware components, we design our digital infrastructure to facilitate seamless technical evaluation for global wholesalers, engineering contractors, and procurement professionals. We do not deploy cookies for consumer-targeted behavioral advertising or commercial data monetization. Instead, tracking technologies strictly serve operational infrastructure: maintaining RFQ (Request for Quotation) session integrity, delivering technical CAD/PDF files, preserving catalog preferences, and facilitating direct communication. For comprehensive information on how we handle commercial entity data, please review our Privacy Policy.
1. Categorization & Legal Basis
In accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive, our technical assets operate under two distinct tiers of processing:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: Essential for site stability, routing, and submission of commercial inquiries. These do not require prior consent and cannot be switched off without disrupting factory inquiry functionality.
- Performance & Analytics Cookies: Deployed (via Google Analytics and Clarity) strictly to analyze aggregate B2B catalog access and CAD drawing downloads, improving our server response times across international networks. These run solely upon your explicit consent.
2. Dynamic Cookie Inventory & Consent Controls
The inventory below reflects our active digital infrastructure. You may modify your consent at any time:
Essential
Essential cookies ensure core website functionality, secure browsing, and the proper transmission of technical inquiries and RFQ forms.
| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|
| wpconsent_preferences | This cookie is used to store the user's cookie consent preferences. | 365 days |
Statistics
Analytics cookies collect anonymous usage data to help us evaluate traffic patterns, improve technical specification downloads, and optimize our B2B catalog performance.
Clarity
Clarity is a web analytics service that tracks and reports website traffic.
Learn more| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|
| ANONCHK | Indicates whether MUID is transferred to ANID, a cookie used for advertising. Clarity doesn't use ANID and so this is always set to 0. | Session |
| CLID | Identifies the first-time Clarity saw this user on any site using Clarity. | 12 months |
| _clsk | Connects multiple page views by a user into a single Clarity session recording. | 12 months |
| _clck | Persists the Clarity User ID and preferences, unique to that site is attributed to the same user ID. | 12 months |
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a powerful tool that tracks and analyzes website traffic for informed marketing decisions.
Learn more| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|
| _gac_ | Contains information related to marketing campaigns of the user. These are shared with Google AdWords / Google Ads when the Google Ads and Google Analytics accounts are linked together. | 90 days |
| __utma | ID used to identify users and sessions | 2 years after last activity |
| __utmt | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests | 10 minutes |
| __utmb | Used to distinguish new sessions and visits. This cookie is set when the GA.js javascript library is loaded and there is no existing __utmb cookie. The cookie is updated every time data is sent to the Google Analytics server. | 30 minutes after last activity |
| __utmc | Used only with old Urchin versions of Google Analytics and not with GA.js. Was used to distinguish between new sessions and visits at the end of a session. | End of session (browser) |
| __utmz | Contains information about the traffic source or campaign that directed user to the website. The cookie is set when the GA.js javascript is loaded and updated when data is sent to the Google Anaytics server | 6 months after last activity |
| __utmv | Contains custom information set by the web developer via the _setCustomVar method in Google Analytics. This cookie is updated every time new data is sent to the Google Analytics server. | 2 years after last activity |
| __utmx | Used to determine whether a user is included in an A / B or Multivariate test. | 18 months |
| _ga | ID used to identify users | 2 years |
| _gali | Used by Google Analytics to determine which links on a page are being clicked | 30 seconds |
| _ga_ | ID used to identify users | 2 years |
| _gid | ID used to identify users for 24 hours after last activity | 24 hours |
| _gat | Used to monitor number of Google Analytics server requests when using Google Tag Manager | 1 minute |
Marketing
Marketing cookies are utilized to analyze regional B2B procurement trends and optimize our technical engineering service delivery for global stockists and contractors.
Google Maps
Google Maps is a web mapping service providing satellite imagery, real-time navigation, and location-based information.
Learn more| Name | Description | Duration |
|---|
| OGP | This cookie is used by Google to activate and track the Google Maps functionality. | 2 months |
| OGPC | These cookies are used by Google to store user preferences and information while viewing Google mapped pages. | 1 month |
3. Browser-Level Controls & Opt-Out
In addition to our on-site consent manager above, you can restrict or block cookies through your individual browser settings. Please note that disabling technical cookies may impact inquiry submission response speeds and RFQ session persistence:
- Google Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Third-party cookies
- Microsoft Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions → Manage and delete cookies
- Mozilla Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Enhanced Tracking Protection
- Apple Safari: Preferences → Privacy → Block all cookies
4. Compliance Contact
For technical inquiries regarding our data handling practices or commercial engineering disclosures, please contact our export engineering department directly at sales@sanonsteel.com.