Cookie Policy
Effective date: August 17, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Lighthouse Financial Strategies (“we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies in connection with thebucketsguy.com and related online services. It should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
What are cookies and similar technologies?
Cookies are small data files that a website may store on your browser or device. We may also use related technologies such as pixels, tags, scripts, web beacons, and local storage. These technologies can support basic website functions, remember privacy choices, help us understand how the site is used, and, when permitted, support advertising and measurement.
How we use cookies and similar technologies
We use or may use these technologies to operate, maintain, and secure the website; support navigation, accessibility, and forms; remember your privacy preferences; understand how visitors use the site; improve content and performance; measure website and advertising activity; support retargeting or audience measurement when permitted; and enable third-party services used in connection with the website.
Types of technologies we may use
Strictly necessary
These technologies support security, navigation, accessibility, forms, privacy preferences, and other basic site functions. They are active because the website cannot provide certain core functions without them.
Analytics
With your permission, analytics technologies may help us understand how visitors reach and use the website, which pages are viewed, and how the site performs. We may use Google Analytics or similar services for these purposes.
Advertising and marketing
With your permission, advertising technologies may be used to measure campaigns, create audiences, personalize advertising, or retarget previous website visitors. We may use the Meta Pixel or similar technologies for these purposes. These technologies remain disabled when your choices or a recognized Global Privacy Control signal indicate that advertising-related sale or sharing should be opted out.
Session, heatmap, or chat technologies
If these tools are added to the website, they may be used to understand site interactions or provide communication features. Optional session-replay, heatmap, or chat technologies load only after the applicable permission is provided.
Third-party technologies
Some optional technologies may be provided by third parties that perform analytics, advertising, hosting, communications, scheduling, or other website-related services. When those services are enabled, the providers may receive information such as device and browser information, IP address, page views, referral information, and interaction data under their own privacy practices.
Our scheduling page uses Calendly, a third-party appointment-scheduling service, to display a booking calendar and accept appointment requests. Calendly may set its own cookies or similar technologies and may receive information such as device and browser information, IP address, and the details you enter when requesting an appointment. This information is handled under Calendly’s own terms and privacy practices and is not controlled by Lighthouse Financial Strategies. The scheduling calendar is loaded only on the scheduling page.
Your choices
When the cookie notice is displayed, optional technologies remain off unless you provide the applicable consent. If you click the “X” to close the notice without accepting, we save a necessary-only choice for your browser. Strictly necessary technologies remain active, while optional analytics, advertising, retargeting, session-replay, heatmap, and chat technologies remain disabled. The “X” is not treated as acceptance of optional technologies. You can review or change your choices at any time by selecting “Your Privacy Choices” in the website footer.
Choosing not to allow optional technologies will not prevent you from using the basic website, although some optional features may be unavailable or work differently.
Global Privacy Control
We honor the Global Privacy Control (GPC) opt-out preference signal. When a browser or extension sends a recognized GPC signal, we treat it as a request to opt out of advertising-related sale or sharing for that browser and keep advertising and retargeting technologies disabled.
Browser controls
Most browsers also allow you to review, block, or delete cookies and other stored website data. Browser controls are separate from the privacy choices available on this website, and changing browser settings may affect how some websites function.
Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our website, technologies, service providers, legal requirements, or privacy practices. When we do, we will update the effective date shown above.
Contact us
For questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies and similar technologies, contact Lighthouse Financial Strategies at mike.moss@lfscompass.com or 330-758-7545.