Cookie Policy

Last Updated: July 21, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Commercial Seattle uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit commercialseattle.com.

This Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which provides additional information about how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect personal information.

In this Policy, “Commercial Seattle,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Lauren Hendricks in connection with the operation of commercialseattle.com. Lauren Hendricks is a commercial real estate broker affiliated with Windermere Real Estate Midtown.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that a website places on your computer, mobile device, tablet, or other device when you visit the website.

Cookies allow websites to recognize a browser, remember preferences, maintain website functionality, understand how visitors use the website, and support security and performance.

Some cookies expire when you close your browser. Others remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them.

2. Similar Technologies

We may also use technologies that function similarly to cookies, including:

• Local storage
• Session storage
• Pixels
• Tags
• Scripts
• Software development tools
• Device or browser identifiers
• Embedded third-party content
• Consent records

For simplicity, this Policy generally refers to cookies and similar technologies collectively as “cookies.”

3. Why We Use Cookies

We may use cookies to:

• Operate and secure the website
• Remember your privacy and cookie preferences
• Process contact and property inquiries
• Support property search, filtering, sorting, and comparison tools
• Remember properties selected for comparison
• Maintain accessibility preferences
• Load maps, Street View, and other embedded content
• Detect errors, fraud, spam, and malicious activity
• Understand how visitors navigate and use the website
• Measure website traffic and performance
• Improve website content, design, functionality, and user experience
• Comply with legal, regulatory, security, and recordkeeping obligations

We do not currently use cookies to sell personal information or for cross-context behavioral advertising.

4. Categories of Cookies

The website may use the following categories of cookies and similar technologies.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly necessary cookies support functions required for the website to operate securely and properly.

These technologies may be used to:

• Remember cookie-consent selections
• Maintain website security
• Detect spam or malicious activity
• Process forms
• Preserve a website session
• Support core navigation
• Maintain basic property search and comparison functionality
• Prevent duplicate or fraudulent submissions

Because these technologies are required to provide website functions or services requested by the visitor, they generally cannot be disabled through the website’s consent-management tool.

You may still block them through your browser, but doing so may cause portions of the website to stop working correctly.

Functional and Preference Cookies

Functional and preference cookies allow the website to remember selections and provide enhanced features.

These technologies may be used to remember:

• Properties selected for comparison
• Search and display preferences
• Accessibility settings
• Map preferences
• Language or display settings
• Other choices made while using the website

Some custom property tools may use local storage or session storage rather than traditional browser cookies.

Where required by applicable law or the website’s selected consent configuration, these technologies will be used only after you provide permission.

Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use the website.

Information collected through analytics technologies may include:

• Pages viewed
• Time spent on pages
• Referring and exit pages
• Links and buttons selected
• Property searches and filters used
• General navigation patterns
• Browser and device information
• Approximate geographic area
• Date and time of website activity
• Cookie or browser identifiers
• Website errors and performance information

We use this information to evaluate website performance, identify technical issues, understand which content is useful, and improve the website.

Analytics data is generally used in aggregated or pseudonymous form. We do not intentionally send names, email addresses, telephone numbers, message contents, or other directly identifying contact-form information to Google Analytics.

Marketing and Advertising Cookies

Marketing and advertising cookies may be used to build profiles, measure advertising, personalize advertisements, or track activity across unrelated websites.

Commercial Seattle does not currently intend to use the website for cross-context behavioral advertising or advertising-based profiling.

If advertising or remarketing technologies are added in the future, this Policy and the website’s consent options will be updated before those technologies are used where legally required.

5. Consent Management

We use a consent-management platform to communicate information about cookies and allow visitors to manage optional technologies.

When the consent banner is active, you may be offered choices such as:

• Accept All
• Reject Nonessential
• Manage Preferences

Strictly necessary cookies may remain active because they support security, consent management, form processing, and core website functionality.

Optional analytics, preference, or marketing technologies will be handled according to the choices you make and the laws applicable to your location.

Your consent preference may be stored so that the website can remember your choice.

You may change or withdraw your consent at any time by using the Cookie Preferences link available in the website footer or below.

Manage your cookie preferences:

Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.

6. Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand website traffic and visitor interactions.

Google Analytics may use first-party cookies, including cookies commonly beginning with _ga, to distinguish browsers and measure activity across website sessions.

Depending on the website’s configuration and your consent selection, Google Analytics may process:

• Browser and device information
• Website interactions
• Session statistics
• Approximate geographic information
• Referring information
• Pseudonymous cookie or client identifiers

We do not intentionally use Google Analytics to collect names, email addresses, telephone numbers, message contents, financial information, or other information that directly identifies a person.

Google may process information on our behalf under its own terms, privacy policies, and data-processing arrangements.

You can restrict Google Analytics through:

• The website’s cookie-preference controls
• Your browser’s cookie settings
• Browser privacy tools
• Google’s Analytics opt-out browser add-on

Google Analytics behavior may also be adjusted through Google Consent Mode based on your consent selections.

7. Google Tag Manager

We may use Google Tag Manager to manage website scripts and measurement tags.

Google Tag Manager is a tag-management system. The information collected through it depends on the tags, scripts, and services configured within the container.

Tags managed through Google Tag Manager may include analytics, consent, performance, or website-functionality tools.

We will not intentionally configure Google Tag Manager to transmit names, email addresses, telephone numbers, form-message contents, or other directly identifying information to Google Analytics.

Optional tags should be configured to respect the visitor’s applicable consent selections.

8. Property Search and Comparison Tools

The website includes custom property search, filtering, sorting, and comparison tools.

These tools may use local storage, session storage, cookies, URL parameters, or similar browser technologies to:

• Remember selected properties
• Maintain comparisons between pages
• Preserve search filters
• Display relevant property results
• Improve navigation and functionality

Information stored through these tools may remain in your browser for the duration of a session or until it is cleared, replaced, or expires.

Property-search and comparison activity may also be included in website analytics in an aggregated or pseudonymous form.

Using a property search or comparison tool does not create a brokerage, agency, fiduciary, client, contractual, or professional relationship.

9. UserWay Accessibility Technology

The website uses UserWay accessibility technology.

UserWay may use browser local storage to remember accessibility preferences selected by a visitor, such as:

• Text-size adjustments
• Contrast settings
• Reading preferences
• Navigation adjustments
• Other accessibility selections

These settings allow accessibility preferences to remain active as a visitor navigates the website or returns to it.

UserWay may also process limited technical or usage information needed to provide, secure, maintain, and improve its services.

UserWay operates under its own terms and privacy practices.

10. Maps, Street View, and Embedded Content

The website may use Google Maps, Google Street View, videos, social-media features, or other content embedded from third-party providers.

When embedded content loads or you interact with it, the provider may collect or receive information such as:

• Your IP address
• Browser and device information
• Cookie or device identifiers
• The page you visited
• Your interactions with the embedded content
• Approximate location information
• Account information when you are signed into the provider’s service

Depending on the website’s configuration, certain embedded content may be blocked until you provide the required consent.

Third-party providers control their own cookies and processing practices. Their privacy policies govern the information they collect directly.

11. Contact Forms

Contact and property-inquiry forms may use cookies or similar technologies to:

• Process submissions
• Maintain form sessions
• Prevent spam and abuse
• Confirm successful submission
• Protect website security

The contact details you enter into a form are information you provide directly. They are not themselves cookies.

We do not intentionally send names, email addresses, telephone numbers, or message contents from contact forms to Google Analytics.

Please do not submit passwords, Social Security numbers, banking information, payment-card information, wire instructions, government identification numbers, or other highly sensitive information through a website form.

12. Current Cookie Inventory

The cookies and similar technologies detected on the website are listed below.

This inventory may identify:

• The cookie or storage item
• The service that sets it
• Its purpose
• Its category
• Its retention period
• Whether information is shared with a third party

The inventory may update when the website is scanned, when services change, or when new cookies are identified.

A cookie may not appear in every visitor’s browser. Cookies can vary based on the page visited, browser settings, geographic location, consent selection, logged-in status, and interaction with specific features.

13. Cookie Retention

Cookies may remain active for different periods.

Session Cookies

Session cookies generally expire when you close your browser or end your session.

Persistent Cookies

Persistent cookies remain for a defined period or until you delete them.

The retention period for each detected cookie is included in the current cookie inventory when available.

We seek to retain cookies and related information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, subject to legal, technical, security, analytics, and recordkeeping requirements.

14. Records of Consent

Our consent-management platform may maintain records documenting:

• The consent options presented
• The version of the Cookie Policy in effect
• The date and time of a consent selection
• The categories accepted or rejected
• Changes to consent preferences
• Limited technical information needed to maintain evidence of consent

These records may be retained for compliance, auditing, dispute-resolution, and legal purposes.

We seek to limit these records to information reasonably necessary to document consent and compliance.

15. Your Cookie Choices

You can control cookies in several ways.

Website Cookie Controls

Use the website’s Cookie Preferences tool to accept, reject, or modify optional cookie categories.

Browser Controls

Most browsers allow you to:

• Block all cookies
• Block third-party cookies
• Delete existing cookies
• Clear local storage
• Receive alerts before a cookie is stored
• Restrict tracking technologies
• Browse in a private or incognito mode

Browser controls vary. Review your browser’s support documentation for specific instructions.

Device Controls

Mobile devices may provide additional controls for identifiers, location access, application tracking, and personalized advertising.

Third-Party Controls

Some third-party services provide their own privacy settings or opt-out tools.

Blocking or deleting cookies may affect:

• Property comparisons
• Saved preferences
• Accessibility settings
• Maps and Street View
• Contact forms
• Embedded content
• Website analytics
• Other website features

16. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track

Some browsers and browser extensions transmit Global Privacy Control or similar privacy signals.

Where applicable law requires us to treat a recognized browser signal as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, we will take reasonable steps to honor that signal.

Commercial Seattle does not currently knowingly sell personal information or use personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

“Do Not Track” is a separate browser setting for which there is no single universally accepted technical standard. The website may not respond to every Do Not Track signal.

17. Sale or Sharing of Personal Information

We do not knowingly sell personal information for monetary consideration.

We do not currently use cookies to share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

We may disclose limited technical, device, browser, consent, and website-activity information to service providers that help us operate, secure, measure, maintain, and improve the website.

These service providers may include providers of:

• Analytics
• Consent management
• Website hosting
• Security
• Accessibility technology
• Mapping and embedded content
• Form processing
• Website maintenance and technical support

If our cookie practices change in a way that creates an applicable right to opt out of sale, sharing, targeted advertising, or profiling, we will update this Policy and provide the required privacy controls.

18. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards intended to protect information associated with cookies and similar technologies.

No website, browser, transmission method, or electronic-storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

You are responsible for maintaining the security of your own browser, device, accounts, and network.

19. Third-Party Privacy Practices

Third-party services may set or access cookies under their own terms and privacy policies.

We do not control every aspect of how third parties process information independently.

We encourage you to review the privacy and cookie policies of the third-party services you use or interact with.

The inclusion of a third-party service or link does not constitute a guarantee of that party’s privacy, security, availability, or legal compliance.

20. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in:

• Website technology
• Cookies and services
• Consent-management practices
• Analytics configuration
• Property-search functionality
• Third-party providers
• Legal or regulatory requirements
• Business practices

The “Last Updated” date at the top of this Policy indicates when it was most recently revised.

Material changes may also be communicated through the website, cookie banner, or another method required by applicable law.

21. Contact Us

For questions about this Cookie Policy or the website’s use of cookies, contact:

Lauren Hendricks
Commercial Seattle
Windermere Real Estate Midtown
215 Westlake Avenue N
Seattle, WA 98109

Email: laurenhendricks@windermere.com
Phone: (206) 999-9161

Please use the subject line Cookie Privacy Request when contacting us about cookies or consent preferences.