Cookie Policy
Last updated on October 22, 2026
Reviewed and approved by Dr. Cameron Freelove, DDS, MS.
What This Policy Covers
This policy explains the cookies and similar storage used on the Freelove Orthodontics & Smile Design website, what each one does, how long it stays on a device, and how a visitor can change their choice at any time. The cookies listed here match the practice’s own consent tool, which this website uses from October 21, 2026.
This policy covers the website only. Health information collected during treatment at the Kent and Sammamish offices is protected health information and is handled under HIPAA. The Privacy Policy explains how the practice collects, uses and protects patient information.
What a Cookie Is
A cookie is a small text file that a website asks a browser to store. On a return visit the browser sends the file back, so the site can recognize the same browser. Some cookies come from Freelove Orthodontics & Smile Design, and some come from other companies whose content appears on a page, such as an embedded video or map.
Websites can also store information without a cookie, using browser storage that stays on the device until it is cleared. Where the site does that, it is listed in this policy alongside the cookies.
How Consent Works on This Site
On a first visit, a banner asks whether Freelove Orthodontics & Smile Design may collect information about the visit. It offers two answers with equal weight, Accept and Reject. Until one is chosen nothing optional loads. Scrolling, clicking or continuing to browse is not treated as consent, and the banner does not go away on its own.
After Accept, the banner asks a second, separate question: whether Google may show maps automatically. Google also uses what it receives for its own purposes, so this is sharing, and it is asked on its own. The answers are Yes, allow sharing and Ask me each time.
If a browser sends a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal, the site treats it as a refusal of everything optional.
The answers are kept in one cookie on this website, and each choice is recorded with a random consent ID so the practice can show what was chosen and when. A choice is remembered for one year. After a refusal, the banner does not ask again for a year.
A visitor can change or withdraw a choice at any time with Cookie settings or on the Your Privacy Choices page, both linked at the bottom of every page. Clearing cookies in the browser also clears the answer, and the banner asks again on the next visit.
What Loads Before a Choice Is Made
Only what the page needs loads before a choice is made. None of it collects information about the visit for measurement or sharing:
- Cloudflare, which protects the site from automated traffic and sets one short-lived security cookie.
- The site’s own fonts, styles and scripts, served from this website.
- Reviewer photos in the reviews sections, served by Orthodynamo, the company that builds and maintains this website.
- On the braces and Invisalign cost pages, the payment calculator, whose script comes from Orthodynamo. Loading it sets one short-lived security cookie on Orthodynamo’s domain.
Google Analytics, site insights, maps, forms and online booking do not load at all before a choice is made.
The Categories Used Here
Always on. The consent cookie and the security cookies the site needs to work and to remember a refusal.
Collection (Accept). Google Analytics, which measures how the site is used for the practice and only on the practice’s instructions; and site insights, this website’s own measurement, which counts which links and buttons are clicked, whether a form that was started or opened was sent, what kind of site or link brought the visit, how fast pages load, missing pages reached, how far pages are scrolled, which parts of a page are seen and the type and place of errors in the page, as daily totals with no IP address, identifier or anything typed, kept by Orthodynamo for the practice and only on its instructions. Accept also allows the collection that maps need.
Sharing (Yes, allow sharing). Google Maps, which shows the office maps automatically. Google also uses what it receives for its own purposes. With Ask me each time, a map asks before it loads.
On request. The forms and online booking open only when the visitor presses Open the form or Open booking. Accept does not open them.
Cookies Used on This Site
Always on
| Cookie | Set by | Purpose | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| __Host-od_consent | This website | Stores the answers given in the cookie banner, with a random consent ID, so every page follows them | 1 year |
| __cf_bm | Cloudflare | Tells real visitors apart from automated traffic | 30 minutes |
| __cf_bm | Orthodynamo, cost calculator | Set on Orthodynamo’s domain when the calculator loads on the two cost pages; tells real visitors apart from automated traffic | 30 minutes |
Browser storage
| Storage key | Set by | Purpose | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| od_rf:… | This website | Holds a refusal for a moment so that every open tab applies it | Removed once the refusal is saved |
| od_consent_wc | This website | Counts the consent tool’s own saves, so an older choice cannot overwrite a newer one | Until browser storage is cleared |
| od_consent_restrict | This website | Passes a refusal to the site’s other open tabs | Replaced by the next refusal |
| odh_lp | This website (site insights), only after Accept | Remembers the page the visit started on, so a call, text, email, form or booking can be counted under that page | Until the browser tab is closed, or the choice is withdrawn |
After Accept
| Cookie | Set by | Purpose | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Google Analytics | Tells visits apart with a random identifier | About 13 months |
| _ga_16YM8D92H1 | Google Analytics | Keeps the state of the current visit | About 13 months |
Site insights sets no cookie.
After Accept and Yes, allow sharing
| Cookie | Set by | Purpose | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google’s own cookies, for example NID | Google, inside a map | May be set by Google when a map loads, under its own domain | Up to 6 months |
Third-Party Content That Is Not a Cookie
Online scheduling. The free consultation page offers a booking tool hosted by Greyfinch, the practice management system used by Freelove Orthodontics & Smile Design. It opens only when the visitor presses Open booking. Anything typed into it then goes to Greyfinch, which sets its own cookies under its own domain. Appointments can also be made by calling either office.
Maps. Location and area pages can show a Google map. It loads only after the visitor allows sharing in the cookie banner or presses the map’s own button, and then tells Google that the visitor viewed the page.
Forms. The contact, dentist referral and virtual consultation forms are provided by HIPAAtizer, a form service for healthcare providers. A form opens only when the visitor presses Open the form. The forms set no cookies, but keep the form’s starting details, such as the page address, in the browser’s storage for HIPAAtizer’s own site. They load their fonts from Google Fonts, so that request reaches Google’s servers with the visitor’s IP address. A patient who prefers not to use a form can call or text Kent at (253) 852-7331 or Sammamish at (425) 651-2778.
Cost calculator. The braces and Invisalign cost pages load their payment calculator from Orthodynamo. It shows a starting estimate without any personal details. A visitor who would like the practice to follow up presses Send my estimate to our secure form, which opens a HIPAAtizer form with the estimate filled in. Nothing is sent to HIPAAtizer before that press, the form sets no cookies, and nothing from the request is saved on this website. The Privacy Policy explains what a sent request keeps.
Advertising
The website carries no advertising pixels, remarketing tags or social media trackers. Google Tag Manager holds Google Analytics only.
Managing Cookies in the Browser
Cookies can also be controlled in the browser itself, separately from the choice made on this site. Every browser can block or delete cookies, and most can block third-party cookies while keeping first-party ones:
Blocking cookies in the browser does not stop the site from working, but it does clear the answer given to the cookie banner, so the banner asks again.
Washington Visitors
Washington’s My Health My Data Act gives residents rights over consumer health data. The practice asks for consent before this site collects it through optional tools, asks separately before sharing it, and honors a refusal, including one sent automatically by a browser privacy signal. The Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy explains what is collected and shared, with whom, and how to make a request.
Changes to This Policy
This policy is updated when the tools on the website change. The date at the top of the page shows the most recent review. When a change adds a new service that sets cookies, the consent banner asks again so the choice is made against the current list.
Contact Freelove Orthodontics & Smile Design
Freelove Orthodontics & Smile Design
10920 SE 208th St, STE 4, Kent, WA 98031
(253) 852-7331
(Kent)
3014 Issaquah-Pine Lake Rd SE, Suite B, Sammamish, WA 98075
(425) 651-2778
(Sammamish)
Contact form
Questions about this policy, about the consent record kept for a visit, or about anything else on this page can go to either office.