Cookies Policy
Last updated: October 1, 2026
This Cookies Policy explains how Design Force, a service of 500 Designs LLC (“Design Force”, “we”, “us” or “our”), uses cookies and similar technologies on designforce.co (the “Website”), and how you can control them. For more about how we handle personal information, see our Privacy Policy.
What cookies are
Cookies are small text files that a website stores on your browser or device. “Similar technologies” include pixels (tiny images or scripts that record a visit) and browser storage (information a website keeps in your browser, such as local storage). Some cookies are set by us (first-party cookies) and some by other companies whose tools we use (third-party cookies). Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser; persistent cookies stay until they expire or you delete them.
How we ask for your consent
- In the United States, analytics and advertising cookies are on when you arrive. You can switch them off at any time using the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link in the footer. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal, we switch them off for you automatically.
- Everywhere else, only strictly necessary cookies are used until you choose Accept. You can accept or reject each category, and change your mind at any time using the “Cookie Preferences” link in the footer.
We use Google Consent Mode, so Google’s tags respect your choice. When you haven’t allowed a category, the related tags either don’t load or run without setting cookies.
The cookies we use
Strictly necessary
These make the Website work and remember your cookie choices. They can’t be switched off.
Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Force (CookieYes) | Remembers your cookie choices | 1 year |
| Design Force | Remembers that you closed the announcement bar | Until you close the tab |
| Design Force | Keeps our staff signed in to the website’s content editor (only set for staff) | Session, up to 8 hours |
Analytics
These help us understand how visitors use the Website so we can improve it.
Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | Distinguishes visitors and sessions | 2 years |
| HubSpot | Recognizes returning visitors and links website visits to enquiries | 6 months |
| HubSpot | Counts sessions | 30 minutes / session |
| Microsoft Clarity | Records how visitors use pages (clicks, scrolling) so we can improve them | 1 day to 1 year |
| Hotjar | Records how visitors use pages so we can improve them | 30 minutes to 1 year |
| Design Force (Google Tag Manager) | Remembers the campaign that brought you to the Website | 1 day |
| Design Force | Remembers the campaign that brought you to the Website so it can be attached to your enquiry | Until you clear it or withdraw consent |
| Design Force | A random identifier that links your visits to this Website, so an enquiry can show how you found us | Until you clear it or withdraw consent |
| Design Force | Keeps the current visit and the pages viewed in it together | Until you close the tab |
Advertising
These measure how well our ads work and let us show our ads to people who have visited the Website.
Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Ads | Records ad clicks and conversions | 90 days |
| Meta (Facebook and Instagram) | Measures ad performance and builds audiences of website visitors | 90 days |
| Measures LinkedIn ad performance and builds audiences of website visitors | 1 day to 1 year | |
| Measures Reddit ad performance | 90 days |
Providers can change the names and durations of their cookies. The Cookie Preferences panel always shows the current list, which is updated by regular scans of the Website.
Third-party tools
The analytics and advertising cookies above are set by Google, HubSpot, Microsoft, Hotjar, Meta, LinkedIn and Reddit. They may use the information they collect in line with their own privacy policies:
- Google: How Google uses information from sites that use its services
- HubSpot: Privacy Policy
- Microsoft Clarity: Microsoft Privacy Statement
- Hotjar: Privacy Policy
- Meta: Cookies Policy
- LinkedIn: Cookie Policy
- Reddit: Privacy Policy
Managing cookies
- On this Website: use the “Cookie Preferences” or “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link in the footer.
- In your browser: most browsers let you block or delete cookies. If you block all cookies, some parts of the Website may not work properly. See the help pages for Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge.
- Ad settings: you can also manage ads personalization in Google’s Ad Settings, Meta’s ad preferences and LinkedIn’s ad settings.
- Global Privacy Control: turning on GPC in a supporting browser or extension opts you out of advertising cookies on this Website.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy when we change the tools we use. We’ll post the new version here and change the “Last updated” date.
Contact us
If you have questions about this Cookies Policy, email team@designforce.co or write to 500 Designs LLC (Design Force), 400 Spectrum Center Drive, Suite 1900, Irvine, California 92618, USA.