Cookie Policy

Effective Date: July 15, 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Arcadia Pediatric Dental Practice & Orthodontics uses cookies and similar technologies on our website. This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that may be stored on your device when you visit a website. Cookies help websites function properly, remember preferences, improve user experience, understand website traffic, and support certain marketing or analytics features.

2. How We Use Cookies

Arcadia Pediatric Dental Practice & Orthodontics may use cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, analytics tools, and similar technologies to operate our website, improve website performance, understand how visitors use the site, support security, and measure marketing performance.

Where required, non-essential analytics and marketing cookies are not loaded until you provide consent through our cookie consent banner.

3. Types of Cookies We May Use

Necessary Cookies

Necessary cookies are required for the website to function properly. These may support features such as page navigation, security, accessibility, form functionality, and basic website operations.

These cookies cannot usually be disabled through our cookie banner because they are needed for the website to work.

Analytics Cookies

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website. For example, they may help us understand which pages are visited, how visitors move through the site, and how the website can be improved.

Our website may use tools such as Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager for analytics purposes. These tools are loaded only after consent where required.

Marketing Cookies

Marketing cookies and pixels may help us measure advertising performance or deliver relevant information about our services. These technologies may be provided by third-party platforms such as Google Ads, Meta/Facebook, or similar advertising services.

Marketing cookies are not loaded until you provide consent where required.

Functional Cookies

Functional cookies may support enhanced website features such as embedded maps, videos, third-party forms, patient portal links, review links, or other website integrations.

4. Cookies and Similar Technologies We May Use

The specific cookies and similar technologies used on our website may vary depending on the visitor’s consent choices, browser settings, and third-party service behavior. The table below describes the main cookies and technologies that may be used on this website.

Cookie / Technology	Provider	Category	Purpose	Loaded Before Consent?
klaro-consent	Website / Klaro	Necessary	Stores the visitor’s cookie consent choices so the website can remember preferences.	Yes
ASP.NET_SessionId	Website	Necessary	Supports basic website/session functionality.	Yes
_ga, _ga_*, _gid, _gat	Google Analytics	Analytics	Helps understand website traffic, page visits, and visitor interactions.	No, only after Analytics consent.
_gcl_*, IDE, test_cookie	Google Ads / Google Marketing Platform	Marketing	May support advertising measurement or remarketing, if enabled.	No, only after Marketing consent.
_fbp, _fbc, fr	Meta/Facebook	Marketing	May support advertising measurement, audience building, or remarketing, if enabled.	No, only after Marketing consent.
Google reCAPTCHA cookies / technologies	Google	Security / Necessary	Helps protect website forms from spam and abuse.	Yes, if required for form security.
Google Maps embedded content	Google	Functional	Displays maps and directions functionality after the visitor allows functional content or chooses to load the map.	No, blocked until Functional consent is provided or the visitor chooses to load the map.
External patient forms	ident.ws	External / Functional	Allows patients to access and complete patient forms through an external third-party dental software platform.	No website cookie is set by this link unless the visitor opens the external patient form service. Once opened, the third-party platform may use its own cookies and privacy practices.

External patient forms are provided through ident.ws. When you open the external form service, you leave our website and become subject to the third-party provider’s privacy, cookie, and security practices.

5. Third-Party Cookies and Services

Some cookies or similar technologies may be placed by third-party service providers that help us operate, analyze, or improve our website. These third parties may include analytics providers, advertising platforms, website hosting providers, form service providers, security providers, map providers, social media platforms, or review platforms.

Third-party services are governed by their own privacy policies and cookie practices. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites or platforms.

6. Cookie Consent Management

Our website uses a cookie consent tool to help visitors accept or reject non-essential cookies. If you accept cookies, certain analytics or marketing scripts may load. If you reject cookies, non-essential analytics and marketing scripts should remain blocked.

When visiting our website, users may choose Accept All, Reject Non-Essential, or Manage Preferences through the cookie banner. Users can also update their cookie preferences later by using the “Cookie Preferences” button available on the website.

We use consent-based script loading so that non-essential tracking tools are not loaded before consent where required.

7. Website Forms and Tracking

We do not intentionally transmit the content of appointment request forms, contact forms, health-related messages, or other sensitive information entered into website forms to advertising or analytics platforms.

Website forms should not be used to submit emergency, sensitive medical, financial, or highly confidential information. If you have a dental emergency, please call our office directly at 626-445-6666.

8. How to Manage Cookies

You may choose to accept or reject non-essential cookies. If you reject non-essential cookies, analytics and marketing scripts will remain blocked unless you later update your preferences.

Visitors may choose “Accept All,” “Reject Non-Essential,” or “Manage Preferences” through the cookie banner.

If you previously accepted or rejected cookies and want to change your choice, you may use the “Cookie Preferences” button available on the website to reopen the consent preferences. You may also manage cookies through your browser settings.

9. Browser Controls

Most browsers allow you to block, delete, or manage cookies through browser settings. Please note that blocking some cookies may affect how the website functions.

10. Updates to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. When we make changes, we will update the effective date and post the revised version on this page.