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Privacy & Website Analytics

When you send an inquiry, Northern Carts uses your name, contact details, message and available referral or campaign information to respond and manage your request in our staff CRM. Please do not include sensitive financial information. Call 517-768-0248 with questions about your information.

Optional website analytics

When analytics is enabled under the choices described below, this website stores randomly generated browser and session identifiers in your browser. These help us estimate visits and see which pages and carts are popular. We record page paths, referral or campaign labels, device category and actions such as cart views, photo views, phone clicks and successful inquiries. Analytics identifiers are hashed on the server. Detailed event history is retained for up to 90 days.

You can disable analytics and still browse and submit inquiries. Browser privacy controls and blocked scripts may also prevent tracking. We do not use this feature to identify anonymous visitors by name. Raw IP addresses are not stored in analytics; temporary hashed network identifiers help limit automated submissions.

One choice for both analytics systems

We use Google Analytics and our own analytics dashboard in the staff portal to understand website visits and cart interest. Both use the same choice. For visitors identified as being in the United States, both start automatically unless you have disabled analytics or enabled Global Privacy Control. For visitors outside the United States, or when we cannot determine the country, both start only after you choose Allow analytics. You can disable both using the button above.

Google Analytics uses cookies and receives information about your browser, device, pages visited and referral sources. Advertising personalization and Google signals are disabled in our website tag. Google processes information under its own privacy practices. See how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

We estimate your country from your IP address using a database on our server. This lookup does not send your IP address to a geolocation company or request precise device location. Location estimates may be inaccurate, including when using a VPN. Country data: IP Geolocation by DB-IP, September 2026, adapted to a local lookup format under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

Your Allow analytics or No thanks choice is remembered for future visits on this website in the same browser, so you are not asked on every page or visit. A different browser or device, cleared browser storage, private browsing or a different website address may require another choice. Your opt-out prevents further measurement by both systems but does not delete information already collected or existing cookies. You can clear cookies in browser settings.

Promotions and outside links

Browser storage remembers when a promotional ad was shown so that it does not appear on every visit. Facebook and map links open third-party services with their own privacy practices. The optional Facebook updates panel connects to Facebook only when you choose Show Facebook updates. Facebook may then receive browser information and use cookies under its own privacy practices, independently of your website analytics choice. No Facebook advertising pixel is installed by this website.