Gopher Studios

Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 24, 2026

Gopher Studios builds and operates AI automation, custom application, consulting, and related technology services for small businesses, lean teams, and individuals. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and how we handle communications, including SMS/text messaging.

Information we collect

We may collect information you provide directly to us, including:

  • name and business or household contact information;
  • email address and phone number;
  • messages, consultation requests, and support requests you send to us;
  • information needed to design, configure, support, or maintain services you request.

Our website may also collect basic technical information such as browser type, device information, IP address, pages visited, and similar usage data for security, troubleshooting, and site improvement.

How we use information

We use information to:

  • respond to inquiries and consultation requests;
  • provide, configure, and support requested services;
  • send service-related updates, scheduling messages, and support communications;
  • improve our website, products, and customer experience;
  • protect our systems, customers, and services from abuse or misuse;
  • comply with legal, regulatory, or contractual obligations.

SMS Communications

Gopher Studios may send SMS messages to users who have opted in to receive conversational or operational messages related to their request, including follow-ups, call summaries, scheduling coordination, support updates, and reminders. Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply. Users may reply STOP to opt out or HELP for help. Consent to receive SMS messages is not a condition of purchase.

Gopher Studios does not sell, rent, share, or transfer mobile phone numbers or SMS consent information to third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.

How we share information

We do not sell personal information. We may share information only as needed with service providers who help us operate our website, communications, scheduling, infrastructure, or support services; when required by law; to protect rights and security; or with your direction or consent.

Optional advertising measurement on Gopher Drones

Optional base-tag coverage includes current Drones service, portfolio and home-preparation pages. Legal, archived and redirect-only pages are not measured. Reading a clean legal-page URL does not prevent measurement when you return to a covered page.

This section covers Gopher Drones advertising measurement. Gopher Studios has separate choices described below. Measurement is off unless it is enabled on Drones and you explicitly choose Allow advertising measurement in Advertising privacy choices. If those controls are not available, this optional measurement is not active. You can decline or close the choices and still use our email and callback options.

If you allow it, the Google Ads base tag (AW-18439247638) can receive basic page and browser information, including the public page URL and title, referrer, IP address, browser details and advertising-cookie identifiers. It may read or set advertising cookies. We keep personalized advertising, remarketing use and user-data features disabled. We do not send your name, email, phone number, property address, inquiry message, callback payload or email-link contents to this tag. When you explicitly allow measurement and then submit a real-estate inquiry on Gopher Drones, we send one conversion event only after the contact service confirms acceptance. The event identifies the configured conversion action and contains no inquiry fields. It reports an accepted inquiry, not a qualified lead or confirmed booking. We do not count contact-button clicks, other service inquiries, rejected requests or unconfirmed receipts. Measurement must be active both when you submit and when acceptance arrives; we do not replay an earlier request after you grant permission or the tag finishes loading.

To limit accidental disclosure, measurement does not start on pages with unreviewed URL or referrer values. Only public Drones page paths, listed section anchors, literal campaign fields utm_source=google, utm_medium=cpc and utm_campaign=re_search_2026_09 or wedding_search_test, and bounded Google advertising parameters are permitted. Click identifiers (gclid, gbraid and wbraid), numeric source/campaign metadata (gad_source, gad and gad_campaignid), and listed gclsrc values can remain in the URL and same-site referrer for Google to read only after you allow measurement. External referrers must be an approved origin alone, without search text or other path/query details. Unknown, duplicate, oversized or free-text parameters prevent the tag from loading without changing navigation. These format limits reduce accidental disclosure; they cannot prove an identifier came from Google or detect all personal data disguised as an identifier. Do not put personal information in URLs. Bounded Tag Assistant debugging values (a numeric gtm_debug timestamp or _dbg=1) and its origin-only referring address are also permitted after your choice to allow measurement. Some legitimate formats may remain blocked, so attribution is incomplete. We do not copy click identifiers into inquiry records. After opt-in, Google may use advertising identifiers to attribute the acceptance event, which contains no inquiry fields, to an ad interaction. This does not identify the inquiry in our inbox or establish whether the request is qualified.

We store only your measurement choice, policy version and timestamps in this browser for up to 180 days separately for the exact Drones hostname you visit (www.gopherdrones.com or gopherdrones.com). This is a preference duration, not an inquiry-retention policy or a promise about Google's retention. A changed or expired policy requires a new choice. If browser storage is unavailable, choices may not persist; the controls show that limitation. Choices do not automatically transfer across hostnames, devices, browsers or the Studios website.

Use Advertising privacy choices on Drones to withdraw permission. We stop new site dispatch to the tag, cancel pending initialization where possible, save the denied choice and prevent reinitialization on this page or later pages that can read your choice. We ask already-loaded Google code to deny consent and attempt to clear visible first-party Google Ads cookies at the site root. Removing a script does not unload code that already ran, retract earlier sends or erase Google's records. Already-loaded code and in-flight requests may continue until you leave or reload. We do not force a reload or discard an in-progress inquiry. Browser site-data controls can clear cookies we cannot access; third-party cookies are controlled by the browser and Google.

See Google's Privacy Policy and how Google uses information from sites that use its services. Advertising measurement choices are separate from requesting a reply and from SMS consent. Existing hosting, security and font requests are not this optional advertising measurement.

Optional advertising measurement on Gopher Studios

Optional base-tag coverage includes current Studios service pages, including photography and business services, and their published directory aliases. Legal, archived and redirect-only pages are not measured. This base-tag coverage does not turn business or other service requests into wedding or sports conversions.

Gopher Studios stores a separate choice for the exact Studios hostname you visit (www.gopherstudios.com or gopherstudios.com). The optional Google Ads tag is off until you choose Allow in Advertising privacy choices. If the controls are unavailable, the tag is not active. Declining does not affect the inquiry form. This choice is separate from SMS consent and from any choice made on Gopher Drones.

After you allow it, the Google Ads base tag (AW-18439247638) can receive the page URL and title, referrer, IP address, browser details and advertising-cookie identifiers; it may read or set advertising cookies. We keep personalized advertising, remarketing use and user-data features disabled. Only reviewed Studios page paths, anchors, literal Google campaign values and bounded advertising parameters are eligible. Unknown, duplicate, oversized or free-text URL parameters, or unreviewed referrers, prevent the tag from loading. These format limits cannot prove that a click identifier came from Google or detect every disguised personal detail. Do not put personal information in URLs. Bounded Tag Assistant debugging values (a numeric gtm_debug timestamp or _dbg=1) and its origin-only referring address are also permitted after your choice to allow measurement.

The current Google Ads links use the wedding or sports campaign name, a keyword field limited to the approved campaign keywords, and a numeric creative ID. Other keyword text is blocked. A URL with an unreviewed section anchor can also stop optional measurement on that page without changing your saved permission for a later reviewed page.

With your permission, the allowed gclid, gbraid, wbraid and campaign parameters on a Studios landing page may be carried through marked same-site service links to the Studios inquiry form. The form-page URL can also show the selected service and first-game offer marker, which the tag may read. Advertising parameters are not copied into the contact-service message or stored in our application records. If measurement is active when you submit a wedding inquiry and when the contact service confirms acceptance, we send one wedding conversion event containing only the configured conversion action. The existing wedding action is shared with Gopher Drones. The separate sports conversion action is sent for an accepted sports-streaming inquiry only when measurement is active at submission and acceptance. We do not send names, email addresses, phone numbers, inquiry messages or SMS consent to the Ads tag. We do not count link clicks, other service inquiries, rejected requests or unconfirmed receipts. An accepted request is not a qualified lead or confirmed booking, and an event dispatch is not proof that Google received or attributed it.

We store only your Studios measurement choice, policy version and timestamps in this browser for up to 180 days. The choice does not transfer across hostnames, devices, browsers or the Drones website. Withdrawal stops new site dispatch and future initialization where the choice is available. We ask already-loaded Google code to deny consent and attempt to clear visible first-party Google Ads cookies, but code already running or in-flight requests may continue until you leave or reload. Earlier sends cannot be recalled. Browser site-data controls can clear cookies we cannot access.

Data security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards to protect information. No system can be guaranteed perfectly secure, but we design our services with privacy, oversight, and appropriate access controls in mind.

Data retention

We retain information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including providing services, maintaining records, resolving disputes, and meeting legal or operational requirements.

Your choices

You may ask us to update, correct, or delete information you have provided, subject to legal and operational limits. You may opt out of SMS messages by replying STOP.

Contact

Questions about this policy or our privacy practices can be sent to jimmy@gopherdrones.com.