Cookie Policy.

Cookies are small files stored by your browser. Lunchbreak uses them to remember your choices and support essential site features. Where a choice is required, optional measurement and advertising stay off until you allow them.

Visitors in the European Economic Area, including its outermost regions and Åland, the United Kingdom and Gibraltar, Switzerland, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and visitors whose country we cannot tell, are asked before optional measurement or advertising cookies are set. Until that choice, PostHog may receive page views and funnel actions, such as form starts and submissions, in memory only, without cookies or browser storage, and it stops if you reject. Those actions include the contact details typed on our business forms and, after a submission, the request reference, as described under Optional measurement, so they can be linked to the request you saved. PostHog does not create a profile under your email or keep an id across page loads. Elsewhere, measurement and advertising run unless you opt out. The footer link “Do not sell or share my info” turns both off in this browser. That advertising opt-out is renewed on each visit and otherwise lasts 400 days, including after the preference version changes. Measurement still ends 180 days after you allowed it. Global Privacy Control is honored everywhere: advertising stays off, and PostHog still receives those page views and funnel actions, including those contact details and request reference, in memory only, with no cookie, and PostHog does not create a profile under your email or keep an id across page loads. The signal is read on each visit, so updating this policy does not clear it.

lb_geo is set only on preview and local deployments, when someone is checking the banner for a chosen country. It holds that country code, expires after two hours, and is never set or read in production.

__Host-lb_region on HTTPS, or lb_region on a local http address, is open or gated. It tells the page whether this visit must be asked before optional cookies. It is refreshed on each request, expires after one hour, and holds no identifier. The HTTPS name is limited to this host. If it is missing, the page asks. Server conversions use the network country, not this cookie.

__Host-lb_gpc on HTTPS, or lb_gpc on a local http address, is set for one hour when the browser sends Global Privacy Control, so the page can honor that signal before other scripts run. It holds no identifier and is removed when the signal is absent. Server conversions read the Global Privacy Control header itself, not this cookie.

Essential cookies

These support the features you request and stay enabled when you reject optional measurement. They are set by Lunchbreak on this site.

• lunchbreak_consent remembers a measurement choice for 180 days (about six months), including when you allow measurement and turn advertising off. After those 180 days, measurement turns off. A choice that turns advertising off, including “Do not sell or share my info”, is renewed on each visit and otherwise kept for 400 days, and it still applies after the preference version changes. An older measurement opt-in is asked again. It stores the preference version, measurement and advertising choices, and expiry time, without a visitor identifier.
• lunchbreak_receipt lets you view your confirmation after submitting an assessment or estimate request. It holds a signed summary of that submission, including its reference, status and, for CAD design estimate requests, the preliminary estimate shown on the confirmation page. It expires after 30 minutes.
• __Host-lb_challenge is set when you ask for a sign-in code. It holds our sign-in provider’s identifier for your email address, the time of the request and random references that we sign, not the code itself, so the code can be checked in the same browser. It expires after 10 minutes and is cleared once you sign in or sign out.
• __Host-lb_session keeps you signed in to Lunchbreak, for the expert workspace and the referral portal, after you enter a valid code or sign in to referrals with Google. It only works on the site that issued it, lasts up to seven days and is cleared on sign-out.
• lb_signed_in tells our pages that this browser is signed in, so the menu can show “Your account” instead of “Sign in”. It holds no identifier, lasts up to seven days and is cleared on sign-out.
• lunchbreak_referrer_challenge was set when you asked for a code on the referral portal’s own sign-in, which Lunchbreak sign-in replaced. It holds our sign-in provider’s identifier for your email address, the time of the request and random references that we sign, not the code itself. It expires after 10 minutes and is cleared once you sign in or sign out.
• lunchbreak_referrer_google_challenge ties a referral Google sign-in to this browser with a signed, one-time security value. It expires after 10 minutes and is cleared when Google sign-in completes, when you sign in to Lunchbreak, or on sign-out.
• lunchbreak_referrer keeps referral partners who signed in on the referral portal’s own sign-in, and partners who signed in with Google before that sign-in used the Lunchbreak session. It lasts up to seven days and is cleared on sign-out or when you sign in to Lunchbreak, including with Google.
• lunchbreak_expert_challenge was set when you asked for a code on the expert workspace’s own sign-in, which Lunchbreak sign-in replaced. Like the referral challenge, it holds our sign-in provider’s identifier for your email address, the time of the request and random references that we sign, not the code itself. It expires after 10 minutes and is cleared once you sign in or sign out.
• lunchbreak_expert keeps invited experts who signed in on the expert workspace’s own sign-in signed in to it. It lasts up to seven days and is cleared on sign-out or when you sign in to Lunchbreak.
• lunchbreak_staff_challenge is set when a staff Google sign-in starts. It holds a one-time security value that ties the sign-in to the same browser. It expires after 10 minutes and is cleared when the sign-in completes or on sign-out.
• lunchbreak_staff_return is set with it when a staff sign-in starts from a Mecka Labs page. It holds the path of that page, so the sign-in can return there. It expires after 10 minutes and is cleared when the sign-in completes.
• lunchbreak_staff keeps approved staff signed in to the review workspace. It expires after eight hours and is cleared on sign-out.

Optional measurement

With your permission, we count assessment starts, completed steps, and validation failures in daily totals. These counts contain only an event name and step number, never your form answers or URL parameters.

With the same permission, we use PostHog, a product analytics service, to understand how visitors use the site: pages viewed and time on page, the campaign link or website you arrived from, actions in our business and expert flows (such as CTA clicks, role views, form starts, completed steps, validation errors and completed submissions), page speed, and site errors. PostHog receives page URLs, browser and device information, and an approximate location derived from your IP address. Events go through our own domain first. On the business estimate and valuation forms, these events also include the email address, company name and company website domain you have typed, including before you submit, and after a submission the request reference. After a submission with measurement on, PostHog links your visitor history in this browser to your email address, name, company name and domain, and our server sends PostHog one event with your email address, company domain and request reference. This means your site analytics can be linked to the request you saved. We do not send other form answers, your phone number, or search text, and we do not record sessions or heatmaps. On the business estimate, valuation and referral form pages only, PostHog also records clicks, changes and submits on the form’s buttons and choices, without their text and without anything typed into a field. PostHog does not run on staff pages.

PostHog stores a visitor identifier and session details in cookies and browser storage named ph_…, set by Lunchbreak on this site and kept for up to 180 days, so visits from the same browser can be counted together. Two of those storage entries, ending in lb_ft and lb_lt, keep the campaign link or website of your first visit and of your latest visit from a campaign or another site, with the page you landed on and the time of each, which are sent with form events and with a business request. A third, ending in lb_sub, keeps a random ID for the business form for up to a day so a reload continues the same form. The identifier starts as a random value and, after a submission with measurement on, becomes your email address. Turning measurement off stops PostHog and deletes these cookies and storage. See PostHog’s Privacy Policy. Advertising is a separate choice.

lunchbreak_internal is a measurement cookie set only in staff browsers, after a Lunchbreak staff member signs in to our staff pages, and only when measurement is allowed in that browser. It holds only the value 1 and exists only so that our measurement labels visits from that browser as internal. It lasts 180 days, and it is removed when measurement is declined or turned off.

Optional advertising

With your advertising permission, Meta Pixel measures visits and actions in our business and expert funnels, including CTA clicks, role views, form starts, saved steps, and completed submissions. Meta receives page URLs, browser and device information, and event details to measure ad performance and help personalize ads on Facebook and Instagram. These events do not include form answers added by Lunchbreak. We do not enable automatic form matching or session replay.

When advertising is allowed, Lunchbreak stores a click id from the landing page address in _fbc, so a later submission can still be matched after you move to another page. Meta may also set the _fbp and _fbc cookies to connect visits with advertising interactions. Meta controls its advertising cookie lifetimes and handling of previously received data. See Meta’s Privacy Policy.

Accept All enables measurement and advertising. Customize lets you choose each separately. Reject All turns both off while keeping essential features available. Events skipped before you opt in are not replayed later.

With advertising permission, LinkedIn Insight Tag also measures visits in our business and expert flows and, when configured, successful submissions. LinkedIn receives page URLs and browser information for ad measurement and retargeting. When you submit an application, our server also sends LinkedIn a one-way hash of your email address so it can match the submission to an ad. We do not send form answers, your name, or your phone number. If you arrive from a LinkedIn ad, we keep LinkedIn’s click identifier in the lunchbreak_li_fat_id cookie for up to 30 days and delete it if you turn advertising off. With the same permission, the lunchbreak_attribution cookie remembers, for up to 90 days, how and when you first and most recently reached us (campaign tags in the link, which ad network you clicked from, the referring website, and the page you landed on), and we save it with an estimate request or expert application you send us so we know which campaigns work. We delete this cookie too if you turn advertising off, and remove the saved record from an estimate request if you save another step of it afterwards. With the same permission, Lunchbreak stores the referral partner’s code in lunchbreak_referral for up to 90 days and records a visit to the referral link on its own server. A random session-storage identifier avoids counting page refreshes twice; it is cleared when permission is withdrawn. Turning advertising off deletes the referral cookie. Without that permission, the code travels in the link to the estimate form instead. LinkedIn may use advertising cookies; see LinkedIn’s Privacy Policy.

Change your choice

Use Cookie settings on this page, or “Do not sell or share my info” in the footer, at any time. Turning measurement off stops future events; it does not remove earlier daily totals or events PostHog already received, which you can ask the privacy contact to delete. Your advertising choice also stops future Lunchbreak pixel events when turned off; it does not recall data already sent to Meta or LinkedIn. Your choice applies to this browser. We ask again when it expires, when you clear the cookie, or when the preference version changes.

Browser controls and other information

You can also clear or block cookies through your browser. Blocking essential cookies can prevent us from remembering your preferences, displaying submission confirmations, or keeping referral partners and staff signed in. Form answers remain in page memory before submission and are not saved in browser storage.

Submitted requests, workflow totals, and abuse prevention operate separately from optional measurement. Read our privacy information for details about inquiry handling and privacy contacts.