Cookie Policy
Effective date: September 15, 2026
Last updated: September 15, 2026
1. About This Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how Go-Murphy.com uses cookies and similar technologies, what information may be collected through them, and how you can manage your cookie preferences.
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
For purposes of this Cookie Policy, “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Michael Murphy, Friends of Michael Murphy, and Go-Murphy.com.
2. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your computer, phone, tablet, or other device when a website loads in your browser.
Cookies may be used to support website functionality, remember preferences, improve security, measure website performance, and help us understand how visitors use Go-Murphy.com.
Some cookies are set directly by Go-Murphy.com. Others may be set by third-party services used to operate, secure, analyse, or improve the website.
3. How We Use Cookies
Go-Murphy.com may use first-party and third-party cookies and similar technologies for purposes including:
- Operating essential website features
- Remembering cookie and website preferences
- Protecting the website against spam, abuse, fraud, and security threats
- Understanding general website traffic and usage
- Measuring website performance and reliability
- Supporting functionality provided by third-party services
- Recording and managing cookie-consent preferences
First-party cookies are set by Go-Murphy.com and may be used for essential website functions, security, consent preferences, and other website operations.
Third-party cookies may be used by services that help us operate, secure, analyse, translate, cache, or otherwise improve the website.
Where required, non-essential cookies are controlled through our cookie-consent system and are used according to your preferences.
4. Types of Cookies We May Use
Necessary Cookies
Necessary cookies support functions required for the website to operate properly.
These may include cookies used for security, fraud prevention, website administration, cookie-consent preferences, forms, and other essential website functions.
Necessary cookies may remain active when they are required for the website to function or where consent is not required by applicable law.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies help provide enhanced website features and remember choices you make.
These may include language preferences, interface settings, or functionality supplied by website plugins and third-party services.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies may help us understand how visitors use Go-Murphy.com.
Information may include pages visited, traffic sources, interactions with the website, approximate geographic information, device or browser information, and other website-performance information.
Where consent is required, analytics technologies are controlled according to your cookie preferences.
Performance Cookies
Performance technologies may help us measure website speed, reliability, caching, delivery, and other technical performance.
These technologies may be provided by website hosting, caching, content-delivery, security, or optimization services.
Advertising or Marketing Cookies
Go-Murphy.com does not currently intend to use cookies for unrelated third-party behavioral advertising.
If advertising or marketing technologies requiring cookies are introduced in the future, our cookie settings, cookie declaration, and this policy may be updated as appropriate.
Consent will be requested where required by applicable law.
5. Current Cookies Used by This Website
The cookies used by Go-Murphy.com may change as website software, plugins, security tools, analytics services, and other technologies are updated.
The table below is maintained through our cookie-consent provider and may identify information including the cookie name, provider, purpose, category, and duration.
6. Third-Party Services
Some cookies and similar technologies may be associated with third-party services used to operate or improve Go-Murphy.com.
These services may include:
- Analytics services
- Cookie-consent and preference-management services
- Website hosting and security providers
- WordPress and website plugins
- Translation services
- Spam-prevention services
- Content-delivery and caching providers
- Embedded third-party content or services
Third-party providers may process information according to their own privacy policies, terms, and agreements.
The use of a third-party service on our behalf does not authorize that provider to use supporter information for its own unrelated political, fundraising, marketing, or promotional purposes.
7. Analytics
We may use analytics technologies to understand website traffic, page usage, referral sources, technical performance, and general visitor interactions.
Where required, analytics and other non-essential technologies are controlled through our cookie-consent system.
Analytics information may be aggregated or otherwise processed so that it does not directly identify an individual.
8. Data Sharing and Sale
We do not sell personal information collected through cookies for money.
We do not sell, rent, or transfer information collected through cookies to other political campaigns, political committees, political parties, advocacy organizations, businesses, or other outside organizations for their own outreach, fundraising, marketing, promotional, or political purposes without your explicit consent.
Information may be processed by service providers when necessary to operate the website, provide analytics, maintain security, deliver website functionality, manage consent, or perform other services on our behalf.
9. Manage Cookie Preferences
You can modify your cookie preferences at any time using the Consent Preferences button below.
This allows you to review your choices, update your preferences, or withdraw consent for non-essential cookies.
Necessary cookies may remain active when they are required for the website to function properly.
10. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
Most web browsers allow you to control, block, or delete cookies through your browser settings.
Blocking certain cookies may affect website functionality or prevent some features from working properly.
Browser settings operate separately from the cookie preferences provided through the Go-Murphy.com consent banner.
Chrome: Cookie settings for Google Chrome
Safari: Cookie settings for Safari
Firefox: Cookie settings for Firefox
Microsoft Edge: Cookie settings for Microsoft Edge
If you use another browser, please refer to that browser’s official support documentation.
11. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when website functionality, cookies, plugins, service providers, technologies, or legal requirements change.
When material changes are made, the “Last Updated” date at the top of this policy will be revised.
The cookie table may update more frequently as our cookie-consent provider scans the website and detects new, changed, or removed cookies.
12. Contact Us
Questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies may be submitted to:
Michael Murphy
4920 W. Walton St.
Chicago, IL 60651
Email: hello@go-murphy.com
Our Privacy Policy is available at: https://go-murphy.com/privacy-policy/
Our Cookie Policy is available at: https://go-murphy.com/cookie-policy/