Cookie & Local Storage Policy

You can change or withdraw your choice at any time, with the same ease you gave it:

• fx-cookie-consent (local storage, strictly necessary): records that you acknowledged or set a preference on the cookie notice so it does not reappear on every page. Contains a preference value and a date. Persists until you clear it.
• Session/technical storage: the site framework may use short-lived browser storage to keep navigation and rendering working correctly.

• Map tile provider (optional — consent gated): when, and only when, you accept, the interactive map requests imagery from OpenStreetMap’s tile service, which receives your IP address, browser user agent, and the tiles requested in order to serve them. Under “Essential only” the map still renders our own boundary, road labels, and amenity markers, with no request to the tile provider.
• Google Fonts: typefaces are requested from Google’s font servers, which receive your IP address as part of the request.
• Google Maps: only if you click a directions link, which leaves this site and is governed by Google’s own policies.
• Hosting provider: may set strictly necessary cookies or log data for security, routing, and abuse prevention.

We do not control third-party practices. Review their policies for details on their own processing.

Every major browser lets you block or delete cookies and site data through its settings or privacy menu. Blocking strictly necessary storage may cause the cookie notice to reappear and may affect how some features behave. You can also change your on-site preference at any time using the controls above.

For how personal information is handled generally, see the Privacy Policy.

This Cookie Policy, and any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to it, this website, or your use of the site — whether in contract, tort, statute, or otherwise — is governed by the laws of the State of North Carolina, United States, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules and excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

You and the Publisher agree that the exclusive venue for any such dispute is the state or federal courts located in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, and each party irrevocably consents to personal jurisdiction and waives any objection based on forum non conveniens. To the fullest extent permitted by law, each party waives any right to a jury trial and any right to bring or participate in a class, collective, consolidated, or representative action. Any claim must be brought within one (1) year after it arises or it is permanently barred, to the extent such a limitation is enforceable.

If you access this site from outside North Carolina or the United States, you do so on your own initiative and are responsible for compliance with your local law; we make no representation that the site or its content is appropriate or available in any particular jurisdiction. If any provision of this Cookie Policy is held unenforceable, it will be modified to the minimum extent necessary and the remainder will stay in force. See the full Terms of Use for the complete agreement.