The Pawsitive Family uses necessary technical storage for basic website operation, security, session or CSRF behavior where Laravel needs it, and remembering cookie preferences.

The cookie consent preference may be stored locally in the browser so the site can remember whether a visitor accepted, rejected, or customized non-essential categories.

Necessary storage is always enabled because it supports basic website behavior, operational security, and the consent preference itself.

This category cannot be switched off through the cookie settings panel. Operational or security logs are not the same as optional analytics tracking.

Google Analytics 4 is Analytics only. It may be used only after a visitor accepts Analytics in the cookie preferences.

Analytics is optional and disabled unless accepted. If enabled, GA4 helps understand aggregated website usage, such as which pages are visited and how the public site is generally used.

If Analytics is rejected or no preference has been saved, GA4 is not loaded.

Paddle checkout may load on the Pawsitive Products page when checkout is enabled. Paddle is the Merchant of Record and authorised reseller for the product purchase.

Paddle checkout is transaction functionality rather than optional Analytics or Marketing. Paddle may use necessary checkout, security, sales-tax, fraud-prevention, payment, or transaction technologies under its terms and Privacy Notice.

Sources: Paddle Buyer Terms, Paddle Master Services Agreement, Paddle Privacy Notice

The /links and /hr/links social entry pages do not use cookies, localStorage, Google Analytics 4, pixels, tag managers, Hotjar, or third-party tracking scripts.

Those pages may use minimal internal server-side event logging to understand which social source or link generated interest. This logging is event-based and does not create a persistent visitor profile.

The links attribution log does not store full IP addresses, full user agents, fingerprints, visitor IDs, session IDs, or user IDs.

Marketing is an optional consent category reserved for tools that would require Marketing consent.

Marketing is disabled by default, and no optional Marketing tools are currently loaded.

Visitors can use Cookie settings in the footer to reopen the preferences panel and update their choice.

Browser settings may also allow visitors to review, block, or delete local storage and cookies directly.