Cookie Policy
This is the Cookie Policy for Packs & Paws, accessible from packsandpaws.com.
1. What Are Cookies?
As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use them, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored; however, this may downgrade or break certain elements of the site's functionality.
2. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
3. The Cookies We Set
- Email newsletter related cookies: This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
- Saved article preferences: To make our site premium and useful, we allow you to save your favorite articles to your "Pack List" (e.g., your saved gear guides and checklists). We use local storage and cookies to remember these choices between sessions.
4. Third Party & Partner Cookies
In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
- Google Analytics: This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
- Affiliate Tracking Cookies: As we are an affiliate site, we recommend dog gear and services. When you click on our affiliate links (e.g., Amazon, Chewy, Embrace Pet Insurance), tracking cookies are set by those companies to log that you came from Packs & Paws. This allows the advertiser to attribute the sale to us and pay us a commission.
- Google AdSense: The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you.
5. Disabling and Managing Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
Additionally, you can manage your preferences directly on our website using our built-in Cookie Consent Banner. If you choose to decline analytical or marketing cookies, we will respect your choice and disable those tracking scripts during your session.
6. More Information
Hopefully, that has clarified things for you. As was previously mentioned, if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not, it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.
However, if you are still looking for more information, you can contact us via email at boraanilann@gmail.com.