On this page
1. Introduction
This policy covers pawhonest.com, including the training blog and the review pages. It explains what cookies are, which ones this site uses, and what you can do about them. It sits alongside the privacy policy, which covers personal data more broadly.
It is written for readers anywhere in the world, and reflects what the UK and EU require under the GDPR and the ePrivacy rules — the strictest standard of the places this site is read from.
2. The words you'll see
Cookie
A small text file that a website asks your browser to store on your device. On a later visit, the information in it can be sent back to whoever set it. It's how a site remembers that you were here before.
Script
A piece of program code that makes a page do something — run a menu, load a chat box, count visitors. Scripts often set cookies, which is why the two are usually discussed together.
Web beacon (tracking pixel)
An invisible one-pixel image, or a similar snippet, whose only job is to report back that a page or an email was opened. It's a way of tracking without a visible element on the page.
3. What PawHonest sets
The current state
None. Not one.
As of the date at the top of this page, PawHonest sets no cookies of any kind — not functional, not analytics, not advertising. There is no Google Analytics on this site, no tag manager, no social media pixel and no chat widget. Nothing is stored on your device by us, and no profile is built about you.
| Category | Set by this site? | Consent needed? |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | No — the site is static and doesn't need them | Would not require consent |
| Preferences | No | Would require consent |
| Statistics / analytics | No | Would require consent |
| Marketing / advertising | No | Would require consent |
You don't have to take my word for it. Open your browser's developer tools on any page of this site, look under Storage or Application, and the cookie list for pawhonest.com will be empty.
The web host does keep standard server logs — the page requested, the time, your IP address — as every web server does. Those are logs, not cookies, and they are covered in the privacy policy.
4. The four categories, explained
Even though none are in use here, it's worth knowing what the categories mean, because you'll meet them on the consent banner of almost every other site.
- Strictly necessary. Without these a site can't do its basic job — keeping you logged in, remembering a shopping basket. These are the only ones that can be set without asking you first.
- Preferences. Remembering a choice you made, such as a language or a dark mode setting.
- Statistics. Counting visitors and measuring which pages get read. Popular with site owners, and the category most people are happy to allow.
- Marketing. Building a profile of you across sites in order to target advertising. This is the category that consent rules were really written for.
5. Cookies from links you click
This is the one place where cookies genuinely enter the picture, and it's worth being precise about it.
PawHonest earns money through affiliate links. When you click one, you leave this site and land on someone else's — a shop, or an affiliate network such as ClickBank. That company then sets a cookie on its own domain to record that the visit came from here, so that a commission can be attributed if you buy something.
Three things follow from that:
- The cookie is set by them, on their domain, under their privacy policy — not by PawHonest.
- It happens only if you choose to click the link. Reading the page sets nothing.
- It normally records only the referral and the time, not who you are. What each network stores is set out in its own policy, which is linked from the checkout page you land on.
Which links these are, and how they affect what gets recommended, is set out plainly in the affiliate disclosure.
6. If advertising is added
This section is a promise, not a description
Display advertising is not running on PawHonest today. If it is added in future, it will bring advertising cookies with it. When that happens: a consent banner will appear before any non-essential cookie is set for visitors in the UK, the EEA and every other region that requires it; you will be able to refuse as easily as you can accept; this page will be rewritten to list every cookie by name, purpose and lifetime; and the date at the top will change so you can see it happened.
7. How to control cookies anyway
Blocking cookies will not break anything here, because there is nothing to block. But it will affect the sites you reach through links, and it's worth knowing where the setting lives:
- Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Third-party cookies
- Safari: Settings → Privacy → Block all cookies / Prevent cross-site tracking
- Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Enhanced Tracking Protection
- Edge: Settings → Cookies and site permissions
Every browser also lets you delete cookies already stored, and offers a private or incognito window that discards them when you close it.
8. Your rights
Because no cookies are set here, there is no consent to withdraw and no cookie-based data to request. Your broader rights over personal data — access, correction, deletion, portability, objection, and the right to complain to a supervisory authority — are set out in full in the privacy policy, and they apply to everyone regardless of where you live.
9. Contact
Questions about cookies
If something here isn't clear, or you think you've found a cookie on this site that shouldn't be there, please tell me — I'd genuinely want to know.
Site
PawHonest
contact@pawhonest.com
Response time
Within 30 days
Last updated 10 August 2026 · Version 1.0