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Essential storage can also remember whether a user has dismissed a notice or selected a consent preference. Without this category, the site may repeatedly ask the same question or fail to preserve privacy choices between pages.
Analytics cookies
Analytics cookies may help measure page performance, popular guides, broken pages, and search landing behavior. Analytics should be configured to minimize personal data where practical.
When Google Analytics is configured, the site loads the Google tag for aggregate traffic measurement. The tag is not emitted when the GA4 measurement ID is empty or invalid.
Analytics should answer editorial questions such as which guides need expansion, whether a calculator has usability problems, and whether important pages are returning errors. It should not be used to collect unnecessary sensitive information.
Advertising cookies
Advertising cookies should not be enabled for personalized ads in regulated regions until a consent-management platform is active. Ad placements must not encourage accidental clicks or imply that clicking an ad is required to use a calculator or guide.
Ad partners may set their own identifiers after consent where required. The site should provide clear ad separation and should not place ads inside form controls, result panels, or labels where a reader could mistake advertising for site functionality.
Managing choices
Browser settings can block or delete cookies. When a CMP is enabled, regional visitors should also be able to review and update advertising consent choices from the CMP control.
Cookie choices can affect measurement and advertising, but access to core guide content should not depend on accepting personalized advertising cookies.