This site loads Google Analytics 4, property G-XQVF2ZHQZL, on every page. Google, not this site, decides what that service records; in a standard setup it includes the pages you open, the page that referred you, your approximate location derived from your IP address, and your device and browser type. This site has no access to anything that identifies you personally and does not attempt to build one.
The banner's Decline button stops it. Declining writes a single value in your browser's local storage and analytics does not run on this device from that point, including on the page you are already reading. If you have not chosen either way, analytics runs - that is what the banner says, and it is what the code does. Clearing your browser storage clears the choice, and the banner asks again.
Until 12 September 2026 that button did nothing: analytics loaded regardless of what you clicked. That was a defect, it has been fixed, and it is written here rather than quietly corrected.
Links to Amazon and to Organic Aromas are affiliate links, each marked (paid link) where it appears. When you follow one, that company sets its own cookies in your browser under its own privacy policy - this site cannot read them. The reports this site receives back are aggregate: how many clicks and which products were bought, never who you are.
Page fonts are served from Google Fonts. Loading a page therefore sends a request to Google's servers, which means Google sees your IP address and user-agent for that request. This happens before any consent choice, because the fonts are part of rendering the page.
One key, in local storage, named cookie_consent, holding either accepted or declined. That is the only thing this site itself writes. Google Analytics and the affiliate destinations write their own storage under their own policies.
The site is static files on Netlify. Like any web host, Netlify's servers may log ordinary request information as part of serving a page. This site does not access or process those logs.
Email hello@handcraftblendsreview.com. To block analytics everywhere rather than on this site alone, browser settings or Google's own opt-out browser add-on do that.