Cookies and browser storage, clearly explained.

1. Necessary preference storage

GardenSolved stores your analytics choice in your browser so the site can remember whether you accepted or rejected optional analytics. This preference does not create a GardenSolved account and is not used for advertising.

• gardensolved-analytics-consent-v1 — localStorage; Necessary preference; duration: Until browser storage is cleared or the key is replaced. Written when a visitor accepts or rejects analytics.

2. Optional Google Analytics cookies

Google Analytics 4 is loaded only after you choose to accept analytics in GardenSolved's current analytics banner. If you reject analytics, GardenSolved does not intentionally load the Google Analytics script or set its analytics cookies.

• _ga — Analytics; configured duration: 60 days. Only after analytics consent.
• _ga_* — Analytics; configured duration: 60 days. Only after analytics consent.

An explicitly selected internal-traffic preference overrides analytics consent for owner and tester visits. It stores a browser preference only; GardenSolved does not infer internal traffic from an IP address or country.

• gardensolved-internal-traffic-v1 — localStorage; Necessary preference; duration: Until explicitly switched off or browser storage is cleared. Written only when the visitor explicitly switches internal-traffic exclusion on or off.

GardenSolved configures these cookies with a lifetime of 60 days and does not extend that lifetime on later visits.

3. Google AdSense and advertising storage

GardenSolved uses a static Google AdSense ownership meta tag and an ads.txt file for site verification. The approved website includes the AdSense Auto Ads script on public content routes but excludes legal policy routes on direct load. The ownership meta tag itself does not execute JavaScript. Whether ads appear depends on account setup, eligibility, and visitor consent choices.

When AdSense serves advertising, Google and participating advertising technology providers may use cookies, local storage, web beacons, IP addresses, or other identifiers to deliver, secure, measure, and report ads. The exact vendors, cookie names, and durations can differ depending on location, consent choices, ad settings, browser behavior, and the providers participating in an ad request.

For visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland, Google requires a certified TCF consent management platform (CMP) before personalized ads are served. GardenSolved uses the Google AdSense Privacy & messaging CMP when its European regulations message is published. That message provides advertising consent choices and vendor information required for the applicable Google advertising setup.

Read How AdSense uses cookies and How Google uses information from partner sites for more detail.

4. Cloudflare browser performance measurement

GardenSolved is delivered through Cloudflare. When Cloudflare Web Analytics / RUM is enabled at the Cloudflare edge, Cloudflare may add its performance beacon from static.cloudflareinsights.com. Cloudflare documents that its Web Analytics beacon does not use cookies or localStorage and sends browser performance metrics to its RUM endpoint.

More detail is available in Cloudflare's Web Analytics data collection documentation.

5. Change or withdraw your choices

You can change your current GardenSolved analytics choice at any time by selecting “Privacy settings”. Withdrawing analytics consent disables further GardenSolved GA4 collection for the configured measurement ID and the site attempts to remove its first-party _ga cookies.

When the Google advertising consent message is active, eligible visitors can reopen or withdraw advertising choices through Google's automatically added “Privacy and cookie settings” control. That control is separate from GardenSolved's analytics privacy settings. You can also clear browser cookies and local storage using your browser controls.

6. Related privacy information

For the wider explanation of hosting, analytics, advertising, legal bases, data transfers, retention, and your data-protection rights, read the GardenSolved Privacy Policy.

7. Changes to this list

This page is tied to GardenSolved's governed privacy-service registry. New browser storage, measurement, consent, or advertising services must be added to that registry and reviewed before release.