1. What cookies are

Cookies are small files or similar identifiers stored on or read from your browser or device. They can keep a website working, remember a session, protect an account, process a shopping cart, measure website use or support third-party services.

2. Cookies Paper Bark uses

Strictly necessary cookies

These support functions you request, such as account login, authentication, security, shopping-cart and checkout functionality, session management and remembering essential choices. They may include WordPress and WooCommerce session/authentication cookies. These cookies are required for the relevant service to function.

Analytics and measurement

Paper Bark uses Google Analytics 4 through Google Site Kit to understand how visitors find and use the website and to measure events such as interactions with product or cart pages. Google Analytics commonly uses cookies such as _ga and related identifiers when analytics storage is permitted.

Where consent is legally required, non-essential analytics or measurement technologies should only be used after the required consent has been obtained.

Payment and checkout technologies

WooPayments and PayPal may use cookies or similar technologies when you interact with checkout, payment, fraud-prevention or authentication features. These technologies may be necessary to process the transaction or may be governed by the payment provider’s own privacy and cookie information.

Security, anti-spam and infrastructure

Hosting, anti-spam, caching and security services may use technical identifiers to protect forms, prevent abuse, maintain sessions, route traffic and keep the website reliable.

3. Current providers

• WordPress / WooCommerce: account, cart, checkout and session functionality.
• Google Analytics 4 / Google Site Kit: analytics and conversion measurement where permitted.
• WooPayments and PayPal: payment, authentication and fraud-prevention functions.
• Hostinger and LiteSpeed: website hosting, caching and infrastructure.
• ActiveLayer Anti-Spam: form and abuse protection.

4. Consent and choices

Strictly necessary cookies do not normally require consent because they are needed to provide a service you requested. Non-essential analytics, marketing or similar tracking technologies may require consent depending on your location.

Where Paper Bark presents a cookie or consent control, you can use it to accept, reject or change non-essential choices. You can also clear cookies through your browser. Blocking essential cookies may prevent login, checkout or other requested features from working.

5. Retention

Some cookies last only for the current browser session; others remain for a defined period so a service can recognise a returning browser or remember a preference. Exact names and durations can change as WordPress, WooCommerce, Google, payment providers or other services update their technology.

6. Personal data

Information obtained through website technologies is handled as described in the Paper Bark Privacy Policy. Paper Bark does not sell personal data or screenplay content.

7. Contact

Questions about cookies or privacy may be sent to info@paperbark.eu.