Question Game ignore touches at certain button

Hello everyone and thank you for reading! I'm working on a 2d unity game and I have recently added a pause button for my game. Now, in my game there's a jelly which jumps every time there is a touch. Thus, whenever I press the pause button, the jelly still jumps. How can I fix this?
One solution I saw from researching what others have done was to create a screen-sized button which would get the touches, and the to use the button as a "shield" stopping touches within its limits. Is there a better way of doing this?
Humbly,
Tom

 

I found a solution and it's so simple I'm surprised I hadn't found it before.

Code (CSharp):

1. if (Input.touchCount > 0)
2.         {
3.            
4.             if (PauseButtonScripts.pauseButtonRect.Contains(Input.mousePosition)) {
5.                 PauseButtonScripts.gamePaused = true;
6.  
7.                 Debug.Log("Pause Button Pressed");
8.             }
9.  
10.         }

I just used the Contains method of the Rect to see if the tap had occured inside it