Cookie Policy
Effective Date: January 2024
Wellnessmealbook ("we," "us," "our," or "our editorial team") maintains this website at wellnessmealbook.info to provide informational and educational content about wellness and nutrition. This Cookie Policy explains how we use cookies to enhance your browsing experience.
The information on this site is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional before making health decisions.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit our website. They contain information about your browsing activity and preferences. Cookies help us understand how readers interact with our editorial content and improve the overall user experience on our platform.
Cookies are not harmful and do not contain viruses or malware. They cannot access personal information from your computer unless you actively provide it to us.
Types of Cookies We Use
1. Essential / Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for the website to function properly. They enable basic functionality such as page navigation, access to secure areas, and load balancing. Without essential cookies, certain features of our site may not work correctly.
Status: Always enabled | Purpose: Site functionality and security
2. Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors interact with our editorial platform, including which articles are read most frequently, time spent on pages, and navigation patterns. This data helps our editorial team understand which wellness topics are most relevant to our readers.
Status: Requires consent | Purpose: Analytics and user behavior tracking
3. Functional Cookies
These cookies remember your preferences and choices, such as your preferred language, theme settings, and previously read articles. They enhance your personalized experience when revisiting our site.
Status: Requires consent | Purpose: User preferences and personalization
4. Targeting / Advertising Cookies
Third-party advertising partners may place cookies to serve relevant ads based on your interests and browsing behavior across different websites. These cookies help fund our editorial operations and allow us to continue providing free wellness content.
Status: Requires consent | Purpose: Targeted advertising and campaign analytics
5. Social Media Cookies
When you use social sharing buttons to share our articles on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn, those platforms may set cookies. These allow for social media integration and sharing functionality.
Status: Requires consent | Purpose: Social media integration and sharing
How We Use Cookies
- • Improve Editorial Content: Understanding which wellness articles resonate most with our readers helps our editorial team create more relevant and valuable content.
- • Enhance User Experience: Cookies remember your preferences and language settings to personalize your browsing experience.
- • Website Security: Essential cookies protect against fraud and security threats, ensuring safe access to our platform.
- • Analytics and Performance: We track website performance metrics to identify technical issues and optimize site speed and functionality.
- • Advertising: Targeted ads support our editorial operations and help us maintain free access to wellness information.
Detailed Cookie List
| Cookie Name | Type | Expiration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | Essential | Session | Maintains user session and login functionality |
| cookie_consent | Functional | 12 months | Stores your cookie preference choices |
| user_language | Functional | 12 months | Remembers your preferred language selection |
| _ga | Performance | 2 years | Google Analytics user identification |
| _gid | Performance | 24 hours | Google Analytics session tracking |
| _gat | Performance | 1 minute | Google Analytics request throttling |
| IDE | Targeting | 1 year | Google DoubleClick ad personalization |
| NID | Targeting | 6 months | Google ad serving and frequency capping |
| fr | Targeting | 3 months | Facebook pixel ad targeting and analytics |
| _fbp | Targeting | 3 months | Facebook event tracking |
| articles_viewed | Functional | 6 months | Tracks recently read articles for recommendations |
Managing Your Cookies
Cookie Consent Control
When you first visit our website, a cookie consent banner will appear. You can choose to accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or customize your preferences. You can change these settings anytime through our cookie management center.
How to Control Cookies in Your Browser
Most web browsers allow you to manage cookie settings. You can delete cookies and prevent websites from setting new cookies. Here's how to do it in popular browsers:
Google Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Cookies and other site data → Manage all cookies and site data
Mozilla Firefox: Preferences → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data → Manage Cookies
Safari: Preferences → Privacy → Cookies and website data → Manage Website Data
Microsoft Edge: Settings → Privacy → Clear browsing data → Cookies and other site data
Note: Disabling essential cookies may affect website functionality and your ability to access certain features of our platform.
Third-Party Cookies
Our website uses third-party services that may set their own cookies to provide analytics, advertising, and social media functionality. These third parties include:
- • Google Analytics: For website traffic analysis and user behavior insights
- • Google Ads / DoubleClick: For targeted advertising and conversion tracking
- • Facebook Pixel: For ad delivery optimization and audience analytics
- • Content Delivery Networks (CDN): For optimized content delivery
We recommend reviewing the privacy policies of these third-party services for information about their cookie practices.
Privacy & Data Protection
Cookies themselves do not contain personally identifiable information unless you voluntarily submit it to us. However, when combined with other data, cookies may allow us to recognize you. For detailed information about how we collect, use, and protect your personal information, please review our complete Privacy Policy.
We are committed to protecting your privacy and comply with applicable data protection regulations including GDPR and CCPA standards.
Changes to This Cookie Policy
Wellnessmealbook may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in our cookie practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of material changes by posting the updated policy on our website with a new "Effective Date." Your continued use of our website after changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated Cookie Policy.
This policy was last updated in January 2024.
Questions About Our Cookie Policy?
If you have questions or concerns about our use of cookies, we'd like to hear from you. Our editorial team is committed to transparency about our data practices.
Contact Us:
Wellnessmealbook Editorial Office
Obchodná ul. 160
Žilina, Slovakia
For content questions and feedback: [email protected]
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