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Last updated: 15 June 2024
This Cookie Policy explains how Weightlossnutrition (weightlossnutrition.info) uses cookies and similar tracking technologies when you read our editorial content. We are committed to being transparent about how we collect data and giving you meaningful control over your experience.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, tablet, smartphone) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to the site's operators.
Cookies can be session cookies — deleted automatically when you close your browser — or persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them manually.
Similar technologies include web beacons (tiny transparent images embedded in pages or emails), pixels, and local storage objects. This policy covers all of these under the term "cookies."
2. Types of Cookies We Use
We use the following categories of cookies on weightlossnutrition.info:
Essential Cookies
These cookies are required for the website to function. They enable core features such as page navigation, security, and accessibility. They cannot be disabled without affecting the editorial content you access.
Always Active
Performance & Analytics
These cookies collect anonymous data about how readers interact with our articles — which pages are visited most, how long readers stay, and where traffic originates. This helps our editorial team improve content quality.
Requires Consent
Functional Cookies
These cookies remember your preferences, such as your selected language, font size, or previously read articles, to provide a more personalised reading experience on return visits.
Requires Consent
Third-Party Cookies
Some pages embed third-party content (e.g. social sharing widgets, embedded videos). These providers may place their own cookies. We do not control these cookies and recommend reviewing the respective providers' privacy policies.
Requires Consent
3. How We Use Cookies
- Delivering our articles reliably — ensuring pages load correctly and editorial content is displayed without errors.
- Understanding reader behaviour — analysing which nutrition and wellness topics resonate most with our audience so we can commission better articles.
- Remembering your preferences — storing settings so you don't have to reconfigure them on every visit.
- Improving site security — detecting unusual traffic patterns and protecting our editorial platform from malicious activity.
- Enabling social sharing — allowing readers to share articles they find valuable through social media integrations.
4. Cookie List
Below is a representative list of cookies currently in use on weightlossnutrition.info.
| Cookie Name | Category | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _session | Essential | weightlossnutrition.info | Maintains user session state and page navigation. | Session |
| cookie_consent | Essential | weightlossnutrition.info | Stores your cookie consent preferences. | 12 months |
| _ga | Analytics | Google Analytics | Distinguishes unique readers; tracks article engagement anonymously. | 24 months |
| _gid | Analytics | Google Analytics | Tracks page views within a 24-hour window. | 24 hours |
| _gat | Analytics | Google Analytics | Throttles request rate to Google's servers. | 1 minute |
| wln_prefs | Functional | weightlossnutrition.info | Stores reader display preferences (e.g. text size, theme). | 6 months |
| fr | Third-Party | Enables the Facebook Share button on article pages. | 3 months | |
| CONSENT | Third-Party | YouTube | Set when embedded video content is loaded on an article page. | 20 years |
This table is updated periodically. Some cookies may be set only on specific article pages containing embedded content.
5. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
Cookie Banner
When you first visit weightlossnutrition.info, a cookie consent banner allows you to accept all cookies or configure your preferences by category. You may revisit and update your choices at any time.
Browser Settings
Most browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can block all cookies, delete existing ones, or set your browser to alert you before a cookie is stored. Instructions vary by browser:
Please note: disabling certain cookies may affect the proper display of our editorial content.
Opting Out of Analytics
You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data about your reading sessions by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
6. Legal Basis & Your Rights
We process cookie data in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive. Our legal basis is:
- Legitimate interest — for strictly necessary cookies required to operate the editorial platform.
- Consent — for analytics, functional, and third-party cookies. You may withdraw consent at any time.
As a reader based in the European Union or EEA, you have the right to access, rectify, erase, or restrict the processing of your personal data. To exercise these rights, contact our editorial team at the address below.
7. Updates to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in technology, legislation, or our editorial practices. The date at the top of this page indicates when it was last revised. We encourage you to check back periodically.
Continued use of weightlossnutrition.info after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
Questions About This Policy?
If you have any questions about how we use cookies or wish to exercise your data rights, our editorial team is happy to help.
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