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Refined Living 2026Cookie Policy
Last updated: June 2025
This Cookie Policy explains how Healthymanessentials (healthymanessentials.info) uses cookies and similar tracking technologies when you read our editorial content. We are committed to transparency about how we collect and use data.
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 placed on your device — computer, tablet, or smartphone — when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently, improve user experience, and provide analytical information to site operators.
Cookies do not contain personal information such as your name or payment details. However, some cookies may be combined with other information to identify you indirectly. You have the right to control which cookies are set on your device.
Similar technologies — such as web beacons, pixels, and local storage — work in comparable ways and are also covered by this policy.
Types of Cookies We Use
We use the following categories of cookies on our editorial platform:
Strictly Necessary
These cookies are essential for the website to function. They enable core features such as page navigation, security, and accessibility. Without them, the site cannot operate properly. These cookies cannot be disabled.
Always Active
Analytics & Performance
These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our articles and content. They collect aggregated and anonymised data such as page views, session duration, and traffic sources, allowing our editorial team to improve content quality.
Optional — Consent Required
Functional
Functional cookies remember your preferences — such as language settings, font size, or previously read articles — to personalise your reading experience when you return to our platform.
Optional — Consent Required
Third-Party
Some of our editorial pages may embed content from third parties (e.g., video players, social sharing widgets). These providers may set their own cookies. We do not control the data collected by third-party services.
Optional — Consent Required
How We Use Cookies
Cookies on healthymanessentials.info are used exclusively to support the editorial mission of the platform. Specifically, we use cookies to:
- Ensure platform stability — keeping our articles and navigation functioning correctly across all devices and browsers.
- Analyse reading patterns — understanding which topics, articles, and categories resonate most with our readers, so our editorial board can improve content relevance.
- Remember your preferences — so that your reading environment remains consistent across visits.
- Maintain platform security — detecting and preventing fraudulent activity or misuse of our content infrastructure.
- Support embedded editorial tools — enabling third-party widgets that enhance our journalism, such as visual infographics or interactive elements.
We do not use cookies to build advertising profiles, track users across unrelated websites, or engage in personalised ad targeting.
Cookie List
Below is a representative list of cookies currently in use on healthymanessentials.info.
| Cookie Name | Category | Provider | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _session_id | Necessary | healthymanessentials.info | Maintains the user session while browsing articles | Session |
| cookie_consent | Necessary | healthymanessentials.info | Records the visitor's cookie consent preferences | 1 year |
| _ga | Analytics | Google Analytics | Distinguishes unique visitors for anonymous traffic analysis | 2 years |
| _gid | Analytics | Google Analytics | Tracks page views within a 24-hour window | 24 hours |
| _gat | Analytics | Google Analytics | Throttles request rate to limit data collection on high-traffic pages | 1 minute |
| user_prefs | Functional | healthymanessentials.info | Saves reading preferences (e.g., text size, theme) across visits | 6 months |
| _hjSessionUser | Analytics | Hotjar | Identifies a unique visitor for heatmap and scroll-depth analysis | 1 year |
| yt-player-cookies-policy | Third-Party | YouTube | Set when embedded editorial video content is loaded on article pages | Session |
This table may not be exhaustive. Third-party providers may update their own cookie practices. For the latest details, please review each provider's privacy documentation directly.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
Cookie Consent Banner
When you first visit our platform, a cookie consent banner allows you to accept, reject, or customise non-essential cookies. You may revisit and update your preferences at any time through the consent settings link in our footer.
Browser-Level Controls
Most web browsers allow you to manage cookies directly through their settings. You can block all cookies, delete existing cookies, or be notified when a cookie is set. Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the readability or functionality of our editorial content.
- Google Chrome — Settings → Privacy and Security → Cookies and other site data
- Mozilla Firefox — Preferences → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
- Apple Safari — Preferences → Privacy → Manage Website Data
- Microsoft Edge — Settings → Cookies and site permissions
Opting Out of Analytics
To opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites, you may install the official Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. For Hotjar, visit Hotjar's opt-out page.
Do Not Track
Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" (DNT) signal. While there is currently no universal standard for how websites must respond to DNT signals, our platform limits data collection to the minimum necessary to operate our editorial services.
Legal Basis & GDPR
Healthymanessentials is operated from ul. Kwiatowa 146, Łódź, Poland and is subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as applicable within the European Union.
Our legal bases for processing data through cookies are:
- Legitimate interest — for strictly necessary cookies required to deliver our editorial platform securely and reliably.
- Consent — for all analytics, functional, and third-party cookies, which are only activated after you have provided explicit consent via our cookie banner.
You have the right to withdraw consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of any prior processing. To exercise your rights under GDPR — including access, rectification, erasure, or portability of personal data — please contact our editorial team using the details below.
Policy Updates & Contact
This Cookie Policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes in technology, legislation, or our editorial practices. When material changes are made, the "Last updated" date at the top of this page will be revised. We encourage you to review this policy regularly.
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, how we handle data related to our editorial content, or wish to submit a content-related inquiry, our editorial team is available via email:
Postal address: ul. Kwiatowa 146, Łódź, Poland
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