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This policy explains how Weightlossfood — the editorial publication available at weightlossfood.info — uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our pages.
Last updated: June 2025
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device — computer, tablet, or smartphone — when you browse a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to site operators.
Cookies are not programs and cannot carry viruses or malware. They simply store a small amount of data that can be read by the website that created them. Some cookies expire when you close your browser (session cookies), while others remain on your device for a set period (persistent cookies).
Similar technologies such as web beacons, pixel tags, and local storage work in analogous ways and are also covered by this policy.
Types of Cookies We Use
Strictly Necessary
Essential for the website to function. They enable core features such as page navigation, security, and accessibility. The site cannot operate properly without them. These cookies do not require your consent.
Analytics & Performance
Help us understand how readers interact with our articles and editorial content — which pages are visited most, how long readers stay, and where they come from. All data is aggregated and anonymous.
Functional
Allow the website to remember choices you make — such as your preferred language or region — to deliver a more personalised reading experience. They do not track your browsing activity on other sites.
Third-Party & Advertising
Set by third-party services (such as Google AdSense or social media widgets) embedded in our editorial pages. These partners may use data collected to display contextually relevant content across other websites.
How We Use Cookies
As an editorial publication, Weightlossfood uses cookies exclusively to:
- Ensure site stability — keeping the website accessible and responsive for all readers visiting from weightlossfood.info.
- Measure editorial performance — understanding which health, nutrition, and weight-loss articles resonate most with our audience so our editorial team can improve content quality.
- Remember reader preferences — such as consent choices or display settings, so you are not prompted repeatedly.
- Support embedded third-party services — social share buttons, video players, or analytics tools provided by partners may set their own cookies governed by their own privacy policies.
- Detect and prevent abuse — security cookies help protect the integrity of our editorial platform from automated or malicious traffic.
ℹ We do not use cookies to build personal profiles for direct marketing, and we do not sell cookie data to third parties.
Cookie List
| Cookie Name | Provider | Category | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _session | weightlossfood.info | Necessary | Maintains user session state across pages | Session |
| cookie_consent | weightlossfood.info | Necessary | Stores your cookie consent preferences | 1 year |
| _csrf_token | weightlossfood.info | Necessary | Security token to protect forms from CSRF attacks | Session |
| _ga | Google Analytics | Analytics | Distinguishes unique readers; tracks page-view statistics | 2 years |
| _gid | Google Analytics | Analytics | Distinguishes readers within a 24-hour window | 24 hours |
| _gat | Google Analytics | Analytics | Throttles request rate to limit data collection | 1 minute |
| lang_pref | weightlossfood.info | Functional | Remembers the reader's language or region setting | 6 months |
| IDE | Google DoubleClick | Third-Party | Used by Google to register and report ad interactions | 13 months |
| fr | Third-Party | Enables Facebook social share buttons on articles | 3 months |
This list may be updated periodically as our editorial platform evolves or third-party integrations change.