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Cookie Policy

Last updated: January 2025

Organicwellnesscore ("we," "our," or "us") operates the organicwellnesscore.info website. This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them on our editorial platform, and how you can manage your cookie preferences.

Our Address: King Street 88, Liverpool

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile phone) when you visit our website. They help us recognize your device on future visits and enhance your browsing experience. Cookies contain information about your browsing activity and preferences but do not contain personally identifiable information unless you provide it.

Types of Cookies We Use

1. Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They enable core functionality such as page navigation, access to secure areas, and content delivery. Without essential cookies, some features of our editorial platform may not work correctly.

2. Performance Cookies

These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages are most viewed, how long readers spend on articles, and navigation patterns. This data helps our editorial team understand content performance and improve article quality and presentation.

3. Functional Cookies

These cookies remember your preferences and settings, such as language selection, theme preferences (dark/light mode), and reading history. They enhance your personalized experience across our editorial platform without requiring you to reset preferences on each visit.

4. Analytics Cookies

These cookies use tools like Google Analytics to track visitor behavior, traffic sources, and article engagement metrics. The information collected is anonymized and helps our editorial team make data-driven decisions about content strategy and website optimization.

How We Use Cookies

✓ Website Functionality: Maintaining your session, enabling page navigation, and ensuring secure access to our editorial content.
✓ User Preferences: Remembering your language, theme, and content filtering choices to personalize your reading experience.
✓ Content Analytics: Understanding which articles resonate with our readers and measuring engagement metrics to improve future content.
✓ Performance Monitoring: Tracking website speed, error rates, and user experience issues to optimize our platform's performance.
✓ Traffic Analysis: Identifying which topics and article formats attract the most readers to inform editorial planning.

Cookie List and Details

Cookie Name	Type	Duration	Purpose
owc_session_id	Essential	Session	Maintains your session during your visit
owc_preferences	Functional	1 year	Stores your language and theme preferences
owc_analytics	Analytics	2 years	Tracks anonymous visitor data for analytics
_ga	Analytics	2 years	Google Analytics - assigns unique visitor ID
_gid	Analytics	24 hours	Google Analytics - tracks session data
owc_reading_history	Functional	90 days	Stores your recently read articles
owc_consent	Essential	1 year	Remembers your cookie consent preferences
owc_newsletter_pref	Functional	1 year	Stores your content newsletter preferences

Managing Your Cookies

Browser Controls

Most browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can typically find these options in your browser's preferences or settings menu. You can choose to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or be asked each time a cookie is set. Please note that disabling essential cookies may affect website functionality.

Browser-Specific Instructions:

Chrome: Settings → Privacy and Security → Cookies and other site data
Firefox: Preferences → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data
Safari: Preferences → Privacy → Cookies and website data
Edge: Settings → Privacy, search, and services → Clear browsing data

Cookie Consent Banner:

When you first visit our website, a cookie consent banner will appear. You can use this banner to accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or customize your cookie preferences. You can also adjust these settings at any time through your browser or by revisiting this policy.

Do Not Track:

Some browsers include a "Do Not Track" feature. Our website respects this setting for analytics cookies, though essential cookies will still be used to ensure website functionality.

Third-Party Cookies

Our website uses third-party services to enhance your reading experience and provide analytics:

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to track website traffic and content engagement. Google may set cookies to analyze how our content performs. You can opt out by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser extension or adjusting your privacy settings.

Content Delivery Network (CDN)

We use a CDN to deliver articles, images, and media content quickly to readers worldwide. The CDN may set cookies to optimize performance and track content delivery metrics.

Email Service Provider

If you subscribe to our editorial newsletter, our email service provider may use cookies to track newsletter engagement and help us understand which article topics interest our subscribers.

Cookies and Data Privacy

Cookie data is treated with the same care and privacy protection as other user information on our platform. We do not sell cookie data to third parties. Analytics cookies are anonymized and do not contain personally identifiable information unless you voluntarily provide it (such as through article comments or newsletter subscriptions).

For more detailed information about how we collect, use, and protect your data, please review our Privacy Statement.

Cookie Retention

We retain cookies only as long as necessary to serve their purpose:

• Session Cookies: Deleted when you close your browser
• Persistent Cookies: Retained for the duration specified in the cookie list table above
• Analytics Data: Anonymized and aggregated after 24 months

You can clear cookies manually at any time through your browser settings. Some functionality may be affected if you delete essential cookies.

Legal Basis for Cookie Use

We use cookies based on the following legal grounds:

• Necessity: Essential cookies are necessary to provide website functionality and cannot be disabled without breaking core features.
• Consent: For non-essential cookies (analytics, functional), we obtain your explicit consent through our cookie banner before placing them on your device.
• Legitimate Interest: Some cookies help us understand user behavior and improve our editorial content, which serves the legitimate interests of our publishing platform and readers.

This cookie usage complies with GDPR, ePrivacy Directive, and UK ICO guidelines for website cookies.

Updates to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in our cookie usage, new technologies, or regulatory requirements. When we make material changes, we will notify you by updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, by displaying a notice on our website.

Your continued use of our website after any changes indicates your acceptance of the updated Cookie Policy.

Questions About This Policy?

If you have questions about our cookie practices, concerns about your privacy, or would like to provide feedback about this Cookie Policy, please contact our editorial team.

Organicwellnesscore Editorial Team

King Street 88

Liverpool

Email: [email protected]

For editorial feedback or inquiries about our content, please reach out using the email above. For data subject rights requests under GDPR, please include "Data Subject Request" in your subject line.