Cookie Policy for Vitalscend.com

This is the Cookie Policy for Vitalscend.com, accessible from www.vitalscend.com/cookie-policy/

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored, however, this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the site’s functionality.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (check in your browser settings menu, search for cookies). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable functional or necessary cookies, however, if you know what you are doing, and you are familiar with certain cookies and their functions, you can disable them.

When you visit this website, there is a pop-up banner that allows you to either accept all cookies or to manage cookies. Go into manage cookies and disable or enable any cookie that you agree to be used on this website.

The Cookies and Tracking Tools We Use

  • Session Cookies

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

Google Analytics is a simple, easy-to-use tool that helps website owners measure how users interact with website content. As a user navigates between web pages, Google Analytics provides website owners JavaScript tags (libraries) to record information about the page a user has seen, for example the URL of the page.

The Google Analytics JavaScript libraries use HTTP cookies to “remember” what a user has done on previous pages / interactions with the website. Google Analytics supports three JavaScript libraries (tags) for measuring website usage: gtag.js, analytics.js, and ga.js.

  • Yoast SEO

This is a tool that offers SEO or Search Engine Optimization services, based on its configuration on the website. We use this tool to help us rank higher in search engines. This tool offers services such as keyword optimization, readability analysis, taxonomy determination, and other technical stuff. Yoast SEO may use some cookies that include data tracking, however, most of this is website data intended for website optimization and not personal data, unless personal data is knowingly provided.

  • WP Smush

Smush sends images to the WPMU DEV servers to optimize them for web use. This includes the transfer of EXIF data. The EXIF data will either be stripped or returned as it is. It is not stored on the WPMU DEV servers.

Smush uses the Stackpath Content Delivery Network (CDN). Stackpath may store web log information of site visitors, including IPs, UA, referrer, Location, and ISP info of site visitors for 7 days. Files and images served by the CDN may be stored and served from countries other than your own. Stackpath’s privacy policy can be found here.

Smush uses a third-party email service (Drip) to send informational emails to the site administrator. The administrator’s email address is sent to Drip and a cookie is set by the service. Only administrator information is collected by Drip.

  • Cloudflare CDN

The cookie is used by CDN services like CloudFare to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. It does not correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable information.

  • Social Sharing

To enable our viewers to share our blog-posts, we use a tool called Sassy Social Sharing. We have incorporated social sharing for platforms like Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram, Telegram, Viber, LinkedIn, Reddit, and Skype. The social sharing function enables you to share the content of this site to such platforms. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with the data privacy policy of the platform you are sharing on.

  • Pinterest “Pin It” or “Save” Butoon

To enable our users to pin a post, page or specific picture on our Site, we allow the “Pin It” or “Save” button which re-directs you to Pinterest services. Once you click on it, you are re-directed and you can choose to Save or Pin that specific post, page or picture. These request may track your IP address and act in accordance with the data privacy policy of the Pinterest platform.

In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

Third-Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you might encounter through this site.

  • This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

  • From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimizations our users appreciate the most.
  • As we sell products it’s important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.

Contact Us

If you are still looking for more information, visit the Contact Us page.