Cookie Policy

Last updated: January 2025

What Are Cookies?

A sütik kis szöveges fájlok, amelyeket az eszközén tárolunk, amikor meglátogatja weboldalunkat. They help us understand how you interact with our content and improve your browsing experience. Cookies are essential for modern web functionality and are used by virtually all informational websites.

This policy explains what cookies we use, why we use them, and how you can manage your cookie preferences.

Types of Cookies We Use

Essential Cookies

Purpose: Required for website functionality

These cookies enable basic features such as page navigation, user authentication, and security. Without them, the website cannot function properly. Examples include session cookies that remember your login status and preferences.

Analytics Cookies

Purpose: Help us understand visitor behavior

We use analytics tools to measure how readers interact with our articles and content. These cookies collect anonymous data about page visits, time spent reading, and navigation patterns. This information helps us improve our editorial content and website layout.

Preference Cookies

Purpose: Remember your choices

These cookies store your preferences, such as language selection, theme preference (light/dark mode), and content filtering choices. They ensure your experience is personalized to your liking.

Marketing & Third-Party Cookies

Purpose: Display relevant content recommendations

Third-party services may place cookies to show you relevant article recommendations and content suggestions. These are managed by external partners and subject to their own privacy policies. You can control these through your browser settings.

How We Use Cookies

✓ Enhance your experience: Remembering your preferences and login status
✓ Measure website performance: Understanding which articles are most read and how visitors navigate our site
✓ Improve our content: Analyzing reading patterns to create more relevant editorial material
✓ Security: Protecting against fraud and maintaining website integrity
✓ Content recommendations: Suggesting articles related to your interests

Detailed Cookie List

Cookie Name	Type	Duration	Purpose
session_id	Essential	Session	Maintains your browsing session
user_preferences	Preference	12 months	Stores language and theme preferences
_ga	Analytics	2 years	Google Analytics—tracks site usage
_gid	Analytics	24 hours	Google Analytics—session identifier
cookieConsent	Preference	12 months	Remembers your cookie consent choices
csrf_token	Essential	Session	Security protection against attacks
content_tracking	Analytics	90 days	Tracks which articles you've read
third_party_recs	Marketing	6 months	Content recommendation service

Managing Your Cookies

Browser Settings

You can control cookies through your web browser. Most browsers allow you to refuse cookies or alert you when cookies are being sent. Here's how to manage cookies in popular browsers:

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

Opt-Out Options

To opt out of Google Analytics tracking across the web, you can use Google's Browser Add-on for Analytics Opt-Out. Visit tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout to install it.

For content recommendation services, you can adjust your preferences in your account settings or through the third-party provider's privacy controls.

Consent Management

When you first visit our site, a cookie consent banner appears. You can:

•Accept all: Enable all non-essential cookies
•Reject non-essential: Only essential cookies remain active
•Customize: Choose which cookie types you allow

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the cookie settings link in the website footer.

Third-Party Services

Our website uses third-party services that may set their own cookies:

• Google Analytics: Provides anonymized website usage statistics. Learn more at google.com/analytics/terms
• Content Delivery Networks (CDN): Serve images and resources efficiently with minimal cookies
• Content Recommendation Services: Suggest related articles based on reading history

These services are bound by their own privacy policies. We recommend reviewing their policies to understand their cookie practices.

Legal Basis

We use cookies based on the following legal grounds:

• Consent: For non-essential cookies, we rely on your explicit consent obtained through the consent banner
• Legitimate interest: For analytics and performance optimization, provided you have the option to opt out
• Contractual necessity: Essential cookies required to provide website functionality

Cookie Retention

We retain cookies for the periods specified in the cookie list above. Depending on the cookie type:

•Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser
•Persistent cookies remain until their expiration date or until manually deleted
•Analytics data is aggregated and anonymized to protect privacy

Questions About This Policy

If you have questions about our cookie practices or this policy, please contact our editorial team:

Nutrition Metabolic Core
Kossuth utca 195
Budapest, Hungary

For content and policy questions, send feedback to our editorial team through our website contact form.

Policy Updates

We may update this Cookie Policy to reflect changes in technology, regulation, or our practices. We encourage you to review this policy periodically. Significant changes will be announced on our website.

Last updated: January 2025

This policy applies to visitors in all jurisdictions, with specific provisions for those in the EU, UK, and other regions with privacy regulations.

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