Cookie Policy
Last updated: 15 June 2025
This Cookie Policy explains how Potencynutrition (potencynutrition.info) uses cookies and similar technologies when you read our editorial content. Please read it carefully to understand your choices.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device (computer, tablet, or smartphone) when you visit a website. They allow the site to recognise your device on subsequent visits and remember certain information about your preferences or interactions.
Similar technologies — such as web beacons, pixel tags, and local storage — serve comparable purposes and are also covered by this policy. When we say "cookies" throughout this document, we mean all such technologies collectively.
Types of Cookies We Use
Strictly Necessary
These cookies are essential for our editorial platform to function correctly. They enable core features such as page navigation, security, and accessibility. You cannot opt out of these cookies.
Always ActivePerformance & Analytics
These cookies collect anonymous data about how readers navigate our articles — which pages are most visited, how long readers stay, and where they arrive from. This helps our editorial team improve content quality.
OptionalFunctional
Functional cookies remember your preferences — such as language settings or previously dismissed notices — to provide a more personalised reading experience across our publication.
OptionalThird-Party & Embedded
Some of our articles embed content or use tools from third parties (e.g., video players, social sharing buttons, analytics providers). These parties may set their own cookies, subject to their own privacy policies.
OptionalHow We Use Cookies
- To keep our platform running smoothly: Strictly necessary cookies ensure that article pages load correctly, navigation works, and the site remains secure for all readers.
- To understand readership: Analytics cookies help our editorial team see which articles attract the most interest, enabling us to plan and publish more relevant content on health and nutrition topics.
- To remember your preferences: Functional cookies store settings such as cookie consent choices or display preferences so you do not need to re-enter them on every visit.
- To support embedded content: When we include external media or tools within our articles, the relevant third parties may place cookies to enable those features.
- We do not use cookies to: build advertising profiles, track your activity across unrelated websites for commercial purposes, or collect personally identifiable information beyond what is necessary for the platform to operate.
Cookie List
The table below lists the specific cookies currently in use on potencynutrition.info, their purpose, duration, and category.
| Cookie Name | Provider | Purpose | Duration | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _session_id | potencynutrition.info | Maintains your reading session and site security | Session | Necessary |
| cookie_consent | potencynutrition.info | Stores your cookie consent preferences | 12 months | Necessary |
| _ga | Google Analytics | Distinguishes unique readers for anonymous traffic analysis | 24 months | Analytics |
| _gid | Google Analytics | Identifies readers across sessions for aggregate reporting | 24 hours | Analytics |
| _gat | Google Analytics | Throttles request rate to limit data collection on high-traffic pages | 1 minute | Analytics |
| pn_lang | potencynutrition.info | Remembers your preferred display language | 12 months | Functional |
| pn_theme | potencynutrition.info | Saves your light/dark mode reading preference | 12 months | Functional |
| YSC | YouTube | Tracks views of embedded video content within our articles | Session | Third-Party |
This list is reviewed and updated periodically. Some third-party cookies may vary depending on the article content loaded.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You have several options for controlling or limiting how cookies are used when you visit our publication. Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the reading experience.
Cookie Consent Banner
When you first visit potencynutrition.info, a cookie consent banner allows you to accept or decline optional cookie categories. You can revisit and update your choices at any time via the "Cookie Settings" link in our footer.
Browser Settings
All modern browsers allow you to view, manage, and delete cookies. Below are links to instructions for the most common browsers:
Opting Out of Analytics
To opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites, you can install the official Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. This prevents your visit data from being included in our anonymous readership reports.
Do Not Track (DNT)
Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" (DNT) signal. While there is currently no universal standard for how websites must respond to DNT signals, we respect your preference and limit non-essential data collection when a DNT signal is detected.
Legal Basis for Processing
Depending on your location, we rely on one or more of the following legal bases to process your personal data:
Contractual Necessity
Processing your order, delivering products, and managing your account requires us to handle certain personal data.
Consent
Where required by law, we obtain your explicit consent before sending marketing communications or placing non-essential cookies.
Legitimate Interests
We may process data to prevent fraud, improve our services, and ensure network and information security, provided your rights are not overridden.
Legal Obligation
Certain data must be retained to comply with tax, accounting, or other statutory requirements imposed by applicable law.
You may withdraw consent at any time where consent is the legal basis for processing. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal.
Data Retention
We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
| Data Category | Retention Period |
|---|---|
| Account information | Duration of account + 2 years after closure |
| Order & transaction records | 7 years (legal / tax obligation) |
| Marketing preferences | Until you unsubscribe or withdraw consent |
| Customer support records | 3 years from last interaction |
| Analytics & usage data | 26 months (aggregated / anonymised thereafter) |
When data is no longer required, we securely delete or anonymise it so that it can no longer be associated with you.
Your Rights
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have some or all of the following rights regarding your personal data:
Right of Access
Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Right to Rectification
Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
Right to Erasure
Request deletion of your personal data where there is no compelling reason for us to continue processing it.
Right to Restrict Processing
Ask us to pause processing of your data in certain circumstances, such as while we verify its accuracy.
Right to Data Portability
Receive your personal data in a structured, machine-readable format and transfer it to another controller.
Right to Object
Object to processing based on legitimate interests or for direct marketing purposes at any time.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected]. We will respond within 30 days. We may need to verify your identity before processing your request.