Legal & Transparency
Refined Living 2026Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how Strongmanvitamins (strongmanvitamins.info) uses cookies and similar tracking technologies when you read our editorial content. We believe in full transparency about how we collect and use data on this platform.
The information on this site is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional before making health decisions.
01. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device — computer, tablet, or smartphone — when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites function correctly, work more efficiently, and to provide information to the site's operators.
Cookies do not contain personally identifiable information in most cases. They typically store a unique identifier or preference value that allows the site to recognise your browser on return visits or to remember settings you have applied.
Similar technologies include web beacons, pixel tags, and local storage objects. Where this policy refers to "cookies," it also covers these comparable technologies unless stated otherwise.
02. Types of Cookies We Use
Essential Cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary for the editorial platform to function. They enable core features such as page navigation, access to secure areas, and language preferences. The platform cannot operate properly without them.
Duration: Session / Persistent | Always Active
Analytics Cookies
These cookies collect anonymous information about how readers interact with our articles and editorial content. They help our editorial team understand which topics are most valuable and how to improve the reading experience.
Duration: Up to 2 years | Optional
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies remember choices you make on our platform, such as your preferred display settings, font size preferences, or recently read articles. They enhance your editorial reading experience without tracking you across other sites.
Duration: Up to 1 year | Optional
Third-Party Cookies
Some of our editorial pages include embedded content (e.g., videos or social sharing widgets) from third-party providers. These providers may set their own cookies subject to their independent privacy policies, which we encourage you to review.
Duration: Varies by provider | Optional
03. How We Use Cookies
- ✓ Delivering editorial content — ensuring articles, featured stories, and categorised content load correctly and consistently for every reader.
- ✓ Understanding our readership — our editorial team uses aggregated, anonymised analytics to determine which article topics resonate most with our audience, guiding future editorial decisions.
- ✓ Improving platform performance — identifying technical issues, slow-loading pages, or broken navigation paths so our team can resolve them promptly.
- ✓ Remembering reader preferences — storing lightweight display settings so returning readers experience a consistent interface without having to re-apply selections each visit.
- ✓ Complying with legal obligations — maintaining a record of your cookie consent choices as required under applicable data protection and ePrivacy regulations.
We do not use cookies for targeted advertising, profiling, or re-marketing purposes. Strongmanvitamins is an editorial platform; we have no commercial tracking interest in individual reader behaviour.
04. Cookie List
The table below lists the specific cookies currently in use on strongmanvitamins.info. We review and update this list whenever cookies are added or removed from the platform.
| Cookie Name | Provider | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _session | strongmanvitamins.info | Essential | Maintains session state and page navigation on the platform | Session |
| cookie_consent | strongmanvitamins.info | Essential | Stores your cookie consent preferences to avoid repeated prompts | 1 year |
| _ga | Google Analytics | Analytics | Distinguishes unique readers; used to compile anonymous readership reports | 2 years |
| _ga_* | Google Analytics | Analytics | Persists session state for Google Analytics measurement | 2 years |
| _gid | Google Analytics | Analytics | Distinguishes readers for 24-hour engagement reporting | 24 hours |
| reader_prefs | strongmanvitamins.info | Functional | Remembers display preferences selected by the reader | 6 months |
| __utmz | Analytics | Tracks referral source that brought reader to the editorial content | 6 months | |
| yt-player-* | YouTube | Third-Party | Set by YouTube when embedded video content is present in articles | Persistent |
* Third-party cookie durations and purposes may be updated independently by their respective providers. We recommend consulting Google's and YouTube's privacy policies for the most current information.
05. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
Browser-Level Controls
All modern browsers allow you to review, manage, and delete cookies through their settings menus. You can configure your browser to block all cookies, accept only first-party cookies, or alert you before a cookie is placed. Below are direct links to cookie management guides for major browsers:
Opt-Out of Analytics
If you wish to prevent Google Analytics from collecting data about your reading activity across our platform, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on . This is available free of charge and works across all platforms where Google Analytics is deployed.
Withdrawing Consent
You may withdraw or adjust your cookie consent at any time by clearing cookies in your browser and revisiting our platform, where the consent banner will be presented again. Please note that disabling essential cookies may affect the basic functionality of the site and your ability to read certain editorial content.
06. Legal Basis & Data Retention
Our use of cookies is governed by the EU ePrivacy Directive (as implemented in Polish law), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and applicable domestic legislation. The legal bases we rely upon are:
- ▸ Legitimate interest — for essential cookies required to deliver the editorial platform.
- ▸ Consent — for all non-essential cookies (analytics, functional, third-party), which we only activate after you have given explicit consent through our cookie banner.
Cookie data is retained only for the duration specified in the Cookie List table above. You may request deletion of any data associated with your browser session by contacting our editorial team using the details in the section below.
07. Updates to This Policy
The Strongmanvitamins editorial team reviews this Cookie Policy periodically — at minimum annually — and whenever significant changes are made to the cookies deployed on the platform. When we make substantive updates, we will revise the "Last updated" date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, notify readers via a notice on the platform's homepage or article feed.