What Cookies Are
Cookies are small text files that a website places on your device to remember you between visits. "Session cookies" are deleted when you close your browser; "persistent cookies" remain until they expire or you delete them.
Some modern browsers replace cookies with other storage mechanisms (localStorage, sessionStorage, partitioned storage); we treat these equivalently under this Policy.
Cookies We Use
We group cookies into two categories: strictly necessary and preferences. We do not use marketing or advertising cookies.
Strictly Necessary
Required for the site to work — your logged-in session, anti-CSRF tokens, and the consent state for this very policy. These cannot be turned off without breaking basic functionality.
Preferences
Remember small reading preferences: saved articles, font-size choice, whether the TOC sidebar is expanded or collapsed, and similar UI state. You can clear these at any time from your cookie preferences.
Third-Party Cookies
We use a small number of reputable vendors to process analytics and payments on our behalf. Where those vendors set cookies, they do so in a first-party context with strict purpose limitation — we do not allow them to combine data about you across other sites they serve.
A current list of vendors, with links to their own cookie disclosures, is published in the footer of this page.
Your Choices
You can manage preferences for this site on our Cookie Preferences page (linked from the footer on every page of the Services).
You can also manage cookies at the browser level — most browsers let you block all cookies, accept only first-party cookies, or delete cookies after a session. Blocking cookies entirely may disable some features of the Services.
Do Not Track & Global Privacy Control
The Services honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals from browsers that send them. When we detect a GPC signal we treat it as an opt-out of any sale or share of personal information under CCPA and equivalent laws.
Contact
Questions about cookies can be sent to legal@wellnesswire.com.
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