1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work or operate more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
At Health Findings Lab™, we use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to improve your browsing experience, analyze site traffic, and support our affiliate partnerships.
2. How We Use Cookies
We use different types of cookies for various purposes:
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features, such as accessing secure areas.
- Performance & Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website for you. We use tools like Google Analytics.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you and remember your preferences.
3. Affiliate Links & Tracking Cookies
Because Health Findings Lab™ is an independent review site that participates in affiliate marketing, affiliate tracking cookies are essential to our operation.
When you click on a link to a product or supplement we have reviewed, an affiliate cookie may be placed in your browser. This cookie does not capture personal identifiable information (PII) like your name or email. Instead, it simply tells the merchant (e.g., a supplement manufacturer) that you came from our website. If you make a purchase, this cookie allows the merchant to credit us with a small commission at no extra cost to you, which helps fund our ongoing research.
4. Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the website and deliver advertisements. These third-party services (such as social media platforms or embedded video providers) may drop cookies on your computer when you use our website. We do not have control over these cookies or how the third parties use them.
5. How to Control or Delete Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in your web browser. You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies.
If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website, though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.
6. Updates to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
7. Contact Us
If you have questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact us at:
[email protected]