Cookie Policy
Last Updated: January 2025
Roxas Boulevard 191, Cebu City
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At Activerecovery40plus, we use cookies to enhance your browsing experience and analyze how our editorial content is accessed. This policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, and how you can manage your cookie preferences.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit our website. They contain information that helps us recognize your browser and remember your preferences. Cookies do not contain personally identifiable information on their own, but they may be linked to such information when you visit our site.
Cookies are essential for website functionality and help us understand how readers interact with our editorial content, allowing us to continuously improve the user experience.
Types of Cookies We Use
Essential Cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary for the website to function properly. They enable core features such as page navigation, site security, and access to secure areas. Essential cookies cannot be disabled without affecting website functionality.
Analytical Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our content. They collect anonymous data about page views, article engagement, user demographics, and browsing patterns. This information helps our editorial team create more relevant and useful content.
Preference Cookies
These cookies remember your settings and choices, such as language preference, font size, and theme selection. They enhance your personalized experience when you return to our website.
Marketing Cookies
These cookies track your browsing behavior across different websites to display relevant content and advertisements. You can control these cookies through your consent preferences.
Social Media Cookies
When you interact with social media plugins on our site (such as share buttons), these platforms may set their own cookies to track engagement and tailor content recommendations.
How We Use Cookies
- • Content Delivery: Ensuring our articles, guides, and resources load correctly and securely
- • User Preferences: Remembering your reading preferences and saved articles
- • Analytics: Analyzing how readers interact with our editorial content to improve quality and relevance
- • Performance Monitoring: Detecting and preventing fraud, ensuring website security, and troubleshooting errors
- • Content Recommendations: Suggesting relevant articles and resources based on your reading history
- • Advertising: Delivering targeted, relevant advertising content in partnership with our ad network
Cookie List
| Cookie Name | Type | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Analytical | Google Analytics - Unique user identification | 2 years |
| _gid | Analytical | Google Analytics - Session identification | 24 hours |
| _gat | Analytical | Google Analytics - Request throttling | 1 minute |
| user_pref | Preference | Stores language and theme preferences | 1 year |
| cookie_consent | Essential | Tracks your cookie consent choices | 1 year |
| session_id | Essential | Maintains your browsing session | Session |
| fbp | Marketing | Facebook - User tracking and ad delivery | 3 months |
| _adsense | Marketing | Google AdSense - Ad personalization | 1 year |
| article_history | Preference | Remembers recently viewed articles | 30 days |
| sharetarget | Social Media | Social sharing functionality | Session |
Managing Your Cookies
Cookie Consent Preferences
When you first visit our website, you'll see a cookie consent banner. You can:
- → Accept All: Allow all cookies including analytical and marketing cookies
- → Manage Preferences: Customize which cookie categories to allow or disable
- → Essential Only: Accept only essential cookies required for website functionality
Browser Controls
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through settings. You can typically:
- → View cookies stored on your device
- → Block new cookies or specific cookie types
- → Delete existing cookies
- → Enable "Do Not Track" settings
For detailed instructions, visit your browser's help documentation (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge).
Third-Party Services
Our website uses third-party services that set their own cookies:
- → Google Analytics: Google Privacy Policy
- → Facebook Pixel: Facebook Privacy Policy
- → Google AdSense: Google Ads Privacy Policy
You can opt out of personalized advertising through these platforms' settings or via the Network Advertising Initiative.
What Happens If You Disable Cookies?
While you can browse our editorial content without cookies, disabling all cookies may affect your experience:
- ⚠ Essential website features may not work correctly
- ⚠ Your preferences and settings won't be remembered
- ⚠ Content recommendations may not be personalized
- ⚠ You may need to log in repeatedly
We recommend keeping essential and preference cookies enabled for the best browsing experience. You can disable marketing and analytical cookies if you prefer not to be tracked for these purposes.
Legal Basis for Cookie Usage
We use cookies based on the following legal grounds:
- ✓ Consent: We obtain your explicit consent for non-essential cookies through our consent banner
- ✓ Legitimate Interest: We use analytical cookies to understand content engagement and improve our editorial quality
- ✓ Contractual Necessity: Essential cookies are required to deliver the website and maintain security
This cookie policy complies with GDPR, CCPA, and other relevant data privacy regulations.
Updates to This Policy
Activerecovery40plus may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in our cookie practices, technology, or legal requirements. We will notify you of material changes by:
- → Posting the updated policy on this page with a new "Last Updated" date
- → Displaying a prominent notice if changes significantly affect your privacy
Continued use of our website after updates constitutes your acceptance of the revised policy.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, our cookie practices, or your privacy rights, please contact our editorial team:
Activerecovery40plus Editorial Team
Roxas Boulevard 191
Cebu City
Email: [email protected]
For content-related questions or feedback about our articles, please use the email address above. We aim to respond within 5-7 business days.
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