What a cookie is

A short read before the categories: what is stored, for how long, and what a cookie is not.

A cookie is a small text file that a website asks your browser to store. It can hold a session identifier, a preference or a measurement value. Some cookies expire when you close the browser; others remain until a set date or until you delete them. Similar technologies, such as local storage, serve comparable purposes and are covered by this policy.

Cookies are tied to a browser profile, not to a person. Two people who share a laptop can each hold different cookies, and the same person who opens the site on a phone and on a desktop will have two separate sets. Clearing them removes the identifiers a site was using to recognise that browser; nothing on the site stops working permanently, and you can return as a first-time visitor at any time.

This page applies to the whole of vitalmanlift.info — the ingredient library, the daily routines guide, the product guide, the label reading guide and the pages about men's health support that explain how vitamins and minerals for men are compared. Those pages are read, not purchased, so the cookies used here are modest: nothing on this site is built to follow you around the web.

Session cookie
Expires when the browser window is closed; it exists for the length of one visit only.
Persistent cookie
Stays until a set date or until you delete it, which is what lets the site remember a choice between visits.
First-party
Set by vitalmanlift.info itself, so you are reading a site that keeps its own notes rather than borrowing another company's.
Third-party
Set by a service working on the site, such as an analytics provider, and governed by that provider's own policy.

Two categories on one rail

Necessary and preference cookies

These two categories sit closest to the reader. One keeps the page working; the other keeps it from repeating itself.

Strictly necessary cookies

These are required for the site to function, such as remembering a form state or maintaining a secure session. They cannot be switched off through the site, because the site depends on them. You can block them in your browser settings, but parts of the site may then behave unexpectedly — a filled-in field can empty itself when you move to the next page, or a page may reload where it would normally hold its place.

Typical job
Hold a form state, keep a secure session
Can you opt out
Only from your browser settings, not from this site
Lasts
One session, or as long as the session needs

Preference cookies

Preference cookies remember choices you have made, such as a dismissed notice or a display setting. They exist to avoid repeating the same prompt on every visit. Disabling them does not affect access to any content; it only means the site cannot recall your earlier choice, so a notice you closed yesterday may appear again today.

Typical job
Remember a dismissed notice or a display choice
Can you opt out
Yes — no content is withheld if you do
Lasts
Until a set date, or until you clear them

Analytics cookies

Analytics cookies record aggregated information about how visitors use the site: which pages are opened, how long a visit lasts and where the visit came from. This data is used to understand which pages are useful and to fix problems. It is not used to identify individual readers, and it is not used for advertising.

In practice this answers questions like: is the ingredient library reached from the daily routines guide or does it stand on its own, does a visitor who opens the label reading guide go on to read the product guide, and which explanations in the guides are read to the end. The numbers arrive as totals and averages — a count of visits to a page, not a record of what one person did across the web.

Where a service such as an analytics provider operates on the site, that provider may set its own cookies subject to its own policy. We do not control those cookies directly. Details of the providers in use are available on request through the contact page.

You are in control

How to control cookies

All major browsers allow you to view, block and delete cookies through their settings. You can also browse in a private or incognito window, which discards cookies when the window closes. Instructions for your specific browser are published by its manufacturer.

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    Open your browser settings

    Every modern browser keeps a privacy or content section where stored cookies are listed by site. That list is the place to start — it shows exactly what this site has saved in your browser and when each entry expires.

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    Block or delete by category

    You can remove individual entries, clear everything at once, or set the browser to reject third-party cookies while still allowing the first-party ones the site needs to hold a session. The choice stays with you and can be changed again later.

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    Or browse privately

    A private or incognito window keeps cookies only for the length of the session and discards them when it closes. That is the simplest way to read the guides here without leaving anything behind on a shared computer.

Nothing on this site is hidden behind a cookie. If you block the whole category in your browser, every guide — the ingredient library, the daily routines guide, the product guide and the label reading guide — remains readable, with the same advice about natural supplements for men, vitamins and minerals for men, and energy and endurance supplements you came for.

What changes is only the site's memory of you: a form may not hold its state, and a notice you closed may return. If you would rather have the site remember your choices, leave the preference cookies in place; if you would rather leave no trace, clear them after reading and the pages will still open normally the next time.

Changes to this policy

Kept short on purpose: this page is the record of what the site stores, and it changes only when that changes.

This policy may be updated when the cookies used on the site change. The current version is published at this address. Continued use of the site after an update indicates acceptance of the revised policy. When the categories above change — a provider added, a category removed — the wording here is revised with them, and the date at the top of the page moves with it.

Read next

Privacy Policy — how personal information is handled, alongside the cookies covered here.

Contact

Contact us about cookies — questions about the categories above, or about the site in general.

Terms

Terms of Service — the conditions that apply when you use this site.