Effective date: 24/07/2026. Last updated: 24/07/2026.
1. What Are Cookies
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, work more efficiently, and to provide information to site owners. This policy also covers similar technologies such as local storage and pixels (together, “cookies”).
2. Types of Cookies We Use
2.1 Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are required for the Site to function — for example, maintaining your session, remembering filter selections while you browse the product/ingredient/news catalog, and securing the WordPress admin area. The Site cannot function properly without these, and they do not require consent under applicable law.
2.2 Functional / preference cookies
These remember choices you make (such as results-per-page or filter settings) to improve your experience on return visits.
2.3 Performance / analytics cookies
If enabled, these help us understand how visitors use the Site (e.g., which pages are most popular, how visitors navigate) so we can improve it. We currently use Google Analytics for this purpose.
2.4 Advertising / targeting cookies
As of the effective date above, the Site does not serve targeted advertising or use third-party advertising cookies. If this changes, this policy and our consent banner will be updated accordingly before any such cookies are set.
3. Cookies Used On This Site
| Name | Purpose | Type | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress_test_cookie | Checks whether the visitor’s browser has cookies enabled | Strictly necessary | Session |
| wordpress_logged_in_[hash] | Keeps a logged-in WordPress admin user authenticated | Strictly necessary | Session / until logout |
| wp-settings-[UID] | Persists WordPress admin interface preferences | Strictly necessary | 1 year |
| comment_author_[hash] | Remembers name/email for comment forms, if enabled | Functional | Up to 1 year |
| Google Analytics cookie | Usage analytics | Varies — see provider’s own policy |
This table reflects the cookies our platform sets by default; it should be reviewed and updated whenever a new plugin, embed, or analytics tool that sets cookies is added to the Site.
4. Third-Party Cookies
Some pages may embed third-party content (e.g., linked articles, external media) that could set its own cookies once you interact with it, governed by that third party’s own policy. We do not control these cookies.
5. Legal Basis and Consent
Where required by the EU/UK ePrivacy rules and the GDPR/UK GDPR, we obtain your consent before setting non-essential cookies (functional, analytics, and advertising cookies), typically via a cookie banner presented on your first visit. You can change your preferences at any time using the mechanisms described below.
6. Your Choices
- Browser controls: most browsers let you refuse or delete cookies via their settings. Refer to your browser’s help documentation for instructions, as steps vary by browser and device.
- Cookie consent tool: No cookie consent management tool is currently installed beyond your browser’s own controls.
- Industry opt-outs: if advertising cookies are introduced in the future, you will be able to opt out via industry tools such as the Digital Advertising Alliance (optout.aboutads.info), the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (youronlinechoices.eu), or the Network Advertising Initiative (optout.networkadvertising.org).
- Global Privacy Control: where required by law, we honor GPC signals as an opt-out request for non-essential cookies.
Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of the Site, including filters, saved preferences, and the barcode search feature.
7. Do Not Track
Because there is no common industry standard for “Do Not Track” signals, the Site does not currently alter its cookie behavior in response to them, separately from the Global Privacy Control handling described above.
8. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in the cookies and technologies we use. Please check back for updates.
9. Contact Us
Questions about this Cookie Policy can be sent to info@miaseilern.com.
