Cookie Policy
Cookies are small files that contain a string of unique characters that are sent to your device when you visit a website. The cookie allows the site to recognize your browser when you revisit the website. Cookies are intended to provide a convenience feature to save time and can store user preferences and other information. A simple example of cookies in action is when you add specific information to a website such as your age, height or gender, a cookie helps the website to recall this specific information on subsequent visits saving you time and effort to reenter the same information again. Cookies set by GeneHabit are called “first party cookies” while those cookies set by parties other than GeneHabit, for example, Google Analytics, are called “third party cookies”.
The purpose of third-party cookies is to enable features or functionality provided by the third party to run on or through the website. Third parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer or device both when it is used to visit the website in question and certain other websites as well.
Essential Cookies
Cookies that are required for technical reasons for our websites to operate are referred “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. These include cookies that:
- Cookies used for fast loading of websites and content distribution
- Cookies that provide essential security measures
- Cookies that remember the items in your shopping cart
We use another set of cookies that enables us to track and target the interests of users and helps to provide an enhanced user experience on our website. GeneHabit uses such cookies to track pages that are visited by users and are most popular. This information enables us to deliver personalized content to enhance user experience.
Non-strictly Necessary Cookies
Another set of cookies that are not strictly necessary include:
- Cookies to remember user preferences
- Software to analyze visitors (e.g. Google Analytics)
- Advertising cookies (First and Third-party)
- Social media “like” buttons
How does GeneHabit use cookies?
GeneHabit makes use of the following types of cookies on our website:
Essential website cookies: These cookies are essential to provide you services, for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site.
Performance cookies: These cookies are used specifically for gathering data on how you use our website, which pages of a website are visited most often, or if they get error messages on web pages. These cookies are used to enhance the performance of our websites but are non-essential to their use.
Functionality cookies: These cookies allow us to remember your site preferences and choices on the site including username, region, and language. Examples of functionality cookies include web chat services, user preferences, and the ability to comment on our blog. These cookies are non-essential to their use, however, without these cookies, certain functionality may become unavailable.
Analytics cookies: These cookies are used to track how our website is used by visitors and customization of our websites for you. These cooked also track the effectiveness of marketing ad campaigns and help to gather information about how people respond to ad campaigns.
Advertising cookies: These cookies are used to display relevant advertisements and messages to you. These cookies help us to ensure that any ads that you view are properly displayed, are relevant to you, are not repetitive, and are based on your interests.
Social networking cookies: These cookies allow you to share our website pages and content through various social networks and other websites. These cookies may be in additional be used for advertising.
Our Cookies
Necessary Cookies
| Name | Purpose |
| SIDCC | Security cookies confirm visitor authenticity, prevent fraudulent use of login data, and protect visitor data from unauthorized access. |
| __Secure-1PSIDCC | Cookie required to use website options and services. |
| SID | To provide ad delivery or retargeting, provide fraud prevention. |
| HSID | To provide fraud prevention. |
| SEARCH_SAMESITE | SameSite prevents the browser from sending this cookie along with cross-site requests. The main goal is to mitigate the risk of cross-origin information leakage. It also provides some protection against cross-site request forgery attacks. |
| moove_gdpr_popup | To store cookie consent preferences. |
| wp_lang | To store language settings. |
| AEC | Cookies ensure that requests within a browsing session are made by the user, and not by other sites. These cookies prevent malicious sites from acting on behalf of a user without that user’s knowledge. |
| wordpress_test_cookie | To read if cookies can be placed. |
| wp-settings-2 | These cookies are required and automatically added by the software that runs this website. |
| wp-settings-time-2 | These cookies are required and automatically added by the software that runs this website. |
| wordpress_admin_logged_in | Used to determine if the logged-in user is the admin. |
Functional & Advertising Cookies
| Name | Purpose |
| __Secure-3PSIDCC | Targeting cookie. Used to create a user profile and display relevant and personalized Google Ads to the user. |
| __Secure-1PSID | Used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalized Google advertising. |
| __Secure-3PAPISID | These cookies are used to deliver more relevant ads for you and your interests. |
| __Secure-1PAPISID | Used for targeting purposes to build a profile of the website visitor’s interests in order to show relevant & personalized Google advertising. |
| APISID | These cookies are used by Google to display personalized advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions. |
| SAPISID | These cookies are used by Google to display personalized advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions. SAPISID cookies enable Google to collect user information for videos hosted by YouTube. |
| SSID | These cookies are used by Google to display personalized advertisements on Google sites, based on recent searches and previous interactions. SSID cookies enable Google to collect user information for videos hosted by YouTube. |
| __Secure-3PSID | Targeting cookie. Used to profile the interests of website visitors and display relevant and personalized Google ads. |
| 1P_JAR | To provide ad delivery or retargeting. |
| NID | To provide ad delivery or retargeting, store user preferences. |
| OTZ | Links activities of website visitors to other devices that are previously logged in via the Google account. In this way, advertisements are tailored to different devices. |
| _fbp | To store and track visits across websites. |
| OGP | Cookie required to use website options and services. |
| OGPC | Cookie required to use website options and services. |
| DV | To provide ad delivery or retargeting. |
Performance Cookies
| Name | Purpose |
| tk_lr | Referral cookies are used to analyze referrer behavior for Jetpack-connected sites using WooCommerce |
| tk_r3d | Used for the internal metrics for user activities to improve user experience. |
| _ga | The cookie used by Google Analytics enables a service to distinguish one visitor from another. |
| __utma | To Store the calculation of days and times to purchase. |
| __utmv | This is used on sites that make use of the user-defined report in Google Analytics |
| tk_ai | Stores a randomly-generated anonymous ID. This is only used within the admin area and is used for general analytics tracking. |
| _gid | To store and count page views. |
| __utmc | To store the time of visit. |
| tk_or | The tk_or is a referral cookie set by the JetPack plugin on sites using WooCommerce, which analyzes referrer behavior for Jetpack. |
| __utmz | To store used keywords and search engines. |
Blocking, Deleting, and Managing Cookies
You have the right to accept or reject cookies on our website. These cookies will remain on your browsing device either till the end of your browsing session, also known as session cookies, or until they are deleted or expire, known as persistent cookies. The time of expiry or retention of persistent cookies depends on the purpose of the cookie collection and the tool used.
Cookie preferences:
You have the right to set or change your web browser settings to accept to refuse cookies. In case you decide to reject cookies, you may still be able to browse our websites though some of the functionalities and areas on the website may be restricted. We recommend checking your browser controls if you like to refuse cookies as these settings differ across various browsers.
Your internet browser manufacturer provides step-by-step information about cookie management that should be referred to. Some of the popular browsers include:
- Google Chrome
- Microsoft Edge
- Internet Explorer
- Mozilla Firefox
- Safari (Desktop and mobile)
- Android Browser
- Opera
We update our Cookie Policy regularly as required to include any changes to the cookies we use or cookies used for other operational, regulatory or legal purposes. You should therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed and updated about our use of cookies and related technologies used. If you have any questions about our use of cookies or technologies, please email us at [email protected].
Where can you find more information about cookies?
You can learn more about cookies and related information on the following third-party websites:
All About Cookies: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/
Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org/
