Cookie Policy

Effective Date: 30/05/2026  |  Last Updated: 30/05/2026

This Cookie Policy explains how supplementph.com (referred to as ‘we,’ ‘us,’ or ‘our’) uses cookies and similar tracking technologies when you visit our website. It explains what these technologies are, why we use them, and your rights to control their use.

This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which provides additional context about how we collect and use your personal information.

Plain-language summary: We use small text files called cookies to make our website work, understand how visitors use it, and track affiliate purchases (to earn commission from iHerb). You can control which cookies we set through our cookie consent banner or your browser settings. Essential cookies are required for the site to work – others are optional.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files that websites place on your device (computer, tablet, or smartphone) when you visit them. They are widely used to make websites work efficiently, remember your preferences, and provide information to website owners about how their sites are used.

Cookies cannot read information from your hard drive, infect your device with viruses, or access personal data stored on your device. They are simple text files that contain small amounts of information identifying your browser and the website that set them.

Similar technologies

In addition to cookies, this policy also covers similar tracking technologies including:

• Web beacons (also called pixels or tracking pixels) – tiny invisible images used to track page views and email opens
• Local storage – data stored in your browser similar to cookies but with larger capacity
• Session storage – temporary data stored only during your current browsing session
• JavaScript tags – code snippets that collect and send information to analytics services

2. How Cookies Work

Cookie types by origin

• First-party cookies are set directly by supplementph.com when you visit our site
• Third-party cookies are set by other companies whose services we use (like Google Analytics, MailerLite, or affiliate networks)

Cookie types by duration

• Session cookies are temporary and deleted when you close your browser
• Persistent cookies remain on your device for a specific period (from minutes to years) until they expire or you delete them

How cookies are used on our site

When you visit supplementph.com, cookies help us:

• Make the website function properly
• Remember your preferences (such as your cookie consent choices)
• Understand how visitors use our content to improve it
• Track affiliate clicks to iHerb for commission attribution
• Provide security and prevent fraudulent activity

3. Categories of Cookies We Use

We use four main categories of cookies on supplementph.com:

3.1 Strictly necessary cookies (essential)

These cookies are essential for the website to function. They enable basic features like page navigation, security, and remembering your cookie consent preferences. Without these cookies, supplementph.com cannot work properly. You cannot disable these cookies while using the site.

3.2 Functional cookies

These cookies enable enhanced functionality and personalization, such as remembering your reading preferences, saving your email signup state, and providing customized content. If you disable these cookies, some site features may not work as expected.

3.3 Analytics and performance cookies

These cookies collect anonymous information about how visitors use supplementph.com, including which pages are most popular, how visitors navigate through the site, and any errors they encounter. This data helps us improve our content and user experience. The information is aggregated and does not personally identify you.

3.4 Marketing and affiliate tracking cookies

These cookies track when you click affiliate links to iHerb so we can earn commission on resulting purchases. They identify supplementph.com as the referring source. We do not use marketing cookies for behavioral advertising, retargeting, or selling your data to advertisers.

4. Detailed List of Cookies

Below is a detailed list of cookies set on supplementph.com. Specific cookie names and durations may vary as services update their implementations. The list reflects the typical state of our cookie usage:

4.1 First-party cookies (set by supplementph.com)

4.2 Third-party cookies

Cookie names with asterisks (such as _ga_* or clarity-*) indicate that the actual name may include a unique identifier specific to our installation or your session. The category of each cookie indicates whether it is essential, functional, analytics, or marketing as described in Section 3.

5. Third-Party Cookies We Allow

We work with the following third-party services that may set cookies on your device when you visit supplementph.com. Each service has its own privacy and cookie policy governing how they handle your information:

How third-party cookies work

Third-party cookies are set when your browser loads content from the third party (like a Google Analytics tracking script). Once set, these cookies can be read by the third party whenever you visit any website using the same service. We do not control or have access to these cookies – the third parties manage them according to their own policies.

6. Cookie Durations and Expiration

Cookies on supplementph.com have varying durations:

Session cookies

Deleted automatically when you close your browser. Used for temporary purposes like maintaining your session or rate limiting.

Short-duration cookies (less than 1 hour to 1 day)

Used for security challenges, session management, and analytics session tracking (such as Cloudflare’s 30-minute bot management cookie or Google’s 24-hour user identifier).

Medium-duration cookies (1 day to 1 year)

Used for affiliate tracking (typically 30 days), comment author memory (347 days), and similar functional purposes.

Long-duration cookies (1 year to 2 years)

Used for analytics user distinction (Google Analytics _ga is 2 years), Microsoft Clarity heatmap tracking (1 year), and consent preferences (365 days). These help maintain consistent analytics data over longer periods.

Important: Even when a cookie has a long duration, it is updated each time you visit our site. Cookies that haven’t been refreshed in their duration period are automatically deleted by your browser. Most cookies last only as long as you actively use our site.

7. Your Cookie Choices

You have several options for controlling cookies:

7.1 Cookie consent banner

When you first visit supplementph.com, our cookie consent banner appears asking you to choose which categories of cookies to accept. You can:

• Accept all cookies (full functionality)
• Accept only essential cookies (limited functionality)
• Customize your choices by category (recommended)
• Reject all non-essential cookies

7.2 Updating your choices

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking the ‘Cookie Settings’ link in our footer or by clearing your browser cookies and revisiting the site (which will trigger the consent banner again).

7.3 Consequences of declining cookies

• Essential cookies cannot be declined – they are required for the site to function
• Declining functional cookies means features like comment author memory won’t work
• Declining analytics cookies means we can’t measure how visitors use the site (we lose ability to improve content based on usage data)
• Declining marketing cookies means we can’t earn affiliate commission from your iHerb purchases – your shopping experience is unchanged, we just don’t get credit

8. How to Manage Cookies in Your Browser

All major web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. Below are links to instructions for the most common browsers:

8.1 Browser cookie management options

Most browsers allow you to:

• View all cookies currently stored on your device
• Delete specific cookies or all cookies
• Block all cookies (note: will break most websites)
• Block only third-party cookies (preserves most functionality)
• Set your browser to notify you when cookies are being placed
• Configure exceptions for specific websites

8.2 Private/Incognito browsing

Browsing in private or incognito mode prevents most cookies from being saved after you close your browser window. However, cookies are still set during your private session for the website to function.

9. Mobile Device Cookies

When you visit supplementph.com on a mobile device, cookies work similarly to desktop browsers. Mobile browser cookie settings are typically accessible through:

• iOS: Settings app > Safari (or your browser of choice) > Privacy section
• Android: Settings within your browser app (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, etc.)

Mobile app considerations

Currently, supplementph.com does not have a dedicated mobile app. If we launch one in the future, this Cookie Policy will be updated to describe app-specific tracking technologies (such as device identifiers used in place of traditional browser cookies).

10. Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers offer a ‘Do Not Track’ (DNT) signal that asks websites not to track your behavior. There is no universally accepted standard for how websites should respond to DNT signals. supplementph.com currently does not respond to DNT signals because:

• No industry consensus exists on what DNT signals mean technically
• Our cookie consent banner provides more granular control than a binary DNT signal
• Major analytics providers (Google Analytics) do not honor DNT signals by default

If you prefer to limit tracking on supplementph.com, please use our cookie consent banner to decline non-essential cookies, or configure your browser to block specific cookie categories.

11. Cookie Consent Management

11.1 When consent is required

Under the Philippine Data Privacy Act of 2012 and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we obtain your consent before setting non-essential cookies (functional, analytics, and marketing categories). Essential cookies do not require consent because they are necessary for the website to function.

11.2 How consent is recorded

Your consent choices are recorded through the Complianz cookie consent plugin, which stores your preferences in a first-party cookie (complianz_consent_status). The consent record includes:

• Date and time of your consent
• Which cookie categories you accepted
• Which version of our Cookie Policy you accepted
• Your IP address (for legal proof of consent)

11.3 Withdrawing consent

You can withdraw consent at any time by:

1. Clicking the ‘Cookie Settings’ link in our footer
2. Clearing your browser cookies (the consent banner will reappear on your next visit)
3. Using browser settings to block cookies from supplementph.com

12. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect:

• Changes in cookies we use (when we add or remove third-party services)
• New legal requirements affecting cookie usage
• Updates to how we describe our cookie practices

When we make significant changes, we will update the ‘Last Updated’ date at the top of this page and may trigger our cookie consent banner again to ask for renewed consent.

We encourage you to review this Cookie Policy periodically to stay informed about our cookie practices.

13. Contact Information

If you have questions about our use of cookies, this Cookie Policy, or wish to exercise your rights regarding cookies, please contact us:

Related policies

• Privacy Policy: how we collect and use your personal information
• Terms of Service: rules governing your use of supplementph.com
• Affiliate Disclosure: details about our iHerb affiliate relationship

–Thank you for taking the time to understand how supplementph.com uses cookies. Your trust matters to us, and we are committed to being transparent about the technologies we use.