Cookie Policy – Center for Wellness International

Effective Date: June 3, 2025

1. Introduction

This Cookie Policy explains how the Center for Wellness International (“we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar tracking technologies on our website (www.centerforwellnessint.com) (the “Website”). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

This Cookie Policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which provides more detailed information about how we handle your personal information.

2. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners in order to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Center for Wellness International) are called “first-party cookies.” Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third-party cookies.” Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.

3. Why Do We Use Cookies?

We use first-party and potentially third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Website. Third parties may serve cookies through our Website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.

4. What Types of Cookies Do We Use and How Do We Use Them?

The specific types of first and third-party cookies served through our Website and the purposes they perform are described below:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies:
  • Purpose: These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our Website and to enable you to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the Website to you, you cannot refuse them without impacting how our Website functions.
  • Example: Session cookies that remember your selections or inputs as you navigate through the site during a single browsing session.
  • How to Refuse: You can block or delete these by changing your browser settings, as described below under the heading “How Can You Control Cookies?”
• Performance and Functionality Cookies:
  • Purpose: These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Website but are non-essential to its use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality (like remembering your preferences) may become unavailable.
  • Example: Cookies that remember your preferences (e.g., language settings) or choices to provide a more personalized experience.
  • How to Refuse: To refuse these cookies, please follow the instructions below under the heading “How Can You Control Cookies?”
• Analytics and Customization Cookies:
  • Purpose: These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Website for you.
  • Example: We may use Google Analytics to collect information about visitor behavior and demographics. This information helps us understand traffic patterns and improve the Website.
  • How to Refuse: To refuse these cookies, please follow the instructions below under the heading “How Can You Control Cookies?” You can also opt-out of Google Analytics by visiting Google’s opt-out page.
• Targeting/Advertising Cookies (Potential Use):
  • Purpose: These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests. Currently, we do not actively use targeting/advertising cookies that track your activity across other sites for advertising purposes. If this changes, this policy will be updated.
  • How to Refuse: To refuse these cookies, please follow the instructions below under the heading “How Can You Control Cookies?”

5. Other Tracking Technologies

In addition to cookies, we may use other similar technologies like web beacons (sometimes called “tracking pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognize when someone has visited our Website or opened an e-mail that we have sent them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our Website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to our Website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of e-mail marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.

6. How Can You Control Cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences in the following ways:

• Browser Controls: Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our Website though your access to some functionality and areas of our Website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.
  • Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647
  • Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
  • Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/delete-cookies-in-microsoft-edge-63947406-40ac-c3b8-57b9-2a946a29ae09
  • Safari (Desktop): https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac
  • Safari (Mobile): https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201265
  • Opera: https://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/privacy/
• Disabling Most Interest-Based Advertising: Many advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of interest-based advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.com.
• Mobile Advertising: You can opt out of having your mobile advertising identifiers used for certain types of interest-based advertising, including those performed by us, by accessing the settings in your Apple or Android mobile device and following the most recent published instructions. If you opt out, we will remove all data about you and will not collect any further data. The random ID previously assigned to you will be removed. Thus, if at a later stage, you decide to opt-in, we will not be able to continue and track you using the same ID as before, and you will for all practical purposes be a new user to our system.

7. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.

8. Where Can You Get Further Information?

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at [Insert Email Address for Privacy/Cookie Inquiries] or contact us by post at:

Center for Wellness International [Insert Physical Address] Attn: Cookie Policy Inquiry

Note to the Center for Wellness International:

• Fill in the bracketed information (Email Address, Physical Address). This should ideally be the same contact information used for privacy inquiries.
• Review Cookie Usage: It’s important to accurately list the types of cookies your website actually uses. If you use a website analytics tool (like Google Analytics), or if your website platform (e.g., WordPress with plugins) uses cookies, they should be reflected here. You might need to use browser developer tools or a cookie scanning tool to identify all cookies being set by your site.
• Third-Party Services: If you embed content from third parties (e.g., YouTube videos, social media feeds), those third parties may set their own cookies. Your policy should ideally acknowledge this, though direct control over those is limited.
• Consent Mechanism: Depending on your visitors and applicable laws (like GDPR if you have visitors from Europe, or CCPA/CPRA if you have visitors from California), you might need a cookie consent banner or tool on your website that allows users to manage their cookie preferences more granularly before non-essential cookies are set. This policy informs users; a consent banner manages their choices actively.
• Legal Review: As with all policies, it’s advisable to have this Cookie Policy reviewed by legal counsel to ensure it meets all applicable legal requirements for your jurisdiction and your specific website practices.