Cookie Policy
Last updated: January 2024
About Cookies
Muscle Builder Guide ("we," "us," "our," or "Company") operates the musclebuilderguide.info website. This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them, and your options for managing them.
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit our website. They help us understand how you interact with our content, remember your preferences, and improve your browsing experience.
The information on this site is for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional before making health decisions.
Types of Cookies We Use
Essential/Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for the website to function properly. They enable core functionality such as security, account access verification, and content delivery. Without these cookies, certain services cannot be provided.
Duration: Session to 1 year
Performance/Analytics Cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our editorial content. We collect data about page views, article engagement, and user behavior to improve the quality and relevance of our articles and overall website experience.
Duration: 1-2 years
Functional Cookies
These cookies remember your preferences and choices when you visit our website. They may remember your language preference, reading history, or customization settings to provide a more personalized experience.
Duration: 6 months to 2 years
Advertising/Targeting Cookies
These cookies are used by our advertising partners to display relevant, targeted advertisements based on your interests and browsing history. They help us deliver content-related ads that are more meaningful to you.
Duration: 1-2 years
How We Use Cookies
- • Content Personalization: Tailoring article recommendations and content suggestions based on your reading history
- • Website Functionality: Ensuring proper operation of our platform, maintaining security, and preventing fraud
- • Analytics: Understanding user engagement with our editorial content to improve article quality and website design
- • Preferences: Remembering your language, display preferences, and account information
- • Advertising: Delivering relevant advertisements from our advertising partners
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
Cookie Consent Management
When you first visit our website, you'll see a cookie consent banner. You can choose to accept all cookies, reject non-essential cookies, or customize your preferences. You can change your cookie settings at any time by clicking the cookie preferences button.
Browser Controls
You can control and delete cookies through your browser settings. Most web browsers allow you to:
- • View what cookies have been stored on your device
- • Delete individual cookies or all cookies
- • Set preferences to reject certain types of cookies
- • Receive notifications when cookies are being set
Note: Disabling essential cookies may affect website functionality and your ability to access certain features of our platform.
Do Not Track
Some browsers include a "Do Not Track" feature. Our website respects Do Not Track signals by limiting performance and advertising cookies, though essential cookies will remain active.
Detailed Cookie List
| Cookie Name | Type | Purpose | Duration |
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| _session_id | Essential | Session management and user authentication | Session |
| user_preferences | Functional | Stores language, theme, and display preferences | 1 year |
| _ga | Analytics | Google Analytics - tracks page views and user engagement | 2 years |
| _ga_* | Analytics | Google Analytics 4 - enhanced analytics tracking | 2 years |
| reading_history | Functional | Tracks articles you've read for content recommendations | 90 days |
| adtech_id | Advertising | Enables targeted advertising from our advertising partners | 1 year |
| csrf_token | Essential | Security protection against cross-site request forgery | Session |
| consent_preferences | Essential | Remembers your cookie consent choices | 1 year |
| content_viewed | Analytics | Analyzes which articles and topics are most popular | 6 months |
| partner_tracking | Advertising | Third-party advertising partner tracking for ad delivery | 2 years |
Third-Party Cookies
We work with third-party service providers who may set their own cookies on our website:
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors interact with our content and improve our editorial offerings. Google may also use this data for their own purposes in accordance with their privacy policy.
Advertising Partners
Our advertising partners may set cookies to deliver targeted advertisements based on your browsing behavior. These partners follow their own privacy policies and industry standards.
Content Delivery Services
Third-party services that help us deliver content, images, and videos may also set cookies to optimize performance and track usage statistics.
We are not responsible for the cookie practices of third parties. We recommend reviewing their privacy policies directly.
Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding cookies and your personal data:
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Right to Access
You have the right to know what cookies we use and how they're used
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Right to Refuse
You can refuse non-essential cookies at any time through our consent management tool
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Right to Delete
You can delete cookies stored on your device through your browser settings
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Right to Withdraw Consent
You can withdraw your cookie consent at any time by updating your preferences
Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or other factors. We will notify you of significant changes by updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this page and, where appropriate, by placing a prominent notice on our website.
Your continued use of musclebuilderguide.info following such changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated Cookie Policy. We encourage you to review this policy regularly to stay informed about how we use cookies.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy, our cookie practices, or your privacy, please contact our editorial team:
Muscle Builder Guide
Rue du Rhône 198
Luzern, Switzerland
Email: For content questions and feedback about our articles: [email protected]
We typically respond to editorial inquiries within 5-7 business days.
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