Cookie Policy
A short, honest explanation of the handful of cookies this site actually uses — and how to say no to the ones you don't want.
What a Cookie Is, Briefly
A cookie is a small text file a site stores in your browser so it can remember something between visits — that you already dismissed a banner, for instance, or which ad campaign you may have arrived from. We also use a similar browser storage mechanism, not a traditional cookie, to remember your consent choice locally.
Essential Cookies and Storage
These keep the site working and can't be turned off through our banner, though you can always block them in your browser at the cost of some functionality breaking. On VitaNews Daily, this category is limited to remembering your cookie-consent choice, stored under the key vnd_consent, plus whatever our hosting provider needs for basic security and load balancing.
Advertising and Measurement Cookies
When you accept cookies through our banner, we load the Microsoft Advertising Universal Event Tracking (UET) tag. It lets us see, in aggregate, whether a visit that started from a Bing or Microsoft Advertising campaign resulted in someone actually reading an article — nothing more granular than that on our end. Before you accept, this tag runs with ad storage explicitly denied, so no advertising cookie is set. Microsoft's own description of how it processes this data is in the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
Managing Your Choice
The banner shown on your first visit lets you accept or reject advertising cookies outright — you can change your mind later by clearing your browser's site data for vitanews-daily.org, which resets the banner. Most browsers also let you block or delete cookies site-by-site in their privacy settings, and Microsoft provides its own opt-out controls for personalized advertising through its account and browser settings.
Changes to This Policy
If the cookies we use change in a meaningful way, we'll update this page and the effective date above.
Questions? Email [email protected], or see our full Privacy Policy.