Cookie Policy
How Skin Candid uses
cookies and similar technologies.
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies and similar technologies are, why Skin Candid may use them and how visitors can control optional tracking.
The final production cookie list will be completed after the consent platform, analytics, newsletter, advertising and affiliate tools are selected and tested.
Pre-launch completion notice
This policy must match the cookies actually used on the live site.
Complete a technical cookie scan, verify each cookie’s provider, purpose, category, duration and data-sharing behaviour, then connect that inventory to the consent banner and preference centre.
Optional analytics, advertising, affiliate attribution and newsletter tracking should remain disabled until valid consent controls and accurate disclosures are in place.
What cookies are
Cookies are small data files stored through a browser or device.
Websites may use cookies, local storage, pixels, tags, scripts and similar technologies to remember settings, maintain security, measure use or support advertising and attribution.
First-party technologies
Set or controlled directly through the Skin Candid domain, often for essential site operation, preferences or first-party measurement.
Third-party technologies
Set or accessed by an external provider such as an analytics, advertising, email, video, social or affiliate service.
Cookie categories
Skin Candid separates necessary and optional technologies.
Strictly necessary
Required for security, consent preferences, load balancing, administrator access or another function needed to provide the website.
Functional
Remember optional preferences or improve features that are not essential to basic page access.
Analytics
Measure visits, page use, referral sources, performance and interaction patterns.
Advertising
Support ad delivery, frequency control, conversion measurement, audience creation or personalised advertising.
Affiliate attribution
Help a retailer or affiliate network recognise that a visitor followed a commercial link from Skin Candid.
Embedded content and social media
May be used by video, social, review or other external content embedded within a page.
Consent rule
Optional tracking must remain off until the visitor makes a choice.
Where consent is required, analytics, advertising, profiling, affiliate attribution and similar non-essential technologies should not activate before valid consent is given.
Refusing optional cookies should not prevent ordinary access to Skin Candid’s editorial content.
Consent banner standard
The cookie banner should offer a real and understandable choice.
First layer
- Clear explanation of why optional technologies are requested
- Accept and reject options presented with comparable visibility
- No preselected optional categories
- No consent assumed from scrolling, silence or continued browsing
- A clear route to detailed settings
Preference centre
- Separate categories where meaningful
- Strictly necessary technologies clearly identified
- Provider, purpose and duration information
- Ability to save granular choices
- Simple method to change or withdraw consent later
Current website technologies
The initial WordPress site may use essential technical cookies.
The exact names and durations must be verified through a production scan. Possible essential uses include the following.
WordPress administration
Authentication, session and settings cookies may be used when authorised users sign in to manage the website.
Security and hosting
Host, firewall, caching or security services may use technical identifiers to deliver pages and protect the site.
Consent preferences
The future consent platform may store a visitor’s cookie choices so the banner does not repeatedly ask the same question.
Performance delivery
Essential caching, content delivery or load-balancing technologies may be used where necessary to provide the requested service.
Skin Candid will not publish invented cookie names or durations. The final table will be generated from the real production configuration and checked manually.
Optional tools planned for later
New services may introduce additional cookies or tracking.
Analytics
A measurement service may be introduced to understand traffic, content performance and referral sources.
Newsletter
An email provider may use subscription, form-security or engagement technologies after the newsletter system is connected.
Advertising
Ad technology may be added only after consent, privacy and mobile-usability requirements are satisfied.
Affiliate links
Retailers and affiliate networks may use attribution technologies after a visitor follows a commercial link.
Embedded media
Video, social or other external embeds may create third-party connections and should be blocked until consent where required.
Testing and optimisation
Site-testing tools may measure variations or interaction patterns after legal and technical review.
Current pre-launch position
Optional tracking should not be active yet.
Skin Candid’s present focus is site construction, content production and traffic readiness.
Analytics, advertising, affiliate attribution and newsletter tracking should be introduced only after each provider is documented, the banner is tested and consent choices are respected technically.
Managing your preferences
Visitors should be able to change their decision.
On Skin Candid
- Use the future “Cookie Settings” link in the footer or consent banner
- Accept or reject optional categories
- Withdraw consent without unnecessary difficulty
- Keep essential technologies active where genuinely necessary
Through the browser
- View and delete stored cookies
- Block all or selected cookies
- Control third-party storage
- Use private-browsing settings
- Understand that blocking necessary cookies may affect some functions
Withdrawal of consent
Withdrawing consent should be as straightforward as giving it.
After the consent platform is installed, visitors should be able to reopen their settings through a persistent footer link or another clearly available control.
Withdrawing consent stops future optional tracking through the relevant browser or device. It does not automatically erase information already processed lawfully; separate privacy rights may apply.
Third-party links
Leaving Skin Candid may expose visitors to another site’s technologies.
Retailers and affiliate networks
After clicking a product link, the destination retailer or network controls its own cookies, consent tools and privacy practices.
External sources and social platforms
Research sources, videos, social platforms and external websites apply their own cookie and privacy policies.
Do Not Track and browser signals
Technical signals are handled according to available tools and applicable requirements.
Browser privacy signals are not implemented consistently across all technologies and providers.
Skin Candid will document any recognised opt-out or privacy signal supported by the final consent and advertising setup.
Final cookie inventory
The launch version will include a verified table.
The final Cookie Policy should list the real technologies found on the production website.
Each record should state
- Cookie or technology name
- Provider and domain
- Purpose
- Category
- First- or third-party status
- Duration or expiry
Operational checks should confirm
- Whether it activates before consent
- What data it accesses or stores
- Whether data leaves the EEA
- How the visitor can disable it
- Whether the description remains current
- When it was last checked
Questions
Contact Skin Candid about cookie or consent issues.
Report a cookie that activates unexpectedly, a broken preference setting or an unclear disclosure through the contact email.