Cookie Policy
Last Updated: September 28, 2025
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your device (computer, tablet, mobile phone) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
2. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for several purposes on FoodTrends Explorer. They help us provide a functional and secure experience, understand how our website is used, and deliver relevant advertising. We categorize our cookies as follows:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. Without these cookies, services like user login cannot be provided. We use cookies from NextAuth.js for session management and authentication.
Performance and Analytics Cookies
These cookies collect information about how you use our website, like which pages you visited and which links you clicked on. This information is aggregated and anonymized and is used to help us improve our Service. We use Vercel Analytics for this purpose.
Advertising Cookies
These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. We partner with Google AdSense, which uses cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website and other websites on the internet. This allows them to display personalized advertisements.
3. Your Choices Regarding Cookies
You have several options to control or limit how we and our partners use cookies:
- Cookie Consent Banner: When you first visit our site, you can choose which categories of cookies to accept or reject.
- Browser Settings: Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site may not work then.
- Opting Out of Personalized Advertising: You can opt out of personalized ads from Google by visiting Google's Ad Settings.
4. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new policy on this page.
5. Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please contact us at [Your Contact Email] or refer to our Privacy Policy.