Cookie Policy
Effective date: 5 October 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how The Endometriosis Awareness & Education Blog uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit the website.
The website is operated through Sapphire MedWeb Solutions.
For more information about how personal information is handled, please read our Privacy Policy.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of information that a website can store on your device through your web browser.
They can be used for purposes such as:
- enabling website functions;
- maintaining security;
- remembering preferences;
- recording consent choices; and
- understanding how a website is being used.
Similar technologies, such as local storage, scripts or tags, may perform related functions.
2. Current Website Configuration
The configuration reviewed on 5 October 2026 does not enable visitor analytics, personalised advertising, embedded third-party media players or Google reCAPTCHA. Newsletter sign-up and advertising-enquiry forms are withdrawn. There is no public account-registration or comments service.
3. Necessary Website Functions
WordPress, Blocksy and Elementor provide the website’s pages, navigation, layout and search. Their website files are served from this site through Hostinger hosting. Requesting a page sends technical information, such as an IP address and the requested resource, to the hosting service. Server logs are described in our Privacy Policy; they are not browser cookies.
4. Optional Cookies and Storage
No optional visitor cookies or browser storage are configured for analytics, advertising or embedded external media in this configuration. The former generic Accept/Decline banner has been disabled. There is no optional cookie choice to make on this website at present.
5. Analytics
Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and other visitor analytics services are not enabled. Site search is provided by the website; it is not an external analytics service.
6. Advertising and Behavioural Tracking
The website does not enable personalised advertising or behavioural-tracking services. The advertising-enquiry and newsletter pages remain unpublished, and their form plugins are inactive.
7. Cookie and Technology Inventory
| Technology and provider | Purpose and activation | Duration |
|---|---|---|
WordPress: wordpress_test_cookie | Checks whether cookies work when the administrator login page is requested. Reading articles does not require login. | Session cookie. |
WordPress: wordpress_sec_[hash] and wordpress_logged_in_[hash] | Authenticate authorised website users after they sign in. These are administrative login cookies, not reader accounts or tracking cookies. | WordPress defaults: login validity is 2 days, or 14 days with “Remember Me”. Without “Remember Me”, browser storage is normally session-based. |
WordPress: wp-settings-[user ID] and wp-settings-time-[user ID] | Remember interface preferences for signed-in administrators. | Up to 1 year. |
Blocksy: legacy blocksy_cookies_consent_accepted | A previous banner stored an Accept or Decline choice. That banner is now disabled and no longer sets or reads this cookie. | The former “Forever” setting allowed up to 10,000 days from the old choice. Existing copies can remain until their original expiry or deletion in browser settings; they are not renewed by the disabled banner. |
| Google reCAPTCHA, Newsletter and Contact Form 7 | Removed from the active website configuration. Their scripts and forms are not enabled on the current pages. | No new storage is set by these disabled site features. Earlier provider cookies can be managed in browser settings. |
8. Your Browser Controls
You can view, delete or block cookies in your browser settings, including any cookie left by the former banner. Blocking login cookies may prevent an authorised administrator from signing in; ordinary readers do not need to sign in.
9. External Links and Future Choices
Links to sources, social networks, videos and other external resources are links rather than embedded players or tracking widgets. When you follow one, the other website’s privacy and cookie arrangements apply. If optional technologies are introduced later, this notice and the relevant choices, including a way to withdraw consent where applicable, will be updated before activation.
10. Cookie Durations
The inventory above distinguishes session storage, standard administrative login durations and the long expiry of the retired banner’s cookie. Removing a feature does not automatically delete every cookie already held by a browser. You may delete legacy cookies at any time using browser controls.
11. Changes to Website Features
The website’s use of cookies may change if new functionality is introduced.
For example, introducing:
- analytics;
- embedded third-party media;
- newsletter services;
- advertising;
- community features; or
- additional forms
may introduce new cookies or similar technologies.
Where this happens, the relevant technologies, consent arrangements and this Cookie Policy will be reviewed before or when the new feature is made available.
12. Privacy and Personal Information
Information collected through cookies or similar technologies may constitute personal information where it relates to an identifiable person or device.
For more information about how we handle personal information, please read our Privacy Policy:
13. Contact
If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or the website’s use of cookies, please contact:
14. Updates to This Policy
We will review this Cookie Policy when the website’s technology, providers or use of cookies changes.
Last updated: 5 October 2026
