Cookie & Storage Notice
Cookie & Storage Notice
Last updated: 1 October 2026
This notice explains how HerbKnowledge uses cookies and similar technologies, including browser storage and scripts that access information on your device.
Your choices
When the privacy interface is shown, you can Accept optional, Reject optional or Customise optional categories. Necessary storage is always active because it supports the site and your privacy choices.
You can change optional choices at any time through Cookie preferences in the footer. Declining optional categories does not prevent you from reading HerbKnowledge articles, using the Herb Library or using site search.
Storage categories
Strictly necessary
This category covers storage or access needed for the site to operate securely and remember your privacy choice.
| Name or technology | Provider | Purpose | Storage duration | Loaded before choice? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `hk_consent_v1` | HerbKnowledge | Stores your category choices, notice version, expiry and an opaque reference so that we can remember your privacy choice | 180 days from your decision | No. It is written only after you make a privacy choice. |
| First-party consent audit record | HerbKnowledge | A minimal server-side record that helps us demonstrate and manage your choice | Kept only for as long as needed to demonstrate and manage the choice | Not browser storage. Created only after you make a privacy choice. |
If a previous version of the site left a legacy cookieyes-consent cookie in your browser, the current privacy interface clears that specific cookie when a page loads. HerbKnowledge does not read or use its value.
The site may also use genuinely necessary WordPress or hosting storage for site operation and security. The pre-release public check did not identify an additional optional visitor cookie. We will update this notice if that changes.
Functional preferences
This category is currently unused. No Shopping Country feature or other functional preference storage is active in this release.
Analytics
This category is currently unused on English HerbKnowledge. This release does not load Google Analytics, a Google tag, Google Tag Manager, Google Site Kit, MonsterInsights transport or analytics cookies.
Advertising and affiliate technology
This category is currently unused for on-site scripts or storage. This release does not activate advertising pixels, affiliate tracking technology, link decoration, redirect identifiers, Awin, Sovrn or other commercial measurement technology.
External links can take you to another website. The destination can use its own cookies and privacy practices after you leave HerbKnowledge.
Changing or withdrawing your choice
Use Cookie preferences in the footer to reopen the preference centre. You can switch optional categories on or off.
When you withdraw an optional category, HerbKnowledge stops future loading of technology registered for that category and clears known first-party storage where technically possible. No optional technology is registered in this release, so withdrawal does not trigger an optional third-party request or cookie removal.
More information
For information about personal data, read the Privacy Policy.