Cookie policy
Cookie Policy
This page sets out how vitaltidebodycaresit.site uses cookies, what each kind does, and how you can control them.
What cookies are
A cookie is a small text file that your browser stores when you open a page. It lets the site remember something between one request and the next, such as a display preference or the state of a session. Some cookies are deleted the moment you close the browser window; others stay for a fixed period so the site recognises your next visit.
Cookies are not programs and they cannot run on your device. They hold a short label and a value, and they can only be read by the site that set them, or by a service the site has deliberately added. Similar files such as local storage work in much the same way, and this page covers them under the same heading.
Two lifetimes, one name
Session cookies
Cleared on close
Persistent cookies
Kept for a set period
The distinction matters when you review your browser's stored list, because a persistent file will still be there tomorrow and a session file will not.
What cookies this site uses
Two kinds of cookie are set on vitaltidebodycaresit.site, and no others. They are deliberately narrow in scope, because this journal only needs a page to load correctly and, in a limited form, to know which pieces of writing are actually read.
Necessary cookies
These files hold the state of a page request and protect the site from misuse. Without them, a form on the contact page may not submit correctly and some pages may fail to load at all. They carry no information about your reading habits, and switching them off will make parts of the site behave badly.
Required for the site to work
Analytics cookies
Where analytics are switched on, they record which pages are opened so the editors can tell whether a seasonal cooking guide or a comfort food piece is finding readers. They are set in a limited form, they are not used to build an advertising profile, and they are not shared for marketing. If analytics are off, no cookie of this kind exists on your device.
Optional, and off by default here
There are no advertising cookies on this site, no cross-site tracking files, and no cookies placed to follow you to another website. This journal is written for readers of traditional Japan recipes and home cooking notes; a cookie that profiles a visitor would serve no editorial purpose here.
Analytics tell the editors which recipes and guides are read, so the writing can follow what readers actually cook.
Why these cookies are used
Necessary cookies keep pages loading, hold a session together while you read, and block the kind of automated traffic that would otherwise slow the site down. That is their whole job. They do not record what you read or how long you stay.
Analytics cookies, where they are enabled, answer a narrow editorial question: which pages are opened, and which are ignored. If a seasonal cooking guide is never read but a set of everyday home meals is read every week, that shapes what gets written next. The data stays aggregate. Nobody at this journal looks at what a single visitor did, and no profile is built from it for advertising.
Managing cookies
Every mainstream browser lets you see the cookies already stored, remove them one at a time, or block new ones. The setting usually sits under a privacy or site-data heading in the browser menu, and the wording differs from one browser to the next.
Blocking everything
Strict blocking removes the necessary cookies too. Pages may load slowly, a session may drop mid-read, and the contact form may refuse to send. If you block everything and something stops working, the likely cause is a necessary cookie rather than a fault on the site.
Blocking selectively
A gentler approach is to keep necessary cookies and clear the rest. That leaves the site usable, removes the reading statistics, and keeps your stored list short. Clearing cookies again in a few months is a reasonable habit if you would rather not leave any behind.
Clearing cookies does not delete anything you have written to us through the contact page, and it does not affect your browser's own saved passwords or bookmarks. It only removes the small labels this site and others have left on your device.
Third-party cookies
A small number of cookies may be set by a service this site relies on, most often a hosting provider or an analytics provider. When that happens, the provider's own policy governs its cookie, not this page, and the provider is named in your browser's stored list.
Third-party advertising cookies are not permitted here. If you find a cookie from an advertising network on this domain, it did not come from this journal, and it is worth checking which other tabs or extensions introduced it.
To see who has set what, open your browser's cookie list and read the domain column. Cookies for this site sit under vitaltidebodycaresit.site; anything under a different domain was placed by a service rather than by the journal itself.
Where to look
- Open the site-data or privacy section of your browser settings.
- Read the domain column to see which service set each file.
- Remove individual entries, or clear the whole list and start again.
The current version of this policy always sits on this page, so a bookmark here will keep you up to date.
Changes and contact
If the way cookies are used on this journal changes, this page is updated and the revised wording replaces the old version here. Previous versions are not archived separately, so a bookmark to this page is the simplest way to check the current text.
Questions about cookies are welcome. Write to the address in the footer, or send a note through the contact page and mention that your question is about cookies so it reaches the right person. We answer during the working week, Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
Postal address
Vital Tide Kitchen Notes, 1-8-11 Yukinoshita, Kamakura, Kanagawa 248-0005, Japan
Email: [email protected] · Phone: +81 467 22 3841
Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
Questions readers ask
Short answers to the points that come up most often about cookies on this journal.
Do I need to accept cookies to read a recipe?
No. The text of every recipe, kitchen tip and set of comfort food ideas on this journal loads without an analytics cookie. Only the necessary cookie is doing real work on a page of reading, and it exists so the page arrives intact.
Does clearing cookies remove anything I sent you?
It does not. A message sent through the contact page reaches our inbox and stays there. Clearing cookies only removes the small labels stored in your browser, so a note you sent last month is untouched.
Will the site remember my reading preferences?
Only for the length of your visit, and only enough to keep a page behaving predictably while you read. This journal does not keep a long-term record of the recipes you opened, and it does not use one to decide what to show you next.
How often is this policy reviewed?
Whenever the way cookies are used changes, and otherwise when the editorial team reviews the policy alongside the privacy policy. This page always carries the current version, so nothing needs to be requested by email.
Read with the cookie question settled
This page explains the whole of it: two kinds of cookie, nothing that follows you, and a browser setting that puts you in charge. From here, the reading is about cooking rather than settings.