Cookies & Your
Choices
This page explains, in plain terms, what cookies My Medicine Advisor uses, why, and how you can control or remove them. We keep this simple and honest — and we never use cookies to collect health data.
“I’d rather tell you plainly what cookies the site uses and how to switch the optional ones off than bury it in legal boilerplate. We don’t use cookies to collect anyone’s health information.”— Sameer Patel | Founder & Editor, My Medicine Advisor
What Cookies Are & Why We Use Them
Cookies are small text files a website stores in your browser. They’re used across most of the web to keep sites secure, remember simple preferences, measure traffic, and support advertising.
We Don’t Use Cookies to Collect Health Data
We don’t use cookies to collect or store medical records, diagnoses, prescription information, or any personal health details — and the numbers you type into our calculators are processed in your browser, not stored in cookies or used for ad targeting.
Keep the Site Secure
We use Cloudflare in front of the site, which sets cookies to tell real visitors apart from bots and to protect against malicious traffic. These are part of keeping the site running safely.
Understand What’s Useful
We use analytics tools (Google Analytics and Microsoft Clarity) to see, in aggregate, which articles and tools people use and where the site can be improved. This is about overall patterns, not identifying you personally.
Support Free Access via Ads
Ads keep the site free. Our ads are served through a Google-certified partner, and Google’s systems use cookies to show and measure ads. We don’t use your health information to target ads.
Remember Simple Settings
Some cookies can remember basic, non-personal preferences — like a unit choice (kg/lbs) — so you don’t have to set them again. These aren’t tied to your identity.
The Kinds of Cookies Involved
Broadly, cookies on the site fall into these groups. Some are necessary for the site to work and can’t be switched off; others are optional and you can opt out of them.
The exact set of cookies can change as the tools and ad systems we use evolve. You can always see the precise cookies currently stored using your browser’s built-in cookie viewer (see the browser guides below).
How to Control Cookies
You have a few reliable ways to manage cookies. The browser controls below work regardless of any on-site settings, and Google’s own tools let you opt out of analytics and personalised ads directly.
In Your Browser
Opt Out of Analytics & Personalised Ads
📊 Google Analytics opt-out
A browser add-on that prevents Google Analytics tracking across all sites.
tools.google.com →📣 Google Ad Settings
Manage or turn off personalised advertising on your Google account.
adssettings.google.com →If you’re in a region such as the EU/EEA or UK, you should be offered a choice about non-essential cookies before they’re set. You can also change your mind at any time using the browser and opt-out tools above. Note that blocking all cookies may affect how some interactive tools behave.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights over your personal data. These are general rights provided by law in various regions — to exercise them, or ask a question, email us and we’ll help.
Access
You may have the right to ask what personal data is held about you.
Deletion
You may have the right to ask for personal data to be deleted. You can also delete cookies yourself in your browser at any time.
Withdraw Consent
Where you’ve agreed to optional cookies, you can change your mind — without losing access to the site’s content or tools.
Opt Out of Personalised Ads
You can object to interest-based advertising via Google Ad Settings or YourAdChoices above.
Useful References
Official resources on cookies, advertising, and privacy rights.
Google Ads & Cookies
How Google uses advertising cookies
policies.google.com →Google on Partner Sites
How Google uses data on sites that use its services
policies.google.com →Microsoft Privacy
Microsoft’s statement covering Clarity
privacy.microsoft.com →GDPR & Cookies
EU cookie guidance
gdpr.eu →CCPA
California privacy rights
oag.ca.gov →Your Cookies, Your Choice.
Standard cookies for a free, ad-supported site — no health data — and you can control or delete them anytime.