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1. What Are Cookies and Local Storage Technologies?

A cookie is a small text file placed on your computer, tablet, or mobile device by websites that you visit. Cookies and web storage (such as localStorage and sessionStorage) allow web applications to recognize your browser, maintain authenticated sessions, store your display preferences, and ensure responsive page performance.

2. How & Why Pentasent Uses Cookies

Unlike conventional commercial web platforms, Pentasent does not monetize user attention through intrusive behavioral advertising networks. We use cookies strictly for:

Zero Health Ad-Tracking Guarantee

Pentasent NEVER sells your cookie data, nor do we deploy third-party advertising tracking pixels (such as third-party retargeting pixels) that follow your health browsing patterns to serve you ads across the internet.

Secure Authentication: Keeping you safely signed into your verified profile as you navigate across ecosystem features.
Platform Security & Anti-Fraud: Verifying Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) tokens, detecting malicious login attempts, and blocking credential stuffing bots.
Functional Preferences: Remembering user choices such as dark/light display mode, unit preferences for wellness tools (Metric vs Imperial for height and weight in BMI calculators), and language preferences.
Aggregated Performance Analytics: Gauging aggregated page load latency, network stability, and server performance without building profiling dossiers on your health.

3. Categories of Cookies Used on Pentasent

We classify the cookies and local storage tokens deployed across our services into the following distinct categories:

1. Strictly Necessary / Essential Cookies

These cookies are fundamental to the operation of the Pentasent platform. They enable secure account authentication, route navigation, and security defenses. The platform cannot function properly without these cookies, and they cannot be disabled.

penta_session: Manages encrypted authenticated session state.
penta_csrf: Protects against cross-site request forgery attacks.
penta_auth_token: Secures authenticated API communications.

2. Functional & Preference Cookies

These cookies allow Pentasent to remember choices you make and provide personalized, enhanced convenience:

penta_theme: Stores selected interface mode (dark or light).
penta_calc_units: Remembers chosen measurement system (kg/cm vs lbs/inches) for wellness calculators.
penta_lang: Preserves selected regional and language preference.

3. Performance & Diagnostic Cookies

These cookies collect aggregate, pseudonymized diagnostic information to help us understand which pages take longer to render, detect JavaScript errors, and optimize server capacity.

penta_perf_id: Measures page load timing and static asset delivery speeds.
penta_err_trace: Logs crash reports and client-side rendering exceptions.

4. Security & Imposter Prevention Cookies

These tokens help detect anomalous login activity, prevent account hijacking, and block recruitment scam bots attempting to harvest contact information.

4. Inventory of Active Pentasent Cookies

The following table details the primary cookies utilized across our ecosystem:

Cookie Name	Category	Lifespan	Purpose
penta_session	Strictly Necessary	Session / 14 Days	Maintains encrypted session state and authentication credentials.
penta_csrf	Strictly Necessary	Session	Protects against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) exploits.
penta_theme	Functional	1 Year	Stores your preferred visual theme (dark or light mode).
penta_calc_units	Functional	6 Months	Remembers Metric or Imperial unit choices for wellness calculators.
penta_perf_id	Performance	30 Days	Collects pseudonymized aggregate metrics on page loading speed.

5. How to Manage and Disable Cookies

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject non-essential cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences through several methods:

Browser Controls: Most modern web browsers allow you to view, manage, delete, and block cookies through their settings. You can configure your browser to block all cookies or notify you when a cookie is set.
Google Chrome: Settings > Privacy and Security > Third-Party Cookies.
Apple Safari: Settings > Safari > Advanced > Block All Cookies.
Mozilla Firefox: Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies and Site Data.
Microsoft Edge: Settings > Cookies and Site Permissions > Manage and Delete Cookies.
Impact of Disabling Cookies: If you choose to disable strictly necessary cookies, key sections of the platform requiring secure sign-in, personal health tracking, or profile management may not function as intended.

6. Do-Not-Track (DNT) and Global Privacy Control (GPC)

Pentasent recognizes and respects Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals and Do-Not-Track (DNT) browser headers. When a GPC or DNT signal is detected, our systems automatically disable all non-essential performance diagnostics for that browser session.

7. Updates to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy periodically to reflect changes in our operational technologies, security updates, or legal mandates. Any revisions will be published on this page with an updated "Last Updated" timestamp.

8. Cookie Inquiries & Contact Details

If you have questions regarding our use of cookies or tracking governance, please contact our team:

Email: cookies@pentasent.com
Email: privacy@pentasent.com
Postal Address: Pentasent Inc., Data Protection Office, London Global HQ, United Kingdom.

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