Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit certain websites. They help a site work, remember preferences, or keep limited session information.

How we use cookies

isithalal.food uses a small set of essential cookies to improve site use, plus the analytics and advertising cookies described below. Our own cookies are never used to track you across other websites.

• Theme preference — remembers light or dark theme so you do not reset it on every visit. Cookie name: isithalal-food-ui-theme.
• Search history — stores recent search terms and Halal-status results so you can reopen them on this site. Cookie name: isithalalSearchHistory. This cookie is typically httpOnly (server-oriented, not for ad tracking).

Analytics cookies

We use Google Analytics to see which pages people read and where they arrive from, so we know which rulings to expand or correct first.

• Visitor and session measurement — cookie names: _ga and _ga_SLB5GPYBH6. They distinguish one visitor from another and group page views into a visit.

In the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom these cookies are set only after you accept them on the banner. Elsewhere they are set by default, and declining on the banner turns them off. Either choice is remembered on your device, and you can change it by clearing site data.

Advertising cookies

We show ads through Google AdSense to keep the site free. Ads are kept off the ingredient scanner. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your earlier visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies lets it and its partners serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.

In the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, Google's consent message asks you first, and no advertising cookies are set unless you agree. You can opt out of personalised advertising at any time in Google's Ads Settings, or opt out of some third-party vendors' cookies at aboutads.info. How Google uses this information is explained at How Google uses information from sites that use its services. Ads never decide a verdict; see the advertising policy.

Managing cookies

Most browsers let you view, block, or delete cookies in settings. For general guidance see aboutcookies.org or allaboutcookies.org.

If you disable these cookies, theme persistence and on-site search history may not work as intended. Food-page research and the on-device ingredient scanner do not require advertising cookies, and the scanner shows no ads.

Changes

We may update this policy when cookie use, operations, or legal requirements change. The “Last updated” date at the top of this page marks the current version.

Questions

Cookie or privacy questions about this site can go through the contact form (topic “Other”). For advertising concerns, see the advertising policy.