Cookie Policy
Last Updated: June 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Hina's Clinic uses cookies and similar technologies on our website, www.hinasclinic.com. Our website is built with WordPress and uses plugins and tools that may place cookies or similar tracking technologies on your device to help the website function properly, improve performance, protect the website, understand visitor activity, manage consent, process forms, support online features, and improve user experience.
By continuing to use our website or by clicking “Accept Cookies” on our cookie banner, you agree to the use of cookies as described in this Cookie Policy, unless you disable cookies through your browser settings or available consent options.
1. About Hina's Clinic
Hina's Clinic provides healthcare consultation and clinic-related services. Our contact details are:
Clinic Name: Hina's Clinic
Address: Raja Hashir Plaza, Main Simly Dam Road, Bharakahu, Islamabad
Phone: 0332 2066807
Email: info@hinasclinic.com
Website: www.hinasclinic.com
2. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer, mobile phone, tablet, or other device when you visit a website. Cookies help websites remember information about your visit, such as preferences, session details, language settings, form activity, shopping cart information, analytics data, or security checks.
Cookies can be placed by the website owner, known as first-party cookies, or by external services, known as third-party cookies. Similar technologies may include pixels, tags, scripts, local storage, session storage, tracking codes, and analytics identifiers.
3. Why We Use Cookies
Hina's Clinic may use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
- To make the website function correctly
- To remember cookie consent choices
- To improve website speed, design, security, and performance
- To allow contact forms and appointment request forms to work properly
- To understand how visitors use our website
- To measure website traffic and user interactions
- To improve our services, content, and patient experience
- To prevent spam, abuse, unauthorized access, and security threats
- To support WooCommerce-related website functionality, if enabled
- To support marketing, remarketing, and advertising tools where applicable
- To improve search engine visibility and website indexing
4. Types of Cookies We May Use
4.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are required for the website to work properly. They may support basic functions such as page navigation, security, consent management, form submission, login-related features, shopping cart functionality, and website protection.
Without these cookies, some parts of the website may not work correctly.
4.2 Functional Cookies
Functional cookies help improve your experience by remembering settings, preferences, form interactions, website display choices, and other useful features.
4.3 Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use our website. They may collect information such as pages visited, time spent on pages, device type, browser type, approximate location, referral source, and website interaction patterns.
This information helps us improve website content, performance, layout, and services.
4.4 Marketing and Advertising Cookies
Marketing cookies may be used to understand visitor behavior, measure advertising performance, support remarketing, or show more relevant content and advertisements through third-party platforms such as Meta or Google, where applicable.
4.5 Security Cookies
Security cookies and similar technologies help protect our website from spam, malware, suspicious activity, unauthorized access, attacks, and misuse.
4.6 Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies may be placed by third-party services integrated into our website, such as analytics tools, advertising platforms, maps, form tools, email tools, security services, SEO tools, or embedded content providers.
5. WordPress and Plugin-Related Cookies
Our website is built on WordPress and may use cookies or similar technologies from WordPress core features, themes, plugins, and third-party integrations. The exact cookies may change depending on website updates, plugin settings, active features, browser type, visitor choices, and consent preferences.
The following table explains the types of plugins and tools used on our website and how they may relate to cookies or similar technologies.
| Plugin / Tool | Purpose | Possible Cookie or Data Use |
|---|---|---|
| WordPress | Website content management system | May use cookies for logged-in users, admin sessions, comments, preferences, security, and website functionality. |
| Elementor and Elementor Pro | Website design and page building | May use local storage, scripts, or cookies to support page layout, popups, forms, design elements, and user interface features. |
| WPForms Lite | Contact forms and appointment/inquiry forms | May use cookies or anti-spam technologies to help forms submit correctly, prevent duplicate submissions, and reduce spam. |
| Contact Form 7 | Contact forms | May process form information submitted by users and may work with security or anti-spam tools. Cookies may be used depending on configuration. |
| WPConsent and WP Consent API | Cookie consent and privacy preference management | May store your cookie consent choices, privacy preferences, acceptance status, and consent records. |
| WP Mail SMTP | Email delivery for website forms and notifications | May process form-related email data to help deliver messages from the website. It generally supports email delivery rather than visitor tracking. |
| WooCommerce | Online store, service booking, cart, checkout, or product-related features if enabled | May use cookies for cart contents, checkout sessions, customer sessions, recently viewed items, and order-related functionality. |
| Uncanny Automator | Website automation and workflow management | May process event-based website actions and user interactions depending on configured automations. |
| Site Kit by Google | Google service integration | May connect the website with Google tools such as Analytics, Search Console, AdSense, Tag Manager, or PageSpeed Insights depending on settings. |
| Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights | Website analytics and traffic measurement | May use Google Analytics cookies or measurement technologies to understand visitor behavior, traffic sources, page views, and website performance. |
| Meta Pixel for WordPress | Meta/Facebook tracking, advertising, and conversion measurement | May use pixels, cookies, or similar technologies to measure visits, conversions, ad performance, and remarketing activity. |
| OptinMonster | Popups, campaign forms, notices, and lead capture | May use cookies or local storage to remember whether a popup was shown, closed, accepted, or interacted with. |
| MetaSlider Slideshow and MetaSlider Gallery | Image sliders and galleries | May use scripts or local storage for display behavior, slider functionality, and performance. |
| All in One SEO, All in One SEO Pro, Broken Link Checker by AIOSEO, IndexNow | SEO optimization, indexing, and link monitoring | Usually used for site visibility, indexing, metadata, and link checking. These tools may process technical website data but are not primarily used for patient tracking. |
| Imunify Security | Website security and malware protection | May use cookies, logs, or security identifiers to detect threats, block attacks, prevent spam, and protect the website. |
| Image Optimizer | Image compression and optimization | Used to improve website speed and image performance. It is not primarily used for visitor tracking. |
| Redux Framework, Case Addons, Hostinger Migrator | Theme options, website features, migration, and admin-related functionality | May support website configuration and admin functions. These are not generally used for visitor advertising tracking. |
6. Cookies Used for Forms and Appointment Requests
Our website may include forms for appointment requests, contact inquiries, service questions, or patient communication. Forms may be powered by plugins such as WPForms Lite, Contact Form 7, Elementor Pro, or other form-related tools.
These forms may collect information that you voluntarily provide, such as your name, phone number, email address, message, appointment request, or other details. Cookies or similar technologies may help protect forms from spam, confirm successful submission, prevent duplicate submissions, and improve form performance.
Please avoid submitting highly sensitive medical information through website forms unless necessary. For private medical concerns, appointment details, or urgent issues, please contact the clinic directly.
7. Cookies Used for Analytics
Hina's Clinic may use analytics tools, including Site Kit by Google and Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights, to understand website traffic and visitor behavior. Analytics tools may collect information such as:
- Pages visited
- Time spent on the website
- Device and browser type
- Approximate location based on technical data
- Referral source, such as search engine or social media
- Clicks, scrolling, and general website interactions
- Website performance and loading behavior
This information is used to improve our website, services, content, and user experience. Analytics data is generally aggregated and does not directly identify patients by medical condition or consultation details.
8. Cookies Used for Meta Pixel and Advertising
Our website may use Meta Pixel for WordPress or similar advertising technologies. These tools may help us understand how visitors interact with our website, measure advertising performance, improve campaigns, and show relevant clinic information or awareness content on Meta platforms such as Facebook or Instagram.
Meta Pixel may use cookies, pixels, browser information, device information, page activity, and conversion events. These technologies are controlled partly by Meta and may be subject to Meta's own privacy and cookie policies.
Hina's Clinic does not sell patient consultation details, medical reports, private health information, prescriptions, or confidential patient records to advertising companies.
9. Cookies Used for WooCommerce
If WooCommerce features are active on our website, WooCommerce may use cookies to support cart, checkout, order, account, product, service, or payment-related functionality.
WooCommerce cookies may help:
- Remember items in a cart
- Support checkout functionality
- Maintain customer sessions
- Remember recently viewed products or services
- Process order-related activity
If online purchasing or booking features are not used on a particular page, WooCommerce cookies may not be active for every visitor.
10. Cookies Used for Consent Management
Our website may use WPConsent and WP Consent API to manage cookie consent and user privacy preferences. These tools may store your consent choices, such as whether you accepted, rejected, or customized cookie categories.
Consent cookies are important because they help us remember your privacy choices and avoid asking you repeatedly on every page visit.
11. Cookies Used for Security
Security tools such as Imunify Security and other WordPress security features may use cookies, logs, IP checks, firewall rules, malware scanning, or similar technologies to protect the website.
Security cookies and logs may help us:
- Detect suspicious activity
- Block spam and malicious traffic
- Protect website forms
- Prevent unauthorized access
- Protect website files and server resources
- Improve website safety for visitors and patients
12. Embedded Content and Third-Party Websites
Our website may include embedded content or links from third parties, such as Google Maps, social media platforms, videos, external appointment tools, payment services, or other resources. Embedded content from other websites may behave as if you visited that third-party website directly.
These third parties may collect data, use cookies, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with their content. Hina's Clinic is not responsible for the cookie practices, privacy policies, or data handling of third-party websites or services.
13. How Long Cookies Stay on Your Device
Cookies may remain on your device for different lengths of time depending on their purpose:
- Session cookies: These are temporary and usually expire when you close your browser.
- Persistent cookies: These remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them.
- Consent cookies: These may remain longer so the website can remember your cookie preferences.
- Analytics and marketing cookies: These may remain for different periods depending on the service provider.
The exact duration of each cookie may vary depending on WordPress settings, plugin settings, browser settings, and third-party provider policies.
14. Managing or Disabling Cookies
You can manage or disable cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to:
- View cookies stored on your device
- Delete existing cookies
- Block all cookies
- Block third-party cookies
- Set cookie preferences for specific websites
- Receive alerts before cookies are stored
Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality. Some features, such as contact forms, appointment forms, consent preferences, security checks, cart functionality, or page features may not work properly if cookies are disabled.
15. Cookie Consent Banner
Our website may display a cookie consent banner or popup. This banner may allow you to accept cookies, reject certain cookies, or manage preferences depending on the settings available on the website.
If you accept cookies, we may use cookies as described in this Cookie Policy. If you reject or disable cookies, some non-essential cookies may not be placed, but necessary cookies may still be used because they are required for basic website operation, security, or consent management.
16. Suggested Cookie Banner Text
You may use the following text in your WordPress cookie banner:
We use cookies to improve website performance, analyze traffic, protect our website, and enhance your browsing experience. By clicking “Accept Cookies,” you agree to our use of cookies. Learn more in our Cookie Policy.
Button Text: Accept Cookies
Button Link: https://www.hinasclinic.com/cookie-policy/
17. Patient Privacy and Medical Confidentiality
Cookies are used for website operation, analytics, security, and user experience. Hina's Clinic does not use cookies to publicly disclose patient consultation details, medical reports, prescriptions, diagnostic results, private health records, or confidential doctor-patient communication.
Patient information shared during consultations, appointments, reports, or private communication is handled according to our Privacy Policy and clinic confidentiality practices.
18. Cookies and Personal Information
Some cookies or similar technologies may collect technical or online identifiers, such as IP address, browser type, device details, analytics identifiers, or interaction data. In some cases, this information may be considered personal data under applicable privacy laws.
Any personal information collected through our website is handled according to our Privacy Policy, this Cookie Policy, and applicable legal or professional obligations.
19. Changes to This Cookie Policy
Hina's Clinic may update or revise this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in website features, plugins, third-party tools, cookie practices, legal requirements, or clinic operations.
Any updated version may be posted on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date. Continued use of our website after changes are posted means you accept the updated Cookie Policy.
20. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, our website cookies, privacy practices, or patient confidentiality, please contact us:
Hina's Clinic
Address: Raja Hashir Plaza, Main Simly Dam Road, Bharakahu, Islamabad
Phone: 0332 2066807
Email: info@hinasclinic.com
Website: www.hinasclinic.com
21. Final Statement
Hina's Clinic uses cookies and similar technologies to make our website functional, secure, user-friendly, and effective. We aim to be transparent about cookie use and respect visitor privacy. We do not sell patient medical records, consultation details, reports, prescriptions, or confidential health information.
