What are cookies used for?
It’s important to note that cookies don’t harm your computer and don’t store personal information about you, such as credit card details, rather they store encrypted information which can access this information, helping to improve your Flourish experience.
In order to help you, cookies may be used to:
– Limit the frequency with which you will see particular advertisements or announcement from Flourish Health on our website;
– Identify your defaults where you have customised your profile;
– Keep track of how many times you do specific things, such as posting on the forums;
– Track where you have come from if you were referred to our website;
– Provide you with self-help information;
– Make our offers more relevant to you by taking into account your response to previous, similar offers;
– help us understand how our advertising impressions correlate with visits to webpages on Flourish Health so we can improve our marketing strategies.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer or other device when you visit the Site. This allows the Site to recognise you as a user either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits ( a ‘persistent cookie’). They are not harmful and do not contain any information such as your home address, date of birth or credit card details.
The cookies we use fall into four broad types:
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential in helping you to move around our Site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, such as setting up an account cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you’ve been on the internet.
Analytical/Performance Cookies
In order to keep the Site, its services and products relevant, easy to use and up-to-date, we use web analytics services to help us understand how people use our Site. For example, we can see which parts of the Site and products are most popular, identify when errors occur, and test different versions of a page or feature to see which one works best.
Functionality Cookies 
These cookies allow websites and applications to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised which means we can’t identify you personally. They do not gather any information about you that could be used for selling advertising or remembering where you’ve been on the internet, but do help us to serve you with advertising that is more relevant to you.
Targeted Marketing Cookies
We also use cookies to assist in targeted advertising. Without these cookies, online advertisements you encounter will be less relevant to you and your interests. We also use them to measure the effectiveness of our marketing communications, for example by telling us if you have responded to an advert that we have sent you.
If you would like more information on any of these types of Cookies, including how to opt-out, please visit www.youronlinechoices.com/
What do we use Cookies for?
Double Click Cookie
– Used to support Google Analytics for Display Advertising functionality and specifically to implement the following features: Remarketing, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, DoubleClick Campaign Manager integration and Google Analytics Demographics and Interesting reporting.
– If you want to opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising you can do so by changing your preferences here: www.google.com/settings/adsand using the Google Analytics opt-out tool here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
– The information gathered by this cookie will be used together with other cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) by us and third party vendors, including Google:
  • in respect of Remarketing, to inform, optimise and serve ads online to you based on your previous visits to Flourish Health
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  • in respect of Google Analytics Demographics and Interesting Reporting, to use data from Google’s interest-based advertising, or third-party audience data to tailor the types of ad you are served.
We also use Flashplayer for our video content, Adobe uses Flash Cookies (Local shared objects) to improve the user experience.
If you wish to disable or delete a Flash cookie, see Adobe Flashplayer Security Settings . Please bear in mind though, that if you disable Flash cookies for Flourish Health you’ll unable to access certain types of content on the site, such as videos.
Facebook
We use Facebook Cookies for a number of reasons; they allow us to offer you a better user experience by personalising your journey on our website and across your devices.
Using the Facebook cookie lets us know who is interacting with our ads, website and apps of our advertisers, so we can be more thoughtful about where we show our adverts, and to whom.
The use of the Facebook cookie can also provide us with insights into people who are interested in Flourish Health services, and help us to improve our offering and marketing.
5. How do I manage cookies?
You can accept or decline cookies. Most PCs automatically accept them but you can modify your browser settings to decline them if you wish. Each browser is different, so check the ‘Help’ menu of your browser (or your mobile phone’s manual) to learn how to change your cookie preferences. You can also decline the use of certain third party advertising by visiting this site please note we’re not responsible for the content contained on this site.
If you decline cookies, some aspects of the Flourish Health site may not work on your PC/mobile phone and you may not be able to access areas you want on the website. For this reason, we recommend that you accept cookies.
Finally, please note that advertisers and other third parties (such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter) may use their own cookies when you click on their advertisement or link to their site, on or from our website. These third parties are responsible for setting their own cookie and privacy policies.
If you’d like to learn more about cookies in general and how to manage them, visit aboutcookies.org.