Cookie Policy
This policy explains how Flexibilitycareplus uses cookies and similar tracking technologies when you read our editorial content at flexibilitycareplus.info.
Last updated: 15 June 2025 | Effective immediately
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files placed on your device — computer, tablet, or smartphone — when you visit a website. They allow the site to remember your actions and preferences over a period of time, so you do not have to re-enter information every time you return or navigate between pages.
Cookies are set by the website you are visiting (first-party cookies) or by third-party services that provide functionality on that site (third-party cookies). They can be temporary session cookies, which are deleted when you close your browser, or persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a defined period.
At Flexibilitycareplus, we use cookies exclusively to improve the reading experience on our editorial platform and to understand how visitors engage with our articles. We do not use cookies to build advertising profiles or sell data to third parties.
Types of Cookies We Use
Essential Cookies
These cookies are required for the website to function correctly. They enable core features such as page navigation, security, and accessibility. Without them, parts of the site may not work as intended. They cannot be disabled.
Retention: Session / up to 12 months
Performance & Analytics Cookies
These cookies help our editorial team understand how readers discover and interact with our articles. Data collected is aggregated and anonymous — it tells us which topics resonate most, not who you are.
Retention: Up to 24 months
Functional Cookies
These cookies remember choices you make — such as your preferred language, text size, or whether you have acknowledged a notification banner — to deliver a more personalised reading experience on return visits.
Retention: Up to 6 months
Third-Party Service Cookies
Some of our articles embed content from external services (e.g. video players, maps). These providers may set their own cookies subject to their own privacy policies. We encourage you to review those policies directly.
Retention: Varies by provider
How We Use Cookies
Cookies on the Flexibilitycareplus platform serve a strictly editorial and operational purpose. Specifically, we use cookie data to:
- ✓ Maintain site stability — ensuring pages load correctly and consistently for all readers.
- ✓ Measure editorial engagement — understanding which articles, topics, and formats are most valuable to our readership so our writers can produce more relevant content.
- ✓ Preserve reading preferences — remembering settings you have chosen so you receive a consistent experience when you return to browse our content.
- ✓ Record consent preferences — storing your cookie consent choices so we do not ask you repeatedly on each visit.
- ✓ Detect and prevent errors — identifying technical issues that affect the readability or accessibility of our articles.
We do not use cookies for targeted advertising, remarketing, behavioural profiling, or to track you across third-party websites outside of flexibilitycareplus.info.
Cookie List
The table below lists the specific cookies currently active on flexibilitycareplus.info.
| Cookie Name | Category | Purpose | Retention | Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| _session_id | Essential | Maintains user session state while browsing articles | Session | flexibilitycareplus.info |
| cookie_consent | Essential | Stores your cookie consent preferences | 12 months | flexibilitycareplus.info |
| csrf_token | Essential | Protects against cross-site request forgery attacks | Session | flexibilitycareplus.info |
| _ga | Analytical | Distinguishes unique readers; used by Google Analytics | 24 months | Google Analytics |
| _ga_XXXXXXXX | Analytical | Persists session state across page requests for analytics | 24 months | Google Analytics |
| _gid | Analytical | Stores and updates a unique value for each page visited | 24 hours | Google Analytics |
| fcp_prefs | Functional | Remembers reader preferences such as font size and language | 6 months | flexibilitycareplus.info |
| fcp_theme | Functional | Stores selected display theme (light/dark mode) preference | 6 months | flexibilitycareplus.info |
Managing & Controlling Cookies
Via Our Consent Banner
When you first visit flexibilitycareplus.info, you will see our cookie consent banner. You may accept all cookies, accept only essential cookies, or customise your preferences by category. You can revisit and update your choices at any time by clicking "Cookie Settings" in the page footer.
Via Your Browser Settings
Most modern browsers allow you to view, manage, block, and delete cookies through their settings menus. Please note that blocking all cookies may affect the functionality and readability of our editorial content. Below are links to cookie management guides for major browsers:
Opting Out of Google Analytics
If you wish to prevent Google Analytics from collecting data about your reading activity across all websites, you may install the official Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. This works independently of our cookie consent tool.
Legal Basis & Your Rights
We operate in compliance with the applicable data protection laws. Our legal bases for processing your personal data include:
- Contractual necessity — processing required to deliver the services you have requested or enrolled in.
- Legitimate interests — improving our platform, preventing fraud, and ensuring the security of our systems.
- Legal obligation — compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and lawful requests from authorities.
- Consent — where we explicitly ask for your permission before processing certain categories of data (e.g., marketing communications).
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:
Right to Access
Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Right to Rectification
Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
Right to Erasure
Ask us to delete your personal data under certain conditions.
Right to Restrict Processing
Request that we limit how we use your data in specific circumstances.
Right to Data Portability
Receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
Right to Object
Object to processing based on legitimate interests or for direct marketing.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact our Data Privacy team at [email protected]. We will respond to your request within 30 days. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.