FlourishBites Cookie Policy
Effective Date: 14 June 2025
This Cookie Policy explains how FlourishBites (“FlourishBites,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on our website and mobile applications (collectively, the “System”). This policy should be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy, which provides more details about how we collect, use, and share your information.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information and to personalize your experience. Cookies are unique to your browser or device and store information about your preferences and past actions.
2. How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons, primarily to:
- Improve Your Experience: Cookies help us remember your preferences, so you don’t have to re-enter information repeatedly (e.g., login details).
- Understand Usage: They help us analyze how you use our System, which pages you visit, and which features you interact with. This helps us to improve our content and services.
- Deliver Relevant Content and Advertising: Cookies allow us to show you content and advertisements that are more relevant to your interests.
- Ensure Functionality: Some cookies are essential for the basic functionality of the System, such as processing orders or managing user accounts.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
We use both first-party cookies (set by FlourishBites) and third-party cookies (set by partners or service providers).
a) First-Party Cookies: These cookies are set directly by our System and are crucial for its operation and your user experience.
- Account-Related Cookies: If you create an account with us, we use cookies to manage the signup process and general administration. These cookies are typically deleted when you log out, but some may remain to remember your site preferences.
- Newsletter/Email Subscription Cookies: If you subscribe to our newsletter, cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and to show specific notifications relevant to your subscription status.
- Order Processing Cookies: For any e-commerce or payment facilities, essential cookies ensure that your order details are remembered between pages for proper processing.
- Survey-Related Cookies: When we offer user surveys, cookies may remember who has already participated or provide accurate results after you navigate pages.
- Form-Related Cookies: When you submit data through forms (e.g., contact forms or comment forms), cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
- Site Preferences Cookies: To provide a great experience, we offer functionality to set your preferences for how the site runs. These cookies remember your preferences so that your settings are applied whenever you interact with affected pages.
b) Third-Party Cookies: In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties.
- Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics, a widely used web analytics service, to help us understand how you use the System and improve your experience. These cookies track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, please visit the official Google Analytics page.
- Google AdSense (DoubleClick): We use Google AdSense to serve advertising. The DoubleClick cookie is used to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times a given ad is shown to you. For more information on Google AdSense, please see the official Google AdSense Privacy FAQ.
- Behavioral Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used by our advertising partners to anonymously track your interests and present you with the most relevant adverts possible, based on your browsing habits.
- Affiliate Tracking Cookies: Several partners advertise on our behalf. These cookies allow us to see if our customers have come to our site through one of our partner sites, so we can credit them appropriately and allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonuses.
- Social Media Cookies: We use social media buttons and/or plugins (e.g., for Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram) that allow you to connect with your social networks. For these to function, the respective social media sites will set cookies through our site, which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
4. Your Choices Regarding Cookies
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer.
- Browser Settings: You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (refer to your browser’s “Help” section for instructions).
- Consequences of Disabling: Be aware that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of this and many other websites you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, it is generally recommended that you do not disable cookies unless you are sure it won’t impact your experience.
5. More Information
Hopefully, this has clarified our use of cookies. If there is something you are not sure whether you need or not, it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it interacts with one of the features you use on our System.
If you have any further questions about our use of cookies, please contact us: