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Cookie Policy
Last Updated: December 7, 2025 | Effective Date: December 7, 2025
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, or other device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, provide a better user experience, and give website owners information about how their site is being used.
Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies:
Persistent Cookies: These remain on your device for a set period of time or until you delete them. They are activated each time you visit the website that created them.
Session Cookies: These are temporary and are deleted from your device when you close your web browser.
Cookies can also be classified as "first-party" (set by the website you are visiting) or "third-party" (set by a different website, such as an analytics or advertising service).
2. How We Use Cookies
Functioning Fitness uses cookies and similar technologies on our website and mobile application for several purposes:
Essential Website Functionality: To enable core features like secure login, navigation, and access to secure areas
Remembering Your Preferences: To remember your settings and preferences, such as language and theme preferences
Analytics and Performance: To understand how visitors interact with our website, which pages are most popular, and how we can improve our services
Security: To help protect our website and users from security threats
Consent Management: To remember your cookie consent preferences
Important: We do not use cookies for advertising purposes or to sell your personal information. Our use of cookies is focused on providing and improving our fitness services for you.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
We categorize the cookies we use into the following types:
3.1 Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies cannot be disabled as they are essential for the website to function properly.
These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features. Without these cookies, services like secure login and remembering your consent preferences cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you for marketing purposes.
Authentication and session management
Security features and fraud prevention
Cookie consent preferences
Load balancing and server optimization
3.2 Functional Cookies
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your username, language, or region) and provide enhanced, more personalized features. They may also be used to provide services you have requested.
Remembering your display preferences (theme, font size)
Storing your language selection
Customizing content based on your location
Remembering if you've been shown certain features or messages
3.3 Analytics Cookies
These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages are visited most often and if users receive error messages. This information helps us improve how our website works. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymous.
Page views and navigation patterns
Time spent on pages
Bounce rates and exit pages
Traffic sources and referral data
Device and browser information
3.4 Marketing Cookies
We currently do not use marketing or advertising cookies. If we introduce them in the future, we will update this policy and request your consent before placing them on your device.
4. Detailed Cookie List
Below is a detailed list of the cookies used on our website:
4.1 Essential Cookies
Cookie Name
Provider
Purpose
Expiry
termly_consent
Termly
Stores your cookie consent preferences
1 year
__session
Functioning Fitness
Maintains user session state
Session
__csrf
Functioning Fitness
Security token to prevent cross-site request forgery
Session
4.2 Analytics Cookies (Google Analytics GA4)
Cookie Name
Provider
Purpose
Expiry
_ga
Google Analytics
Stores a unique client ID to distinguish users and track sessions
2 years
_ga_G-D1B44BE54C
Google Analytics
Contains session information and event data specific to our GA4 property
2 years
_gid
Google Analytics
Distinguishes users for daily analytics
24 hours
_gat
Google Analytics
Throttles request rate to limit data collection on high-traffic sites
1 minute
4.3 Functional Cookies
Cookie Name
Provider
Purpose
Expiry
theme
Functioning Fitness
Stores your light/dark theme preference
1 year
locale
Functioning Fitness
Stores your language preference
1 year
Note: This cookie list is updated periodically. For the most current information, you can view our cookie consent banner or contact us.
5. Third-Party Cookies
Some cookies on our website are placed by third-party services that appear on our pages. We do not control the setting of these cookies and they are governed by the privacy policies of those third parties.
5.1 Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics (GA4) to understand how visitors interact with our website. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information about your use of the website, including your IP address (anonymized), pages visited, time spent on pages, and traffic sources.
Google Analytics 4 has been designed with privacy in mind:
It does not store complete IP addresses
It uses first-party cookies only (no third-party cookies for tracking)
It provides options for data retention limits
It supports consent mode for GDPR compliance
For more information about how Google uses your data, please visit: Google Privacy Policy
We use Termly as our Consent Management Platform (CMP) to manage cookie consent in compliance with GDPR and other privacy regulations. Termly sets cookies to remember your consent preferences.
When you first visit our website, you will see a cookie consent banner that allows you to:
Accept All: Accept all categories of cookies
Reject All: Reject all non-essential cookies
Customize: Choose which categories of cookies to accept
6.1 Consent Requirements
Under GDPR and similar regulations:
We must obtain your consent before placing non-essential cookies on your device
Consent must be freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous
You must be able to refuse cookies as easily as you can accept them
Non-essential cookies are not activated until you provide consent
6.2 Withdrawing Consent
You can withdraw or modify your cookie consent at any time by:
Clicking the "Cookie Preferences" link in our website footer
Clearing your browser cookies and revisiting the site
Adjusting your browser settings
6.3 Consent Records
We maintain records of consent as required by law, including the time of consent, the version of the consent policy, and the categories of cookies you consented to or declined.
7. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
You have several options for managing cookies:
7.1 Through Our Consent Banner
The easiest way to manage your cookie preferences is through our cookie consent banner. You can access it at any time by clicking the "Cookie Preferences" or "Cookie Settings" link in our website footer.
7.2 Through Browser Settings
Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings. You can:
View and delete existing cookies
Block all cookies or only third-party cookies
Set preferences for specific websites
Configure your browser to notify you when cookies are being set
Please Note: If you disable or decline cookies, some parts of our website may not function properly. Essential cookies cannot be disabled as they are necessary for the website to work.
7.3 Global Privacy Controls
We honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals. If your browser is configured to send a GPC signal, we will treat this as a valid opt-out request for non-essential cookies and tracking. Learn more about GPC at globalprivacycontrol.org.
8. Browser-Specific Instructions
Here are links to cookie management instructions for popular browsers:
In addition to cookies, we may use other similar technologies:
9.1 Local Storage
Local storage is similar to cookies but allows for larger amounts of data to be stored. We may use local storage to save your preferences and improve your experience. You can clear local storage through your browser's developer tools or settings.
9.2 Web Beacons
Web beacons (also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs) are small graphic images that may be included on our website or in our emails. They help us understand how users interact with our content and measure the effectiveness of our communications.
9.3 Mobile Identifiers
On mobile devices, we may collect device identifiers such as IDFA (iOS) or Advertising ID (Android) for analytics purposes. You can reset these identifiers or opt out of personalized advertising through your device settings.
10. Updates to This Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for legal, technical, or regulatory reasons. When we make changes:
We will update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy
For significant changes, we will display a notice on our website
We may reset your consent preferences if the changes materially affect how we use cookies
Review Schedule: We review this Cookie Policy at least every 6-12 months or when significant changes occur to our cookie usage.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us:
