Last updated 16 October 2026
Cookie Policy
This policy explains how strongmindyourbody.info uses cookies and similar technologies, what each category does, and how you can control them. It sits alongside our privacy policy, which covers the wider question of what we collect and why.
You can read this page top to bottom, or jump straight to the part you need. Most visitors come here with one of three questions: whether something is being stored on their device, whether they can switch it off, and what happens to the site if they do.
What cookies are
The short version, before the detail.
Cookies are small text files stored by your browser when you visit a website. They allow a site to remember information between pages or between visits, such as a display preference or whether a form has been submitted. Similar technologies, including local storage, work in comparable ways and are covered by this policy.
A cookie is not a program and it cannot run anything on your device. It is closer to a note that gets handed back each time you move to another page, so the site remembers what you were doing. That is why clearing them can feel like walking into a room where the lights have been reset: nothing is broken, the site has simply forgotten your last few choices.
Two terms appear throughout this page. A first-party cookie is set by us, on our domain, and a third-party cookie is set by a service we have embedded on a page. Session cookies disappear when you close the browser tab; persistent cookies stay for a set period. Every category below is described in those terms.
Essential cookies
These are the ones the site cannot run without. Everything else on this page is optional.
Always active
Keeping the site working
Navigation, remembering which step of a form you reached before you submitted it, and basic security checks that stop requests being tampered with in transit. Without these, pages would fail to load correctly and a submitted form might arrive empty.
Always active
Knowing your cookie choice
When you accept or refuse optional cookies, that decision has to be stored somewhere so we do not ask you again on every page. That record is itself an essential cookie, and it is the reason you are not shown the same notice repeatedly.
Because the site would not work correctly without them, essential cookies cannot normally be switched off from within the site. If you block them in your browser settings, expect navigation, forms and preference memory to behave unpredictably.
Optional
Analytics cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand which pages are used and how visitors move through the site. This information is used in aggregate to improve content and fix problems. Where analytics are used, they are configured to avoid collecting information that identifies you personally.
In practice that means page counts, rough region, referring source and which links get used — not names, not email addresses, and nothing that ties a visit back to a single person. If a page about green tea is read far more than one about walnuts in shell, we know where to spend the next round of writing.
Optional
Preference cookies
Preference cookies remember choices you have made, such as a dismissed notice or a display setting. They are not used for advertising, and disabling them may mean the site forgets your preferences on your next visit.
They are deliberately narrow in scope. Nothing in this category is passed to anyone else, and none of it is used to build a profile or to decide which article you see next. Turning them off costs you convenience, not access.
Analytics and preferences sit in the same optional tier: both can be refused without losing access to any page on this site, and both can be re-enabled later from the cookie notice.
Third-party cookies
Some features may rely on third-party services, such as embedded content or fonts, which can set their own cookies. We do not control those cookies. Where third-party services are used, their own privacy and cookie policies apply to the data they process.
That distinction matters when you are deciding what to block. A refusal made in our cookie notice stops the cookies we set; it does not automatically stop anything set by an embedded service, because that request is made from your browser to their server, not to ours. If you want to close that door too, the reliable route is your browser's own cookie controls, covered below.
A common example is web fonts: loading a typeface from an external provider can involve a request that carries your IP address. We keep third-party dependencies to the minimum a page genuinely needs, and where a service is used, its policy is the one that governs the data it receives.
Where to look
Before granting a permission to an embedded player, map or feed, open the provider's own privacy and cookie pages. Those documents, not ours, describe what that service stores on your device.
Managing cookies
You can control cookies through your browser settings, including blocking them entirely or deleting those already stored. Most browsers provide a help section explaining how. Blocking all cookies may affect how parts of this site behave, particularly forms and preference memory.
Managing cookies is a browser-level decision. Your choice applies to every site you visit in that browser, not only this one.
- Step one Open your browser's settings and look for the section covering privacy, site data or cookies. Every modern browser groups it in roughly the same place.
- Step two Decide whether to block third-party cookies, all cookies, or only those from sites you do not recognise. Blocking third-party cookies alone removes most cross-site tracking while leaving this site fully usable.
- Step three Clear anything already stored if you want a clean start. Be aware this also clears saved logins and basket contents on other sites you use.
- Step four Use a private or incognito window when you want a session that leaves nothing behind. Cookies set there are discarded when the window closes.
- Expected result Pages still load and articles still read. What changes is the small conveniences: the cookie notice may reappear, dismissed prompts come back, and a long form may lose its place if you navigate away mid-way.
If you would rather not manage this yourself, a browser extension that handles cookie consent can do it on your behalf. Whichever route you take, the setting lives with your browser and is not something we can switch on or off for you from our end.
Changes to this policy
If the cookies used on this site change, this page will be updated. The current version applies from the date shown at the top of the page, 16 October 2026.
Revisions tend to be small — a category renamed, a service removed, a paragraph clarified after a reader asks a good question. When a change materially affects what is stored on your device, the cookie notice will ask again rather than assuming your earlier answer still stands.
Questions about this policy can be sent through the contact page, or by post or email using the details in the panel beside this text. If something here is unclear, say which paragraph, and the answer usually improves the page for the next reader.
Where to send a question
- Strong Mind Your Body, 42 High Street, London, EC1A 4JN, United Kingdom
- +44 20 7910 3437
- [email protected]
- Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Straight answers on what we store
Three questions cover most of what readers write in about. The answers are short, and the detail above is here whenever you want it.
Do cookies here follow me to other websites?
The cookies we set are used on this site only. If a page embeds a third-party service, that provider may set its own cookie and its own policy applies — which is why blocking third-party cookies is a useful middle setting.
Can I read everything here without accepting cookies?
Yes. Refusing analytics and preference cookies does not restrict any article on the site. You may be asked the consent question again on a later visit, and prompts you dismissed may return.
Where does the cookie notice record my choice?
In an essential cookie in your browser. It stores whether you accepted or refused, so the notice is not shown on every page. Deleting it means the question is asked once more on your next visit.
Nothing on this site is sold through a cookie. If you sent a question by email or through the contact page, how we handle that message is described in the privacy policy.
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This page is a legal notice rather than an article, so it stays deliberately plain. If a paragraph here does not answer your question, the contact page reaches the same mailbox that handles privacy and cookie enquiries, and replies are sent during Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM.
Version of 16 October 2026
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