Cookie Notice
INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website.
What is a cookie? A cookie is a small text file stored by your web browser on your computer or mobile device. Some cookies are essential for a website to work and help us provide you with relevant information. They also allow us to recognise your computer (but not specifically who is using it) when you access our website and to improve the usability and performance of our website.
What do we use cookies for? We use cookies to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how people use our website and to help us improve their structure and content. We cannot identify you personally from this information
We have set out below some common types of cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Strictly necessary cookies:
| Name | Purpose, type, and duration |
|---|---|
| CART | - Shows when a visitor adds a product to their cart - Cookie - Two weeks |
| CHECKOUT_WEBSITE | - Identifies the correct site for checkout when checkout on your domain is disabled - Cookie - Session |
| Crumb | - Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF) - Cookie - Session |
| RecentRedirect | - Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO. - Cookie - 30 minutes |
| squarespace-announcement-bar | - Prevents the announcement bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it - localstorage - Persistent |
| squarespace-likes | - Shows when you've already "liked" a blog post - localstorage - Persistent |
| squarespace-popup-overlay | - Prevents the promotional pop-up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it - localstorage - Persistent |
| squarespace-video-player-options | - Remembers video player selected preferences ( volume, playback speed, and quality) for videos uploaded directly to Squarespace - localstorage - Persistent |
| ss_cookieAllowed | - Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies - Cookie - 30 days |
| ss_sd | - Ensures that visitors on the Squarespace 5 platform remain authenticated during their sessions - Cookie - Session |
| Test | - Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors - Cookie - Session |
Analytical/performance cookies:
| Cookie Name | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| ss_cid | Two years | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site |
| ss_cpvisit | Two years | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site |
| ss_cvisit | 30 minutes | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site |
| ss_cvr | Two years | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site |
| ss_cvt | 30 minutes | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site |
TURNING OFF AND DELETING COOKIES
When you use our website, we’ll give you the opportunity to consent to all of the cookies we’ve listed above (except for strictly necessary cookies). You can also refuse to accept any cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. If you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our website. If you use different devices to view and access our website (for example, your computer, smart phone, tablet etc.) you will need to ensure that each browser on each device is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences.
If you disable the cookies that we use, this may impact your experience while on the website.
BLOCKING COOKIES
You can also block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
MORE INFORMATION
For more detailed information about cookies please visit www.allaboutcookies.org which provides guidance on how to control cookies.
CHANGES TO THIS NOTICE
We may revise this cookies notice from time to time. Any changes we may make to our cookies notice in the future will be posted on this page.