COOKIES POLICY

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to our computer’s hard drive.

We use both persistent cookies (which expire on a specified date) and session cookies (which expire when you close your browser) on our site.

Our website analytics and hosting is provided by Squarespace.

The cookies used on our site have been categorised based on definitions given in the ICC UK Cookie Guide.

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies. Squarespace uses some strictly necessary cookies to allow visitors to navigate and use key features that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that help URL redirect features work or recognise you when you return to our website. You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below: 

Cookie Name

Duration

Purpose and type

RecentRedirect

30 minutes
  • Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO.
  • Cookie

Squarespace-announcement-bar

Persistent
  • Prevents the announcement bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it
  • Local storage

squarespace-likes

Persistent
  • Shows when you've already "liked" a blog post.
  • Local storage

ss_cookieAllowed

30 days
  • Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies
  • Cookie

Test

Session
  • Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors.
  • Cookie

Analytical/performance cookies. Squarespace uses these cookies to collect information about how visitors interact and move around our website when they are browsing it.  This helps us see traffic sources and unique visitors which allow us to improve our website so that users can easily find what they are looking for.

Cookie Name

Duration

Purpose

ss_cid

2 years
  • Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

ss_cpvisit

2 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

2 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

_ga, _gid and _gat

2 yrs, 24hrs and 2 yrs
  • Analytical/performance cookies that are used by Google analytics to distinguish unique users and throttle the request rate.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

You decide which cookies we use

We understand that not everyone wants to see targeted adverts or contribute to statistics on website use, so you can configure cookie settings in your web browser.  You can find out more about how to do this at the following links:

You 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 setting to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all parts of our site.

Further information about cookies

There’s a lot of good information about cookies available online. For more information about cookies generally, visit allaboutcookies.org.