Cookie policy.

Cookie Policy

 

What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of data that websites store on a device. Cookies can improve our visitors’ browsing experience because they help the website remember preferences and understand how our users use different features. 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 site.

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 (password protected) of our website, if appropriate.

Functional and Required Cookies

We use some necessary cookies because they allow our visitors to navigate and use key features on our site. For example, Functional and Required Cookies help these features on our site work URL redirects

 

AWSALB, AWSALBCORS

Improves performance in Scheduling by using one server for the duration of the session.

Cookie

1 week

 

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

 

siteUserCrumb

Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF) for logged in site users.

Cookie

3 years

 

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

 

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

 

 

 

Analytics and Performance Cookies

We use Analytics and Performance cookies to collect information on how visitors interact with our site. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how our 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.

Storing these cookies is how we populate the data for our Analytics such as traffic sources (where did the user find us eg social media, organic search).

ss_cid

2 years

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

Targeting Cookies

These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and any future advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.

 

Sharing Information

We do not share the information collected by the cookies with any third parties.

You can 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 essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after the periods shown above.