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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 site.
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 your computer’s hard drive.
We use the following 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.
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.
Functionality cookies: These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
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 the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:
Cookie Name: ss_cid
Duration: Two years
Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions
Cookie Name: ss_cpvisit
Duration: Two years
Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions
Cookie Name: ss_cvisit
Duration: 30 minutes
Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions
Cookie Name: ss_cvr
Duration: Two years
Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions
Cookie Name: ss_cvt
Duration: 30 minutes
Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions
Cookie Name: _dd_cookie_test
Duration: Expires instantly
Purpose: Tests if cookies are supported
Cookie Name: _dd_s
Duration: Four hours
Purpose: Tracks browser errors
Cookie Name: _dd_site_test
Duration: Expires instantly
Purpose: Tests if cookies are supported
Cookie Name: _ssid
Duration: Four years
Purpose: Remembers devices for anti-fraud purposes
Cookie Name: Crumb
Duration: Session
Purpose: Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
Cookie Name: squarespace-announcement-bar
Duration: Persistent
Purpose: Prevents the announcement bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it
Cookie Name: ss_cookieAllowed
Duration: 30 days
Purpose: Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies
Cookie Name: Test
Duration: Session
Purpose: Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors
Cookie Name: RecentRedirect
Duration: 30 minutes
Purpose: Prevents redirect loops for custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO.
Cookie Name: Locked
Duration: Session
Purpose: Prevents the password-protected screen from displaying if a visitor enters the correct site-wide password.
Cookie Name: squarespace-video-player-options
Duration: Persistent
Purpose: Remembers video player selected preferences (volume, playback speed, and quality) for videos uploaded directly to Squarespace
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 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 site.