Cookie Policy

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. These essential cookies are always enabled because our website won’t work properly without them. 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. You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings but you may then not be able to access all or parts of our website.  

  • Analytical or performance cookies. These 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 more relevant to your interests. 

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use (by our use of Squarespace as our website hosting services provider) and the purposes for which we/they use them below:

Functional and Required cookies

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Tests if cookies are supported.

_dd_s
Tracks browser errors.

_dd_site_test
Tests if cookies are supported.

_ssid
Remembers devices for anti-fraud purposes.

Crumb
Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF)

RecentRedirect
Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO.

squarespace-announcement-bar
Prevents the announcement bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it.

squarespace-popup-overlay
Prevents the promotional pop-up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it.

ss_cookieAllowed
Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies.

ss_sd
Ensures that visitors on the Squarespace 5 platform remain authenticated during their sessions.

Test
Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors.

Analytics and Performance cookies

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

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

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

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

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

Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:

  • Google Analytics

To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may visit the relevant consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

By using this website, you agree to our use of Functionality and Required cookies – please note that these cookies are always active. 

We also use Analytical and Performance cookies which will only become active if you choose to accept them via our ‘cookie banner’ when prompted.

If you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including Functional and Required cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

Except for Functional and Required cookies, all cookies will expire after a maximum period of 2 years.

If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, please send us an email at website@ivylees.co.uk