Cookie Policy
COOKIE POLICY
What's a cookie?
Cookies are small files of text, typically of letters and numbers, which contain information and are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit our website. They do a lot of things including helping us to understand how our website is being used, letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences and generally improving your browsing experience. Cookies can also help us to identify other products and services which are more relevant to you and your interests.
How do we use cookies?
-Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to use the website effectively, such as when buying a product and / or service. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.
- Performance cookies: These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources and see which parts of the site are most popular.
- Functionality cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. They may also be used to provide services you have requested such as viewing a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymised.
- 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.
- First and third party cookies: First party cookies are cookies set by our website. Third party cookies are cookies on our website that are set by a website other than our website, such as where we have adverts on our website or use Facebook pixels so that we can show you relevant content from us when you are on Facebook.
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
Strictly necessary cookies are vital for our website to function. They enable critical website operations and allow you to move around our site. These essential cookies are always active on our website. All strictly necessary cookies are anonymised.
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Description of purpose |
Cookie Duration |
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OptanonConsent |
This cookie is set by the cookie compliance solution from OneTrust. It stores information about the categories of cookies the site uses and whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent for the use of each category. This enables site owners to prevent cookies in each category from being set in the users browser, when consent is not given. The cookie has a normal lifespan of one year, so that returning visitors to the site will have their preferences remembered. It contains no information that can identify the site visitor. |
1 year |
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OptanonAlertBoxClosed |
This cookie is set by websites using certain versions of the cookie law compliance solution from OneTrust. It is set after visitors have seen a cookie information notice and, in some cases, only when they actively close the notice down. It enables the website not to show the message more than once to a user. The cookie has a one year lifespan and contains no personal information. |
1 year |
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crumb |
This cookie is associated with SquareSpace. It is used to ensure a visitor's browsing security. by preventing cross-site request forgery (CSRF). |
0 days |
Web Analytics Cookies
Web Analytics cookies are vital to our business and allow us to monitor website functionality and health. They help us track website use and identify potential issues with the site. All Web Analytics cookies are first-party only in nature, fully aggregated and anonymous. These are defaulted as on, as for the most part they help our website and business function.
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Description of purpose |
Cookie Duration |
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_ga_WXRJW6K9J8 |
Relating to host lynseyhanratty.com |
730 days |
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sSs_cpvisit |
This cookie is associated with Squarespace. It is used to assign visitors into segments, making website advertising more efficient. |
730 days |
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Recent Redirect |
Related to host www.lynseyhanratty.com |
0 days |
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ss_cvt |
Relates to host www.lynseyhanratty.com |
0 days |
Performance Cookies
Performance cookies allow us to collect information around how our website is used so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help show us how users move around both individual pages and the website as a whole. All information that these cookies collect is aggregated and anonymous.
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Cookie Name |
Description of purpose |
Cookie Duration |
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_ga |
This cookie name is associated with Google Universal Analytics - which is a significant update to Google's more commonly used analytics service. This cookie is used to distinguish unique users by assigning a randomly generated number as a client identifier. It is included in each page request in a site and used to calculate visitor, session and campaign data for the sites analytics reports. By default it is set to expire after 2 years, although this is customisable by website owners. |
730 days |
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_hjid |
Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behaviour in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. |
365 days |
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_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress |
This cookie is used by HotJar to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. |
0 days |
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_hjFirstSeen |
Identifies a new user's first session on a website, indicating whether or not Hotjar's seeing this user for the first time. |
0 days |
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_hjTLDTest |
When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. |
0 days |
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.
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Cookie Name |
Description of purpose |
Cookie Duration |
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ss_cvr |
This cookie is associated with Squarespace. It identifies unique visitors and tracks their sessions on the site |
730 days |
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awxxx |
Used to attribute commission to affiliates when you arrive at the website from an affiliate referral link. It is set when you click on one of our links and used to let the advertiser and us know the website from which you came. |
730 days |
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CONSENT |
YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. |
6170 days |
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_cfduid |
Relates to host tawk.to, the Chatbot on the website |
30 days |
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_hjincludedinPageviewSample |
Relates to host script.hotjar.com, a website heatmapping tool |
0 days |
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_cfduid |
Relates to host ka-f.tontawesome.com |
30 days |
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_cfduid |
Relates to host codepen.io |
30 days |
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Test_cookie |
This domain is owned by Doubleclick (Google). The main business activity is: Doubleclick is Googles real time bidding advertising exchange |
0 days |
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ss |
Relates to host va.tawk.to |
0 days |
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YSC |
YouTube is a Google owned platform for hosting and sharing videos. YouTube collects user data through videos embedded in websites, which is aggregated with profile data from other Google services in order to display targeted advertising to web visitors across a broad range of their own and other websites. |
0 days |
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ss_cvr |
Relates to host assets.squarespace.com |
730 days |
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VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE |
This cookie is used as a unique identifier to track viewing of videos |
180 days |
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ss_cid |
This cookie is associated with Squarespace. It collects data such as time spent on the website and website interaction. |
730 days |
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_cfduid |
Relates to host fontawesome.com |
30 days |
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_calendly_session |
Relates to host calendly.com |
21 days |
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awxxx |
Used to attribute commission to affiliates when you arrive at the website from an affiliate referral link. It is set when you click on one of our links and used to let the advertiser and us know the website from which you came. |
0 days |
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_cfduid |
Relates to host mailerlite.com |
30 days |
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ss_cvt |
Relates to host assets.squarespace.com |
0 days |
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ss_cvisit |
This cookie is associated with Squarespace. It collects data such as time spent on the website and website interaction. |
0 days |
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__cf_bm |
Relates to codepen.io |
0 days |
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_cfduid |
Relates to host calendly.com |
0 days |
We continually update our technology so that we can provide you with the most efficient and useful tools. These updates include how we use cookies, placement of new cookies as well as the extension to older cookies to make them more efficient so that we can provide you with a better service. This list may be updated from time to time.
Your Cookie Choices
Using the options above, you can turn cookie categories on or off as you so require. As mentioned above, we need strictly necessary cookies always active in order for the website to function. However, if you wish to remove all the cookies, please review the options settings in your browser.
What happens to Cookies that have been downloaded in the past?
You can delete existing cookies from your browser. Otherwise they will remain until they expire. Once you have disabled a cookie, we will stop using it to gather information. However, we may still use information gathered previously when the cookie was active. If you wish to revisit your choices at any time, please use the cookie link in the footer of the main webpage to bring you to the choices screen.
Please note as part of our hosting with Squarespace, cookies hosting takes place in the USA. This processing takes place under the protection of the Privacy Shield and the Schrems II case does not affect the processing data obligations and principles of the Privacy Shield.
This policy is effective as of 27 October 2020