Cookie Policy
Last updated: 30 June 2026
1. Introduction
The present Cookie Policy explains how Cat Chronicles Studio uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit www.catchroniclesstudio.com, the purposes for which they are used, and the choices available to you in controlling them. The policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which describes more fully how we handle the personal data that certain cookies may collect.
By continuing to browse the Website after setting your preferences through our cookie banner, you accept the use of cookies in the manner described below. Where your consent is required, no non-essential cookie is placed on your device until you have given that consent.
2. What Cookies Are
A cookie is a small text file that a website places on your computer, tablet, or mobile device when you visit it. Cookies allow the site to recognise your device, to remember information about your visit, and to function correctly. Comparable technologies, such as pixels, tags, software development kits, and local storage, perform similar roles, and references in the policy to "cookies" should be understood to include these related methods.
Cookies may be described by reference to who places them and how long they last. A first-party cookie is set by the website you are visiting, whereas a third-party cookie is set by a different organisation whose service operates on the page. A session cookie is deleted when you close your browser, while a persistent cookie remains on your device for a defined period or until you delete it.
3. Legal Framework
The use of cookies in the United Kingdom is governed by the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, as amended by the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, read alongside the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018. Under those rules, cookies that are strictly necessary to provide a service you have requested may be set without consent, whereas non-essential cookies, including most analytics and all advertising cookies, require your prior consent. Although recent amendments introduced a limited exemption for certain low-risk statistical cookies, we continue, as a matter of good practice, to obtain your consent before placing analytics cookies, and we provide a straightforward means of opting out at any time.
4. How We Obtain Your Consent
When you first arrive at the Website, a cookie banner is displayed, presented through our Squarespace platform, which allows you to accept or decline non-essential cookies. Selecting the relevant option records your preference and governs which cookies are subsequently placed. Strictly necessary cookies are set automatically because the Website cannot operate without them, while analytics and any other non-essential cookies are activated only once you have given consent. You may revisit and change your choice at any time, as explained at Section 8, and your withdrawal of consent will take effect for future browsing.
5. The Categories of Cookies We Use
Cookies on our Website fall into two principal categories, each described below. We do not use advertising, retargeting, or behavioural-marketing cookies, and we do not sell data gathered through cookies to any third party.
Strictly necessary cookies: Required for the operation of the Website, these enable core functions such as adding items to your basket, proceeding securely through checkout, logging into a customer account, and protecting against fraudulent activity. Because the shop cannot function without them, such cookies do not require consent and cannot be switched off through our banner.
Analytics and performance cookies: Used to collect aggregated, statistical information about how visitors find and use the Website, these help us to understand which products and pages attract interest and where the experience might be improved. The cookies concerned are provided by Squarespace and by Google Analytics, and they are placed only after you have consented.
6. Cookies Set by Squarespace
Our Website is built and hosted on the Squarespace platform, which sets the following cookies. The essential cookies listed first are necessary for the shop to function, while the analytics cookies that follow are placed only with your consent:
CART
Records that a visitor has added a product to the basket.
Essential
2 weeks
hasCart
Indicates that a visitor has an active shopping basket.
Essential
2 weeks
CHECKOUT_WEBSITE
Identifies the correct site at checkout.
Essential
Session
Commerce-checkout-state
Tracks checkout progress during payment.
Essential
Session
Crumb
Prevents cross-site request forgery attacks.
Essential
Session
orderStatusSessionToken
Authenticates a visitor viewing an order-status page.
Essential
1 year
SiteUserInfo
Identifies a logged-in customer account.
Essential
3 years
SiteUserSecureAuthToken
Authenticates a customer account login.
Essential
3 years
ss_cid, ss_cpvisit, ss_cvr
Identify unique visitors and record conversion data for statistics.
Analytics
2 years
ss_cvisit, ss_cvt
Track individual visitor sessions for statistics.
Analytics
30 minutes
7. Third-Party Cookies (Google Analytics)
To understand how our Website is used, we employ Google Analytics, a service provided by Google. The service sets its own cookies, which collect information such as the pages you visit, the duration of your visit, and the approximate region from which you connect, in a form that does not directly identify you. The principal Google Analytics cookies are as follows:
Cookie
Purpose
Type
Duration
_ga
Distinguishes unique users by assigning a randomly generated identifier.
Analytics
2 years
ga[container-id]
Maintains session state for Google Analytics 4.
Analytics
2 years
Information generated by these cookies is processed by Google in accordance with its own privacy and cookie practices. Where the resulting data is transferred outside the United Kingdom, the transfer is protected under the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, as described in our Privacy Policy. Further detail regarding Google's handling of data is available at https://policies.google.com/privacy, and you may install Google's opt-out browser add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Should you interact with embedded content from our social-media profiles, such as Instagram, the relevant provider may also set cookies over which we have no control, and you are encouraged to consult that provider's own cookie notice.
8. Managing and Withdrawing Your Consent
You retain full control over the cookies placed on your device, and several methods are available to you:
Through our cookie banner: You may accept or decline non-essential cookies when the banner is first presented, and you may return to adjust your preference at any later time.
Through your browser settings: Most browsers allow you to view, block, and delete cookies through their settings or preferences menu. Restricting cookies may, however, affect the functioning of the Website, and certain features, such as the shopping basket and checkout, may cease to operate correctly if essential cookies are blocked.
Through the Google Analytics opt-out: Installing the browser add-on referenced at Section 7 prevents Google Analytics from collecting data about your visits across all websites.
Guidance on managing cookies in the most widely used browsers is available from their respective providers, including Google Chrome at https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and Apple Safari through each browser's help resources. Independent information about cookies generally may be found at https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/.
9. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may revise this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect changes in the technologies we use, in the services integrated within our Website, or in the applicable law. Any updated version will be published on this page with a revised date at the head of the document, and significant changes affecting the cookies we set or the basis on which we set them will be brought to your attention through the cookie banner where appropriate. Periodic review of the policy is therefore encouraged.
10. Contact
Questions regarding this Cookie Policy, or our use of cookies and similar technologies, may be addressed to:
Cat Chronicles Studio 147 Moat Way, Brayton, Selby, North Yorkshire, YO8 9TB, United Kingdom
Email: info@catchroniclesstudio.com
Website: www.catchroniclesstudio.com.