Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how this website uses cookies and similar technologies to make the site work properly, improve your browsing experience, understand website traffic, and support features such as bookings, purchases, analytics, and embedded content. It also explains the types of cookies that may be used and how you can manage your cookie preferences.

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Cookie Policy

Last updated: 11/06/2026

This Cookie Policy explains how this website uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit or interact with the site.

This website is operated by Elizabeth Demine

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. They help websites work properly, remember certain preferences, understand how visitors use the site, and improve the overall user experience.

Cookies may be set directly by this website or by third-party services used on the website.

2. How this website uses cookies

This website may use cookies and similar technologies to:

  • Make the website work properly

  • Keep the website secure

  • Remember your preferences

  • Understand how visitors use the website

  • Improve website performance and user experience

  • Support contact forms, bookings, online purchases, or digital product delivery

  • Support analytics, where enabled

  • Support marketing or social media features, where enabled

Some cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off. Other cookies, such as analytics or marketing cookies, may only be used with your consent.

3. Types of cookies used on this website

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are needed for the website to work properly. They may support essential functions such as page navigation, security, checkout, payment processing, and access to secure areas of the website.

These cookies do not usually require consent because they are necessary for the website to function.

Analytics cookies

Analytics cookies help me understand how visitors use the website, such as which pages are visited, how long visitors stay on the site, and how people move around the website.

This information helps me improve the website, content, services, and user experience.

Analytics cookies may only be used where they are enabled and, where required, after you have given consent.

Functional cookies

Functional cookies may be used to remember your preferences and improve your experience on the website. For example, they may help remember settings or choices you have made.

Marketing and social media cookies

Marketing or social media cookies may be used to support advertising, embedded content, social media features, or to understand how visitors interact with content shared through social platforms.

These cookies are only used where relevant tools are enabled and, where required, with your consent.

4. Squarespace cookies

This website is built and hosted using Squarespace. Squarespace may use cookies and similar technologies to securely provide, protect, improve, and operate the website.

Some Squarespace cookies are necessary for the website to function, including cookies related to security, website performance, checkout, and visitor experience.

Squarespace may also use analytics or performance cookies depending on the website settings and features enabled.

You can read more about Squarespace’s use of cookies in the Squarespace Cookie Policy:
https://www.squarespace.com/cookie-policy

5. Payment-related cookies

If you make a purchase through this website, payment-related cookies or similar technologies may be used to support checkout, fraud prevention, payment security, and transaction processing.

This website uses Squarespace Payments as the payment solution. Squarespace Payments may use third-party payment providers, including Stripe, to process payments securely.

Stripe may use cookies and similar technologies as part of its payment processing and fraud prevention services.

You can read Stripe’s Cookie Policy here:
https://stripe.com/legal/cookies-policy

You can read Stripe’s Privacy Policy here:
https://stripe.com/privacy

6. Third-party cookies

Some cookies may be set by third-party services used on this website. These may include services for:

  • Website hosting

  • Analytics

  • Contact forms

  • Booking tools

  • Payment processing

  • Email newsletter sign-ups

  • Embedded content

  • Social media features

These third parties may collect information about your use of this website in accordance with their own privacy and cookie policies.

7. Managing cookies

When you visit this website, you may see a cookie banner that allows you to accept, reject, or manage certain types of cookies.

You can also manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block cookies, delete existing cookies, or receive a warning before cookies are stored.

Please note that blocking some cookies may affect how the website works. Essential cookies are required for basic website functions, such as security, navigation, and checkout.

8. Your consent

Where required by law, non-essential cookies will only be used after you have given consent.

You can change or withdraw your cookie preferences at any time by using the cookie settings available on this website or by adjusting your browser settings.

9. Updates to this Cookie Policy

I may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the website, cookies used, third-party services, or legal requirements.

The latest version will always be available on this page.

10. Contact

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, you can contact me at:

contact@elizabethdemine.com