Cookie Policy
Last updated: 29 September 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how The Scottish Soul Sister uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit this website.
It should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites place on your device when you visit them. They can be necessary for a website to function, remember your preferences, provide analytics, or support third-party features.
Some cookies are essential for the operation of this website. Other cookies are optional and, where required, are only used with your consent.
2. How we use cookies
Our website is built and hosted using Squarespace.
We use cookies and similar technologies for purposes including:
operating and securing the website;
remembering your cookie choices and other necessary preferences;
understanding how visitors use the website, where you have consented to analytics; and
supporting third-party or embedded content where applicable.
3. Necessary cookies
Necessary cookies enable essential website functions and cannot be disabled through our cookie preferences.
They may be used for purposes such as website security, navigation, shopping or account functionality and remembering your privacy and cookie preferences.
We do not require your consent for cookies that are strictly necessary for the website to function.
4. Performance and analytics cookies
With your consent, we may use performance and analytics technologies to understand how visitors interact with our website.
We use Google Analytics for website analytics.
Analytics can help us understand information such as how visitors use different pages and how the website performs. We use this information to understand and improve our website and services.
Performance and analytics cookies are optional. They are restricted unless you provide the relevant consent through our cookie preferences.
5. Advertising cookies
Our cookie preferences include an Advertising category.
Advertising cookies or similar technologies may be used by applicable third-party services to understand interests or provide advertising-related functionality.
Where such technologies are non-essential, they are restricted unless you provide the relevant consent.
The availability of an Advertising preference does not necessarily mean that advertising cookies are active on every page or that we currently use every technology covered by that category.
6. Embedded and third-party content
Some pages may contain content provided by third parties, such as embedded YouTube videos or links to social-media platforms.
Third-party providers may use cookies or similar technologies when you interact with their services.
Where those technologies are non-essential and subject to our website's consent controls, they are restricted according to the cookie preferences you select.
When you leave our website or interact directly with another provider, that provider's own privacy and cookie practices may also apply.
7. Your cookie choices
When you first visit our website, you can:
Accept all optional cookies;
Decline all optional cookies; or
Manage cookies and choose which categories you wish to allow.
Necessary cookies remain active because they are required for core website functionality.
You can change or withdraw your choices at any time using the Manage cookies option available on our website.
Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that took place before consent was withdrawn.
8. Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to help us understand the use and performance of our website.
Google may process information associated with the use of its analytics services. Where consent is required, Google Analytics is subject to our cookie consent controls.
For further information about Google's handling of information, please refer to Google's own privacy information.
9. How long cookies remain on your device
Cookies and similar technologies are retained for different periods depending on their purpose.
Some cookies are session cookies and expire when your browsing session ends. Others are persistent cookies and remain for a defined period so that functions such as preferences, account access or other website features can operate appropriately.
Cookies used to remember your cookie-consent preferences may remain on your device so that the website can remember the choices you have made.
Analytics and other optional technologies may have different retention periods depending on the relevant provider and configuration. Where consent is required, these technologies are subject to the cookie choices you make through our website.
We periodically review the cookies and technologies used on this website and will update this Cookie Policy where our use of them materially changes.
You can view and delete cookies stored on your device using your browser settings. You can also change or withdraw your consent to optional cookies using the Manage cookies option on our website.
10. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when our website, services or the technologies we use change.
The latest version will be published on this page with the date it was last updated.
11. Contact us
If you have questions about our use of cookies or your privacy, please contact:
The Scottish Soul Sister
Oudebaan 2a, Box 11
2180 Antwerp
Belgium