COOKIE POLICY
Please read this cookie policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how we use cookies on our Website www.un-held.com (Website). This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy which set out who we are, how to contact us, what data is collected, how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a complaint.
Our Website is hosted by Squarespace, which controls and requires the cookies on our Website. The Squarespace cookie policy sets out the cookies that they use, and that policy will also apply to our Website, which you can find here: https://www.squarespace.com/cookie-policy
1. COOKIES
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (e.g. your smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our Services. When we use cookies on our Services, you will always be informed by a pop-up within the Services.
Cookies help us to recognise you and your device and allow us to store some information about your preferences or past actions, including your location data (for more information, please see our Privacy Policy).
For example, we may monitor how many times you use our Services, which parts of the Services you go to, location data. This information helps us to understand use of the Services by our users. Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.
For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see below.
For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, visit the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
2. CONSENT TO USE COOKIES AND CHANGING SETTINGS
We will ask for your consent to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested (e.g. to allow you to remain logged-in to the Services as you navigate within the Services and use the Services functionalities).
You can withdraw any consent to the use of cookies or manage any other cookie preferences by using the tool made available to you within the Services itself. You can then adjust sliders or untick boxes as appropriate to reflect your choice. It may be necessary to refresh or restart the Services for the updated settings to take effect.
3. OUR USE OF COOKIES
A cookie is a small file that’s stored on your computer or device when you visit a website that uses cookies. We may use several different cookies on our Website, for the purposes of website functionality, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. Cookies enhance your experience on our Website, as it allows us to recognise you, remember your details and preferences (for example, your log-in details), and provide us with information on when you’ve visited and how you’ve interacted with our Website.
The below sets out the type of cookies we may collect on our Website.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
Certain cookies we use are essential for the proper functioning of our Website, without which our Website won’t work or certain features won’t be accessible to you. For example, we may need to remember data you’ve inputted from one page to the next in a single session.
Performance Cookies
Performance cookies collect information about your use of the Website to help enhance the services we provide to you. We collect information about how you interact with the Website, including the pages you visit and the frequency of your visits. This information helps us identify patterns of usage on the site, collect analytics data, identify issues you may have had on the Website, make changes to enhance your browsing experience, and analyse if our marketing is effective and relevant to you.
Functional Cookies
We use functional cookies to improve your experience on our Website and make things more convenient for you. These cookies personalise your experience on our Website based on your preferences, by remembering your details such as your login details or region.
Security cookies are a type of functional cookie, which assist with website and user account security. Load balancing session cookies are used for the duration of the session to distribute user requests across multiple servers to optimize website speed and capacity. We may also use user interface customization persistent cookies to store a user’s preferred version of our Website, such as font and language preferences.
Advertising cookies
Advertising cookies are used on our Website to provide you with targeted marketing materials in accordance with your interests and preferences. These cookies remember that you visited our Website, and we may provide this information to third-parties. These cookies usually cannot personally identify you, so your anonymity is typically secured. These cookies ensure that advertisements displayed to you are things that may be of interest to you.
Content cookies
Content cookies are placed by many social media plugins (like plugins that allow you to share content on Facebook), and other tools to enhance the content displayed on a website (for example, services that allow the playing of video files). We integrate these plugins into our Website to improve usability and customer experience. Some of these third party services may place cookies that are also used for the purposes of behavioural advertising or market analysis.
More details on the cookies used by our Website host, Squarespace, can be found here .
4. HOW LONG WILL COOKIES REMAIN ON MY DEVICE?
The amount of time that a cookie remains on your computer or device depends on the type of cookie – cookies are either “persistent” or “session” cookies. Persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted, so they may remain on your device for as little as 10 minutes to several years. Session cookies last until you stop browsing, so just for the relevant session.
5. HOW DO THIRD PARTIES USE COOKIES ON THE WEBSITE?
We may use third party analytics cookies to collect information about your interaction with our Website. We also may use Google Analytics and other third-party analytics providers to help process data. To find out more, see How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps.
6. HOW TO TURN OFF ALL COOKIES AND CONSEQUENCES OF DOING SO
If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your device settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our Services and of other Services you use on your device. For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
7. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
This policy was published on [15th August 2023] and last updated on [15th August 2023]. We may change this cookies policy from time to time, when we do we will inform you via the Services or by sending an email to the email address you provided when you signed up to the Services.