Cookies Policy
Last updated: 11 November 2026
This website uses cookies and similar technologies to help it function, understand how visitors use it and improve your browsing experience.
This policy explains what cookies are, how they are used on bethclaremc.com and how you can manage your preferences.
It should be read alongside my Privacy Policy.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your computer, tablet or mobile device when you visit a website. They allow a website to recognise your device and remember certain information about your visit.
Similar technologies, such as local storage and tracking pixels, can also store or access information on your device.
Cookies may be set by the website you are visiting (first-party cookies) or by another service providing functionality to that website (third-party cookies).
2. How I use cookies
My website is hosted on Squarespace, which uses cookies and similar technologies to provide website functionality and support analytics.
I use the following broad categories:
Essential cookies
These are necessary for the website to operate properly. They support functions such as:
Website security and stability.
Page navigation and core functionality.
Remembering your cookie preferences.
Supporting features you have requested.
These technologies do not require consent where they are strictly necessary to provide the service you have requested.
Analytics and performance cookies
I use Squarespace Analytics to understand how visitors interact with my website and to help me improve its content and functionality.
Depending on your cookie preferences, analytics cookies may collect information such as:
Which pages are visited.
How visitors navigate through the website.
The number of visits and returning visitors.
General information about devices and browsers.
How visitors arrive at the website.
Squarespace uses analytics cookies to help identify visitors and understand browsing sessions. These are non-essential technologies and will only be used where you have provided the required consent.
3. Third-party services
Some pages may contain links to or content provided by third-party services.
For example, I use Cal.com for appointment booking, Stripe for payment processing and Adobe Sign for professional agreements.
Where you follow a link to one of these services, you leave my website and the third party's own cookie and privacy arrangements apply.
If I embed third-party content or functionality directly into my website in future, that service may use its own cookies or similar technologies. Where required, I will ensure that appropriate consent arrangements are in place.
4. Managing your cookie preferences
When you first visit my website, you will be presented with a cookie banner allowing you to manage your preferences.
You can:
Accept non-essential cookies.
Decline non-essential cookies.
Manage your preferences where this option is available.
Essential cookies will remain active because they are necessary for the website to function.
You can change or withdraw your consent at any time using the cookie preferences option available through the website.
You can also manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Please be aware that blocking all cookies may affect how some parts of the website function.
5. How long cookies remain on your device
Some cookies are temporary and are deleted when you close your browser. Others remain on your device for a longer period or until you delete them.
The duration of individual cookies depends on their purpose and the service that sets them.
For further information about the cookies used by Squarespace, including their names, purposes and durations, you can consult the Squarespace cookie information.
6. Changes to this policy
I may update this Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the website, the technologies I use or relevant legal requirements.
The latest version will be available on this page, with the date of the most recent update shown at the beginning.
7. Contact
If you have any questions about my use of cookies or how your information is handled, please contact me:
Beth Clare McManus
Email: hi@bethclaremc.com
Further information about how I use and protect personal information is available in my Privacy Policy.