At Artistig, we want your experience on our website to be as enjoyable and straightforward as possible.

Like most websites, we use cookies to help everything run smoothly, understand how visitors use our website and improve our services.

This Cookies Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them and how you can manage your preferences.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your computer, tablet or mobile device when you visit a website.

They help websites remember information about your visit, such as items in your shopping basket, your preferences and how you interact with different pages.

Some cookies are essential for a website to function, while others help website owners understand how their site is being used.

2. How We Use Cookies

Our website, www.artistig.co.uk, is built and hosted using Squarespace.

Depending on the features enabled, Squarespace uses cookies to support the operation of our online shop and provide information about website performance.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for our website to function correctly. They help with:

• Shopping basket and checkout functionality

• Website security

• Remembering cookie preferences

• Navigation and essential website features

Essential cookies do not require your consent because they are necessary to provide the services you request.

Analytics & Performance Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website.

They may collect information such as:

• Which pages are visited

• How visitors find our website

• How visitors navigate between pages

• General website traffic and performance

We use this information to improve our website and make shopping with Artistig easier and more enjoyable.

Where consent is required, these cookies will only be used after you have agreed to them.

Functional Cookies

Some cookies may remember preferences or support additional website features.

Where these cookies are not strictly necessary, we will obtain your consent before using them.

Marketing Cookies

If we introduce advertising or marketing tools that use cookies to track website visitors, we will explain their purpose and request consent where required.

3. Squarespace Cookies

Our website uses Squarespace, which may place essential and non-essential cookies on your device.

Examples of Squarespace analytics cookies include:

• ss_cid: Helps identify unique visitors and their sessions.

• ss_cvisit: Helps track website visits.

• ss_cpvisit: Helps identify visitor activity over time.

• ss_cvr: Helps identify unique visitors and their sessions.

• ss_cvt: Helps track visitor sessions.

These analytics cookies are used only where enabled and permitted by your cookie preferences.

The cookies used may change depending on the features and services available on our website.

For more information, please see Squarespace's Cookie Policy.

4. Third-Party Cookies

Some third-party services connected to our website may use their own cookies or similar technologies.

These may include payment providers, embedded content or other website integrations.

Where third-party services use non-essential cookies, we will seek your consent where required.

Third-party providers may have their own privacy and cookie policies explaining how they use information.

5. Email Newsletters

We use Squarespace Email Campaigns to manage our email newsletter.

If you subscribe, we may send you news, new product announcements and occasional special offers.

Squarespace Email Campaigns may use tracking technologies within emails to help us understand newsletter performance, such as whether an email has been opened or a link clicked.

Where required, we will obtain the appropriate consent for these technologies.

You can unsubscribe from our newsletters at any time using the link included in each email.

6. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

You have control over how non-essential cookies are used on our website.

When you first visit, our cookie banner allows you to accept, reject or manage non-essential cookies.

You can change your preferences at any time using the cookie settings available on our website.

Essential cookies will continue to operate because they are necessary for the website to function.

You can also manage or delete cookies through your browser settings.

Please bear in mind that disabling certain cookies may affect some website features, including shopping basket functionality.

7. How Long Do Cookies Last?

Cookies may remain on your device for different periods depending on their purpose.

Session Cookies

These are temporary cookies that are generally deleted when you close your browser.

Persistent Cookies

These remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.

For example, some Squarespace analytics cookies may remain for up to two years, while others expire after 30 minutes.

Cookie durations may change as Squarespace updates its services.

8. Your Privacy

We take your privacy seriously and aim to be transparent about how information is collected and used.

Where cookie information can identify you, we handle it in accordance with applicable UK data protection legislation.

For more information about how we collect, use and protect personal information, please see our Privacy Policy.

9. Changes to This Cookies Policy

We may update this Cookies Policy occasionally to reflect changes to our website, the services we use or legal requirements.

Any updates will be published on this page with a revised date.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or how we handle your information, please get in touch.

Artistig
Website: www.artistig.co.uk
Email: studio@artistig.co.uk

We're always happy to help.