Cookies and usage information

Effective date: Updated October 2019

The Bramble People website uses cookies to improve the users experience and help the website run more effectively and provide the best experience for visitors.

Cookies are small pieces of data that websites store on a device. They improve the user experience as they help website remember preferences and understand how people use different features

The Bramble People website uses a cookie control system which allows the user, on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer / device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer / device.

About the cookies Squarespace uses

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit About the cookies Squarespace uses.

Squarespace Cookies used:

Squarespace uses cookies to help the site run more effectively and provide the best experience for visitors.      

  • crumb - Description: This cookie is set by websites that uses SquareSpace platform. The cookie is used to prevent cross-site request forgery (CSRF). Duration: none. Type: Necessary.

  • ss_cid - Description: This cookie is set by websites that uses SquareSpace platform. The cookie is used to identify unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a site. Duration: 2 years. Type: Analytics.

  • ss_cpvisit - Description: This cookie is set by websites that uses SquareSpace platform. The cookie is used to identify unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a site. Duration: 2 years. Type: Analytics.

  • ss_cvisit - Description: This cookie is set by websites that uses SquareSpace platform. The cookie is used to identify unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a site. Duration: 30 minutes. Type: Analytics.

  • ss_cvr - Description: This cookie is set by websites that uses SquareSpace platform. The cookie is used to identify unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a site. Duration: 2 years. Type: Analytics.

  • squarespace likes - Description: Facilitates the sharing function on the website - The cookie also allows websites to track and target the user with advertisement based on the user's likes and shares. Duration: Persistent. Type: Marketing.

For details of the function of these cookies see https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001264507-About-the-cookies-Squarespace-uses

Google Analytics cookies used:

The cookies in use to deliver Google Analytics service are described below:

Cookie:

  • _ga - Description: This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. Duration: 2 years. Type: Analytics.

  • _gat - Description: This cookies is installed by Google Universal Analytics to throttle the request rate to limit the collection of data on high traffic sites. Duration: 1 minute. Type: Performance.

  • _gid - Description: This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. Duration: 1 day. Type: Analytics.

Title: Google Analytics

Description

These cookies are used to store information, such as what time your current visit occurred, whether you have been to the site before, and what site referred you to the web page.

These cookies contain no personally identifiable information but they will use your computer’s IP address to know from where in the world you are accessing the Internet.

Google stores the information collected by these cookies on servers in the United States. Google may transfer this information to third-parties where required to do so by law, or where such third-parties process the information on Google’s behalf.

Opt-out

In order to provide website visitors with more choice on how data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to stop data being sent to Google Analytics. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on does not affect usage of the website in any other way. A link to further information on the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is provided below for your convenience.

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=None

Vimeo

Cookie:

  • muxData - Description: This cookie is used to enable certain video player functionalities associated with Vimeo. Duration: 19 years. Type: Functional.

  • vuid - Description: Collects data on the user's visits to the website, such as which pages have been read. Duration: 2 years. Type: Marketing.

Vimeo video player: Vimeo’s embeddable video player uses first-party cookies that we consider essential to the video player experience. We do not use third-party analytics or advertising cookies when our video player appears on a third-party website. Please note that a third-party website may place cookies of its own. We have no control over third-party websites or the cookies they set.

Changing Your Cookie Preferences

You may limit the cookies set in your browser by taking the steps described below. Note that declining cookies may impact your ability to use our services.

Browser settings: You may change your browser’s settings to delete cookies that have already been set and to reject new cookies. To learn more, visit the help pages of your browser:

You may also visit our sites in your browser’s "private" or "incognito" mode, in which case cookies will be set, but deleted when you close browser.