Cookie Policy
Last updated: September 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how The Beam Room Berkshire uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit my website.
It should be read alongside my Privacy Policy, which explains more about how I collect, use and protect your personal information.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that websites can store on your computer, phone, tablet or other device when you visit them.
They can be used for a variety of purposes, such as helping a website function correctly, remembering your preferences and providing information about how visitors use a website.
Similar technologies may also be used to store or access information on your device. References to cookies in this policy include these technologies where appropriate.
2. How I Use Cookies
The Beam Room Berkshire website is hosted by Squarespace.
Squarespace may use cookies and similar technologies to help provide, secure and operate the website and, depending on the website configuration and your preferences, to provide information about how visitors use the site.
The cookies used on my website may fall into the following categories.
Essential Cookies
Essential cookies are used where necessary for the website to function correctly and securely or to provide a feature or service you have requested.
These may include cookies required for website security, navigation, functionality and remembering certain choices necessary for the operation of the site.
Where a cookie or similar technology is strictly necessary to provide a service you have requested, your consent is not required for its use.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
I use Squarespace Analytics to help me understand how visitors find and use my website.
Analytics and performance technologies may provide information such as which pages are visited, how visitors interact with the website, traffic sources and other information that helps me understand and improve the website.
Where consent is legally required for these technologies, they will only be used after you have made your choice.
Where an applicable legal exception allows statistical technologies to be used without prior consent, I will ensure that the requirements of that exception are met, including providing appropriate information and a simple way to object where required.
Preference and Functionality Cookies
Some cookies may be used to remember choices or preferences and improve the functionality of the website.
Depending on their purpose and how they are used, these technologies may either be necessary to provide a feature you have requested or subject to the choices available through the website's cookie controls.
3. Squarespace
My website is built and hosted using Squarespace.
Squarespace may place or use cookies and similar technologies as part of providing its website hosting, security, functionality and analytics services.
The exact cookies used can vary depending on the features enabled on the website and changes made by Squarespace to its services.
Further information about Squarespace's use of cookies and personal information is available through Squarespace's own privacy and cookie information.
4. Online Booking
My online booking system is provided by Timely.
When you select a link to book an appointment, you may be directed to or interact with services provided by Timely.
Timely may use its own cookies or similar technologies when you use its services. These are governed by Timely's own privacy and cookie practices.
Please refer to Timely's privacy information for further details about how it handles information when you use the booking service.
5. Email Marketing
I use Squarespace Email Campaigns to manage email marketing.
Cookies or similar technologies may be used in connection with website interactions following links contained within marketing emails or to help understand engagement with my website.
More information about how I use your personal information for email marketing can be found in my Privacy Policy.
You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time using the unsubscribe link included in the email.
6. Your Cookie Choices
When you visit my website, you may be given choices about the use of cookies and similar technologies through the website's cookie controls.
Where consent is required, optional technologies will not be used unless you have made the appropriate choice.
Where an applicable legal exception allows a technology to be used without consent, you will be provided with the information and controls required by law.
You can review or change your available cookie preferences through the cookie settings on my website.
You can also control cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to view, delete or block cookies, although blocking certain cookies may affect how some parts of the website function.
7. Third-Party Services
Some features of my website may link to or interact with services provided by other organisations, including:
Squarespace – website hosting, functionality, analytics and email marketing
Timely – online appointment booking and client management
TimelyPay and Stripe – payment processing where applicable
These organisations may use their own cookies or similar technologies when you interact with their services.
Their use of these technologies is subject to their own privacy and cookie information.
8. How Long Cookies Are Used
Cookies may be either:
Session cookies – temporary cookies that generally expire when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies – cookies that remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.
The duration of individual cookies varies according to their purpose and the service that sets them.
Information about specific cookies and their duration may be available through the cookie settings on the website or from the relevant third-party provider.
9. Changes to This Cookie Policy
I may update this Cookie Policy from time to time, for example if the cookies or technologies used on my website change or if legal requirements are updated.
The latest version will always be available on The Beam Room Berkshire website, with the date of the most recent update shown at the top of this policy.
10. Contact Me
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how cookies are used on my website, please contact me:
The Beam Room Berkshire
Email: thebeamroomberkshire@gmail.com
Telephone: 07540530559
For more information about how I handle your personal information, please see my Privacy Policy.