Cookie Policy

Last updated: June 2026

This page explains how Creative Tendring uses cookies on our website.

When you first visit our site, you will see a cookie banner allowing you to accept or reject non-essential cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device (computer, phone or tablet) when you visit a website.

They are widely used to make websites work properly, improve performance, and help website owners understand how people use their site.

Cookies do not directly identify you, but some information collected through cookies may be considered personal data under data protection law.

How we use cookies

We use cookies to support the running of the Creative Tendring website and to understand how people use it.

Cookies on our website help us to:

  • make the website work properly and securely

  • remember your cookie preferences

  • understand how people use the website (for example, which pages are most visited)

  • improve the content and structure of the website over time

  • measure the performance of our website so we can make it better for users

We do not use cookies to:

  • collect sensitive personal information

  • identify you as an individual without your knowledge or consent

  • sell your data to third parties

Types of cookies we use

1. Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential for the website to function.

They are usually set automatically by our website platform (Squarespace) and cannot be switched off in our systems.

They may be used for things like:

  • basic website functionality

  • security and protection

  • load balancing and performance

  • remembering cookie preferences

Without these cookies, parts of the website may not work properly.

2. Performance and analytics cookies

These cookies help us understand how people use the Creative Tendring website so we can improve it.

We use:

  • Squarespace Analytics

  • Google Analytics

These tools collect information such as:

  • which pages are visited

  • how long people spend on the site

  • how people arrive at the website (for example, from search engines or social media)

  • what type of device or browser is being used

  • general location information (for example, region level, not exact location)

This information is aggregated and does not directly identify you.

We use this data to understand what is working well on the site and where improvements are needed.

3. Functionality cookies (future use)

In the future, we may embed content such as YouTube or Vimeo videos.

These third-party services may set their own cookies when you view or interact with their content.

For example, watching an embedded video may allow YouTube or Vimeo to place cookies on your device.

We do not control these cookies. You should check the relevant third-party privacy policies for more information.

We will update this Cookie Policy if we add embedded content to the site.

What we do NOT use cookies for

We do not currently use cookies for:

  • advertising or marketing tracking

  • personalised advertising

  • Facebook Pixel or Meta advertising tools

  • Google Ads remarketing

  • behavioural advertising networks

  • tracking you across other websites

If this changes in the future, we will update this policy and (where required) ask for your consent.

Managing cookies

When you first visit our website, you will be asked to accept or reject non-essential cookies through our cookie banner.

You can also control cookies through your browser settings at any time. Most browsers allow you to:

  • view cookies stored on your device

  • delete existing cookies

  • block cookies from specific websites

  • block all cookies

Please note that blocking some cookies may affect how the website works.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to help us understand how people use our website.

Google Analytics collects information in a way that does not directly identify individuals.

Google may store this information on servers outside the UK. Where this happens, appropriate safeguards are used in line with data protection law.

You can find out more about how Google uses data here:https://policies.google.com/privacy

You can also opt out of Google Analytics tracking using browser add-ons provided by Google.

Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website or the tools we use.

When we make significant changes, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page.

Contact us

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how we use cookies, please EMAIL US.