Cookie Policy
Last Updated: 07/04/2026
1. Introduction
This Cookie Policy explains how Stitch in Time uses cookies and similar technologies on this website.
Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help websites work properly, improve user experience, remember preferences, and in some cases collect information about how visitors use a site. Under UK rules, websites must give clear information about cookies and, for non-essential cookies, obtain consent before placing them on a user’s device.
2. Who we are
Stitch in Time is currently operated by an individual sole trader based in England.
If you have any questions about our use of cookies, you can contact us at: help.stitchintime@gmail.com
3. What cookies we use
Our website is built and hosted on Squarespace. Squarespace states that its platform places two broad categories of cookies on visitors’ browsers:
Necessary cookies, which are used so the website can function properly and provide key features.
Non-essential analytics and performance cookies, which collect information about how visitors interact with the site.
We may also rely on service providers connected to the operation of our online shop, including payment and fulfilment services, where relevant to providing the service you request. ICO guidance makes clear that cookies which are strictly necessary to provide an online service requested by the user may fall within the exemption from consent, but users should still be given clear information about them.
4. Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential for the operation of the website and online store. They do not require consent where they are strictly necessary to provide a service requested by the user, such as enabling shopping basket, checkout, login, or security functions. ICO guidance gives online basket and security cookies as examples of cookies likely to fall within this exemption.
On a Squarespace commerce website like ours, necessary cookies may support functions such as:
page navigation and core site operation;
shopping basket and checkout;
customer account features, if enabled;
security and fraud prevention;
session management and load balancing;
remembering your cookie preferences.
Because these cookies are necessary for the website to function properly, they are usually active by default and cannot be switched off through our cookie banner.
5. Analytics and performance cookies
Squarespace states that it also uses analytics and performance cookies to collect information on the website owner’s behalf about how visitors interact with the site, including data used in Squarespace Analytics such as traffic sources, unique visitors, and cart abandonment. Squarespace identifies examples including cookies such as ss_cid, ss_cpvisit, ss_cvisit, ss_cvr, and ss_cvt.
These cookies are not strictly necessary. Under ICO guidance, non-essential cookies require valid consent before they are set. On our website, these cookies are only used if you choose to accept them through our cookie banner or cookie preferences controls.
6. How we obtain consent
When you first visit our website, you are shown a cookie banner that allows you to:
accept all cookies;
decline all non-essential cookies; or
manage your cookie preferences.
Squarespace explains that where the Manage cookies option is enabled, non-essential cookies must remain restricted until the visitor accepts them. This helps support compliance with the requirement that consent for non-essential cookies must be actively and clearly given.
7. How to manage your cookie choices
You can manage your cookie choices at any time by using the cookie preferences option available on our website.
You can also control and remove cookies through your browser settings. Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect how the website functions, especially features related to shopping basket, checkout, and site security. ICO guidance notes that some cookies are essential to provide the service requested by the user.
8. Third-party services
Our website uses third-party services involved in running our online store, including:
Squarespace for website hosting and site functionality;
Squarespace Payments for payment processing;
Inkthreadable for fulfilment of orders.
Squarespace also notes that some cookies may be placed by third-party services connected to a site, depending on which integrations or features are used. If our use of third-party tools changes in future, we will update this Cookie Policy and, where required, our consent mechanisms.
9. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to legal requirements, our website, or the services we use. ICO guidance says consent may need to be refreshed if cookie use changes over time.
Any updates will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.
10. Contact
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact:
Stitch in Time
Email: help.stitchintime@gmail.com