Cookie Policy
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small files that are stored on your computer, tablet, mobile phone or other device when you visit a website.
They help websites work properly and can also be used to remember your preferences, understand how visitors use a website and improve the overall browsing experience.
Some cookies are necessary for a website to function, while others are optional.
2. How Legacy Stones uses cookies
Legacy Stones may use cookies and similar technologies to:
• Keep our website secure and functioning correctly
• Enable essential website and shopping features
• Remember your preferences
• Support our online shop and checkout process
• Understand how people use our website
• Measure website performance
• Help us improve our website and services
• Remember cookie choices you have previously made
Where required by law, we will ask for your permission before using cookies that are not strictly necessary.
3. Types of cookies we may use
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are required for the website to work properly.
They may be used for purposes such as:
• Website security
• Page navigation
• Shopping basket functionality
• Checkout and payment processes
• Remembering your cookie preferences
• Maintaining website sessions
Because these cookies are necessary to provide the website or a service you have requested, they do not normally require your consent.
Disabling these cookies may prevent parts of the website from working correctly.
Functional cookies
Functional cookies help provide additional website features and remember choices you make.
For example, they may remember certain preferences so that you do not need to enter them again each time you visit.
Where required, these cookies will only be used after you have given your consent.
Analytics and performance cookies
We may use analytics technologies to help us understand how visitors use the Legacy Stones website.
These may collect information such as:
• Which pages are visited
• How visitors move around the website
• Approximately how long visitors spend on pages
• Which devices or browsers are being used
• How visitors arrived at our website
• Whether visitors experience website errors
This information helps us understand which parts of our website are useful and where we can make improvements.
Where consent is required, analytics cookies will not be activated until you have agreed to them.
Marketing and advertising cookies
If Legacy Stones uses advertising, social media or marketing technologies, cookies may be used to understand the effectiveness of advertising or to provide more relevant marketing.
These cookies may also be placed by third-party services.
Where required by law, these cookies will only be activated after you have given your consent.
4. Squarespace cookies
The Legacy Stones website is currently built and hosted using Squarespace.
Squarespace may use cookies and similar technologies to provide services including:
• Website security
• Website hosting and performance
• Shopping basket and ecommerce functionality
• Checkout functions
• Customer account features
• Website analytics
• Forms and website functionality
Some Squarespace cookies are essential for the operation of the website.
Other cookies may be optional and will be managed through our cookie consent settings where required.
Squarespace may update the cookies and technologies it uses from time to time.
5. Third-party services
Some features on the Legacy Stones website may be supplied by third-party providers.
These providers may place their own cookies or use similar technologies when you interact with their services.
Depending on the features we use, these providers may include:
• Squarespace
• Payment providers
• Website analytics providers
• Embedded video providers
• Social media platforms
• Other website tools or integrations
These third parties may operate under their own privacy and cookie policies.
6. Payment and checkout cookies
When you purchase a Legacy Stones product, cookies or similar technologies may be used to support the shopping basket, checkout and payment process.
These technologies may be operated by Squarespace and/or our payment provider.
Cookies that are strictly necessary to complete a transaction you have requested may be used without separate consent where permitted by law.
7. Your cookie choices
When you first visit the Legacy Stones website, you may be shown a cookie banner or preference panel.
Depending on the cookies used on the website, you may be able to:
• Accept optional cookies
• Reject optional cookies
• Choose which categories of optional cookies you allow
• Continue using only strictly necessary cookies
Your choice will normally be remembered for a period of time so that you are not asked every time you visit.
You can change your cookie preferences again using the cookie settings available on the website.
8. Withdrawing your consent
Where we rely on your consent to use cookies, you can withdraw that consent at any time.
You can do this by changing your cookie preferences through the website's cookie settings.
Withdrawing consent will not affect cookies that are strictly necessary for the website to function.
9. Managing cookies through your browser
Most internet browsers also allow you to control cookies through their settings.
You can usually choose to:
• View cookies stored on your device
• Delete existing cookies
• Block certain cookies
• Block third-party cookies
• Block all cookies
• Clear cookies automatically when you close your browser
Please be aware that blocking all cookies may cause some parts of the Legacy Stones website, particularly shopping or checkout functions, to stop working correctly.
10. How long cookies remain on your device
Cookies may be either:
Session cookies
These normally expire when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies
These remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them.
The length of time a cookie remains on your device depends on its purpose and the service that placed it.
11. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time.
For example, we may make changes if:
• We introduce new website features
• We change website providers
• We start or stop using analytics services
• We change our payment or ecommerce services
• Cookie technologies change
• Legal or regulatory requirements change
The latest version will always be published on the Legacy Stones website with the date it was last updated.
12. Contact us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact:
Legacy Stones
Website: www.legacy-stones.com
Email: info@legacy-stones.com
For further information about how we handle personal information, please see our Privacy Policy.