Cookie Policy
Last updated: 19 August 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Matt Hardy Media uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit matthardyphotography.com.
Cookies help the website function correctly, remember certain preferences, understand how visitors use the site and support features such as shopping and checkout.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files stored on your device when you visit a website.
Some cookies are essential for the website to function. Others may be used for analytics, performance or third-party services.
How we use cookies
We may use cookies for the following purposes:
Essential cookies
These are required for core website functions such as security, navigation, shopping baskets, checkout and remembering certain preferences.
These cookies cannot normally be disabled without affecting how the website functions.
Analytics and performance cookies
These help us understand how visitors use the website, including which pages are viewed, how visitors arrive at the site and how the website performs.
Squarespace may use analytics cookies to provide information such as visitor numbers, traffic sources and shopping activity. Squarespace lists analytics cookies including ss_cid, ss_cpvisit, ss_cvisit, ss_cvr and ss_cvt.
Functional cookies
These may be used to remember settings or support features that improve your experience on the website.
Third-party cookies
Some services integrated into the website may place their own cookies. These may include services such as video platforms, analytics providers, payment services or social media integrations.
The cookies placed by third-party services are controlled by those providers and may be subject to their own privacy and cookie policies. Squarespace notes that its cookie banner can restrict some third-party cookies, but not necessarily all integrations or custom code.
Consent and managing cookies
When you first visit the website, you may be shown a cookie banner allowing you to accept, decline or manage non-essential cookies.
Non-essential cookies should remain restricted until you provide consent. Squarespace supports this through its cookie banner and cookie-management settings.
You can change your cookie preferences at any time using the cookie preferences option provided on the website.
You can also control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of the website.
Squarespace cookies
This website is built and hosted using Squarespace.
Squarespace uses cookies to provide essential website functionality and may use additional cookies for analytics and performance where permitted.
Squarespace publishes details of the cookies it uses, including their purpose and duration.
Google Analytics
If Google Analytics is enabled on this website, it may collect information about how visitors interact with the site.
Where required, Google Analytics should only operate in accordance with your cookie consent choices. Squarespace supports Google Consent Mode when Google Analytics is connected through its official integration and the Squarespace cookie banner is enabled.
Ecommerce and checkout
Cookies may be used to support ecommerce functionality, including:
remembering items added to your basket
maintaining checkout sessions
processing purchases
fraud prevention and security
remembering certain customer preferences
Cookies required to provide services specifically requested by the visitor, such as maintaining a shopping basket, may be considered strictly necessary and do not generally require prior consent.
Embedded content
Pages on this website may include embedded content such as videos, social media content or other third-party services.
These providers may use cookies or similar technologies when you interact with their content.
Updates to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy occasionally to reflect changes to the website, the services we use or legal requirements.
The latest version will always be published on this page.
Contact
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact:
Matt Hardy Media
Website: matthardyphotography.com