Cookie Policy

Cookie notice

Our website www.studiogubrath.co.uk uses cookies for various purposes as detailed below.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that is stored on your browser or the hard drive of your device.

We use the following types of cookies:

  • These are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. The website cannot function without these cookies.

  • These are used to allow certain functions to be carried out on the website such as to recognise you when you return to our website. These are optional but we recommend that these cookies are allowed to be able to use the features on the website. This enables us to remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

  • These are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help to provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

  • Performance cookies are used to understand and analyse the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

  • These cookies are used by third parties on our website to provide specific functions, for example displaying and playing video content. 

  • These are other uncategorised cookies are those that are being analysed and have not been classified into a category as yet.

Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, we can store Necessary cookies on your device without your consent. For all other types of cookies, we require your permission.

Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy.

You can find our more information about individual cookies we use and the purpose for which we use them in the table below. 

Necessary Cookies

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Supports login by Acuity Scheduling client if the client has an account

    • Cookie

    • January 1, 2025

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Stores details about a client's package, gift, or subscription purchase, including the item purchased and the quantity

    • Only applies to the new scheduler

    • localStorage

    • No expiration

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Supports login by Acuity Scheduling client if the client has an account

    • Cookie

    • January 1, 2025

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Tests if cookies are supported

    • Cookie

    • Expires instantly

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Tracks browser errors

    • Cookie

    • Four hours

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Tests if cookies are supported

    • Cookie

    • Expires instantly

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Helps reduce spam in Acuity Scheduling

    • localStorage

    • No expiry

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Remembers devices for anti-fraud purposes

    • Cookie

    • Four years

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Shows when a visitor adds a product to their cart

    • Cookie

    • Two weeks

  • Purpose, type, and duration

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Remembers a logged in Acuity Scheduling client's username between visits

    • Cookie

    • One year

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Stores the Acuity Scheduling client's username, OAuth2 Access Token, and OAuth2 Refresh Token. This cookie is required for functionality of logged-in clients

    • Cookie

    • 30 days

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Stores state of checkout while the visitor is completing their order in PayPal

    • sessionstorage

    • Session

  • Purpose, type, and duration

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Tells Squarespace that the visitor has a cart

    • Cookie

    • Two weeks

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Prevents the password-protected screen from displaying if a visitor enters the correct site-wide password.

    • Cookie

    • Session

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Authenticates a visitor who logs into an order status page.

    • Cookie

    • One year

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Securely authenticates a visitor during their checkout in Acuity Scheduling

    • Cookie

    • One month

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO.

    • Cookie

    • 30 minutes

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Remembers Acuity Scheduling client’s login details if they have an account

    • Cookie

    • 365 days

  • Purpose, type, and duration

  • Purpose, type, and duration

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Authenticates a visitor who logs into a customer account

    • Cookie

    • Three years

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Prevents the announcement bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it

    • localStorage

    • Persistent

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Shows when you've already "liked" a blog post

    • localStorage

    • Persistent

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Prevents the promotional pop-up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it

    • localStorage

    • Persistent

  • Purpose, type, and duration

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing Performance and Analytics cookies on their browser, if your site has a cookie banner and is restricting the placement of cookies

    • Cookie

    • 30 days

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing Marketing cookies on their browser, if your site has a cookie banner and is restricting the placement of cookies

    • Cookie

    • 30 days

  • Purpose, type, and duration

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors

    • Cookie

    • Session

  • Purpose, type, and duration

    • Enables a Acuity Scheduling client’s appointments to display correctly based on their time zone preferences.

    • localStorage

    • Persistent

Analytical Cookie

Squarespace

  • Duration

    Two years

    Purpose

    Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

  • Duration

    Two years

    Purpose

    Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

  • Duration

    30 minutes

    Purpose

    Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

  • Duration

    Two years

    Purpose

    Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

  • Duration

    30 minutes

    Purpose

    Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site

Google Analytics

  • Duration

    Two years

    Purpose

    Used to distinguish users.

  • Duration

    Two years

    Purpose

    Used to persist session state.

Third parties 

Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like video content and web traffic analysis services. These third-party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:

  • Google

Changing cookie settings

You can at any time change or withdraw your consent for all non-Necessary Cookies. To do this please contact us at hello@studiogubrath.co.uk 

To deactivate the use of third party advertising cookies, you may visit the consumer page to manage the use of these types of cookies. To prevent Google Analytics tracking in your browser, you may use the Google Analytic Opt-Out Browser App: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. 

Please note that if you block cookies, you may not be able to use all of the features on our website. This may also “break” certain elements of our website and prevent them from functioning correctly for you only.

Updates to this Notice

We reserve the right to amend this Cookie Notice at any time. Any changes to this Cookie Notice will be contained here. Please refer to this page regularly to keep up to date. This Cookie Policy was last updated 06/04/2025 and supersedes all previous versions.