Voice Stories London Ltd’s
Cookie Policy.
Welcome to Voice Stories London Ltd’s Cookie Policy.
Please note that the below Cookie Policy has been created for Voice Stories London Ltd only and you are not permitted to use it or copy any elements from it for your personal or business purposes. Ensure to seek your own legal document help to meet your needs.
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website and other online spaces. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your computer (or other electronic device) when you access our website.
We use cookies on this website to:
• recognise you whenever you visit this website (this speeds up your access to the website as you do not have to log in each time);
• obtain information about your preferences, online movements and use of the internet;
• carry out research and statistical analysis to help improve our content, products and services and to help us better understand our visitor requirements and interests;
• target our marketing and advertising campaigns more effectively by providing interest-based advertisements that are personalised to your interests; and
• make your online experience more efficient and enjoyable.
The information we obtain from our use of cookies will not usually contain your personal data. Although we may obtain information about your computer or other electronic device such as your IP address, your browser and/or other internet log information, this will not usually identify you personally. In certain circumstances we may collect personal information about you—but only where you voluntarily provide it (eg by completing an online form).
We use the following types of cookies:
• Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.
• Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
• Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
• Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
Apart from in the case of strictly necessary cookies, we will need your consent in order to use cookies on this website.
First and third party cookies
First party cookies are cookies set by our website. Third party cookies are cookies on our website that are set by another website, such as where we have adverts on our website or use Facebook pixels so that we can show you relevant content from us when you are on Facebook.
We use first party cookies on this website. We may also use third party cookies on our website and details of these, if applicable, are included in the table below.
More detail about our cookies
The table below provides more information about the cookies we use and why:
| Cookie | Owner | Purpose | Expiry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crumb (Necessary and required) | www.voicestorieslondon.co.uk (on Squarespace) | Squarespace sets this cookie to prevent cross-site request forgery (CSRF). | Session |
| _dd_cookie_test (Necessary and required) | www.voicestorieslondon.co.uk (on Squarespace) | Tests if cookies are supported | Expires instantly |
| _dd_s (Necessary and required) | www.voicestorieslondon.co.uk (on Squarespace) | Tracks browser errors | Four hours |
| _dd_site_test (Necessary and required) | www.voicestorieslondon.co.uk (on Squarespace) | Tests if cookies are supported | Expires instantly |
| _ssid (Necessary and required) | www.voicestorieslondon.co.uk (on Squarespace) | Remembers devices for anti-fraud purposes | Four years |
| Locked (Necessary and required) | www.voicestorieslondon.co.uk (on Squarespace) | Prevents the password-protected screen from displaying if a visitor enters the correct site-wide password. | Session |
| RecentRedirect (Necessary and required) | www.voicestorieslondon.co.uk (on Squarespace) | Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO. | 30 minutes |
| siteUserCrumb (Necessary and required) | www.voicestorieslondon.co.uk (on Squarespace) | Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF) for logged in site users | Three years |
| squarespace-announcement-bar (localStorage) | www.voicestorieslondon.co.uk (on Squarespace) | Prevents the announcement bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it | Persistent |
| squarespace-popup-overlay (localStorage) | www.voicestorieslondon.co.uk (on Squarespace) | Prevents the promotional pop-up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it | Persistent |
| ss_cookieAllowed (Necessary and required) | www.voicestorieslondon.co.uk (on Squarespace) | Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies | 30 days |
| Test (Necessary and required) | www.voicestorieslondon.co.uk (on Squarespace) | Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors | Session |
| squarespace-video-player-options (localStorage) | www.voicestorieslondon.co.uk (on Squarespace) | Remembers video player selected preferences (volume, playback speed, and quality) for videos uploaded directly to Squarespace | Persistent |
| ss_cid (Analytics and Performance) | www.voicestorieslondon.co.uk (on Squarespace) | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site | Two years |
| ss_cpvisit (Analytics and Performance) | www.voicestorieslondon.co.uk (on Squarespace) | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site | Two years |
| ss_cvisit (Analytics and Performance) | www.voicestorieslondon.co.uk (on Squarespace) | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site | 30 minutes |
| ss_cvr (Analytics and Performance) | www.voicestorieslondon.co.uk (on Squarespace) | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site | Two years |
| ss_cvt (Analytics and Performance) | www.voicestorieslondon.co.uk (on Squarespace) | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site | 30 minutes |
| __cf_bm (Necessary and required) | .calendly.com (Third Party - Calendly) | This cookie, set by Cloudflare, is used to support Cloudflare Bot Management. Script URL pattern:cloudflare.com | 1 hour |
| _cfuvid (Necessary and required) | .calendly.com (Third Party - Calendly) | Calendly sets this cookie to track users across sessions to optimize user experience by maintaining session consistency and providing personalized services | session |
| __cfruid(Necessary and required) | .calendly.com (Third Party - Calendly) | Cloudflare sets this cookie to identify trusted web traffic.Script URL pattern: cloudflare.com | session |
| OptanonConsent (Necessary and required) | .calendly.com (Third Party - Calendly) | OneTrust sets this cookie to store details about the site's cookie category and check whether visitors have given or withdrawn consent from the use of each category.Script URL pattern: onetrust.com | 1 year |
| _calendly_session(Performance) | .calendly.com (Third Party - Calendly) | Calendly, a Meeting Schedulers, sets this cookie to allow the meeting scheduler to function within the website and to add events into the visitor’s calendar. Script URL pattern:calendly.com | 21 days |
| m (Necessary and required) | m.stripe.com (Third Party - Stripe) | Stripe sets this cookie for fraud prevention purposes. It identifies the device used to access the website, allowing the website to be formatted accordingly. Script URL pattern: stripe.com | 1 year 1 month 4 days |
| mailerlite:session_id (Necessary and Required) | Mailerlite (Third Party - MailerLite)/td> | This cookie is essential for maintaining a visitor's session while interacting with MailerLite forms. It allows MailerLite to remember their progress and preferences as they navigate through the form. | 7 days |
| mailerlite:forms:submitted:[ID] (Necessary and Required) | Mailerlite (Third Party - MailerLite)/td> | When a form is submitted, MailerLite uses this cookie to confirm that a specific form (identified by the [ID]) has been successfully submitted. It's used to prevent duplicate submissions. | 7 days | mailerlite:webform:shown (Analytical & Performance) | Mailerlite (Third Party - MailerLite)/td> | This cookie is primarily used for pop-up forms. It tracks whether the pop-up has already been shown to a visitor, allowing Mailerlite to control how often the pop-up is displayed. | 7 days |
How to turn off cookies or alter settings
You can alter your cookie preferences at any time by going to the cookie consent mechanism and changing the relevant setting to ‘off’.
If you do not want to accept cookies, you can also change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of this website.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the Information Commissioner’s webpage on cookies: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/.
Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after the time period specified in the table above.
January 2025