# Cookie Policy
Last updated: 14 August 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how cassandralaureano.com (the “Website”), operated by Alessandro Caruana, uses cookies and similar technologies.
The Website is hosted and operated using Squarespace. Squarespace uses certain cookies and similar technologies to enable the Website to function properly and, where permitted, to provide information about how visitors interact with it.
This Cookie Policy should be read alongside the Website’s Privacy Policy.
## 1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files stored on your computer, tablet, mobile phone or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies can perform different functions. Some are required for a website to operate correctly, while others can be used to remember preferences or understand how visitors use a website.
Similar technologies, including local storage, may also be used. References to “cookies” in this policy include such technologies where applicable.
## 2. Who provides the cookies used on this Website?
This Website is built and hosted using Squarespace.
Squarespace may place cookies or use similar technologies in visitors’ browsers to provide the technical infrastructure of the Website, maintain security, remember cookie preferences and provide website analytics.
The cookies used can vary depending on the Squarespace features that are active on the Website.
## 3. Necessary cookies
Necessary cookies are used to enable the Website to operate securely and correctly. They may be used, for example, to:
* determine whether a browser supports cookies;
* protect the Website against security threats;
* prevent cross-site request forgery;
* remember a visitor’s cookie choices; and
* provide functions required by Squarespace.
These cookies do not require consent where they are strictly necessary to provide the Website or a service requested by the visitor.
Depending on the features being used, Squarespace may use necessary cookies or local storage including:
| `Crumb` | Helps prevent cross-site request forgery (CSRF) | Session |
| `Test` | Determines whether the browser supports cookies | Session |
| `ss_performancecookiesAllowed` | Records a visitor’s preference regarding analytics and performance cookies | 30 days |
| `ss_marketingcookiesAllowed` | Records a visitor’s preference regarding marketing cookies | 30 days |
Other necessary Squarespace cookies may be used where particular website features require them.
## 4. Analytics and performance cookies
Squarespace provides built-in analytics that can help understand how visitors interact with the Website, including information relating to visits, sessions and traffic sources.
Where these cookies require consent, they are restricted until the visitor chooses to allow analytics and performance cookies.
Squarespace currently uses the following analytics and performance cookies:
| `ss_cid` | Identifies unique visitors and tracks visitor sessions | 2 years |
| `ss_cpvisit` | Identifies unique visitors and tracks visitor sessions | 2 years |
| `ss_cvisit` | Identifies unique visitors and tracks visitor sessions | 30 minutes |
| `ss_cvr` | Identifies unique visitors and tracks visitor sessions | 2 years |
| `ss_cvt` | Identifies unique visitors and tracks visitor sessions | 30 minutes |
Information collected through these technologies is used to understand Website usage and to help assess and improve the Website.
## 5. Marketing and advertising cookies
The Website does not currently intentionally use cookies for personalised advertising or behavioural marketing.
If marketing, advertising or similar tracking technologies are introduced in the future, this Cookie Policy will be updated and, where required by law, those technologies will not be activated without appropriate consent.
## 6. Third-party services
The Website is hosted by Squarespace, Inc. and therefore certain information associated with the operation and use of the Website may be processed through Squarespace’s systems.
Squarespace may process information in jurisdictions outside the United Kingdom. Where personal data is transferred internationally, applicable safeguards are used in accordance with data protection requirements.
Visitors can obtain further information about Squarespace’s privacy and cookie practices through Squarespace’s Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.
The Website may also contain ordinary links to external websites. Following a link to another website does not itself mean that cookies from that website are placed through cassandralaureano.com. Once you visit an external website, its own privacy and cookie practices apply.
## 7. Managing your cookie preferences
When you visit the Website, you may be given the option to:
* accept cookies;
* decline non-essential cookies; or
* manage your cookie preferences.
Necessary cookies cannot normally be disabled through the Website because they are required for its operation.
You can change your preferences at any time using the Cookie Preferences option provided on the Website.
Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of any processing that took place before consent was withdrawn.
## 8. Browser controls
You can also manage or delete cookies using your browser settings.
Most browsers allow you to:
* view cookies stored on your device;
* delete individual or all cookies;
* block cookies from particular websites;
* block third-party cookies; or
* configure how cookies are handled.
Blocking necessary cookies may prevent certain parts of the Website from functioning correctly.
## 9. Changes to this Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy may be updated where the Website, the services used by it, or applicable legal requirements change.
The date shown at the top of this page indicates when the policy was last updated.
If new third-party analytics, advertising, embedded media or other tracking technologies are introduced, the policy will be updated accordingly.