Cookie policy.

Please read this Cookie Policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and how we use cookies on our website. This Policy should be read together with our Privacy policyhttps://www.ysm8.co.uk/privacy-policy which sets out how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information generally, as well as your rights in relation to your personal information and details of how to contact us and supervisory authorities if you have a complaint.

Who we are

This website is operated by Poonam Dhuffer trading as YSM8. We host events, workshops and classes rooted in self development.and for more information see the Our Story page on our website.

Our website

This Cookie Policy relates to your use of our website, https://www.ysm8.co.uk 

Throughout our website we may link to other websites owned and operated by certain trusted third parties to make additional products and services available to you. These other third party websites may also use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own separate polices. For privacy information relating to these other third party websites, please consult their policies as appropriate.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your device (for example, your computer, smartphone or other electronic device) when you use our website. We use cookies on our website. These help us recognise you and your device and store some information about your preferences or past actions.

For example, we may monitor how many times you visit the website, which pages you go to, traffic data, location data and the originating domain name of your internet service provider. This information helps us to build a profile of our users. Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.

We may use the following cookies:

  •  Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.

  • Analytical / performance cookies. These are cookies that allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our website 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 visitors are finding what they are looking for easily.

  • Functionality cookies. These are cookies that 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 are cookies that 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. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

    For further information on our use of cookies, including a detailed list of your information which we and others may collect through cookies, please see below.

For further information on cookies generally, including how to control and manage them, visit the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, or www.allaboutcookies.org

Consent to use cookies and changing settings

We will ask for your permission (“Consent”) to place cookies or other similar technologies on your device, except where they are essential for us to provide you with a service that you have requested. You can withdraw any consent to the use of cookies or manage any other cookie preferences. 

Our use of cookies

The tables below provide more information about the cookies we use and why:

Analytical / Performance cookies

The cookies we use

Name

Purpose

Expiry

Google Analytics

_ga

This is an analytical cookie used to identify users on our website

One (1) year and ten (10) months

 Squarespace

ss_cookieAllowed

This is an analytical cookie used to remember if a user agrees to analytics cookies on their browser

One (1) month

Functionality cookies

The cookies we use

Name

Purpose

Expiry

Segment.io

ajs_anonymous_id

This is a functionality cookie used to track repeat visitors to our website

Ten (10) months

Squarespace

notice_behavior

This is a functionality cookie used to store a visitor’s cookie preferences

One (1) year and two (2) weeks

Squarespace

SS_MATTR

This is a functionality cookie used to identify unique visitors to our website

One (1) year and one (1) week

Squarespace

SS_ANALYTICS_ID

This is a functionality cookie used to identify unique visitors to our website

One (1) year and one (1) week

Squarespace

SS_MID

This is a functionality cookie used to identify unique visitors to our website

One (1) year and one (1) week

Squarespace

ss_cpvisit

This is a functionality cookie used to identify unique visitors and track their sessions on our website

Two (2) years

Squarespace

ss_cvt

This is a functionality cookie used to identify unique visitors and track their sessions on our website

One (1) day

Squarespace

ss_cvr

This is a functionality cookie used to identify unique visitors and track their sessions on our website

Two (2) years

Squarespace

ss_cvisit

This is a functionality cookie used to identify unique visitors to our website

One (1) day

Squarespace

ss_cid

This is a functionality cookie used to identify unique visitors and track their sessions on our website

Two (2) years

Vimeo

_derived_epik

This is a functionality cookie used to enable features and remember a user’s preferences

Ten (10) months

ZopIM

_zlcmid

This is a functionality cookie used to identify devices across visits

Three (3) months

Targeting cookies

The cookies we use

Name

Purpose

Expiry

Affiliate

IR_PI

This is a targeting cookie used to track users participating in Impact Radius affiliate marketplace

Two (2) years and eleven (11) months

Facebook

_fbp

This is a targeting cookie used to deliver third party advertising 

Three (3) months

Google Analytics

_gcl_au

This is a targeting cookie used to assess advertisement efficiency across websites

Two (2) months

Hotjar

ajs_user_id

This is a targeting cookie used to track visitor usage of our website

One (1) year

Pinterest

_pin_unauth

This is a targeting cookie used to track how services are used

Eleven (11) months

How to turn off all cookies and consequences of doing so

If you do not want to accept any cookies, you may be able to change your browser settings so that cookies (including those which are essential to the services requested) are not accepted. If you do this, please be aware that you may lose some of the functionality of our website.

For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to the guidance on cookies published by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, or www.allaboutcookies.org

How to contact us

Please contact us if you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or the information we hold about you.

If you wish to contact us, please send an email to poonam@ysm8.co.uk or contact us via the Contact page on our website.

Changes to this Policy

This Policy was published in September 2020 and last updated in September 2020. We may change this Policy from time to time, when we do we will inform you via our website.