Cookie Policy for Ostara HR Ltd
Last Updated: March 2025
Introduction
Welcome to Ostara HR Ltd ("us", "we", or "our"). We respect your privacy and are committed to being transparent about the technologies we use. This Cookie Policy explains how and why cookies and other similar technologies may be stored on and accessed from your device when you use or visit our website. This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Cookies allow us to recognize your device and store information about your preferences or past actions.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons for our website to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our website. Third parties may also serve cookies through our website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes.
Types of Cookies We Use
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are essential for you to browse the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the site. These cookies don't collect information that identifies you for marketing purposes or remember where you've been on the internet.
Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information about how you use our website, like which pages you visited and which links you clicked on. None of this information can be used to identify you. It is all aggregated and, therefore, anonymized. Their sole purpose is to improve website functionality.
Functionality Cookies
These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized, and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
Targeting/Advertising Cookies
These cookies track your browsing habits to enable us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with our permission.
Specific Cookies We Use
Squarespace Cookies
As our website is hosted on Squarespace, the following cookies are automatically implemented:
Cookie Name Type Purpose Duration
crumb Strictly Necessary Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF) Session
ss_cid Functionality Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a site 2 years
ss_cvr Functionality Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a site 2 years
ss_cvisit Functionality Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a site 30 minutes
ss_cpvisit Functionality Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a site 2 years
ss_cvt Functionality Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a site 30 minutes
cart Functionality Stores the contents of a visitor's shopping cart 2 weeks
CART Functionality Stores the contents of a visitor's shopping cart (used for Squarespace Business Plan) Session
Analytics Cookies
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site:
Cookie Name Type Purpose Duration
_ga Performance Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users 2 years
_gid Performance Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users 24 hours
_gat Performance Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate 1 minute
Other Cookies
Cookie Name Type Purpose Duration
cookie_notice_accepted Functionality Remembers if you've accepted our cookie notice 1 year
Your Cookie Choices and How to Opt-Out
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by clicking on the appropriate opt-out links provided in the cookie banner on our website.
Please note that since our website is hosted on Squarespace, certain cookies are necessary for the website to function properly and cannot be disabled. Squarespace's cookie banner allows visitors to choose whether to accept non-essential cookies.
You can also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our website though your access to some functionality and areas of our website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.
Here are links to cookie management instructions for common browsers:
Third-Party Cookies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies to report usage statistics of the website, deliver advertisements on and through the website, and so on.
Changes to Our Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please therefore re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.
The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please email us at sarah@ostaraHR.co.uk
Ostara HR Ltd
Company Number: 16331736
Where HR magic meets workplace transformation