Cookie Policy
Vivid Shutter Photography & Videography
Last updated: August 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how the Vivid Shutter Photography & Videography website uses cookies and similar technologies.
It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains more generally how we collect, use and protect personal information.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small files or pieces of information stored on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies perform a variety of functions. Some are necessary for a website to operate correctly, while others can remember preferences or help website owners understand how visitors use their website.
Some cookies last only for the duration of your browsing session, while others may remain on your device for a specified period.
2. How this website uses cookies
The Vivid Shutter Photography & Videography website is built and hosted using Squarespace.
Squarespace uses cookies and similar technologies to operate and secure the website and to provide certain website functionality.
Cookies used by this website broadly fall into two categories:
Necessary cookies, which are required for the website to operate properly.
Analytics and performance cookies, which help us understand how visitors use the website.
Vivid Shutter does not currently use Google Analytics, Google advertising cookies, Meta/Facebook Pixel or other advertising or behavioural tracking systems on this website.
3. Necessary cookies
Necessary cookies enable important website functionality and security.
Depending upon the Squarespace features being used, these may include cookies or similar technologies that:
Help securely deliver website pages and content.
Protect the website against security threats.
Prevent certain types of fraudulent or malicious activity.
Remember your cookie and privacy choices.
Support functions specifically requested by the visitor.
Help prevent technical errors.
These technologies are used because they are necessary for the website to operate or provide functionality requested by the visitor.
They cannot normally be disabled through the website's Cookie Preferences controls.
The precise necessary cookies used by Squarespace can vary according to the website features active during a particular visit.
4. Squarespace Analytics
This website uses Squarespace's built-in analytics service.
Squarespace Analytics provides Vivid Shutter with statistical information about how visitors use the website.
This can include information such as:
The number of visits to the website.
Pages viewed.
Traffic sources and how visitors reached the website.
General website interactions.
Browser and device information.
Approximate geographical information.
Dates and times of visits.
Vivid Shutter uses this information to understand how the website is performing, which pages visitors find useful and where the website or its content might be improved.
We do not use Squarespace Analytics for behavioural advertising or to build advertising profiles about individual visitors.
5. Squarespace analytics and performance cookies
Squarespace currently identifies the following analytics and performance cookies used by its analytics system:
Cookie - ss_cid | Purpose - Identifies unique visitors and tracks visitor sessions on the website | Duration - 2 years
Cookie - ss_cpvisit | Purpose -Identifies unique visitors and tracks visitor sessions on the website | Duration - 2 years
Cookie - ss_cvisit | Purpose -Identifies unique visitors and tracks visitor sessions on the website | Duration - 30 minutes
Cookie - ss_cvr | Purpose -Identifies unique visitors and tracks visitor sessions on the website | Duration - 2 years
Cookie - ss_cvt | Purpose -Identifies unique visitors and tracks visitor sessions on the website | Duration - 30 minutes
These cookies allow Squarespace to connect website activity into visits and provide more accurate information within Squarespace Analytics.
Squarespace may update or change the cookies used by its platform from time to time.
6. Our approach to analytics cookies
UK law allows certain storage and access technologies to be used without prior consent in specific circumstances, including a limited exception for statistical information used solely to understand and improve a website.
However, that exception is subject to specific conditions.
Vivid Shutter has chosen to take a straightforward privacy-focused approach to its website analytics.
Squarespace analytics and performance cookies are treated as optional non-essential cookies and are controlled through the website's Cookie Preferences system.
This means that visitors are given a choice over whether these optional analytics cookies are permitted.
Declining analytics cookies will not prevent you from accessing the main content of this website.
7. Your cookie choices
When you first visit this website, you may be presented with a cookie notice allowing you to control the use of optional cookies.
Depending upon the options displayed, you can:
Accept optional cookies.
Decline optional cookies.
Manage your individual cookie preferences.
Necessary cookies required for the website to operate cannot normally be disabled through these controls.
8. Changing or withdrawing your choice
You can review or change your cookie preferences at any time.
A Cookie Preferences option is available in the footer of this website.
Selecting Cookie Preferences allows you to review and amend the choices you previously made.
Changing your preference will affect the subsequent use of optional cookies.
You can also delete cookies already stored on your device through your web browser settings.
9. What happens if analytics cookies are declined?
You can continue to browse the main content of this website if you decline analytics and performance cookies.
However, the statistical information available to Vivid Shutter through Squarespace Analytics may become less accurate.
For example, without analytics cookies Squarespace may not always be able to recognise that several page views were made by the same visitor during the same visit.
This does not affect your ability to view our photography and videography services or contact Vivid Shutter.
10. Google Analytics
Google Analytics is not currently connected to or used by this website.
Vivid Shutter currently relies on Squarespace's built-in analytics functionality rather than Google Analytics for website visitor statistics.
If Google Analytics or another additional analytics service is introduced in the future, this Cookie Policy and the website's cookie controls will be reviewed and updated as necessary before or when that service becomes active.
11. Advertising and marketing cookies
Vivid Shutter does not currently use website cookies for behavioural advertising, remarketing or creating advertising profiles of website visitors.
The website does not currently use tracking systems such as:
Google Ads tracking.
Meta/Facebook Pixel.
LinkedIn Insight Tag.
TikTok advertising tracking.
If advertising or marketing technologies are introduced in the future, this Cookie Policy and the website's Cookie Preferences system will be updated where required.
12. Contact forms
This website contains a contact form through which visitors can voluntarily provide information such as their name, contact details and details of an enquiry.
The submission of information through a contact form is separate from analytics cookie tracking.
Information submitted through the contact form is used to respond to the enquiry and is handled in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
13. External links and social media
This website contains links to external websites and social media services, including LinkedIn and Instagram.
Ordinary links to external websites do not necessarily cause those services to place cookies through the Vivid Shutter website.
However, once you follow a link and visit another website or service, that organisation may use its own cookies or tracking technologies.
Those websites operate according to their own privacy and cookie policies, and Vivid Shutter does not control their use of cookies.
14. Third-party content and services
Certain website features may occasionally involve services provided by third parties.
Where third-party content is embedded directly into a website, rather than simply linked to, the relevant provider may receive technical information or use cookies and similar technologies when that content is loaded.
If Vivid Shutter introduces functionality in the future that results in additional non-essential cookies or tracking technologies being used, this Cookie Policy and the Cookie Preferences system will be reviewed accordingly.
15. Browser cookie controls
Most web browsers allow you to view, delete, block or otherwise control cookies.
The exact method varies between browsers. You can normally find these controls within your browser's privacy or security settings.
Please be aware that blocking all cookies, including necessary cookies, may affect the operation of some websites or prevent certain functionality from working correctly.
16. Changes to this Cookie Policy
The technologies used by this website may change as Squarespace updates its platform or Vivid Shutter introduces, removes or changes website functionality.
This Cookie Policy will therefore be reviewed periodically and updated where appropriate.
Where a significant change affects the use of optional cookies or requires a new privacy choice, visitors may be asked to review their Cookie Preferences again.
The date at the top of this page indicates when this policy was last updated.
17. Further information
For further information about how personal information is collected, used and protected by Vivid Shutter Photography & Videography, please read our Privacy Policy.
If you have a question about this Cookie Policy or the use of cookies on this website, please contact:
Vivid Shutter Photography & Videography
Website:www.vividshutter.com
Email:richard@vividshutter.com