Cookie Policy
Last updated: 10 August 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how IceSkating.London uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website.
IceSkating.London is operated by Marika Baranova, a sole trader in the United Kingdom.
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1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small files or pieces of information stored on your computer, phone or other device when you visit a website.
They can be used for purposes such as making a website function correctly, remembering choices and, with your permission, helping website operators understand how their websites are used.
Similar technologies, such as local storage, may perform related functions. In this policy, references to cookies include these similar technologies where appropriate.
2. How IceSkating.London uses cookies
IceSkating.London is built and hosted using Squarespace.
The website may use two main categories of cookies:
Necessary cookies, which are required for the website or services requested by you to function correctly; and
Analytics and performance cookies, which help provide information about how visitors use the website.
We do not currently use Google Analytics or advertising/marketing tracking cookies on IceSkating.London.
3. Necessary cookies
Necessary cookies support the operation and security of the website and features that visitors choose to use.
These cookies do not require consent where they are strictly necessary to provide the website or a service requested by the visitor.
The exact necessary cookies used can vary according to the Squarespace features a visitor uses.
They can include cookies or similar storage used to:
operate and secure the website;
remember a visitor’s cookie preferences;
support Squarespace website functionality; and
provide booking functionality through Squarespace Scheduling (Acuity Scheduling).
For example, Squarespace uses preference cookies such as ss_performancecookiesAllowed and ss_marketingcookiesAllowed to remember the cookie choices a visitor has made. These preferences are currently retained for 30 days.
Where a visitor uses Squarespace Scheduling/Acuity Scheduling, necessary cookies or local storage may also be used to support functions such as account login, purchases and displaying appointment times in the correct time zone.
The particular necessary cookies used depend on the functions you choose to use.
4. Analytics and performance cookies
Squarespace provides its own website analytics service.
Analytics and performance cookies allow Squarespace to distinguish visitors and sessions so that website usage can be measured more accurately.
IceSkating.London restricts these non-essential cookies unless a visitor chooses to accept them through our cookie controls.
Squarespace currently identifies the following analytics and performance cookies:
ss_cid — identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions. Duration: two years.
ss_cpvisit — identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions. Duration: two years.
ss_cvisit — identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions. Duration: 30 minutes.
ss_cvr — identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions. Duration: two years.
ss_cvt — identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions. Duration: 30 minutes.
These cookies are optional and are used only where permitted by the visitor’s cookie choice.
5. Squarespace Scheduling / Acuity Scheduling
IceSkating.London uses Squarespace Scheduling, also known as Acuity Scheduling, for coaching bookings.
When you choose to use a booking service, Squarespace/Acuity may use cookies or local storage that are necessary to provide the scheduling service. Depending on the functions used, these may include technologies required to:
support client account login;
maintain booking or purchase information; and
display appointments according to the client’s time-zone preferences.
Necessary technologies required to provide a booking service requested by you are not disabled by the IceSkating.London cookie controls.
Independent coaches featured on IceSkating.London may use their own separate Squarespace Scheduling/Acuity accounts. Their booking services are operated independently from IceSkating.London.
6. External websites and services
IceSkating.London contains links to external services and websites, which may include Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music.
These are external links rather than embedded media on IceSkating.London.
Simply visiting IceSkating.London does not load those external services through an embedded player. If you choose to follow an external link, you leave IceSkating.London and the privacy and cookie practices of the destination website will apply.
We recommend reviewing the privacy and cookie information provided by those services if you use them.
7. Your cookie choices
When you first visit IceSkating.London, our cookie banner allows you to:
Accept all cookies;
Decline all non-essential cookies; or
Manage cookies and make more specific choices.
Necessary cookies cannot be disabled through these controls where they are required for the website or a service you have requested to operate.
You can change your cookie preferences after making a choice by using the cookie-preferences control displayed on the website.
You can also delete cookies using your web browser’s settings. Browser controls vary, so please refer to the help information supplied with your browser if you wish to manage cookies directly.
8. Our approach to analytics and tracking
IceSkating.London does not currently use Google Analytics.
We do not currently use cookies for personalised advertising or behavioural advertising.
We have also disabled Squarespace’s Activity Log for this website.
If we introduce additional analytics, advertising, embedded services or other technologies in the future, we will review our cookie controls and update this policy where necessary.
9. Changes to this Cookie Policy
The cookies and technologies used by Squarespace and other service providers may change as their services develop.
We may therefore update this Cookie Policy when the website, its features, its service providers or applicable legal requirements change.
The date at the top of this policy indicates when it was last updated.