Cookie Policy
Last updated: October 2026
The Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum (“we”, “us” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on our website to make the website work properly, improve your experience and, where you give us permission, understand how visitors use our website.
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how we use them and how you can manage your preferences.
1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer, tablet, mobile phone or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies allow a website to recognise your device and can be used for a number of purposes, including remembering preferences, enabling website functionality and understanding how visitors use a website.
We also use similar technologies, such as local storage, which may perform a similar function to cookies.
2. How we use cookies
We use cookies for the following purposes:
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are required for the website to function properly. They enable essential features such as website security, navigation and, where applicable, shopping basket and checkout functionality.
Because these cookies are necessary for the website to operate, they cannot normally be switched off through our cookie consent tool.
Analytics and performance cookies
With your consent, we use analytics cookies to understand how visitors use our website.
This helps us understand things such as:
how many people visit the website;
which pages are visited;
how visitors navigate around the website;
how visitors find our website;
how visitors interact with our content; and
how the website is performing.
We use this information to improve the website and make it more useful and accessible to our visitors.
Our website uses analytics provided by Squarespace and Google Analytics.
Analytics cookies are only used where you have given consent through our cookie settings, where required by law.
Functional cookies
Some cookies may be used to remember choices you make while using the website and to provide certain functionality.
For example, these may help remember preferences or choices made during your visit.
Where these cookies are not strictly necessary, we will ask for your consent before using them.
Marketing cookies
We may use marketing or similar technologies in future to help us understand the effectiveness of our marketing activity or to provide relevant content.
Where marketing cookies or similar technologies are used, we will ask for your consent before placing them on your device, where required by law.
3. Cookies used by Squarespace
Our website is hosted on Squarespace. Squarespace uses certain cookies that are necessary for the website to operate and may also use analytics and performance cookies.
Examples of Squarespace analytics and performance cookies include:
ss_cid - Identifies unique visitors and tracks visitor sessions - 2 years
ss_cpvisit - Identifies unique visitors and tracks visitor sessions - 2 years
sss_cvisit - Helps identify visits to the website - 30 minutes
ss_cvr - Helps track visitor activity and sessions - 2 years
ss_cvt - Helps identify visits and visitor activity - 30 minutes
The exact cookies used may vary depending on the features and services enabled on our website. Squarespace may also use cookies associated with functions such as shopping baskets, checkout, security and other website features.
For further information, please see Squarespace's information about the cookies it uses.
4. Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors use our website.
Google Analytics may collect information such as pages visited, approximate location, device and browser information, how visitors arrived at the website and interactions with the website.
We use this information to understand website traffic and improve the content and functionality of the website.
Google Analytics cookies are only placed where you have provided the required consent.
For more information about how Google processes information, please refer to Google's privacy information.
5. Third-party content and services
Some pages on our website may contain content or services provided by third parties. For example, we may embed videos, maps, social media content or other third-party features.
These third-party services may place their own cookies or similar technologies on your device when you interact with them.
The use of these technologies is controlled by the relevant third party and may be subject to that organisation's own privacy and cookie policies.
We will review third-party services used on our website and update this policy where necessary.
6. Managing your cookie preferences
When you first visit our website, you may be presented with a cookie banner allowing you to accept or reject non-essential cookies.
You can change or withdraw your cookie preferences at any time using the Cookie Settings option on our website.
You can also control or delete cookies through your web browser. Most browsers allow you to block or delete cookies through their settings.
Please be aware that blocking some cookies may affect the functionality of the website.
7. How long do cookies remain on your device?
Cookies may be either:
Session cookies, which are deleted when you close your browser; or
Persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.
The length of time a cookie remains on your device depends on its purpose and the organisation that places it.
We review the cookies and similar technologies used on our website periodically and update this policy when necessary.
8. Your privacy
Where cookies or similar technologies involve the processing of personal information, this is also covered by our Privacy Policy.
For more information about how we collect, use and protect personal information, please see our Privacy Policy.
9. Changes to this Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the cookies and technologies we use, changes to our website or changes in legal or regulatory requirements.
We will publish the updated version on this page and update the “Last updated” date at the top of the policy.
10. Contact us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact us:
Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum
Gloucester Historic Docks
Gloucester
GL1 2HE