Cookie Policy

Last updated: 6 August 2026

1. About this Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy explains how Lynsey Hanratty Coaching uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit lynseyhanratty.com.

It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains more broadly how we collect, use, store and protect personal data.

The data controller is:

Lynsey Hanratty, trading as Lynsey Hanratty Coaching

Email: hello@lynseyhanratty.com

2. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your computer, phone or other device when you visit a website.

Cookies can help a website to:

  • Operate securely.

  • Remember visitor preferences.

  • Keep track of shopping-cart or checkout activity.

  • Understand how visitors use the website.

  • Display embedded services such as appointment-booking tools.

  • Measure the performance of website content and marketing.

We may also use similar technologies, including browser local storage, pixels, tags and embedded scripts. References to cookies in this policy include these similar technologies where appropriate.

3. When we ask for consent

We use certain cookies because they are strictly necessary for the website or a service you have requested to work. These cookies cannot normally be switched off through our cookie banner.

We will seek your consent before placing non-essential cookies, including analytics, performance, personalisation or marketing cookies.

You can:

  • Accept all non-essential cookies.

  • Decline all non-essential cookies.

  • Choose individual cookie categories.

  • Change or withdraw your choices later.

Declining non-essential cookies should not prevent you from accessing the main content of the website, although certain embedded features may not function in the same way.

Irish Data Protection Commission guidance states that non-essential cookies normally require consent and that visitors must be given clear and comprehensive information about the technologies used and their purposes.

4. Categories of cookies we use

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are required for the website to operate securely and provide functions you have requested.

They may support:

  • Website security.

  • Cookie-consent preferences.

  • Shopping carts and checkout.

  • Payment processing.

  • Form security.

  • Appointment booking.

  • Prevention of fraudulent or malicious activity.

  • Avoidance of redirect errors.

Consent is not normally required for cookies that are strictly necessary to provide a service expressly requested by the visitor.

Functional cookies

Functional cookies remember choices or enable additional features, such as scheduling tools, videos, saved preferences or interactive website elements.

Some functional cookies may require consent where they are not strictly necessary for the service you requested.

Analytics and performance cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors use the website, including:

  • Which pages are visited.

  • How visitors arrived at the website.

  • How long visitors spend on particular pages.

  • Which buttons or internal links are used.

  • Whether visitors encounter technical problems.

  • Whether website content and services are performing effectively.

Analytics and performance cookies are only used after the required consent has been provided.

Marketing and advertising cookies

These cookies may be used to measure marketing activity, understand referrals, create audiences or display advertising that is more relevant to visitors.

We will not intentionally place marketing or advertising cookies before the required consent has been provided.

5. Squarespace cookies

This website is hosted by Squarespace.

Squarespace places necessary cookies and similar technologies that vary depending on which website features are used. These may support website security, shopping carts, checkout, customer accounts, consent preferences and URL redirects.

Relevant necessary Squarespace cookies may include:

Cookie or storage item Purpose Typical duration

`Crumb` Helps prevent cross-site request-forgery attacks Session

`CART` Records when a visitor adds a product to their cart Two weeks

`hasCart` Remembers that a visitor has an active cart Two weeks

`RecentRedirect` Helps prevent redirect loops 30 minutes

`ss_performancecookiesAllowed` Records the visitor’s analytics-cookie choice 30 days

`ss_marketingcookiesAllowed` Records the visitor’s marketing-cookie choice 30 days

`squarespace-announcement-bar` Remembers when a visitor dismisses an announcement Persistent, where used

`squarespace-popup-overlay` Remembers when a visitor dismisses a promotional pop-up Persistent, where used

Squarespace may also use the following analytics and performance cookies after consent:

Cookie Purpose Typical duration

`ss_cid` Identifies unique visitors and their sessions Two years

`ss_cpvisit` Identifies unique visitors and their sessions Two years

`ss_cvisit` Records a visitor session 30 minutes

`ss_cvr` Identifies unique visitors and their sessions Two years

`ss_cvt` Records a visitor session 30 minutes

Not every cookie listed above will necessarily be placed during every visit. The cookies used depend on the website features with which the visitor interacts.

Squarespace confirms that its analytics cookies can be restricted until a visitor consents and provides the current names and durations of its principal website cookies.

6. Appointment booking through Calendly

We use Calendly to allow visitors to view availability and book a Clarity Call.

When you interact with an embedded Calendly booking page, Calendly may use cookies and similar technologies for:

  • Displaying available dates and times.

  • Maintaining booking-page security.

  • Remembering preferences.

  • Preventing fraud or misuse.

  • Completing a booking.

  • Processing payments, where applicable.

  • Understanding use of its service, subject to cookie choices.

Calendly normally displays its own cookie notice within its booking service. You can use that notice or Calendly’s cookie settings to manage cookies relating directly to the Calendly service.

Calendly states that its embedded booking service uses cookies and that its cookie banner should remain displayed unless the website itself prevents Calendly from loading until the appropriate consent has been given.

7. Payments and checkout

Where you purchase a service through the website, Squarespace, Stripe or another payment provider may use strictly necessary cookies and similar technologies to:

  • Operate the shopping cart and checkout.

  • Process payments.

  • Authenticate a transaction.

  • Detect and prevent fraud.

  • Remember checkout progress.

  • Provide payment features requested by the customer.

These providers may also offer optional features, such as remembering payment details for future purchases. Where additional non-essential cookies are involved, the provider’s own cookie or privacy controls may apply.

Stripe confirms that it uses cookies and local-storage technologies for services including checkout, authentication, fraud prevention and payment features.

8. Email forms and free resources

We may use MailerLite or another email-service provider to operate newsletter forms, deliver requested resources and manage email subscriptions.

An embedded subscription form may use necessary or functional technologies to:

  • Submit the form securely.

  • Prevent spam.

  • Record subscription preferences.

  • Confirm that the requested resource has been delivered.

Any analytics or marketing cookies associated with an embedded email form will only be used where the required consent has been provided.

9. Embedded content and external websites

Pages on this website may contain embedded content or links from third parties, such as:

  • Calendly.

  • Video platforms.

  • Social-media platforms.

  • Payment providers.

  • Email subscription services.

  • External documents or resources.

Embedded content can behave as though you visited the third party’s own website. The provider may collect technical information or place cookies, subject to its own privacy and cookie arrangements.

Where practical, non-essential embedded services will be blocked until consent is provided or will display their own cookie controls.

10. Google Analytics and other analytics tools

We may use Squarespace Analytics to understand general website use.

We will only use Google Analytics, Hotjar or another separate analytics or behaviour-measurement service where it is actively configured on the website and disclosed in this policy. Non-essential analytics technologies will be restricted until the appropriate consent has been provided.

We do not intend to use analytics tools to collect sensitive coaching information or the contents of private communications.

11. Marketing pixels, affiliate tracking and chat tools

We do not intentionally use Meta Pixel, DoubleClick, affiliate-tracking cookies, Hotjar, Tawk.to or another marketing, heat-mapping or chatbot service unless it is actively installed and disclosed in this policy and through the cookie-consent system.

If any such tool is added in the future, this policy and the website’s consent controls will be updated before or when the tool is activated.

12. Managing or withdrawing your consent

You can manage or withdraw your cookie consent at any time by selecting the Manage Cookies, Cookie Settings or similar link displayed in the website footer or cookie-preferences control.

Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that took place before consent was withdrawn.

You can also delete or block cookies through your browser settings. Browser controls vary, but they generally allow you to:

  • View stored cookies.

  • Delete individual cookies.

  • Delete all cookies.

  • Block cookies from particular websites.

  • Block third-party cookies.

  • Clear local-storage information.

Blocking all cookies may affect shopping carts, booking tools, payment pages and other requested website functions.

13. International processing

Squarespace, Calendly, Stripe and other technology providers may process information outside Ireland or the European Economic Area.

Where personal data is transferred internationally, appropriate transfer arrangements should be used, such as an applicable adequacy decision, approved Standard Contractual Clauses or another mechanism permitted by data-protection law.

Further information about international transfers is provided in our Privacy Policy.

14. Your data-protection rights

Where cookie or tracking information constitutes personal data, you may have rights including the right to:

  • Request access to your personal data.

  • Ask for inaccurate personal data to be corrected.

  • Request deletion in applicable circumstances.

  • Restrict or object to certain processing.

  • Withdraw consent.

  • Complain to the Data Protection Commission in Ireland.

More information about these rights and how to contact us is available in our Privacy Policy.

15. Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy when:

  • Website features change.

  • A service provider is added or removed.

  • Cookie names or durations change.

  • Legal or regulatory requirements change.

  • We change how website analytics or marketing are used.

The latest version will be displayed on this page with a revised update date.

16. Contact us

Questions about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies can be sent to:

Email: hello@lynseyhanratty.com

This policy is effective as of 6th August 2026