Last updated: 15 September 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how My Little Party Patch uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website at www.mylittlepartypatch.co.uk.

We use cookies to help our website function properly, understand how visitors use our website, improve your experience and, where applicable, support our marketing and social media activity.

By using our website, you can choose which non-essential cookies you are happy for us to use. Essential cookies are required for the website to function and cannot be switched off through our cookie consent tool.

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. They allow a website to recognise your device and remember certain information about your visit.

Cookies can be used for a number of purposes, including making a website work correctly, remembering preferences, understanding how visitors use a website and supporting advertising or social media features.

2. The cookies we use

We may use the following categories of cookies and similar technologies on our website:

Essential cookies

These cookies are necessary for our website to operate properly. They can support functions such as website security, page navigation and basic Squarespace functionality.

Because these cookies are necessary for the website to function, they cannot normally be disabled through our cookie consent banner.

Analytics cookies

We use analytics technologies, including Squarespace Analytics and Google Analytics, to help us understand how visitors use our website.

These technologies may collect information such as:

• Which pages are visited

• How visitors navigate around the website

• How visitors arrived at our website

• Approximate location information

• Device and browser information

• General website usage and performance information

We use this information to understand which parts of our website are useful and to improve our website and services.

Analytics cookies are non-essential and will only be used where you have given the appropriate consent.

Marketing and advertising cookies

Where enabled, we may use Meta Pixel (Facebook/Meta Pixel) and similar technologies to understand how visitors interact with our website and to help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing.

These technologies may allow information about your visit to our website to be associated with your interactions with Meta platforms.

Marketing cookies are non-essential and will only be used where you have given the appropriate consent.

Social media cookies

Our website may contain links to or embedded content from social media platforms, including Instagram.

If you interact with embedded social media content or follow links to third-party social media websites, those third parties may use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own privacy policies.

We do not control the cookies placed by third-party social media platforms.

Google Maps

Some pages of our website may use Google Maps to display maps or location information.

Google may use cookies or similar technologies when Google Maps content is displayed or interacted with. These technologies may collect information about your device and how you interact with the map.

Google’s use of cookies and personal information is governed by Google’s own privacy policies.

YouTube

Where we display or embed YouTube videos on our website, YouTube may use cookies or similar technologies when the video is displayed or played.

YouTube is operated by Google, and its use of cookies and information is governed by Google’s own policies.

3. Third-party services

Some cookies or similar technologies used on our website may be provided by third parties, including:

• Squarespace – our website hosting and website platform

• Google Analytics – website analytics

• Google Maps – maps and location information

• YouTube – embedded video content

• Meta – social media and advertising technologies

• Instagram – social media content and links

These companies may process information in accordance with their own privacy policies.

We recommend reviewing the relevant third party’s privacy policy for further information about how they process information.

4. Managing your cookie preferences

When you first visit our website, our cookie banner allows you to manage your preferences.

You can choose whether to allow non-essential cookies, including analytics and marketing cookies.

You can also change or withdraw your cookie consent at any time through our cookie preference controls.

Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect how some parts of our website function.

You can also control or delete cookies through your web browser settings.

5. Your consent

Where cookies are not strictly necessary for the operation of our website, we will seek your consent before placing them on your device.

You do not have to consent to non-essential cookies in order to browse our website.

You can withdraw your consent at any time.

6. How long cookies remain on your device

Different cookies remain on your device for different periods of time.

Some cookies are session cookies, meaning they are deleted when you close your browser.

Other cookies are persistent cookies, meaning they remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.

The length of time a particular cookie remains on your device depends on the service that places it and the purpose for which it is used.

7. Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, the cookies and technologies we use, or changes in legal or regulatory requirements.

Any updates will be posted on this page and the “Last updated” date will be amended accordingly.

8. Contact us

If you have any questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact:

My Little Party Patch

Website: www.mylittlepartypatch.co.uk

Email: mylittlepartypatch@hotmail.com

Address: 94 East road, West Mersea, Colchester, Essex CO58SA