Cookie Notice

What Are Cookies?

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to enable you to use our website(s). This page describes what information they gather and why we need to store these cookies.

The Cookies We Set

We only used essential/required cookies that enable our website(s) to function properly. We do not collect any identifiable personal data via cookies. If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.

We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.

Our site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

When you submit data through a form such as those found on the contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

Name Purpose, type and duration
Crumb Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF).
Cookie
Session
RecentRedirect Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO.
Cookie
30 minutes
squarespace-announcement-bar Prevents the announcement bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it.
localstorage
Persistent
squarespace-likes Shows when you've already "liked" a blog post.
localstorage
Persistent
squarespace-popup-overlay Prevents the promotional pop-up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it.
localstorage
Persistent
ss_sd Ensures that visitors on the Squarespace 5 platform remain authenticated during their sessions.
Cookie
Session
Test Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors.
Cookie
Session
TZ Allows a Scheduling client’s appointments to display correctly based on their time zone preferences.
localstorage
Persistent
SiteUserInfo Identifies a visitor who logs into a customer account.
Cookie
3 years
SiteUserSecureAuthToken Authenticates a visitor who logs into a customer account.
Cookie
3 years

Other Cookies

YouTube

Embed YouTube videos on our site. In these instances the YouTube cookies will only be downloaded if you visit the page with the embedded video.

View YouTube’s privacy policy

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you, however if you are still looking for more information then please contact us:

Email: hello@citygate.church

Phone: 01202 299628

This notice was last updated on 3rd Feb 2023