COOKIE POLICY
Last updated: 1 October 2026
Great Park Gazette uses cookies and similar technologies to help our website function properly, understand how visitors use the site and improve the information and services we provide.
This Cookie Policy explains what cookies are, how they are used on Great Park Gazette and how you can manage your preferences.
1. WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies can help websites operate securely, remember preferences and provide information about how visitors use a website.
Some cookies are essential for a website to work correctly, while others are optional and may be used for analytics or performance purposes.
2. WHO WE ARE
Great Park Gazette is a community information website brought to you by the Great Park Residents Group.
Website:
Great Park Gazette
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3. OUR WEBSITE PLATFORM
Great Park Gazette is hosted using Squarespace.
Squarespace uses cookies and similar technologies to provide and secure the website and, where permitted, to provide website analytics.
The cookies used can vary depending on the Squarespace features enabled on the website.
4. NECESSARY COOKIES
Necessary cookies are required for the website to function correctly and securely.
They may be used for purposes including:
• Website security
• Preventing fraud or malicious activity
• Maintaining website functionality
• Managing visitor preferences
• Supporting redirects and navigation
• Remembering cookie consent choices
These cookies cannot normally be disabled through our cookie consent banner because they are necessary for the website to operate.
No consent is required for cookies that are strictly necessary to provide the website or a service requested by the visitor.
5. ANALYTICS AND PERFORMANCE COOKIES
Great Park Gazette may use Squarespace Analytics to help us understand how visitors use the website.
Analytics and performance information may include:
• Pages visited
• Number of visits
• Time spent on pages
• Links or buttons clicked
• Referring websites
• Browser and device information
• Approximate geographic information
• Dates and times of visits
This information helps us understand which content is useful to residents and how the website can be improved.
Where consent is required, analytics and performance cookies will only be used after you have accepted them through our cookie banner.
6. COOKIE CATEGORIES USED ON THIS WEBSITE
The cookies used on Great Park Gazette generally fall into the following categories:
Necessary cookies
These are required for the website to function securely and correctly.
Analytics and performance cookies
These help us understand website traffic and how visitors interact with the site.
Preference cookies
Where applicable, these may remember choices you have made, such as cookie consent preferences.
Great Park Gazette does not currently use cookies for targeted advertising or behavioural advertising.
7. SQUARESPACE COOKIES
Because this website is hosted by Squarespace, Squarespace may place necessary and, where permitted, analytics and performance cookies on your device.
The exact names and duration of Squarespace cookies may change as Squarespace updates its platform and services.
Squarespace publishes and maintains information about the cookies its platform uses. Visitors can refer to Squarespace's current cookie information for the most up-to-date technical details.
8. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES
We do not currently intentionally use third-party advertising trackers or marketing pixels on Great Park Gazette.
The website may contain links to external websites and social media platforms, including Facebook and X.
Simply displaying a normal link does not mean those external websites can automatically place their cookies through Great Park Gazette. However, if you click an external link and visit another website, that website may use its own cookies in accordance with its own privacy and cookie policies.
If we add third-party services or embedded content in the future that use cookies, this policy will be updated accordingly.
9. CONTACT FORM
Our contact form is provided through Squarespace.
Information submitted through the form may be processed by Squarespace in order to deliver the message to us.
Necessary technologies may be used to operate and protect forms against abuse, fraud or spam.
The personal information submitted through our contact form is covered by our Privacy Policy.
10. COOKIE CONSENT
When you first visit Great Park Gazette, you may be shown a cookie banner.
Depending on the options available, you can:
• Accept cookies
• Decline non-essential cookies
• Manage your cookie preferences
Necessary cookies may still be used even if you decline optional cookies because they are required for the website to function.
11. CHANGING OR WITHDRAWING YOUR CONSENT
You can change your cookie choices at any time using the cookie preference controls available on the Great Park Gazette website.
You can also manage or delete cookies through your web browser.
Most browsers allow you to:
• View stored cookies
• Delete cookies
• Block cookies
• Block third-party cookies
• Delete cookies automatically when the browser closes
Blocking all cookies may affect how some parts of the website function.
12. HOW LONG COOKIES REMAIN ON YOUR DEVICE
Different cookies remain on a device for different lengths of time.
Session cookies are normally removed when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies may remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.
The duration of individual Squarespace cookies may vary depending on their purpose and Squarespace's current platform configuration.
13. INTERNATIONAL DATA PROCESSING
Squarespace operates internationally and information associated with website technologies may be processed or stored outside the United Kingdom.
Where personal information is transferred internationally, the relevant service provider is responsible for using appropriate safeguards in accordance with applicable data protection law.
14. YOUR PRIVACY
For more information about how Great Park Gazette collects, uses and protects personal information, please read our Privacy Policy.
15. CHANGES TO THIS COOKIE POLICY
We may update this Cookie Policy if:
• The cookies used by the website change
• New website features are introduced
• New third-party services are added
• Legal or regulatory requirements change
The latest version will always be published on this page, and the date at the top of the policy will be updated.
16. CONTACT US
If you have any questions about cookies or privacy on Great Park Gazette, please contact:
Great Park Gazette
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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