Cookie Policy
Last updated: 5th November 2026
This policy is available at tasteparadiso.co.uk/cookie-policy.
At Paradiso, we want you to understand how our website uses cookies and similar technologies, and the choices available to you.
This policy applies to tasteparadiso.co.uk, including services embedded in the website. Paradiso Artisan Tiramisù is the trading name of Paradiso Authentic Italian Ltd, company number 13372397, at 345 Sharrow Vale Road, Sheffield, S11 8ZG, United Kingdom.
For questions about this policy, email info@tasteparadiso.co.uk. Our Privacy Policy explains our wider use of personal information.
1. Cookies and similar technologies
Cookies are small files stored on your device. They can remember a shopping basket, support security, keep you signed in or record your cookie preferences.
We also use browser storage and tracking pixels. Local Storage can retain settings between visits; Session Storage normally lasts for a browsing session. Pixels and similar code can send information when a page is viewed or an action takes place.
Some technologies come from Squarespace, which hosts our website. Others are associated with Google, Meta, Stripe and Acuity Scheduling. A provider's technology may store a cookie under our website's domain.
2. Your website cookie choices
Our cookie banner offers:
Accept all: enable both optional categories.
Decline all: leave both optional categories off.
Manage cookies: choose between Performance and Analytics and Advertising, then select Save Preferences.
The optional categories start off. The Necessary category remains on for functions such as security, shopping baskets, checkout, account access and recording your privacy choices.
You can reopen the floating Cookie Preferences button, change your choices and select Save Preferences at any time. Browsing the website, creating an account or making a purchase does not itself constitute consent to optional tracking.
Important limitation — masterclass booking calendar: Our embedded Acuity Scheduling calendar has a separate Meta Pixel integration. In the current configuration, loading the scheduler sends a PageView event to Meta even when Advertising has been declined in the website's cookie preferences. The website's Advertising choice therefore does not currently prevent that scheduler event. The separate integration can measure scheduler visits and booking activity for advertising purposes, and Meta may associate information with information it already holds about you. Opening the calendar is not treated as your consent to advertising tracking.
The website preferences also do not stop every connection to third-party services. Google Analytics can continue to send requests marked with denied storage consent, the Meta code library can still load, and the Google Map connects to Google. The sections below explain these services.
If you wish to avoid loading the embedded scheduler, you can contact info@tasteparadiso.co.uk with a booking enquiry. This is an alternative contact route, not a substitute for the technical consent controls described above.
3. Why we use these technologies
Security, website functions, orders and bookings
Squarespace uses technologies to support request security, shopping baskets, customer accounts and saved privacy choices. Stripe uses technologies for payment security and fraud prevention when checkout is used. Acuity uses session technologies for booking functions. Google reCAPTCHA helps assess automated activity and protect forms and services against bots and abuse.
The technologies present depend on the pages and features you use. A provider's name alone does not determine whether all its technologies are necessary.
Performance and Analytics
Squarespace Analytics and Google Analytics 4 help us understand visits, pages viewed, referral sources and website interactions.
The Performance and Analytics choice controls Analytics cookies. In the current setup, declining or withdrawing this consent sends denied storage signals to Google, but Google Analytics measurement requests can still be sent without Analytics cookies. Declining Analytics cookies therefore does not stop every Analytics request. These requests must not be assumed anonymous simply because Analytics cookies are absent.
Read how Google uses information from sites and apps using its services.
Advertising — Meta Pixel
Meta Pixel measures advertising effectiveness and supports retargeting with advertisements on Facebook and Instagram. It can process device and usage information and actions such as viewing pages or adding an item to a basket. Meta may associate that information with information it already holds about you.
The main website's pixel event tracking is controlled through Advertising. Its code library may still load when that category is off. The embedded Acuity scheduler has the separate limitation explained in section 2.
Our current retargeting uses the pixel. Our advertising specialist has confirmed that the setup does not capture the contents of website form fields. Our advertising agency uses reporting rather than receiving a named list of individual pixel visitors; information processed by Meta can nevertheless be personal data.
Read Meta's Privacy Policy. Facebook and Instagram advertising settings provide additional controls, separate from our website's preferences. They should not be assumed to stop every event sent by the scheduler.
Advertising — Google Merchant Center
We use a Google Merchant Center tag to measure website activity associated with our product listings on Google. Our header code activates this tag after Advertising consent is given. If Advertising consent is withdrawn after the tag has loaded, the page reloads so it can continue without activating that tag.
4. Google Maps and embedded services
Our website includes an interactive Google Map showing the café location. It can load when the optional cookie categories are off. Loading the map connects your browser to Google's services, which can receive technical information such as your IP address and browser information. Cookies and storage associated with Google services can depend on the service, your previous interactions, and your browser's settings.
See Google's Privacy Policy and Google's cookie information.
Our masterclass calendar is provided by Acuity Scheduling and remains embedded in our website. Although visitors can remain on a Paradiso page, their browser also communicates with the scheduling service and its integrations. Its session and bot-protection technologies are distinct from the separate Meta advertising integration described above.
Checkout uses Stripe for online payments and fraud prevention. More information is available in Squarespace's Privacy Policy and Stripe's Privacy Policy.
5. Cookie register
The following entries were observed during website and booking checks on 5 November 2026. Lifetimes are those observed in the test browser, rather than a guarantee for every browser or configuration. Expiry can change when a cookie is refreshed, and browsers can shorten or block storage.
Name Domain observedPurpose / controlObserved lifetimecrumbtasteparadiso.co.ukRequest security and protection against forged requestsSessionss_marketingCookiesAllowedtasteparadiso.co.ukRecords the Advertising choice30 daysss_performanceCookiesAllowedtasteparadiso.co.ukRecords the Performance and Analytics choice30 daysCARTtasteparadiso.co.ukSupports the shopping basket14 dayshasCarttasteparadiso.co.ukRecords that a shopping basket exists14 days__stripe_mid.tasteparadiso.co.ukStripe payment fraud prevention1 year__stripe_sid.tasteparadiso.co.ukStripe payment fraud prevention30 minutesPHPSESSIDapp.acuityscheduling.comAcuity booking session and checkout authentication30 days_GRECAPTCHAwww.google.com, path /recaptchaGoogle reCAPTCHA risk analysis and bot protectionApproximately 180 days_ga.tasteparadiso.co.ukGoogle Analytics visitor distinction; Performance and AnalyticsApproximately 400 days_ga_R38ZG3RB71.tasteparadiso.co.ukGoogle Analytics session state; Performance and AnalyticsApproximately 400 days_fbp.tasteparadiso.co.ukMeta browser identification for advertising measurement and targetingApproximately 90 days
The _fbp lifetime was observed after Advertising was enabled on the main website. The separate Acuity PageView was observed with Advertising off. Absence of a cookie does not establish that an integration sends no information.
Browser storage
The following Local Storage keys were observed under tasteparadiso.co.uk with the optional categories off. Local Storage has no built-in expiry and can persist until cleared or removed.
KeyPurpose / statussquarespace-announcement-barRemembers announcement-bar dismissal, according to Squarespace's documentationsquarespace-popup-overlayRemembers pop-up dismissal, according to Squarespace's documentationsquarespace-video-player-optionsSaves video-player settings, according to Squarespace's documentationtestAn entry was detected; its specific purpose and provider remain unverified
Session Storage was empty in the homepage browser check. An earlier automated homepage scan also reported Google reCAPTCHA entries rc::a as persistent and rc::c as session-based. Their exact storage mechanisms were not independently verified in the later checks. Other features, browsers or embedded services may produce additional entries.
Google-domain cookies __Secure-ENID and SEARCH_SAMESITE were also visible during checks. After individual deletion they were not recreated in the particular reload tests, so those observations did not establish that the map created them. They should not be attributed to Maps or classified as necessary solely from their names.
A cookie's lifetime is different from the period for which information already collected is retained by a provider.
6. Changing your choices and browser controls
Use Cookie Preferences to change the optional website choices, subject to the scheduler and third-party limitations in this policy.
Cookies set during an earlier consented visit may remain on your device after withdrawal. You can remove them through your browser's settings. You can also review, block or delete site data and third-party cookies. Browser blocking may affect bookings, payments, login and other embedded functions.
Instructions are available for Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Microsoft Edge.
Browser blocking is an additional user control; it does not mean our website has implemented or received valid consent. If you clear site data, change browser or use a different device, you may need to set your choices again. Withdrawal does not undo processing that lawfully took place before it.
7. Measurement in marketing emails
Our Squarespace marketing emails use a small invisible image to measure opens and tracked links to measure clicks. Website Cookie Preferences do not control tracking inside an email.
You can unsubscribe from marketing using the link in our emails. Email applications may offer image-loading or tracking-protection controls, whose availability and effectiveness vary. Unsubscribing and browser cookie settings should not be treated as a separate email-tracking preference control.
For questions about this measurement or your choices, contact info@tasteparadiso.co.uk.
8. Changes and contact
We will update this policy as our technologies and controls change. The date at the top shows the latest update.
Contact info@tasteparadiso.co.uk or write to Paradiso Authentic Italian Ltd, 345 Sharrow Vale Road, Sheffield, S11 8ZG, United Kingdom.