Cookie Policy

Last updated: 22 May 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Mancunian Brands Ltd uses cookies and similar technologies on this website.

Cookies are small files placed on your device when you visit a website. They help websites work properly, remember preferences, improve performance, understand how visitors use the site and, where you give consent, support relevant advertising.

This Cookie Policy should be read alongside our Privacy Policy.

1. Who we are

This website is operated by Mancunian Brands Ltd.

Mancunian Brands Ltd
Company number: 17182810
Registered office: First Floor, Swan Buildings, 20 Swan Street, Manchester, Lancashire, M4 5JW, United Kingdom
Email: hello@mancunianbrands.co.uk

2. How we use cookies

We may use cookies and similar technologies to:

  • make the website work properly

  • keep the website secure

  • remember user preferences and choices

  • remember cookie preferences

  • understand how visitors use the website

  • count visits and traffic sources

  • improve website performance and user experience

  • measure the effectiveness of website content and marketing activity

  • support relevant advertising, where consent has been given

3. Cookie categories used on this website

When you manage your cookie preferences on our website, cookies may be grouped into the following categories.

Necessary cookies

Always on

Necessary cookies are required to enable core site functionality and to remember user preferences and choices, such as language preferences, cookie preferences or customised settings.

These cookies help the website work properly and cannot usually be switched off through our cookie preference centre.

Necessary cookies may be used for:

  • website security

  • page navigation

  • form functionality

  • remembering cookie choices

  • remembering user preferences and settings

  • enabling core website features

Because these cookies are required for the website to function, they are always on.

Legal basis: Legitimate interests / strictly necessary for website operation.
Consent required: No.

Performance and Analytics cookies

Optional

Performance and Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use our website.

These cookies provide quantitative measures of website visitors. With the use of these cookies, we are able to count visits and traffic sources to help measure and improve the performance of our site.

Performance and Analytics cookies may help us understand:

  • how many people visit the website

  • which pages are visited

  • how visitors move around the site

  • how visitors arrived at the site

  • which content is most useful

  • whether the website is working properly

  • how we can improve the website experience

We may use tools such as Google Analytics 4 and Squarespace Analytics for this purpose.

These cookies are not essential for the website to work and will only be used where consent has been given.

Legal basis: Consent.
Consent required: Yes.

Advertising cookies

Optional

Advertising cookies may be used by advertising companies to serve ads that are relevant to your interests.

They may also help us measure the effectiveness of advertising activity, understand website actions, build audiences or support future remarketing activity.

Advertising cookies, pixels or similar technologies may be provided by platforms such as:

  • Google

  • Meta / Facebook

  • TikTok

  • LinkedIn

These cookies may collect information about your browsing activity on our website and may be used by advertising platforms to understand your interests or show you relevant advertising on other websites or platforms.

These cookies are not essential for the website to work and will only be used where consent has been given.

Legal basis: Consent.
Consent required: Yes.

4. Cookies and technologies that may be used on this website

The exact cookies used may depend on our Squarespace settings, Google Analytics settings, cookie banner setup and any third-party tools added to the website.

The cookies and technologies we may use include the following.

Squarespace necessary cookies

  • Provider: Squarespace

  • Category: Necessary

  • Purpose: Enables core website functionality, security, form functionality, page navigation and remembering user preferences or cookie choices.

  • Duration: Session or limited period

  • Legal basis: Legitimate interests / strictly necessary

Cookie preference cookies

  • Provider: Squarespace or cookie banner provider

  • Category: Necessary

  • Purpose: Remembers your cookie choices and consent preferences.

  • Duration: Varies

  • Legal basis: Legitimate interests / strictly necessary

Google Analytics cookie: _ga

  • Provider: Google Analytics

  • Category: Performance and Analytics

  • Purpose: Helps distinguish visitors and generate website usage statistics.

  • Duration: Up to 2 years

  • Legal basis: Consent

Google Analytics 4 cookie: gacontainer-id

  • Provider: Google Analytics 4

  • Category: Performance and Analytics

  • Purpose: Helps persist session state and understand website usage.

  • Duration: Up to 2 years

  • Legal basis: Consent

Google Analytics cookie: _gid

  • Provider: Google Analytics

  • Category: Performance and Analytics

  • Purpose: Helps distinguish visitors and generate statistical information about website use.

  • Duration: 24 hours

  • Legal basis: Consent

Google Analytics cookie: gat or gat_property-id

  • Provider: Google Analytics

  • Category: Performance and Analytics

  • Purpose: Helps throttle request rate.

  • Duration: 1 minute

  • Legal basis: Consent

Meta Pixel cookies

  • Provider: Meta / Facebook

  • Category: Advertising

  • Purpose: May be used to measure advertising performance, understand website actions and support remarketing.

  • Duration: Varies

  • Legal basis: Consent

TikTok Pixel cookies

  • Provider: TikTok

  • Category: Advertising

  • Purpose: May be used to measure advertising performance, understand website actions and support remarketing.

  • Duration: Varies

  • Legal basis: Consent

LinkedIn Insight Tag cookies

  • Provider: LinkedIn

  • Category: Advertising

  • Purpose: May be used to measure advertising performance, understand website actions and support remarketing.

  • Duration: Varies

  • Legal basis: Consent

Google advertising cookies

  • Provider: Google

  • Category: Advertising

  • Purpose: May be used to measure advertising performance and support remarketing.

  • Duration: Varies

  • Legal basis: Consent

5. Google Analytics 4

We may use Google Analytics 4, also known as GA4, to understand how visitors use our website.

Google Analytics may collect information such as:

  • pages visited

  • time spent on the website

  • how visitors arrived at the website

  • approximate location

  • device type

  • browser type

  • interactions with website pages and forms

We use this information to:

  • understand website performance

  • improve the user experience

  • see which parts of the website are most useful to visitors

  • measure visits and traffic sources

We do not intentionally send names, email addresses, phone numbers or contact form message content to Google Analytics.

Where required, Google Analytics cookies will only be used where consent has been given.

6. Advertising pixels and similar technologies

We may use advertising pixels or similar technologies from platforms such as Google, Meta, TikTok or LinkedIn.

These tools may help us:

  • measure website activity

  • understand the effectiveness of marketing campaigns

  • build audiences

  • support future advertising activity

  • support remarketing activity

Where required, these tools will only be used where consent has been given through our cookie preference centre.

If we add or remove advertising pixels in the future, we may update this Cookie Policy.

7. Embedded content

Our website may include embedded content from third-party providers, such as:

  • videos

  • maps

  • social media posts

  • other external features

Embedded content may behave as if you visited the third-party website directly. These providers may collect data, use cookies, track your interaction with the embedded content, or combine this information with other data they already hold about you.

Where required, non-essential cookies from embedded content will only be used where consent has been given.

8. Managing cookie consent

When you first visit our website, you may see a cookie banner allowing you to accept, decline or manage optional cookies.

You can manage your cookie preferences by choosing which optional cookie categories you allow.

Necessary cookies are always on because they are required for the website to function.

Performance and Analytics cookies are optional and will only be used where you have given consent.

Advertising cookies are optional and will only be used where you have given consent.

You can change or withdraw your consent at any time by:

  • using the cookie settings or cookie preference centre on our website, where available

  • changing your browser settings to block or delete cookies

  • clearing cookies from your device

Please note that blocking some cookies may affect how the website works.

9. Third-party services

We may use the following third-party services which may set cookies or process website usage data.

Squarespace

Squarespace hosts and supports our website. Squarespace may use cookies and similar technologies to provide:

  • website functionality

  • website security

  • analytics

  • form functionality

  • website performance features

Google Analytics 4

Google Analytics 4 helps us understand how visitors use our website.

Google may receive information about:

  • your browser

  • your device

  • pages visited

  • approximate location

  • website interactions

Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn and Google advertising tools

If used, these tools may help us:

  • measure advertising performance

  • understand website actions

  • support future advertising

  • support remarketing activity

Embedded content providers

If used, embedded content providers such as YouTube, Google Maps or social media platforms may set cookies or collect data when embedded content is displayed or used.

10. International transfers

Some cookie-related data may be processed outside the United Kingdom or European Economic Area by our website provider or other third-party service providers.

Where this happens, appropriate safeguards should be used to protect personal information.

11. Your rights

Where cookies involve personal data, you may have rights under UK data protection law, including the right to:

  • access your personal information

  • correct your personal information

  • delete your personal information

  • restrict the use of your personal information

  • object to the use of your personal information

For more information about how we use personal information and how to exercise your rights, please see our Privacy Policy.

12. Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time.

The latest version will always be available on this page.