Cookie Policy
1. About this Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy explains how Secret Sauce Box (“we”, “us” or “our”) uses cookies and similar tracking technologies when you visit our website or use our online services.
It explains what cookies are, why we use them, the types of cookies that may be used and how you can manage your cookie preferences.
2. What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies are widely used to make websites work properly and efficiently, remember preferences, understand how visitors use websites and help businesses measure and improve their advertising.
Cookies set directly by our website are known as first-party cookies.
Cookies set by other organisations whose services are used on our website are known as third-party cookies. These third parties may be able to recognise your device when you visit our website and, in some cases, when you visit other websites.
3. How long do cookies last?
Cookies can be either:
Session cookies – these are temporary and usually expire when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies – these remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.
The length of time a cookie remains on your device depends on the purpose of the cookie and the provider that sets it.
4. Why do we use cookies?
We may use cookies and similar technologies to:
Make our website function correctly
Remember your preferences
Maintain the security of our website
Understand how visitors use our website
Measure website traffic and performance
Improve our website and customer experience
Measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns
Provide and measure advertising
Make advertising more relevant to visitors, where appropriate
Not all cookies are essential for the operation of our website. Where required by law, non-essential cookies will only be used after you have provided your consent.
5. What types of cookies do we use?
The exact cookies used on our website may change as we update our website and the services we use. They will generally fall into the following categories.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are necessary for our website to function correctly and cannot generally be switched off through our cookie preferences.
They may be used for purposes such as website security, remembering your cookie preferences, enabling checkout functionality or allowing access to secure areas of the website.
Our website is hosted using Squarespace, which may set cookies that are necessary for the website and its features to operate correctly.
Because these cookies are necessary to provide the website and services you request, your consent is not normally required for their use.
Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors use Secret Sauce Box.
They may provide information such as:
Which pages are visited
How visitors arrive at our website
How long visitors spend on particular pages
Which links or buttons are used
How visitors navigate around the website
Whether visitors experience errors
We use this information to understand how our website performs and identify ways in which we can improve it.
Analytics services used by our website may include Squarespace Analytics and Google Analytics.
Where required, these cookies will only be used after you have provided your consent.
Advertising and Marketing Cookies
We may use advertising and marketing cookies to understand the effectiveness of our advertising and to help us show advertisements that are more relevant to potential customers.
These cookies may be set by advertising platforms that we use, such as Google and Meta (including Facebook and Instagram).
These technologies may allow us to:
Measure whether an advertisement resulted in a visit, sign-up or purchase
Understand the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns
Create audiences for advertising
Show advertisements to people who have previously visited our website
Make advertisements more relevant
Advertising providers may use information about your activity on our website and other websites in accordance with their own privacy policies.
Advertising and marketing cookies will only be used where we have obtained any consent required by applicable law.
Performance and Functionality Cookies
These cookies provide additional features and functionality that are not strictly necessary for the website to operate.
They may, for example, support additional website functionality, forms, customer service features or other third-party services.
Where these cookies are not strictly necessary, they will only be used after you have provided any consent required by law.
6. Third-party services
We use third-party companies to help operate Secret Sauce Box.
Depending on the services and features currently enabled on our website, these third parties may place cookies or use similar technologies.
These may include providers involved in:
Website hosting
Website analytics
Subscription and checkout functionality
Payment processing
Email marketing
Online advertising
Social media
Customer support
These organisations operate according to their own privacy and cookie policies, and the cookies they use may change from time to time.
7. Targeted advertising
We may work with third-party advertising platforms to advertise Secret Sauce Box online.
Where you have provided the necessary consent, these companies may use cookies, pixels and similar technologies to collect information about visits to our website.
This information can be used to measure the effectiveness of our advertising and to display advertisements that may be more relevant to you.
Depending on the advertising service, information collected through these technologies may also be combined with information held by the advertising provider in accordance with its own privacy policy.
8. How can I control cookies?
When you first visit our website, you may be given the opportunity to accept or reject non-essential cookies through our cookie consent banner or cookie preference tool.
You can change your cookie preferences where this functionality is available.
You can also control cookies through your web browser. Most browsers allow you to:
View the cookies stored on your device
Delete cookies
Block some or all cookies
Block third-party cookies
Receive a warning before a cookie is stored
The method for doing this varies between browsers, so please refer to your browser's privacy or cookie settings for further information.
Please be aware that blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent certain parts of our website or services from functioning correctly.
9. Changes to the cookies we use
The cookies and third-party services used by Secret Sauce Box may change as our website and services develop.
We may therefore update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the technologies we use or changes in legal requirements.
The latest version will be published on this page and the “Last updated” date will be amended accordingly.
10. Privacy
For more information about how Secret Sauce Box collects, uses and protects your personal information, please see our Privacy Policy.
11. Contact us
If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy or how we use cookies and similar technologies, please contact:
Secret Sauce Box
Email:hello@secretsaucebox.co.uk
Last updated: 15 August 2026