Cookie Policy
Escape Cottages Scotland
Last updated: 31 August 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Escape Cottages Scotland uses cookies and similar technologies on our website:
https://escapecottagesscotland.com
Escape Cottages Scotland is a partnership operated by Julie Wilson and Frank Wilson.
ICO registration number: ZB816524
For questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact:
escapecottagesscotland@gmail.com
What are cookies?
Cookies are small files or similar technologies that are stored on your computer, phone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.
They can help a website operate correctly, remember your preferences, understand how visitors use the website and, where consent has been given, support advertising and marketing activities.
Some technologies that perform similar functions to cookies are also covered by this Cookie Policy.
How we use cookies
Our website uses cookies and similar technologies for three main purposes:
Necessary
Performance and analytics
Advertising
The categories available through our cookie-management system are explained below.
Necessary cookies
Necessary cookies are used where they are required for the website or a service requested by you to function properly.
They may help with functions such as:
Website security
Basic website functionality
Remembering choices necessary for the operation of the website
Supporting booking functionality
Maintaining the technical operation of the website
Managing your cookie preferences
These cookies are necessary for the operation of relevant website services and cannot normally be switched off through our cookie-management system.
Where a cookie or similar technology is genuinely strictly necessary to provide a service requested by a visitor, consent is not required under the applicable rules. However, we provide information about these technologies as part of our cookie information.
Performance and analytics cookies
Performance and analytics technologies help us understand how visitors use our website.
We may use analytics technologies, including Google Analytics, to help us understand information such as:
How many people visit our website
Which pages are visited
How visitors arrive at our website
How visitors interact with our website
General website performance
How we can improve the website and the experience we provide
Analytics technologies are not treated as strictly necessary simply because they are useful to us. Where consent is required, we will only use them after the visitor has made an appropriate consent choice through our cookie-management system.
Advertising cookies and similar technologies
We may use advertising and marketing technologies, including the Meta Pixel, to help us understand and measure the effectiveness of our advertising and marketing activities.
These technologies may help us:
Measure advertising performance
Understand how visitors interact with our website following advertising
Improve our advertising
Understand which marketing activities are effective
Support relevant advertising and marketing
Advertising and tracking technologies are not strictly necessary for visitors to use our website. We therefore obtain consent where required before using these technologies.
The ICO's current guidance confirms that online advertising and cross-site or cross-device tracking technologies require consent.
Squarespace
Our website is hosted and operated using Squarespace.
Squarespace may use cookies and similar technologies to provide website functionality, security, performance and other services.
The specific technologies used may vary depending on the features and integrations enabled on our website.
Squarespace explains that its own services and third-party integrations can place cookies or use similar technologies, and that its cookie banner can restrict certain non-essential technologies where applicable.
OwnerRez
We use OwnerRez to provide booking and availability functionality on our website.
OwnerRez may use cookies or similar technologies as part of providing its booking services.
Some technologies associated with booking functionality may be necessary to provide the booking service requested by a visitor.
Where any non-essential tracking or similar technology is used, it will be subject to the appropriate consent requirements.
OwnerRez is a US-based service provider, and information processed through its services may therefore be transferred outside the UK. Further information about personal information and international transfers is provided in our Privacy Policy.
Third-party services
We use a number of third-party services in connection with our website and business, including:
Squarespace
Google Analytics
Meta Pixel
OwnerRez
These services may use cookies or similar technologies as part of the services they provide.
The third parties may process information in accordance with their own privacy policies and terms.
Where third-party technologies require consent, our cookie-management system is used to obtain the appropriate consent before those technologies are used, where the technology is capable of being controlled through our consent mechanism.
Because third-party services can change their technology from time to time, we periodically review our website's cookie and tracking arrangements.
Your cookie choices
When you first visit our website, our cookie banner gives you the following choices:
Accept all
You can choose to accept all categories of cookies and similar technologies covered by the consent mechanism.
Decline
You can choose to decline non-essential cookies and similar technologies.
Necessary technologies required for the website to operate may still be used.
Manage cookies
You can manage your preferences by choosing which available categories of non-essential cookies and similar technologies you wish to allow.
Your choices are respected by our cookie-management system to the extent supported by the relevant technologies.
Changing your cookie preferences
You can change your cookie preferences through the cookie-management controls provided on our website.
If you previously gave consent and later change your mind, you can withdraw your consent through the available cookie-management controls.
The ICO's current guidance states that users should be able to enable or disable non-essential cookies and that withdrawing consent should be made easy.
What happens if you decline cookies?
You can continue to use our website if you decline non-essential cookies.
Some website functionality may be affected depending on which technologies are declined.
For example, declining analytics cookies means that we may not be able to use analytics information relating to your visit to understand how you use our website.
Declining advertising technologies means that certain advertising measurement or marketing functions may not operate.
Necessary technologies required for the website to function may continue to operate.
Cookie consent
Where consent is required, we will seek consent before using non-essential cookies or similar technologies.
Consent must involve a clear positive action and must be freely given, specific and informed.
Simply continuing to browse the website does not constitute consent to non-essential cookies.
The ICO's current guidance confirms that non-essential cookies generally require consent and that consent must involve a clear positive action.
Privacy and personal information
Some cookies and similar technologies may involve the processing of personal information.
Further information about how Escape Cottages Scotland collects, uses, stores and shares personal information can be found in our:
Privacy Policy
Our Privacy Policy is available at:
https://escapecottagesscotland.com/privacy-policy
Reviewing our cookie use
We may update the cookies and similar technologies used on our website as our website, booking system, analytics services or marketing activities change.
We will review this Cookie Policy periodically to ensure that it remains accurate.
If we introduce new technologies that require changes to our consent arrangements or this policy, we will update the relevant information.
Contact us
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or similar technologies, please contact:
Escape Cottages Scotland
Julie Wilson and Frank Wilson
Email: escapecottagesscotland@gmail.com
ICO registration number: ZB816524
Last updated: 31 August 2026