Cookie Policy
Last updated: 20 September 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Quietly Grounded uses cookies and similar technologies on quietlygrounded.com. It should be read alongside the Privacy Policy.
Quietly Grounded is operated by Maria Collins, a sole trader. If you have any questions about this policy, please email hello@quietlygrounded.com.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, phone or other device when you visit a website. They help websites work properly, remember choices and provide information about how a site is used.
Some cookies last only for the duration of your visit and are removed when you close your browser. Others remain on your device for a set period or until you delete them.
Similar technologies, such as local storage, pixels or tags, may perform comparable functions. References to cookies in this policy include these technologies where appropriate.
How Quietly Grounded uses cookies
The website uses cookies for the following purposes.
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are needed for the website to function safely and correctly. They support features such as website security, form submission, fraud and spam prevention, session management, booking or checkout functions, and remembering your cookie choices.
Strictly necessary cookies cannot be switched off through the cookie preference tool because the website may not work properly without them. They do not require consent, although information about them is provided in this policy and in the Cookie Settings panel.
Preference and functional cookies
These cookies remember choices you make and allow the website to provide enhanced or more personal features. For example, they may remember display settings or information entered during a booking process.
These cookies are used only where you have given permission, unless a particular cookie is strictly necessary to provide a feature you have specifically requested.
Analytics cookies
With your permission, Quietly Grounded uses Google Analytics to understand how people use the website. Analytics information may include which pages are visited, how visitors reached the website, the type of device and browser used, approximate location information and how visitors move around the site.
This information helps improve the website and understand which content is useful. Analytics reports are viewed in aggregated form and are not used by Quietly Grounded to identify you directly.
Google Analytics cookies, including cookies commonly beginning with _ga, are not placed unless you choose to accept analytics cookies. Depending on the configuration, these cookies may remain on your device for up to two years. Analytics data held within Google Analytics is normally retained for no longer than 14 months.
More information about Google’s use of information is available at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
Marketing and embedded-content cookies
The website does not use advertising cookies to build profiles for paid advertising.
Some pages may contain content, forms or links provided by third parties, such as MailerLite, social media platforms, video services, booking services or payment providers. These providers may use cookies when you interact with their content or leave the Quietly Grounded website. Where those cookies are not strictly necessary, they are blocked until you give permission.
Third-party services have their own privacy and cookie information, and Quietly Grounded does not control cookies placed after you follow a link to another website.
Cookies currently in use
The Cookie Settings panel on this website contains the current cookie declaration. It identifies the cookies detected on the website, their provider, purpose, category and duration. This declaration is reviewed and updated when the website or its services change.
The cookies shown may vary depending on the pages and services you use. Cookies relating to a booking or payment provider may appear only when you visit or use those features.
Your choices
When you first visit the website, you are shown a cookie banner that allows you to:
- Accept all cookies.
- Reject optional cookies.
- Choose which optional categories to allow.
Strictly necessary cookies remain active because they are required for the website to operate.
You can change or withdraw your choice at any time by selecting Cookie Settings in the website footer. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of cookies used before you changed your preference, but it prevents the relevant optional cookies from being used in future. You may need to refresh the page for the change to take full effect.
Your browser also allows you to view, block or delete cookies. Blocking all cookies through your browser may prevent parts of the website, including forms, bookings or payments, from working correctly.
Guidance on managing cookies is available through your browser’s help pages and at www.aboutcookies.org.
Legal basis
Strictly necessary cookies are used because they are required to provide the website or a service you have requested and to support its security and operation.
Optional cookies, including analytics and non-essential functional cookies, are used only with your consent. Consent must be given through a clear choice and can be withdrawn at any time.
Where information collected through cookies is personal data, it is handled in accordance with the Quietly Grounded Privacy Policy and applicable UK data protection law.
Changes to this policy
This policy may be updated when cookies, website features, service providers or legal requirements change. The current version will always be published on this page with the date it was last updated.
Contact
If you have questions about the cookies used by Quietly Grounded or how your information is handled, please email hello@quietlygrounded.com.