COOKIE POLICY
Clear information about cookies and similar technologies
Mothers & Moon aims to handle your privacy clearly and carefully. This cookie policy explains which cookies and similar technologies may be used on www.mothersandmoon.be, why they are used and how you can manage your choices.
Strictly necessary cookies may be used without consent because the website cannot otherwise function safely or correctly. Analytics and other non-essential cookies are activated only after you have made a free and informed choice through the cookie banner.
1. Who is responsible?
The data controller for this website is:
Mothers & Moon – Lindsay Danthine
Vennestraat 2D, 9230 Wetteren, Belgium
Business registration number: BE 0637.779.948
Email: info@mothersandmoon.be
Website: www.mothersandmoon.be
2. What are cookies and similar technologies?
Cookies are small data files stored or read in or through your browser when you visit a website. The website may also use similar technologies, such as local storage, session storage, pixels and tags. These technologies may contain information about your browser, device, session, preferences and use of the website. Depending on their content and use, this may constitute personal data.
3. Which categories do we use?
Depending on the page visited and the features activated, the website uses or may use the following categories:
Strictly necessary cookies: for security, basic functionality, forms and remembering your cookie preferences.
Analytics and performance cookies: to understand visitor numbers, traffic sources and page usage, and to improve the website.
External services and form technologies: for newsletter subscriptions, spam prevention and other embedded features.
4. Legal basis and consent
For strictly necessary cookies, we rely on the need to make the website you requested function safely and correctly and, where applicable, on our legitimate interest in a secure and reliable website. Your prior consent is the legal basis for analytics, performance and other non-essential cookies.
You can reject all non-essential cookies without ordinary access to the website being blocked. You can later withdraw or change your consent just as easily through ‘Manage cookies’ at the bottom of the website. Withdrawal applies to the future and does not affect the lawfulness of earlier processing.
5. Overview of cookies and technologies
The cookies actually placed depend on your choice in the cookie banner, the pages you visit and the features you use. Names and retention periods may change when a provider updates its service. The list below reflects the website review carried out on 14 August 2026.
5.1 Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies and storage items are required for security, basic functions and saving your preferences.
ss_cookieAllowed
Provider: Squarespace
Duration: 30 days
Purpose: remembers whether a visitor has allowed cookies when non-essential cookies are restricted.
ss_performancecookiesAllowed
Provider: Squarespace
Duration: 30 days
Purpose: saves the choice for analytics and performance cookies.
ss_marketingcookiesAllowed
Provider: Squarespace
Duration: 30 days
Purpose: saves the choice for marketing cookies, even when that category is not currently actively used.
crumb
Provider: Squarespace
Duration: session
Purpose: helps protect forms against misuse and cross-site request forgery (CSRF).
_GRECAPTCHA / reCAPTCHA storage
Provider: Google
Duration: up to 6 months
Purpose: detects and prevents spam and automated misuse of forms.
5.2 Analytics and performance cookies
These cookies are used only after you have given consent.
ss_cid
Provider: Squarespace
Duration: 2 years
Purpose: identifies unique visitors and tracks sessions for Squarespace Analytics.
ss_cpvisit
Provider: Squarespace
Duration: 2 years
Purpose: stores information about a previous visit for Squarespace Analytics.
ss_cvisit
Provider: Squarespace
Duration: 30 minutes
Purpose: records information about the current visit and session.
ss_cvr
Provider: Squarespace
Duration: 2 years
Purpose: supports analysis of returning visitors and sessions.
ss_cvt
Provider: Squarespace
Duration: 30 minutes
Purpose: supports measurement of the current session and visit duration.
_ga
Provider: Google Analytics
Duration: up to 2 years
Purpose: distinguishes visitors for statistical reporting.
gaR4ER3SWEC8
Provider: Google Analytics
Duration: up to 2 years
Purpose: stores and counts sessions for the Mothers & Moon Google Analytics 4 data stream.
5.3 Newsletter and external forms
The website includes a subscription form for the Mothers & Moon Mail. This may load scripts and browser storage from the following parties.
MailerLite form storage
Provider: MailerLite
Duration: variable
Purpose: displays and processes the newsletter subscription form and may remember whether a form or pop-up has already been displayed or closed.
reCAPTCHA storage (rc::a, rc::c or equivalent)
Provider: Google
Duration: session or persistent
Purpose: assesses whether a form is being used by a human and helps prevent spam.
The social media buttons on this website are ordinary links. Clicking them takes you away from the website, and the privacy and cookie terms of the chosen platform then apply.
6. Who receives data?
To operate the website and for the purposes described above, data may be processed by:
Squarespace Ireland Limited and affiliated Squarespace entities, for hosting, security and website analytics;
Google Ireland Limited and affiliated Google entities, for Google Analytics and reCAPTCHA;
MailerLite Limited or the contracting MailerLite entity, for the newsletter subscription form.
These service providers may process data outside the European Economic Area, including in the United States. Where necessary, this is based on an adequacy decision, the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission, supplemented by appropriate safeguards. Further information is available in the privacy policy of the provider concerned.
7. Retention periods
The duration of each cookie is stated in the overviews above. Data processed in analytics systems after cookies have been read may be retained for longer in accordance with the settings and legal obligations of Mothers & Moon and the provider concerned. They are not retained longer than necessary for the stated purpose.
Your cookie preference is generally remembered for a maximum of 30 days, after which the banner may appear again.
8. Managing your choices
You can:
accept or reject all non-essential cookies through the cookie banner;
adjust your preferences by category through ‘Manage cookies’;
withdraw your consent later through the permanent cookie settings on the website;
delete cookies and website data through your browser settings.
If you block strictly necessary cookies in your browser, forms, security or other basic functions may work less effectively. Rejecting analytics cookies does not prevent ordinary access to the website.
9. Your privacy rights
When personal data are processed through cookies, you may, subject to the legal conditions, request access, rectification, erasure, restriction or portability of your data. You may object to certain processing and withdraw consent at any time. To do so, email info@mothersandmoon.be.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority (GBA), Drukpersstraat 35, 1000 Brussels, through www.gegevensbeschermingsautoriteit.be.
Mothers & Moon does not make decisions based solely on automated processing of cookie data that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
10. Changes
This cookie policy may be amended when the website, services used or legislation change. The most recent version is always available on the website. Earlier versions are retained so that Mothers & Moon can demonstrate compliance with its information and accountability obligations.
11. Contact and technical information
Do you have a question about this cookie policy or would you like to exercise your privacy rights? Contact info@mothersandmoon.be.
For the most up-to-date technical information about providers, please consult their own documentation:
Squarespace: support.squarespace.com
Google: policies.google.com
MailerLite: mailerlite.com/legal
Version 2.0
Last amended: 14 August 2026