This Cookie Policy was last updated on 20 July 2026 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the United Kingdom.
1. Introduction
Our website, https://shipshapedata.com (hereinafter: “the website”) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
2. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
3. What are scripts?
A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.
4. What is a web beacon?
A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
5. Cookies
5.1 Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.
5.2 Statistics cookies
We use statistics cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. With these statistics cookies we get insights in the usage of our website. We ask your permission to place statistics cookies.
5.3 Marketing/Tracking cookies
Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
6. Cookies we place
Analytics and marketing cookies are placed only if you choose Accept in the cookie banner. If you choose Decline, none of the cookies below are set. No analytics or marketing cookies are placed before you make a choice.
Google Analytics (via Google Tag Manager)
Statistics. Helps us understand how visitors find and use the site so we can improve it. Loaded only after you accept. See Google's privacy information.
- _ga · 2 years · distinguishes individual visitors.
- _ga_F6GF9RK747 · 2 years · keeps Google Analytics 4 session state.
Google Tag Manager itself sets no cookies; it only loads the tags above.
HubSpot
Analytics and marketing. Recognises returning visitors and measures engagement. Loaded only after you accept. See HubSpot's privacy policy.
- __hstc · 6 months · main tracking cookie (visitor and session identifiers and timestamps).
- hubspotutk · 6 months · identifies a visitor across pages and form submissions.
- __hssc · 30 minutes · tracks the current session.
- __hssrc · session · records whether the visitor restarted their browser.
Google Fonts
Functional. The site loads its typefaces from Google Fonts. No cookies are set, but your IP address is processed by Google to deliver the fonts. See Google's privacy information.
Your cookie choice
Your Accept or Decline choice is stored in your browser's local storage under the name ssd-consent. This is not a cookie, is never sent to us, and is removed when you clear your browser data.
7. Consent and changing your choice
When you visit the site for the first time we show a banner explaining that we use cookies. Analytics and marketing cookies are set only if you choose Accept. If you choose Decline, only your choice is remembered and nothing else is stored. You can change your mind at any time using the cookie settings link, or by clearing this site's data in your browser.
8. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.
Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.
9. Your rights with respect to personal data
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
- Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
- Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
- If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
- Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
- Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.
To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)).
10. Contact details
For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:
Shipshape Data
7 Bell Yard, London, WC2A 2JR
United Kingdom
Website: https://shipshapedata.com
Email: hello@shipshapedata.com