Cookie Policy
Last updated: 3 October 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how JEREMY WEST DESIGN, UNIPESSOAL LDA, trading as Melides Design (“Melides Design”, “we”, “us” or “our”), uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit www.melidesdesign.com (the “Website”).
This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which provides further information about how we collect, use and protect personal data.
1. Who We Are
The Website is operated by:
JEREMY WEST DESIGN, UNIPESSOAL LDA
Trading as Melides Design
NIPC: 519655540
Villa O
Pinheiro da Chave
Melides 7570-704
Portugal
Email: melidesdesign@gmail.com
2. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files or pieces of data that are stored on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies perform various functions. For example, they can enable a website to operate correctly and securely, remember preferences and help website operators understand how visitors interact with their websites.
Similar technologies, including local storage, pixels and tags, may perform comparable functions. References to “cookies” in this policy include these similar technologies where appropriate.
3. How We Use Cookies
Our Website is built and hosted using Squarespace.
Squarespace uses certain cookies and similar technologies to operate and secure the Website and, where permitted, to provide analytics and performance information.
We may use cookies for the following purposes:
Necessary cookies
These cookies are required for the Website to function properly and securely. They may support functions such as website navigation, security and the operation of the Website. Because these cookies are necessary to provide the Website, they cannot generally be disabled through our cookie consent settings.
Analytics and performance cookies
These cookies help us understand how visitors use the Website, including which pages are visited, how visitors navigate the Website and how visitors arrive at it. We use this information to understand Website traffic and improve the Website and our services.
Where consent is legally required, analytics and performance cookies will only be used after you have provided your consent.
Functional cookies
Certain Website features or third-party services may use cookies to provide additional functionality or remember choices you make.
Third-party cookies
Some features or content incorporated into the Website may be provided by third parties. Depending on the services used, these providers may place their own cookies or use similar technologies.
Where required by law, non-essential third-party cookies will only be activated after you have provided your consent.
4. Squarespace Cookies
Squarespace, our Website platform and hosting provider, uses cookies to operate the Website and may use analytics and performance cookies to provide information about Website traffic and activity.
Squarespace cookies may include cookies used to:
securely provide the Website;
recognise Website visitors;
identify Website sessions;
understand Website traffic;
measure Website performance; and
provide Website analytics.
The particular cookies used by Squarespace can change as its services and technology evolve.
Squarespace maintains information about the cookies used by its platform on its website.
5. Analytics
We may use Squarespace Analytics to understand Website traffic and activity.
Depending on your cookie preferences, analytics information may include information about:
your browser, network and device;
pages you visit;
the page or website that referred you to our Website;
clicks and internal links;
scrolling;
searches;
timestamps; and
other interactions with the Website.
Where analytics cookies require consent, we will not use those cookies until you have provided your consent through our cookie banner or cookie preference controls.
6. Cookies Used by Squarespace Analytics
Where Squarespace Analytics cookies are enabled with your consent, Squarespace currently identifies analytics and performance cookies including:
ss_cid — used to identify unique visitors and track visitor sessions. Typical duration: two years.
ss_cpvisit — used to identify unique visitors and track visitor sessions. Typical duration: two years.
ss_cvisit — used to identify unique visitors and track visitor sessions. Typical duration: 30 minutes.
ss_cvr — used to identify unique visitors and track visitor sessions. Typical duration: two years.
ss_cvt — used to identify unique visitors and track visitor sessions. Typical duration: 30 minutes.
Squarespace may change the cookies it uses from time to time. For the most current information about Squarespace cookies, please refer to Squarespace's own cookie documentation.
7. Legal Basis for Using Cookies
Cookies that are strictly necessary for the operation and security of the Website may be used without consent where permitted by applicable law.
For non-essential cookies, including analytics, performance and certain third-party cookies, we rely on your consent where consent is required by applicable law.
You are free to accept or reject non-essential cookies, and refusing non-essential cookies will not prevent you from accessing the basic functionality of our Website.
8. Managing Your Cookie Preferences
When you first visit our Website, you may be presented with a cookie banner allowing you to make choices about non-essential cookies.
Depending on the available controls, you may be able to:
accept cookies;
decline non-essential cookies; or
manage your cookie preferences.
You may change or withdraw your consent at any time using the cookie preference control available on the Website.
Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that took place before you withdrew your consent.
9. Browser Controls
Most web browsers also allow you to control cookies through their settings.
Depending on your browser, you may be able to block cookies, delete existing cookies, receive notifications when cookies are being set or configure different cookie preferences for different websites.
Please note that blocking necessary cookies through your browser may cause parts of the Website to function incorrectly.
10. Third-Party Services
Our Website may contain content or functionality supplied by third parties, such as embedded maps, video, social-media content or other external services.
These third parties may use cookies or similar technologies when you interact with their content.
Where we add third-party services that use non-essential cookies or similar tracking technologies, we will take appropriate steps to obtain consent where required by applicable law.
Third-party providers process information according to their own privacy and cookie policies, and we encourage you to review those policies where appropriate.
11. International Data Transfers
Squarespace and other service providers may process information collected through cookies outside Portugal or the European Economic Area (“EEA”).
Where personal data is transferred outside the EEA, appropriate safeguards will be used where required by applicable data protection law. Further information about international data transfers is available in our Privacy Policy.
12. Your Data Protection Rights
Where information collected through cookies constitutes personal data, you may have rights under applicable data protection law, including rights to access, correct or erase your personal data, restrict or object to certain processing, withdraw consent and lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority.
Further information about these rights and how to exercise them is provided in our Privacy Policy.
13. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the cookies used by the Website, our service providers, our Website functionality or applicable legal requirements.
When we make changes, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this policy.
14. Contact Us
If you have questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact:
JEREMY WEST DESIGN, UNIPESSOAL LDA
Trading as Melides Design
NIPC: 519655540
Villa O
Pinheiro da Chave
Melides 7570-704
Portugal
Email: melidesdesign@gmail.com