Last updated: 21 September 2026

1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files or similar technologies placed on your device when you visit a website. They help websites function, stay secure, remember your preferences and understand how visitors use them. This policy explains how www.belkywara.com (the "Website"), operated by Belky Wara, uses them. It should be read alongside our Privacy Policy, Refund Policy and Terms of Service.

2. Strictly necessary cookies
These are needed for the Website or a service you request to work, so they are used without consent. They cover:

• keeping the Website secure and preventing fraud;

• maintaining your session;

• customer accounts, login, and access to members-only or purchased content;

• shopping cart and checkout, including Squarespace Payments (processed by Stripe, with fraud monitoring by Sift); and

• remembering your cookie choices.

3. Analytics and performance cookies
These help us understand how the Website is used, including pages visited, clicks, scrolling, searches, timestamps, your IP address, device and browser information, and how you arrived. We use Squarespace analytics and Google Analytics. These cookies are only set after you accept them through our cookie banner.

4. Functional cookies
These remember preferences and support features you choose to use, such as customer accounts, member areas, and blog comment and "like" features (which help prevent the same visitor liking a post repeatedly).

5. Third-party services
Some features are provided by third parties who may set their own cookies or receive data such as your IP address and browser information:

• Squarespace hosts the Website and provides core functionality, security and analytics.

• Stripe and Sift process payments and detect fraud at checkout.

• Google provides address auto-complete at checkout (Google Places API), analytics, and fonts (Google Fonts).

• Adobe Fonts provides font files.

• Instagram and other social platforms may set cookies if we embed their content or you use a share button.

Their use of your information is governed by their own privacy and cookie policies. Where consent is legally required for a non-essential third-party technology, we will ask before it is activated.

6. Digital products, books and memberships
When you buy from us, cookies support your basket, checkout, account, order management and access to what you bought. These are strictly necessary. The checkout consent box for digital products (described in our Refund Policy) is a record of your choice, not a cookie.

7. Your choices
When you first visit, a cookie banner lets you accept or decline non-essential cookies. You can change or withdraw your choice at any time using the cookie settings link on the Website. Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that took place before. You can also delete or block cookies in your browser settings, though blocking necessary cookies may stop accounts, checkout or restricted content from working.

8. Changes
We may update this policy when we add features, products or providers, or when the law changes. We will update the "Last updated" date, and ask for fresh consent where required.

9. Contact
Belky Wara, hello@belkywara.com, www.belkywara.com