Last updated: 16 September 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how State + Sound uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit our website.

State + Sound is operated by TAYTULA BURKE, a sole trader trading as State + Sound.

For more information about how personal information is handled, please see our Privacy Policy.

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small files that websites can store on your device when you visit them. They can help a website function correctly, remember choices and understand how the website is being used.

Similar technologies, including pixels, local storage, scripts and tags, can perform comparable functions. UK rules apply to these technologies as well as traditional cookies.

For simplicity, this policy refers to these technologies collectively as “cookies”.

2. How State + Sound uses cookies

The State + Sound website may use the following categories of cookies:

Essential cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website and requested services to function.

They may be used for purposes such as:

• website security;

• navigation and page functionality;

• remembering privacy or cookie preferences;

• appointment booking functionality;

• checkout and payment functionality; and

• maintaining website sessions.

Some essential cookies do not require consent where they fall within an applicable exemption under UK law.

Analytics and performance cookies

These technologies may help us understand how visitors use the State + Sound website, such as which pages are visited and how people interact with the site.

This information can help us understand website performance and improve the experience for visitors.

Where consent is required for analytics or performance technologies, they will only be used after you have made the appropriate choice through our cookie controls.

Functional cookies

Functional technologies may remember choices you make or enable additional website features.

Where these technologies are not essential to a service you have requested and an exemption does not otherwise apply, they will only be used where permitted by law, including obtaining consent where required.

Marketing cookies

If State + Sound introduces advertising, remarketing, tracking pixels or similar marketing technologies, these may be used to understand the effectiveness of advertising or provide more relevant marketing.

Where consent is required, these technologies will not be activated until you choose to accept them.

3. Third-party services

Our website and services use technology provided by third parties, which may set or access cookies or similar technologies when their features are used.

These providers may include:

Squarespace — website hosting, functionality and analytics.

Acuity Scheduling — appointment scheduling and booking functionality.

Stripe — secure payment and checkout functionality.

Kit — email subscription and marketing functionality.

Other services linked from the website, such as Zoom, may use cookies when you visit their own websites or services. Their use of cookies is governed by their own privacy and cookie information.

Third-party technologies may change over time as providers update their services.

4. Your choices

When you first visit the State + Sound website, you may be given the opportunity to choose which non-essential cookies or similar technologies you allow.

Where consent is required, non-essential technologies will not be used until the required consent has been given.

You can reject non-essential cookies without losing access to the main website.

Where available, you can change your cookie preferences using the website's cookie settings.

Consent must be as easy to withdraw as it is to give, according to current ICO guidance.

You can also control and delete cookies through your web browser. Most browsers allow you to block cookies, delete existing cookies or change how websites are permitted to use them.

Blocking essential cookies may affect how some parts of the website function.

5. How long cookies remain on your device

Some cookies are session cookies, meaning they expire when you close your browser.

Others are persistent cookies and remain on your device for a defined period or until they are deleted.

The duration depends on the particular technology and its purpose.

Where our cookie management tool provides details of individual cookies, you can use those controls to view further information about their purpose and duration.

6. Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy if our website, technology providers or use of cookies changes.

The latest version will always be published on this page and the date at the top will be updated.

7. Contact

If you have questions about our use of cookies or your personal information, contact:

State + Sound
hello@stateandsound.co.uk