Cookie Policy

Last updated: 12th June 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how The Lantern Community uses cookies and similar technologies on our website.

It should be read alongside our Privacy Notice, which explains how we collect, use and protect personal information.

1. Who we are

The Lantern Community is a registered charity and company limited by guarantee.

Charity number: 1075845
Company number: 3773749
Registered office: The Lantern Centre, Folly Farm Lane, Ashley, Ringwood, Hampshire, BH24 2NN

If you have any questions about this Cookie Policy, please contact us:

Email: info@lanterncommunity.org.uk
Telephone: 01425 460201

2. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device when you visit a website. They help websites work properly, remember choices you have made and understand how visitors use the site.

Similar technologies may include pixels, tags, local storage, scripts or other tools that store or access information on your device.

3. How we use cookies

We use cookies and similar technologies to:

  • Keep our website secure and working properly

  • Remember your cookie preferences

  • Improve your browsing experience

  • Understand how visitors use our website

  • Help us improve the content, structure and performance of the site

Some cookies are essential for the website to work. Others are optional and will only be used where consent is required and has been given.

4. Types of cookies we use

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are required for the website to function correctly. They support core features such as security, page loading, website navigation and remembering your cookie preferences.

Strictly necessary cookies cannot be switched off through our cookie banner because they are needed to provide the website.

Performance and analytics cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors use our website. For example, they may show us which pages are visited, how people move around the site and whether visitors experience errors.

This information helps us improve the website and make it easier for people to find useful information about The Lantern Community.

Performance and analytics cookies are optional and can be accepted or declined through our cookie banner.

Advertising cookies

Our cookie settings may show an “Advertising” category. We do not currently use advertising cookies unless this is clearly enabled on the website and you have given consent.

If advertising cookies are used in future, they may help show relevant content, measure the effectiveness of campaigns or understand how people interact with adverts or promoted content.

Advertising cookies are optional and can be accepted or declined through our cookie banner.

Third-party cookies

Some parts of our website may use services provided by third parties. These services may set their own cookies or similar technologies.

This may include services such as:

  • Squarespace, which hosts and operates our website

  • Donation or payment platforms

  • Embedded maps

  • Embedded videos

  • Social media links or embedded content

  • Website analytics tools

Third-party providers are responsible for their own cookies and privacy practices. We recommend checking their privacy and cookie information if you interact with their services.

5. Squarespace cookies

Our website is built and hosted using Squarespace.

Squarespace may use cookies and similar technologies to securely serve the website, provide core functionality, measure website performance and support visitor preferences.

Some Squarespace cookies are necessary and always used. Other Squarespace cookies, such as analytics cookies, may depend on your cookie choices.

6. Managing your cookie choices

When you first visit our website, you will see a cookie banner. You can choose to:

  • Accept all cookies

  • Decline non-essential cookies

  • Manage your cookie preferences

If you choose “Decline non-essential”, only strictly necessary cookies will continue to be used.

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by reopening the cookie settings on our website.

You can also control cookies through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block or delete cookies. Please note that blocking strictly necessary cookies may affect how the website works.

7. Changes to this Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time, for example if we change the cookies or third-party services used on our website.

The latest version will be published on this page with the date it was last updated.