COOKIE POLICY
Cookie Policy
Last Updated: July 27, 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Midlife Accent (“we,” “us,” or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit https://midlifeaccent.com (the “Site”).
This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files stored on your browser or device when you visit a website. They can help websites operate securely, remember preferences, maintain shopping carts, measure traffic, and understand how visitors interact with content.
We may also use similar technologies, including pixels, tags, local storage, session storage, and software identifiers. In this policy, we refer to these technologies collectively as “cookies.”
2. First-Party and Third-Party Cookies
First-party cookies are placed through Midlife Accent or our website platform and generally help the Site function, remember choices, or measure activity.
Third-party cookies are placed or controlled by outside service providers, such as analytics, embedded-content, payment, email, social-media, or affiliate partners.
Third parties process information according to their own privacy and cookie policies.
3. Cookie Categories We Use
Necessary Cookies
Necessary cookies support security and essential Site functions, including:
Remembering cookie-consent choices
Preventing fraudulent or malicious requests
Maintaining shopping carts and checkout sessions
Supporting customer accounts
Preventing redirect errors
Remembering essential Site settings
Necessary cookies cannot always be disabled through our cookie banner because the Site may not function correctly without them.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand:
How visitors find the Site
Which pages and articles receive traffic
How visitors move through the Site
General browser and device information
Referral sources
Approximate geographic regions
Site performance and technical errors
Engagement with forms, buttons, products, and content
We use Squarespace Analytics and Google Analytics for these purposes. Analytics cookies are treated as nonessential and are restricted through our Squarespace consent settings until the visitor makes an applicable choice.
Functional Cookies and Local Storage
Functional technologies may remember preferences involving:
Announcement bars
Promotional pop-ups
Video-player settings
Blog likes
Form activity
Customer-account preferences
Other optional Site features
Some preferences may be stored through local storage rather than traditional browser cookies.
Marketing and Social-Media Technologies
The Site may use Pinterest-related integrations or similar social-media technology to understand content engagement, measure referrals, or support sharing features.
Marketing or social-media technologies may collect browser, device, referral, interaction, and online-identifier information. Where supported by our consent controls, these technologies are restricted until consent is provided.
If we add Meta Pixel, Google Ads, Pinterest Tag, Amazon OneTag, or another advertising or conversion-measurement service, we will update this policy and our consent settings as appropriate.
4. Squarespace Cookies
Midlife Accent is hosted through Squarespace. The exact cookies Squarespace places depend on the features visitors use.
Representative necessary Squarespace cookies may include:
Cookie or storage itemPurposeTypical durationCrumbHelps prevent cross-site request-forgery attacksSessionCARTRemembers when a product is added to the shopping cartTwo weekshasCartIndicates that a visitor has a shopping cartTwo weeksRecentRedirectHelps prevent redirect loops30 minutessiteUserCrumbSupports security for logged-in customersUp to three yearsSiteUserInfoIdentifies a visitor logged into a customer accountUp to three yearsSiteUserSecureAuthTokenAuthenticates a customer-account sessionUp to three yearsss_performancecookiesAllowedRemembers analytics and performance-cookie consent30 daysss_marketingcookiesAllowedRemembers marketing-cookie consent30 days
Only cookies relevant to the Site features a visitor uses may be placed.
Squarespace Analytics may use:
CookiePurposeTypical durationss_cidIdentifies unique visitors and Site sessionsTwo yearsss_cpvisitIdentifies unique visitors and Site sessionsTwo yearsss_cvisitMeasures a visitor session30 minutesss_cvrIdentifies unique visitors and Site sessionsTwo yearsss_cvtMeasures a visitor session30 minutes
Squarespace may change its cookies, names, purposes, or durations as its services evolve. Current information is available through the Squarespace cookie guide.
5. Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to understand how visitors find and use Midlife Accent.
Google Analytics may process information such as:
Browser and device type
Pages viewed
Time and interactions on the Site
Referral source
Approximate geographic location derived from an IP address
Cookie and device identifiers
Google states that Google Analytics does not log or store individual IP addresses.
Google Analytics 4 commonly uses:
CookiePurposeDefault duration_gaDistinguishes visitorsTwo years_ga_<container-id>Maintains session informationTwo years
Browser restrictions, consent choices, and our Google Analytics settings may shorten these durations.
Learn more about Google Analytics cookies and how Google uses information from partner websites.
6. Newsletter Forms and Email Tracking
Midlife Accent uses MailerLite to manage newsletter subscriptions and send email communications.
MailerLite forms or related services may use cookies or similar technologies to operate forms, prevent abuse, remember submission activity, and measure performance.
Emails may contain tracking pixels that indicate whether an email was delivered, opened, or clicked. This information helps us understand newsletter performance and improve future communications.
Subscribers may unsubscribe through the link included in marketing emails. MailerLite processes information according to its own privacy and cookie practices.
7. Affiliate Links and Third-Party Retailers
Some Site content contains affiliate links to Amazon, Etsy sellers, Momentous, and other retailers or brands.
When you click an affiliate link, the destination retailer or affiliate network may place its own cookies or identifiers to:
Recognize that you arrived through Midlife Accent
Attribute a qualifying purchase
Measure traffic or conversions
Prevent fraud
Apply the retailer’s Site preferences
These cookies are controlled by the third party, not Midlife Accent. Their use is governed by the destination website’s privacy and cookie policies.
8. Embedded Content and External Services
Articles may include content or features supplied by third parties, such as videos, social-media elements, forms, payment services, or embedded tools.
Those providers may place cookies or collect information when the content loads or when you interact with it. Some embedded services may use their own consent process and may not be fully controlled by the Squarespace cookie banner.
9. Your Cookie Choices
When you first visit Midlife Accent, our cookie banner offers the following options:
Accept all — permits necessary and available optional cookies
Manage cookies — allows you to select cookie categories
Decline all — rejects nonessential cookies
Our Squarespace settings restrict nonessential cookies until the visitor makes an applicable choice.
You may review or change your preferences later by selecting the Cookie Preferences control displayed on the Site.
Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn. Previously stored cookies may remain on your device until they expire or are deleted.
10. Browser and Device Controls
Most browsers allow you to view, block, or delete cookies through their privacy settings.
Blocking all cookies may affect shopping carts, logins, forms, saved preferences, videos, or other Site functions.
Browser documentation is available from:
Visitors may also use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, where available.
11. Cookie Duration
Some cookies expire when you close your browser. Others remain for a defined period or until you delete them.
Cookie duration depends on the purpose, Site feature, provider settings, browser restrictions, and whether you revisit the Site. The tables above describe typical—not guaranteed—durations.
12. International Processing
Some service providers may process or store information in the United States or other countries that may have different privacy protections from the visitor’s location.
Where required, service providers may rely on contractual or other recognized safeguards for international data transfers. Additional information appears in our Privacy Policy and in the providers’ privacy notices.
13. Do Not Track and Privacy Signals
Some browsers offer “Do Not Track,” Global Privacy Control, or similar signals. The way websites and service providers respond to these signals is not uniform.
We honor cookie choices submitted through our Site’s consent tools and will respond to legally recognized privacy signals when required by applicable law and supported by our technology.
14. Changes to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy when our Site features, service providers, cookies, technology, or legal obligations change.
The revised version will appear on this page with an updated date. We recommend reviewing this policy periodically.
15. Contact Us
Questions about this Cookie Policy may be sent to:
Midlife Accent
Email: hello@midlifeaccent.com
Website: https://midlifeaccent.com