Create your own privacy policy using these example messages.

Posting a privacy policy helps visitors understand how your site collects visitor data. Depending on where you or your visitors live, you may be required to disclose this information. These are sample messages you can mix and match to build your own policy depending on how you use Squarespace.

How to use this guide

The sample messages in this guide are for information purposes only and don't constitute legal advice. We recommend working with a legal expert for specific guidance about your website or business, and to understand your local regulations regarding data privacy.

To learn how to add this information to your site, visit Sharing terms and policies on your site.

Before you begin

• All Squarespace sites use visitor data to work correctly. Learn about how your site uses cookies and visitor data.
• If your site uses third-party services through connected accounts or code-based integrations, check with those platforms to review how they manage visitor data. For example:
  • If you embed a Google Map or Vimeo video, your website may be sharing information about your visitors with those third-party services.
  • If you add a Facebook Like button, your website may share information about your visitors with Facebook.
  • If you connect a payment processor, your online store may share information about your visitors with the payment processor. 
• Consider adding a cookie banner to inform visitors about your cookies and prevent non-essential cookies from being placed until after visitors have acknowledged the banner.
• Some of these topics may not apply to your site, and these sample messages may not be complete and accurate for your needs.

Analytics

This message is about the data your site collects to power Squarespace analytics. This only addresses Squarespace analytics and may not cover any third-party analytics tools you've added to your site.

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

• Information about your browser, network, and device
• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
• Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

• Clicks
• Internal links
• Pages visited
• Scrolling
• Searches
• Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies

Use this message to let visitors know how your site uses cookies. This only addresses Squarespace cookies and may not cover any third-party cookies you may have enabled on your site. Depending on how you set your cookie banner, this text may vary.

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

• These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
• These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Visitor data

For customers

Use this message to explain what data your site collects to fulfill orders. This is only relevant to you if you sell products and manage orders on your site.

When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. We may collect information like your:

• Billing and shipping address
• Details relating to your purchase (for example, your shirt size)
• Email address
• Name
• Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

Our payment processor(s) [payment processor name(s)] will also collect payment information from you. You can read their privacy policy at [payment processor privacy policy URL].

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

For form block submissions

Use this message to explain what data your site collects when you use form blocks. You can store form block data in different places, so customize the bolded text in this sample message to match your form block storage method(s). This is only relevant to you if you use form blocks on your site.

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with [storage method(s)] for storage and [with Zapier for data porting].

For member site subscribers

Use this message to inform customers of the information your site collects when they buy a membership. This is only relevant to you if you enabled Member Sites.

When you subscribe and purchase a membership on this website, we collect personal information from you to enable your member sites access. We may collect information like your:

• Billing and shipping address
• Details relating to your subscription
• Email address
• Name
• Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so that they can provide exclusive member site hosting services to us.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

For website visitors

Use this message to explain the data your site collects to serve the website to visitors.

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

• Information about your browser, network and device
• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
• Web pages you view while on this website
• Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

For use of share buttons

Use this message to explain the data your site may collect as part of share button functionality. This is only relevant to you if you’ve enabled share buttons.

This website includes share buttons which enable you to share pages or other content from this site to the following third party services: [LIST SERVICES]. If you click a share button, these third parties may receive your personal data, including:

• Information about your browser, network and device
• Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share
• Your IP address

For use of blog comments

Use this message to explain the data your site may collect as part of blog commenting and Simple Likes functionality. This is only relevant to you if you’ve enabled comments and/or Simple Likes.

This website includes commenting functionality on some pages which enables you to post a comment. This website collects personal data when you post a comment, including:

• Your name (which will be displayed as part of your posted comment)
• Your email address (optional, to let you know if someone replies to your comment)
• Your website URL (optional)

This website includes “likes” functionality on some blog posts which enables you to “like” a post. This website collects personal data when you like a post to try to prevent the same person from liking the same post during the same visit, including:

• Information about your browser, network and device
• Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share
• Your IP address

Customer accounts

Use this message to list the data your site collects to power a customer's account. This is only relevant to you if you've enabled customer accounts.

If you create a customer account on this website, we collect personal information to improve our checkout experience and customer service.

This information may include your:

• Billing and shipping address(es)
• Details about your orders (for example, your shirt size)
• Email address
• Name
• Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can provide website services to us.

Emails

Abandoned cart emails

Use this message to inform customers of when they'll receive abandoned cart notifications and how to unsubscribe from them. Abandoned checkout recovery is available on the Commerce Advanced plan.

You’ll receive an automated email within 24 hours after you abandon your shopping cart, if all of the following occur:

1. You enter your email address at checkout, or are logged into your customer account.
2. You add a product which is in stock to your shopping cart.
3. You close your browser or leave this website without completing your purchase.

You can unsubscribe from these messages at the bottom of the email.

The email will link back to this website, where you can pick up where you left off and complete your purchase.

Marketing emails

Use this message to notify visitors of your Squarespace Email Campaigns. If you use Mailchimp for email marketing, refer to them for help creating this section of your policy.

We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

Order and account emails

Use this message to inform customers of the emails they might receive from your online store.

We may email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that:

• You’ve created a customer account
• Your customer account password has been reset or updated
• You’ve made a purchase
• Your order has shipped

It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages.

We share your contact information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.

Fonts

Use this message to explain to customers how your site uses their information to display fonts to them.

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

• Information about your browser, network, or device

• Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

• Your IP address

Scheduling

Use this message to explain what data your site collects when you use Acuity Scheduling.

When you schedule an appointment by booking on this website, we collect personal information from you to complete the booking. We may collect information like your:

• Name
• Email address
• Phone number
• Details relating to your appointment (for example, who referred you)
• Files you uploaded

We share this information with Squarespace, our scheduling service provider, so that they can provide online booking services to us.

Squarespace Payments

Use this message to explain what data your site collects and how Squarespace and our partners use that data when you use Squarespace Payments.

When you make a purchase from us on this website, we use Squarespace Payments as our payment solution. Squarespace Payments is a fully integrated, native payment solution provided to us by our online store service provider Squarespace. Squarespace Payments makes use of the following third party service providers which will also receive your personal information and process it in accordance with their privacy policies:

• Stripe - payment processing services. You can read Stripe’s privacy policy at https://stripe.com/privacy.
• Sift - fraud monitoring and detection services. You can read Sift’s privacy policy at https://sift.com/service-privacy.

Next steps

After you create your privacy policy, display it on your site. Visit Sharing terms and policies on your site to learn about different ways you can publish your policy.