Privacy Policy
The Contented Bear is an advocate of protecting your privacy. We fully understand that you do not wish for the personal information you provide us with to be shared indiscriminately. Here we explain how and why we collect information and your choices regarding that information.
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal information 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. You can read more about how Squarespace uses your data (site usage information of end users) for its own purposes in their Privacy Policy.
Other information collected may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
We provide this information to Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
Payment Processing
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 provide this information to Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also provide this information to Royal Mail so we can ship your order to you. You can read their privacy policy at https://www.royalmail.com/privacy-notice.
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.
All Squarespace websites are protected with an SSL certificate. This creates a secure connection between our site and its visitors. Our checkout is always automatically protected with SSL. Payment details you provide will be encrypted using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) Technology before they are submitted to us over the internet.
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.
Cookies
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small pieces of information that are stored on a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. Cookies are not harmful to your device instead they are used to analyse the way you use the internet and can personalise websites to suit your preferences. For information about viewing the cookies placed 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.
Website Visitor Data
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal information 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. You can read more about how Squarespace uses your data (site usage information of end users) for its own purposes in their Privacy Policy.
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
Email Policy
We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We provide your contact information to Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf and help us manage our relationship with you.