Privacy policy – The Captain Darling
Your privacy is very important to us.
THE CAPTAIN DARLING IS LOCATED AT:
16–18 Hamilton Place
Edinburgh
EH3 5AU
hellodarling@thecaptaindarling.com
It is The Captain Darling’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://www.thecaptaindarling.com (hereinafter, "us", "we", or "https://www.thecaptaindarling.com"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting the personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website.
We have adopted this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and Conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, The Captain Darling collects non-personally identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The Captain Darling’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how visitors use our website. From time to time, we may release non-personally identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in website usage.
The Captain Darling also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged-in users and for users leaving comments on https://www.thecaptaindarling.com blog posts. The Captain Darling only discloses logged-in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
Squarespace Hosting
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
Your IP address
Squarespace needs this data to run this website and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyses the data in a personalised form.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to The Captain Darling’s website choose to interact with us in ways that require us to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information we collect depend on the nature of the interaction. For example, we may ask visitors who sign up for our mailing list or make an enquiry via https://www.thecaptaindarling.com to provide a name and email address to communicate with you, including sending you updates, event announcements, or responding to enquiries.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Links to External Sites
Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites, products, or services.
Aggregated Statistics
The Captain Darling may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its website. The Captain Darling may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, we do not disclose your personally-identifying information.
Analytics
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
Like many other websites, we use cookies to help personalise your online experience.
A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server which allows the website to recognise you when you visit. Cookies only collect data about browsing actions and patterns and do not identify you as an individual.
We use cookies for the following purposes:
Authentication, personalisation, and security:
Cookies help us verify your account and device and determine when you log in, so we can make it easier for you to access the services and provide the appropriate experiences and features. We also use cookies to help prevent fraudulent use of login credentials.
Performance and analytics:
Cookies help us analyse how the services are being accessed and used and enable us to track the performance of the services. For example, we use cookies to determine if you viewed a page or opened an email. This helps us provide you with information that you find interesting. We also use cookies to provide insights regarding your site’s performance, such as page views, conversion rates, device information, visitor IP addresses, and referral sites.
Third Parties:
Third-party services may use cookies to help you sign into their services from our services. We may also use third-party cookies, such as Google Analytics, to assist with analysing performance. Any third-party cookie usage is governed by the privacy policy of the third party placing the cookie.
Opting Out:
You can set your browser not to accept cookies, but this may limit your ability to use the services.
Our Site may contain links to other websites. Please note that we have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them.
For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit the page about the cookies Squarespace uses.
These functional and required cookies are always used, which allows Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this site only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
Fonts
This website uses font files from Google Fonts and our custom fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:
Information about your browser, network, or device
Your IP address
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Captain Darling may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at The Captain Darling’s sole discretion.
We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 06/12/2026.