Cookie Policy
Last updated: 9 August 2026
This Cookie Policy explains how Paper & Flora (“Paper & Flora”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies when you visit paperandflora.com.
This policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which explains more broadly how we collect, use, and protect your personal data.
Paper & Flora is based in Ireland and sells products to customers worldwide.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer, smartphone, tablet, or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies can perform a variety of functions. For example, they can help a website operate correctly, remember certain preferences, maintain a shopping cart, support checkout and security features, and provide information about how visitors use a website.
Some cookies are set directly by the website you visit. These are commonly known as first-party cookies.
Other cookies may be set by third-party services used by a website. These are commonly known as third-party cookies.
Cookies may also be:
Session cookies, which generally expire when you close your browser; or
Persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a specified period or until you delete them.
2. How Paper & Flora Uses Cookies
Paper & Flora uses cookies and similar technologies to:
Operate and secure our website
Provide our online shopping functionality
Maintain shopping-cart and checkout functionality
Process purchases and payments
Remember certain website or cookie preferences
Understand how visitors use our website
Measure website traffic and performance
Identify technical issues
Improve our website and customer experience
Our website is built and hosted using Squarespace, and we also use Google Analytics to help us understand website usage.
3. Essential Cookies
Some cookies and similar technologies are necessary for paperandflora.com to function correctly.
These may be used for purposes such as:
Website security
Session management
Shopping-cart functionality
Checkout
Payment processing
Fraud prevention
Network management
Remembering certain essential preferences
Recording cookie-consent choices
Because these technologies are necessary to provide the website or a service you have requested, they may not require your consent where permitted by applicable law.
Blocking essential cookies through your browser may cause parts of our website or online shop to stop working correctly.
4. Squarespace Cookies
Paper & Flora is built and hosted using Squarespace.
Squarespace may use cookies and similar technologies in connection with the operation of our website and online shop.
Depending on the features being used, these technologies may support functions such as:
Website security
Website performance
Session management
Shopping-cart functionality
Checkout
Customer account functionality, where enabled
Payment functionality
Website preferences
Fraud prevention
Cookie-consent management
Analytics and website measurement
Some Squarespace technologies may be essential for the website to operate, while others may be considered non-essential depending on their purpose and configuration.
Where required by applicable law, non-essential technologies will be subject to the appropriate consent choices.
5. Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors find and use paperandflora.com.
Google Analytics may collect information about your interaction with our website, including information such as:
Pages viewed
Website interactions
Traffic and referral sources
Approximate geographic information
Device and browser information
Dates and times of visits
General website usage and performance information
This information helps us understand how our website is being used and identify ways to improve our website, products, and customer experience.
Google may process information collected through Google Analytics in accordance with its own privacy practices.
Because Google Analytics is not necessary for you to purchase products from Paper & Flora or use the essential functions of our website, we treat Google Analytics as a non-essential analytics technology where consent is required by applicable law.
Where consent is required, Google Analytics will only be activated after you have provided the appropriate consent through our cookie consent mechanism.
6. Analytics Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website.
For example, they may help us understand:
Which pages are visited most frequently
How visitors move through the website
How visitors arrive at the website
General visitor and device characteristics
Whether visitors encounter technical problems
How the website performs
We use this information to measure and improve the performance and usability of paperandflora.com.
Where required by applicable law, analytics cookies will only be used after you have provided your consent.
7. Payment and Checkout Technologies
Paper & Flora uses Squarespace Payments and associated payment infrastructure to process purchases through our online shop.
Payment and checkout providers may use cookies or similar technologies for purposes such as:
Processing transactions
Authenticating payment activity
Preventing fraud
Maintaining checkout security
Complying with legal and regulatory obligations
Some of these technologies may be strictly necessary to provide the payment or checkout service you request.
Payment service providers may process information according to their own privacy and cookie practices.
8. Email Marketing Technologies
Paper & Flora may in the future use an email marketing service provider to manage mailing lists and send marketing communications to people who have subscribed.
If we introduce email marketing, our emails or associated website features may use technologies that help us:
Manage subscriptions
Record consent and subscription preferences
Process unsubscribe requests
Understand whether marketing communications are opened or interacted with
Measure the performance of our communications
Where these activities involve cookies or similar non-essential technologies on our website, we will obtain consent where required by applicable law.
If we begin using an email marketing provider that materially changes how cookies or similar technologies are used on paperandflora.com, we may update this Cookie Policy accordingly.
9. Other Third-Party Technologies
From time to time, Paper & Flora may introduce additional website functionality or third-party services.
These services may use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, or similar technologies.
If we introduce technologies that require consent under applicable law, we will update our cookie-consent configuration as appropriate and may update this Cookie Policy.
We will not intentionally use the cookie banner to obtain consent for technologies that are not actually used on our website.
10. Your Cookie Choices
Where required by applicable law, you will be given a choice about whether to allow non-essential cookies and similar technologies.
When you first visit paperandflora.com, you may be presented with a cookie banner or consent mechanism that allows you to make choices about non-essential technologies.
Depending on the options available on our website, you may be able to:
Accept non-essential cookies
Reject non-essential cookies
Choose particular categories of cookies
Change or withdraw your consent later
Rejecting non-essential cookies should not prevent you from using the essential shopping functionality of our website, although certain optional features may be affected.
11. Withdrawing or Changing Your Consent
Where processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw or change that consent at any time.
You can do this using the cookie preferences or consent controls available on paperandflora.com, where provided.
Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that took place before consent was withdrawn.
You can also delete previously stored cookies through your browser settings.
12. Managing Cookies Through Your Browser
Most web browsers allow you to view, delete, or block cookies.
Depending on your browser, you may be able to:
Delete existing cookies
Block all cookies
Block third-party cookies
Prevent particular websites from storing cookies
Receive notifications when cookies are being set
Please note that blocking all cookies may affect the operation of paperandflora.com. In particular, certain shopping-cart, checkout, payment, security, or preference functionality may not work correctly if essential cookies are disabled.
Consult the help or privacy settings in your browser for instructions on managing cookies.
13. How Long Cookies Remain on Your Device
The length of time a cookie remains on your device depends on the type of cookie and the service that sets it.
Session cookies generally expire when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies may remain for a defined period or until you delete them manually.
Retention periods for third-party cookies may be determined by the relevant service provider and may change over time.
14. International Data Transfers
Some of the service providers used by Paper & Flora, including Squarespace and Google, may process information outside Ireland or the European Economic Area (“EEA”).
Where personal data is transferred outside the EEA and GDPR applies, appropriate safeguards will be used where required by applicable law.
Depending on the provider and destination, these safeguards may include an adequacy decision recognised by the European Commission, approved contractual protections such as Standard Contractual Clauses, or another legally recognised transfer mechanism.
For more information about international data transfers and how we handle personal data generally, please see our Privacy Policy.
15. Updates to This Cookie Policy
The cookies and technologies used on paperandflora.com may change as we update our website, add or remove features, change service providers, or modify our analytics or ecommerce configuration.
We may therefore update this Cookie Policy from time to time.
When we make changes, we will update the “Last updated” date at the top of this page.
Where required by law, we may also provide additional notice or request renewed consent for material changes.
16. Contact Us
If you have questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact:
Paper & Flora
Legal/business name: Paper & Flora
Email: hello@paperandflora.com
Address: 2 Clogher, The Headlands, Cork, Ireland
Website: paperandflora.com
For more information about how Paper & Flora collects, uses, stores, and shares personal data, please see our Privacy Policy.