Effective: August 2026

This Cookie Policy explains how Ertas & Öztürk GbR, operating under the brand GB Coaching (“GB Coaching”, “we”, “us”, “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies on our website.

This Cookie Policy should be read together with our Privacy Policy, which provides further information about how we process personal data.

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of data that websites store on your device when you visit them.

Cookies and similar technologies can be used to enable essential website functionality, remember preferences, maintain account sessions, understand how visitors interact with a website and improve website performance.

Similar technologies may include local storage and other technologies that store or access information on your device.

2. How We Use Cookies

Our website is hosted and operated through Squarespace.

Squarespace uses cookies and similar technologies to provide and secure the website and, where permitted, to provide analytics about how visitors interact with it.

We currently use the following categories of cookies:

Necessary Cookies

Necessary cookies are required for the website and its core features to function correctly.

These may be used for purposes including:

  • website security;

  • customer accounts and authentication;

  • maintaining login sessions;

  • shopping cart and checkout functionality;

  • remembering certain website preferences; and

  • storing your cookie-consent choices.

Necessary cookies cannot generally be disabled through our cookie-consent settings because the website or relevant functionality may not operate correctly without them.

Analytics & Performance Cookies

Squarespace may use analytics and performance cookies to help us understand how visitors use our website.

These cookies may provide information such as:

  • visits and page views;

  • unique visitors;

  • traffic sources;

  • pages visited;

  • website interactions; and

  • other information about website usage and performance.

Where consent is legally required, analytics and performance cookies will only be used after you have provided your consent through our cookie banner.

You can decline these cookies without preventing access to the essential functions of the GB Coaching website.

3. Cookies Currently Used by Squarespace

The specific cookies placed by Squarespace may vary depending on the website features you use.

Necessary cookies and similar technologies relevant to our website may include cookies used for customer accounts, authentication, checkout, website preferences and recording cookie-consent choices.

Squarespace analytics and performance cookies may include:

  • ss_cid – used to identify unique visitors and track visitor sessions;

  • ss_cpvisit – used to identify unique visitors and track visitor sessions;

  • ss_cvisit – used to track visitor sessions;

  • ss_cvr – used to identify unique visitors and track visitor sessions; and

  • ss_cvt – used to track visitor sessions.

Squarespace may update the cookies used by its platform as its services and functionality develop.

Further information about Squarespace cookies, including their purpose and duration, is available through Squarespace's documentation.

4. Cookie Duration

Cookies may be either session-based or persistent.

Session cookies generally expire when you close your browser.

Persistent cookies remain on your device for a defined period or until you delete them.

The duration of Squarespace cookies varies depending on their purpose. Some analytics cookies may remain on your device for up to two years, while others expire after a shorter period or at the end of your browsing session.

5. Managing Your Cookie Preferences

When you visit our website, you can use our cookie banner to manage your preferences for non-essential cookies.

You can:

  • accept non-essential cookies;

  • decline non-essential cookies; or

  • manage your cookie preferences where this option is provided.

You can change or withdraw your consent at any time using the cookie-preference controls available on our website.

Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of any processing that occurred before your consent was withdrawn.

You can also manage or delete cookies through your browser settings. Please note that blocking necessary cookies through your browser may affect the functionality of the website, including account or login features.

6. Third-Party Services

Our website uses Squarespace as its website, membership and digital-content platform.

Payment functionality is provided through Stripe. When you proceed to payment or interact with payment functionality, Stripe may use technologies necessary to securely process transactions, prevent fraud and provide its services.

Further information about how Squarespace and Stripe process personal data is available in our Privacy Policy and in the respective providers' privacy and cookie information.

We do not currently use Meta Pixel or Google Analytics on the GB Coaching website.

If we introduce additional analytics, advertising or tracking technologies in the future, we will update this Cookie Policy and our consent mechanisms where required before using those technologies.

7. Legal Basis

Necessary cookies and similar technologies are used where they are required to provide the website or digital service requested by you, maintain security or enable essential functionality.

Where consent is required for non-essential cookies or similar technologies, we use them only after obtaining your consent.

Where personal data is subsequently processed using information obtained through cookies or similar technologies, the applicable legal basis is described in our Privacy Policy.

8. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy if the technologies used by our website change or if legal or regulatory requirements develop.

The current version and effective date will be published on our website.

Where required, we will request new consent before introducing additional non-essential tracking technologies.

9. Contact

For questions about our use of cookies or this Cookie Policy, please contact:

Ertas & Öztürk GbR
operating under the brand GB Coaching

Isländische Straße 13
10439 Berlin
Germany

Email: gbcoaching.fit@gmail.com