Cookies
We use cookies to help your site run effectively and provide the best experience for your visitors. In this guide, we’ll describe the cookies we place on your visitors’ browsers.
Functional and Required Cookies
We use some necessary cookies because they allow visitors to navigate and use key features on our site.
| Name | Type | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crumb | Cookie | Session | Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF). CSRF is an attack vector that tricks a browser into taking unwanted action in an application when someone's logged in. |
| RecentRedirect | Cookie | 30 minutes | Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO. |
| CART | Cookie | 2 weeks | Shows when a visitor adds a product to their cart |
| hasCart | Cookie | 2 weeks | Tells Squarespace that the visitor has a cart |
| Locked | Cookie | Session | Prevents the password-protected screen from displaying if a visitor enters the correct site-wide password. |
| SiteUserInfo | Cookie | 3 years | Identifies a visitor who logs into a customer account |
| SiteUserSecureAuthToken | Cookie | 3 years | Authenticates a visitor who logs into a customer account |
| Commerce-checkout-state | sessionstorage | Session | Stores state of checkout while the visitor is completing their order in PayPal |
| squarespace-popup-overlay | localstorage | Persistent | Prevents the Promotional Pop-Up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it |
| squarespace-announcement-bar | localstorage | Persistent | Prevents the Announcement Bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it |
| ss_sd | Cookie | Session | Ensures that visitors on the Squarespace 5 platformremain authenticated during their sessions. |
| Test | Cookie | Session | Investigates if the browsersupports cookies and prevents errors. |
| squarespace-likes | localstorage | Persistent | Shows when you've already "liked" a blog post. |
| CHECKOUT_WEBSITE | Cookie | Session | Identifies the correct site for checkout when Checkout on Your Domain is disabled. |
Analytics and Performance Cookies
We use Analytics and Performance cookies to collect information about how visitors interact with your site. Storing these cookies is how we populate the data such as traffic sources, unique visitors, and cart abandonment.
| Cookie Name | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| ss_cid | 2 years | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a site |
| ss_cvr | 2 years | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a site |
| ss_cvisit | 30 minutes | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a site |
| ss_cvt | 30 minutes | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a site |
| ss_cpvisit | 2 years | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a site |
| ss_cookieAllowed | 30 days | Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing Analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies |
Cookies used for advertising
Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to your website or other websites.
Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can direct users to opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)
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