Use of Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. Cookies can improve your browsing experience because they help websites remember your preferences and understand how you use different features.
- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website because they allow you to navigate and use key features on the site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use, when they expire and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Functional & Required Cookies
| Cookie name | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Crumb | 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 | 30 minutes | Prevents redirect loops if site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO. |
| CART | 2 weeks | Shows when a visitor adds a product to their cart |
| hasCart | 2 weeks | Tells Squarespace that the visitor has a cart |
| Locked | Session | Prevents the password-protected screen from displaying if a visitor enters the correct site-wide password. |
| SiteUserInfo | 3 years | Identifies a visitor who logs into a customer account |
| SiteUserSecureAuthToken | 3 years | Authenticates a visitor who logs into a customer account |
| Commerce-checkout-state | Session | Stores state of checkout while the visitor is completing their order in PayPal |
| squarespace-popup-overlay | Persistent | Prevents the Promotional Pop-Up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it |
| squarespace-announcement-bar | Persistent | Prevents the Announcement Bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it |
Analytics & Performance Cookies
| 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 |
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You can see which cookies are active in your browser’s settings. For help, visit your browser’s documentation.
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.