Cookies.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of data that websites store on a device. Cookies can improve your visitors’ browsing experience because they help websites remember preferences and understand how people use different features.

 

Functional and required cookies.

Squarespace uses some necessary cookies so visitors can navigate and use key features on your site. These cookies vary from site to site depending on the features it uses.

  • • Supports login by Scheduling client if the client has an account

    • Cookie

    • January 1, 2025

  • • Supports login by Scheduling client if the client has an account

    • Cookie

    • January 1, 2025

  • • Adds auto-populated suggestions to address fields in Scheduling to help clients complete forms faster

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    • Persistent

  • • Shows when a visitor adds a product to their cart

    • Cookie

    • Two weeks

  • • Identifies the correct site for checkout when checkout on your domain is disabled

    • Cookie

    • Session

  • • Remembers a logged in Scheduling client's username between visits

    • Cookie

    • One year

  • • Stores state of checkout while the visitor is completing their order in PayPal

    • sessionstorage

    • Session

  • • Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF)

    • Cookie

    • Session

  • • Tells Squarespace that the visitor has a cart

    • Cookie

    • Two weeks

  • • Prevents the password-protected screen from displaying if a visitor enters the correct site-wide password.

    • Cookie

    • Session

  • • Securely authenticates a visitor during their checkout in Scheduling

    • Cookie

    • One month

  • • Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO.

    • Cookie

    • 30 minutes

  • • Remembers Scheduling client’s login details if they have an account

    • Cookie

    • 365 days

  • • Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF) for logged in site users

    • Cookie

    • Three years

  • • Identifies a visitor who logs into a customer account

    • Cookie

    • Three years

  • • Authenticates a visitor who logs into a customer account

    • Cookie

    • Three years

  • • Prevents the announcement bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it

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    • Persistent

  • • Shows when you've already "liked" a blog post

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    • Persistent

  • • Prevents the promotional pop-up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it

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    • Persistent

  • • Remembers video player selected preferences ( volume, playback speed, and quality) for videos uploaded directly to Squarespace

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    • Persistent

  • • Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies

    • Cookie

    • 30 days

  • • Ensures that visitors on the Squarespace 5 platform remain authenticated during their sessions

    • Cookie

    • Session

  • • Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors

    • Cookie

    • Session

  • • Enables a Scheduling client’s appointments to display correctly based on their time zone preferences.

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    • Persistent

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.

 

Analytics and performance cookies

We use analytics and performance cookies to collect information on your behalf about how visitors interact with your site. Storing these cookies is how we populate the data you find in Squarespace analytics, such as traffic sources, unique visitors, and cart abandonment.

  • Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site.

    Two Years

  • Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site.

    Two Years

  • Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site.

    30 Minutes

  • Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site.

    Two Years

  • Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site.

    30 Minutes