We use cookies to help your site run effectively and provide the best experience for your visitors. This guide describes the cookies we place on visitors to your Squarespace site. This guide doesn’t cover the cookies Squarespace uses on visitors to our websites or users of our web or mobile apps.

For more information about our use of cookies, including cookies we use on squarespace.com and our web and mobile apps, visit our Cookie Policy and Privacy Policy.

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 because they allow visitors to navigate and use key features on your site. These cookies vary from site to site depending on the features it uses. For example, Functional and Required Cookies help these features work:

• Customer accounts
• Shopping cart and checkout
• URL redirects

Name	Type	Duration	Purpose
Crumb	Cookie	Session	Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF).
siteUserCrumb	Cookie	3 years	Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF) for logged in site users.
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 platform remain authenticated during their sessions.
Test	Cookie	Session	Investigates if the browser supports 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.
AWSALB, AWSALBCORS	Cookie	1 week	Load balancing
PHPSESSID	Cookie	1 month	Session tracking
remember_client	Cookie	365 days	Login by Scheduling Client (only if client has account)
_client_acloggedin	Cookie	January 1, 2025	Login by Scheduling Client (only if client has account)
_acloggedin	Cookie	January 1, 2025	Login by Scheduling Client (only if client has account)
TZ	localstorage	Persistent	To remember Scheduling Client's preferences for time zone to display potential schedule correctly
algoliasearch-client-js	localstorage	Persistent	To enable Scheduling Clients to enter an address and receive address suggestions so that address field is a structured data field and to make scheduling go quicker.

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.

You can disable Squarespace Analytics and Performance cookies at any time.

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

Disable Analytics and Performance Cookies

To stop Squarespace from placing these cookies on visitors’ browsers, you can disable Analytics and Performance cookies at any time:

1. In the Home Menu, click Settings, and then click Cookies & Visitor Data.
2. Check Disable Squarespace Analytics Cookies.
3. To also display a cookie banner, check Always, then check Enable Cookie Banner. (To learn more, visit Adding a cookie banner.)
4. Click Save.

You can also disable collecting these cookies from visitors until they accept your cookie policy in a cookie banner.

How disabling cookies changes what you see in Analytics

After you disable Analytics cookies, some data in Squarespace Analytics won’t be a complete or accurate representation of visitor behavior.

Each pageview event will count like it’s from a new visitor each time. As a result, visits and unique visitors might appear much higher than normal. Each pageview will count as its own visit, when in reality, one visitor might view multiple pages. So, it might look like you have more visitors than you actually have in panels like:

• Traffic
• Sales

Another effect of disabling cookies is that clicks, order conversion rates, and referrer attributions in panels like Traffic Sources and Form & Button Conversions won’t be accurate. This is because disabling cookies prevents Analytics from connecting consecutive visitor events in the same session.

Additionally, if someone visited your site before you disabled cookies and returns when cookies are disabled, that person will count as a new visitor, since we’ll ignore those cookies and attempt to remove them to follow your decision.

Check your cookies

For the most common browsers, you can:

• See which cookies are active in your browser’s settings.
• Clear cookies from your browser or device, either globally or from a specific website.

For help locating cookies on your device, visit your browser's documentation: 

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Safari
• Internet Explorer

Add a cookie banner

Certain laws may require website owners to inform their visitors of cookies and ask for visitors’ consent to use them. To learn how to add a notice to your site, visit Adding a cookie banner.