What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of data that websites, or certain emails you open, store on a device. Cookies can improve your visitors’ browsing experience because they help websites remember preferences and understand how people use different features.
We appreciate some visitors to our site may like a more individual control over their visit to our website, and you can adjust your settings accordingly. If you do set your internet browser to reject cookies, it might affect your experience on the site.
Types of Cookies
We use a mix of Functional and Required cookies, together with Analytic and Performance Cookies. Depending on our current website functionality not all of the cookies detailed may be active at the same time.
Functionality and Performance cookies enable us to manage customer accounts, shopping carts & checkout, and URL redirects.
Analytic and Performance Cookies enable us to collect information on how visitors to our website interact with the site together with analytic tools such as traffic source, unique visitors and cart abandonment.
Our cookies can also be Persistent or Session in nature.
Persistent Cookies are used, for example, to help us in the management of customer accounts so that we may recognise them when they return to our site, together with remembering certain information about their preferences. These persistent cookies stay on your computer until the lifespan expires (e.g. 3 years) or until you manually delete them. See Check Your Cookies below.
Session Cookies are used to improve and ease a customers experience through their journey on our website such as carrying information across pages within the website without having to re-enter them. These cookies delete themselves automatically when you leave our website to go to another or when you shut down the browser session.
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.
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Cookies Used on bitchorganic.com
Functional and Required Cookies
| Name | Type | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| _acloggedin | Cookie | 1 January 2025 | Supports login by Scheduling client if the client has an account. |
| _client_acloggedin | Cookie | 1 January 2025 | Supports login by Scheduling client if the client has an account. |
| algoliasearch-client-js | Local Storage | Persistent | Adds auto-populated suggestions to address fields in Scheduling to help clients complete forms faster. |
| AWSALB, AWSALBCORS | Cookie | 1 Week | Improves performance in Scheduling by using one server for the duration of the session. |
| CART | Cookie | 2 Weeks | Shows when a visitor adds a product to their cart |
| CHECKOUT_WEBSITE | Cookie | Session | Identifies the correct site for checkout when Checkout on bitchorganic.com is disabled. |
| Commerce-checkout-state | Session Storage | Session | Stores state of checkout while the visitor is completing their order in PayPal |
| Crumb | Cookie | Session | Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF) |
| 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. |
| PHPSESSID | Cookie | 1 Month | Securely authenticates a visitor during their checkout in Scheduling. |
| RecentRedirect | Cookie | 30 minutes | Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO. |
| remember_client | Cookie | 365 days | Remembers Scheduling client’s login details if they have an account. |
| siteUserCrumb | Cookie | 3 years | Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF) for logged in site users. |
| 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 |
| squarespace-announcement-bar | Local Storage | Persistent | Prevents the announcement bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it |
| squarespace-likes | Local Storage | Persistent | Shows when you've already "liked" a blog post. |
| squarespace-popup-overlay | Local Storage | Persistent | Prevents the promotional pop-up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it |
| ss_cookieAllowed | Cookie | 30 Days | Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing Analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies |
| 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. |
| TZ | Local Storage | Persistent | Allows a Scheduling client’s appointments to display correctly based on their time zone preferences. |
Analytics and Performance Cookies
| Name | Duration | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| ss_cid | 2 Years | 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_cvisit | 30 minutes | 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_cvt | 30 minutes | Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site |