It takes teamwork to run, facilitate and maintain a website. Below you will find a list of the companies we work with to do that.
Squarespace - Web host They provide us with the online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Every Squarespace site is stored on their servers. Squarspace privacy policy can be seen here: https://www.squarespace.com/privacy/
Tucows – Squarespace’s Web Host They provide the physical space where Squarespace allows us to display our text, images, videos and other content that make up our site. Tucows privacy policy can be seen here: https://opensrs.com/privacy-policy/
GoDaddy - Domain Host They store our domain name and facilitate it’s registration. GoDaddy privacy policy can be seen here: https://www.godaddy.com/agreements/showdoc.aspx
MailChimp – Email marketing service & marketing automation platform Share email with our clients and customers, connect our e-commerce store, helps us maintain our email list Mailchimp privacy policy can be seen here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
Stripe - Online payment processing for internet businesses Their software allows businesses to receive payments over the Internet and provides the technical, fraud prevention, and banking infrastructure required to operate on-line payment systems Stripe privacy policy can be seen here: https://stripe.com/us/privacy/
Google Search Console - A free service offered by Google that helps monitor and maintain our site's presence in Google Search results. Google Search Console interacts with our site in these ways:
- Makes sure that Google can access our site and its content
- Monitors and resolves malware or spam issues so our site stays clean
- Maintains our site with minimal disruption to search performance
- Allows us to submit new content for crawling and remove old content
Google Analytics – a free web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google privacy policy can be seen here: https://policies.google.com/privacy
This is a list of the cookies our Squarespace site uses:
Squarespace
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
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 a 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 and Performance Cookies
Analytics and Performance cookies to collect information about how visitors interact with our site, 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
Google Analytics
Google cookie information can be seen here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
MailChimp
MailChimp cookie policy can be seen here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/cookies/
Tucows
Tucows cookie info can be found here: https://opensrs.com/privacy-policy/
GoDaddy
GoDaddy cookie policy can be found here: https://www.godaddy.com/agreements/ShowDoc.aspx?pageid=24668
Stripe
Stripe cookie policy can be seen here: https://stripe.com/cookies-policy/legal
Check your cookies
You can see which cookies are active in your browser’s settings. For help, visit your browser’s documentation:
Info on Google cookie opt out browser add on can be found here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/181881?hl=en