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Cookies on your Sitebuilder-based site

To ensure your website runs effectively and provides the best user experience to your visitors, we use cookies. This guide describes the cookies we place on your Sitebuilder site.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small code snippets placed in the users’ browsers and activated when they visit a website.  Cookies may improve your site-building and browsing experience because they help websites remember preferences and understand how people use various features.

Types of cookies

Sitebuilder uses some necessary cookies because they allow visitors to navigate better and use key features on your site. These cookies vary from site to site, depending on the site’s features. Read more about these cookies and their functionality: Essential and non-essential cookies.

Cookies used by Sitebuilder

Here’s a table of cookies Sitebuilder uses.

 Name

 Type, expiry, and purpose

 __cf_bm
  • Cookie
  • 1 day
  • Used to distinguish human users from bots

 AWSALBCORS [2]
  • Cookie
  • 6 days
  • Registers which server cluster is serving the visitor and is used to optimize the user experience

 synthasiteVisitId
  • Cookie
  • 1 day
  • Used to keep statistics throughout a website visitor’s session

 synthasiteVisitorId
  • Cookie
  • 1 year
  • Used to keep statistics throughout a website visitor’s session

 _swa_u
  • Local Storage
  • Persistent
  • Used for internal analytics by the website operator

 

How to 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 entirely or from a specific website.

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

Adding a cookie banner

Certain jurisdictions and data protection laws may require website owners to inform their visitors of cookies and ask for visitors’ consent to use them.

With Sitebuilder+, you have two options for adding a cookie notice to your site: 

Both of the options are free for all our users. 

If you enable the Sitebuilder cookie consent banner, you’ll have the necessary GDPR compliance for the website cookie.

Name

 Type, expiry, and purpose
__cookieBanner__
  • Local Storage
  • Persistent
  • Used to detect visitors’ acceptance of the use of cookies in the banner. 

If you enable the CookieBot consent banner, you’ll have the necessary GDPR and CCPA compliance for the website cookie.

Name Type, expiry, and purpose
CookieConsent
  • Local Storage
  • Persistent
  • Used to detect visitors’ acceptance of the use of cookies in the banner. 

Note:  If you use third-party services on your website, they can come with their own set of additional cookies. 

 

 

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