To make your site work well and give visitors the best possible experience, Loopia Sitebuilder places a number of cookies on your website.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of code stored in the visitor’s browser and activated when they visit a site. Cookies can improve both your building experience and your visitors’ browsing experience, since they help sites remember settings and understand how people use different features.
Types of cookies
Loopia Sitebuilder uses certain necessary cookies because they let visitors navigate and use important features on your site. Which cookies are used varies from site to site depending on its features.
Cookies used by Loopia Sitebuilder
Here’s a table of the cookies Loopia Sitebuilder uses.
| Name | Type, lifespan and purpose |
|---|---|
| __cf_bm | Cookie, 1 day. Used to distinguish humans from bots. |
| AWSALBCORS | Cookie, 6 days. Records which server cluster is handling the visitor, used to optimise the user experience. |
| synthasiteVisitId | Cookie, 1 day. Used to track statistics during a visitor’s session. |
| synthasiteVisitorId | Cookie, 1 year. Used to track statistics during a visitor’s session. |
| _swa_u | Local storage, persistent. Used for the site operator’s internal analytics. |
Checking your cookies
In most common browsers you can:
- See which cookies are active in your browser settings.
- Clear cookies from your browser or device entirely, or from a specific site.
Adding a cookie banner
Some jurisdictions and data protection laws may require site owners to inform visitors about cookies and obtain their consent to use them.
With Loopia Sitebuilder you have two options for adding a cookie notice to your site:
- Setting up a CookieBot consent banner – see our guide on connecting CookieBot to your website.
- Enabling a Loopia Sitebuilder cookie consent banner – see our guide on enabling the cookie consent banner.
Both options are free for all our users.
Enabling the Loopia Sitebuilder cookie consent banner meets the basic GDPR requirements for website cookies.
| Name | Type, lifespan and purpose |
|---|---|
| __cookieBanner__ | Local storage, persistent. Used to record the visitor’s cookie consent from the banner. |
Enabling the CookieBot consent banner meets the necessary GDPR and CCPA requirements for website cookies.
| Name | Type, lifespan and purpose |
|---|---|
| CookieConsent | Local storage, persistent. Used to record the visitor’s cookie consent from the banner. |
Note: if you use third-party services on your site, they may add further cookies of their own.