To ensure your Yola-based website runs effectively and provides the best user experience, we use cookies. This guide describes the cookies we place on websites created with Yola.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text snippets placed in a user's browser. They are used to maintain session state, remember preferences, and collect usage data. Cookies may be set by Yola directly (first-party) or by third-party scripts embedded in the page (third-party).
Types of cookies
Yola uses some necessary cookies because they allow visitors to navigate better and use key features of the site. Cookies in general vary from site to site, depending on the site's features, and can be categorized as Essential or Non-Essential (Preferences, Statistics, Marketing).
Consent & Cookie Banner
Yola offers two distinct solutions to users that allow them to acquire visitor's consent for installing cookies:
| Name | Type, expiry, and purpose |
| __cookieBanner | - Local Storage- Persistent- Used to detect visitors' acceptance of the use of cookies in the banner. |
CookieBot consent banner
If users enable the CookieBot consent banner, consent is stored in the following cookie:
| Name | Type, expiry, and purpose |
| CookieConsent | - Cookie- Persistent- Used to detect visitors' acceptance of the use of cookies in the banner. |
General cookies
Depending on the visitor's consent, the following cookies may be placed in their browsers:
| Name | Type, category, expiry, and purpose |
| __cf_bm | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 1 day- Used to distinguish human visitors from bots |
| cf.turnstile.u | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- Persistent- Used to distinguish human visitors from bots |
| synthasiteVisitId | - Cookie- Statistics- 1 day- Used to keep statistics throughout a website visitor's session |
| synthasiteVisitorId | - Cookie- Statistics- 1 year- Used to keep statistics throughout a website visitor's session |
| _swa_u | - Local Storage- Statistics- Persistent- Used for internal analytics by the website operator |
Online store cookies
If you're using the Online Store block on your website, depending on the visitor's consent, the following extra cookies may be placed in their browsers:
| Name | Type, category, expiry, and purpose |
| __stripe_mid | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 365 days- Used for making credit card payments. Stripe uses a cookie to remember who your visitor is and to enable the website to process payments without storing any credit card information on its own servers. |
| __stripe_sid | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 30 minutes- Used for making credit card payments. Stripe uses a cookie to remember who your visitor is and to enable the website to process payments without storing any credit card information on its own servers. |
| _ab | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- Session- Used for making credit card payments. Stripe uses a cookie to remember who your visitor is and to enable the website to process payments without storing any credit card information on its own servers. |
| _mf | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- Session- Used for making credit card payments. Stripe uses a cookie to remember who your visitor is and to enable the website to process payments without storing any credit card information on its own servers. |
| 1 | - Cookie (your domain)- Preferences- Session- Used for making credit card payments. Stripe uses this cookie in conjunction with the payment window. The cookie is necessary for making secure transactions on the website. |
| PSecwid_{store_id}PScart | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 365 days- Stores the customer cart contents |
| PSecwid_{store_id}PScart_expire | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 365 days- Stores the expiration date of customer cart contents |
| PSecwid_{store_id}PScustomerid | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 365 days- Stores the customer's internal identifier |
| PSecwid_{store_id}PScustomerid_expire | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 365 days- Stores the expiration date of customer's internal identifier |
| PSecwid_{store_id}PStoken | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 365 days- Stores the customer's auth token |
| PSecwid_{store_id}PStoken_expire | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 365 days- Stores the expiration date of customer's auth token |
| PSecwid_{store_id}PSprofile | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 365 days- Stores the representation of customer profile object: - authToken: Auth token - billingPerson: address entered on the checkout page - email: email of customer profile - favoritesNotMerged: internal flag - id: customer ID - ownerId: store ID - registered: account creation date - shippingAddresses: not used - taxExempt: internal flag - taxIdValid: internal flag - updated: internal flag |
| PSecwid_{store_id}PSprofile_expire | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 365 days- Stores the expiration date of customer profile object |
| PSecwid_{store_id}PSfavorites | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 365 days- Stores the list products added to favorites |
| PSecwid_{store_id}PSfavorites_expire | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 365 days- Stores the expiration date of the list products added to favorites |
| PSecwid_{store_id}PStaxSettings | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 365 days- Stores a representation of store's tax settings object |
| PSecwid_{store_id}PStaxSettings_expire | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 365 days- Stores the expiration date a representation of store's tax settings object |
| PSorder__result__{store_id}PSorderResult | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 12 hours- Stores the representation object of the last placed order |
| ec-{store_id}-session | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 90 days- Stores customer's active checkout and cart |
| ec-{store_id}-checkout | - Local storage (your domain)- Essential- Persistent- Stores customer's checkout ID and number of items in the cart |
| ec-user-response | - Local storage (your domain)- Essential- 365 days (or 180 days for EU, UK, CH)- Stores user consent for tracking on site for online store |
| ec-user-response-issued-at | - Local storage (your domain)- Essential- 365 days (or 180 days for EU, UK, CH)- Stores date and time when user consent was issued for tracking on site for online store |
| ec_storefront_ab_test | - Local storage (your domain)- Essential- Persistent- Stores the name of the test and name of the customer group for Online Store A/B tests |
| PSdispatcher__content__idsPS{product_id} | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 12 hours- Stores state for merchant custom tracking code for content |
| PSdispatcher__content__idsPS{product_id}_expire | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 12 hours- Stores the expiration date of state for merchant custom tracking code for content |
| PSdispatcher__placed__ordersPS{order_id} | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 12 hours- Stores state for merchant custom tracking code for orders |
| PSdispatcher__placed__ordersPS{order_id}_expire | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 12 hours- Stores the expiration date of state for merchant custom tracking code for orders |
| PSec__custom__code__idPS{store_id} | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 12 hours- Stores order IDs for merchant custom tracking code for orders |
| PSec__custom__code__idPS{store_id}_expire | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 12 hours- Stores the expiration date of order IDs for merchant custom tracking code for orders |
| PSreloadTriggerPSreloadTrigger | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 12 hours- Stores state of reloading process after SSO failure |
| PSreloadTriggerPSreloadTrigger_expire | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 12 hours- Stores the expiration date of state of reloading process after SSO failure |
| PSecwid__agree__personal__data__usage__{store_id}PSallowUsePersonalData | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 365 days- Stores user consent for tracking on site for legacy storefront (deprecated) |
| PSecwid__agree__personal__data__usage__{store_id}PSallowUsePersonalData_expire | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 365 days- Stores the expiration date of user consent for tracking on site for legacy storefront (deprecated) |
| PSecwid__facebookPSlastUserId | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 180 days- Stores Facebook ID logged in by Online store |
| PSecwid__facebookPSlastUserId_expire | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 180 days- Stores the expiration time for Facebook ID logged in by Online store |
| PSlast__historyPSts | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 365 days- Stores timestamp for history token |
| PSlast__historyPSts_expire | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 365 days- Stores the expiration date of timestamp for history token |
| PSlast__historyPStoken | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 365 days- Stores the token parameter for synchronization of iframe with a parent window. To remember the last page after refresh. |
| PSlast__historyPStoken_expire | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- 365 days- Stores the expiration time for history token |
| PSecwid__shopping__cart__controller__storagePSlastPlace | - Cookie (your domain)- Preferences- 180 days- Stores last visited category page object |
| PSecwid__shopping__cart__controller__storagePSlastPlace_expire | - Cookie (your domain)- Preferences- 180 days- Stores the expiration date of last visited category page object |
| PSecwid__{store_id}__taxIdPStaxId | - Cookie (your domain)- Preferences- 180 days- Stores customer's Tax ID entered at the checkout |
| PSecwid__{store_id}__taxIdPStaxId_expire | - Cookie (your domain)- Preferences- 180 days- Stores the expiration date of customer's Tax ID entered at the checkout |
| PSecwid__{store_id}__tax__informationPStax__information | - Cookie (your domain)- Preferences- 365 days- Stores customer tax info |
| PSecwid__{store_id}__tax__informationPStax__information_expire | - Cookie (your domain)- Preferences- 365 days- Stores the expiration time for customer tax info |
| PSecwid__{store_id}__emailPSemail | - Cookie (your domain)- Preferences- 180 days- Stores visitor email entered on the shopping cart page |
| PSecwid__{store_id}__emailPSemail_expire | - Cookie (your domain)- Preferences- 180 days- Stores the expiration date of email entered on the shopping cart page |
| PSecwid__document__referrerPSreferrer | - Cookie (your domain)- Preferences- 90 days- Stores the Referrer link |
| PSecwid__document__referrerPSreferrer_expire | - Cookie (your domain)- Preferences- 90 days- Stores the expiration date of a referrer link |
| PSecwid__utm__storagePSutm__data | - Cookie (your domain)- Marketing- 90 days- Stores UTM cookies for merchant analytics |
| PSecwid__utm__storagePSutm__data_expire | - Cookie (your domain)- Marketing- 90 days- Stores the expiration date of UTM cookies for merchant analytics |
| __eca_s_id_ | - Cookie (your domain)- Marketing- 30 minutes- Stores unique session ID for online store analytics (restarted every 30 minutes) |
| __eca_v_id_ | - Cookie (your domain)- Marketing- 365 days- Stores unique visitor ID for online store analytics |
| testcookie | - Cookie (your domain)- Essential- Session- Used to determine whether the browser accepts cookies. |
Third-party cookies
Depending on the functionality users add to their sites, the following extra cookies may be placed in visitors' browsers:
| Name | Type, category, expiry, and purpose |
| __cf_bm | - Cookie (hcaptcha.com)- Essential- 1 day- Added if you have contact forms on your site- Used to distinguish human visitors from bots |
| AWSALBCORS | - Cookie (analytics.sitewit.com, connect.sitewit.com)- Essential- 7 days- Added if your visitor accepts the use of cookies from Statistics category- Maintains session stickiness and secure routing between the user and backend servers through AWS load balancing. |
| AWSALB | - Cookie (analytics.sitewit.com, connect.sitewit.com)- Essential- 7 days- Added if your visitor accepts the use of cookies from Statistics category- Registers which server-cluster is serving the visitor. This is used in context with load balancing, in order to optimize user experience. |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | - Cookie (analytics.sitewit.com, connect.sitewit.com)- Statistics- 7 days- Preserves the visitor's session state across page requests. |
| _swa_u | - Local Storage (analytics.sitewit.com, connect.sitewit.com)- Statistics- Persistent- Used for internal analytics by the website operator |
We hope this guide helped you. If you have any questions, please contact our Support Team.
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