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Cookies policy

 

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that a website stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site.

  • First party cookies are cookies set by the website you’re visiting. Only that website can read them. In addition, a website might potentially use external services, which also set their own cookies, known as third-party cookies.

  • Persistent cookies are cookies saved on your computer and that are not deleted automatically when you quit your browser, unlike a session cookie, which is deleted when you quit your browser.

Every time you visit the Multidisciplinary Cancer Care (MCC) websites, you will be prompted to accept or refuse cookies.

The purpose is to enable the site to remember your preferences (such as user name, language, etc.) for a certain period of time.

That way, you don’t have to re-enter them when browsing around the site during the same visit.

Cookies can also be used to establish anonymised statistics about the browsing experience on the MCC sites.

How do we use cookies?

Multidisciplinary Cancer Care (MCC) websites mostly use “first-party cookies”. These are cookies set and controlled by the Squarespace, Inc..

However, to view some of our pages, you will have to accept cookies from external organisations.

The 3 types of first-party cookie we use are to:

  • store visitor preferences

  • make our websites operational

  • gather analytics data (about user behaviour)

Functional and required cookies

Squarespace uses some necessary cookies because they allow visitors to navigate and use key features on the Multidisciplinary Cancer Care (MCC) website.

Cookie name

Purpose, type, and duration

_acloggedin

  • Supports login by Scheduling client if the client has an account.

  • Cookie

  • January 1, 2025

_client_acloggedin

  • Supports login by Scheduling client if the client has an account.

  • Cookie

  • January 1, 2025

algoliasearch-client-js

  • Adds auto-populated suggestions to address fields in Scheduling to help clients complete forms faster.

  • localstorage

  • Persistent

CART

  • Shows when a visitor adds a product to their cart.

  • Cookie

  • 2 weeks

CHECKOUT_WEBSITE

  • Identifies the correct site for checkout when Checkout on Your Domain is disabled.

  • Cookie

  • Session

client_username

  • Remembers a logged in Scheduling client's username between visits.

  • Cookie

  • 1 year

Commerce-checkout-state

  • Stores state of checkout while the visitor is completing their order in PayPal.

  • sessionstorage

  • Session

Crumb

  • Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF).

  • Cookie

  • Session

hasCart

  • Tells Squarespace that the visitor has a cart.

  • Cookie

  • 2 weeks

Locked

  • Prevents the password-protected screen from displaying if a visitor enters the correct site-wide password.

  • Cookie

  • Session

PHPSESSID

  • Securely authenticates a visitor during their checkout in Scheduling.

  • Cookie

  • 1 month

RecentRedirect

  • Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO.

  • Cookie

  • 30 minutes

remember_client

  • Remembers Scheduling client’s login details if they have an account.

  • Cookie

  • 365 days

siteUserCrumb

  • Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF) for logged in site users.

  • Cookie

  • 3 years

SiteUserInfo

  • Identifies a visitor who logs into a customer account.

  • Cookie

  • 3 years

SiteUserSecureAuthToken

  • Authenticates a visitor who logs into a customer account.

  • Cookie

  • 3 years

squarespace-announcement-bar

  • Prevents the announcement bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it.

  • localstorage

  • Persistent

squarespace-likes

  • Shows when you've already "liked" a blog post.

  • localstorage

  • Persistent

squarespace-popup-overlay

  • Prevents the promotional pop-up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it.

    localstorage

    Persistent

ss_cookieAllowed

  • Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies.

    Cookie

    30 days

Test

  • Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors.

  • Cookie

  • Session

TZ

  • Allows a Scheduling client’s appointments to display correctly based on their time zone preferences.

  • localstorage

  • Persistent

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.

Analytics and performance cookies

We use these purely for internal research on how we can improve the service we provide for all our users.

The cookies simply assess how you interact with our website – as an anonymous user (the data gathered does not identify you personally).

Also, this data is not shared with any third parties or used for any other purpose. The anonymised statistics could be shared with contractors working on communication projects under contractual agreement with the MCC.

However, you are free to refuse these types of cookies – either via the cookie banner you’ll see on the first page you visit MCC.

Cookie 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.

Third-party cookies

Some of our pages display content from external providers. To view this third-party content, you first have to accept their specific terms and conditions. This includes their cookie policies, which we have no control over.

But if you do not view this content, no third-party cookies are installed on your device.

Third-party providers on Multidisciplinary Cancer Care (MCC) websites

Facebook
Google
Google Maps
Instagram
LinkedIn
Livestream
Microsoft
Soundcloud
Twitter
Vimeo
YouTube

How can you manage cookies?

Removing cookies from your device

You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited.

Be aware though that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, site preferences).

For help locating cookies on your device, visit your browser's documentation.

Chrome
Firefox
Microsoft Edge
Safari

Managing site-specific cookies

For more detailed control over site-specific cookies, check the privacy and cookie settings in your preferred browser.

Blocking cookies

You can set most modern browsers to prevent any cookies being placed on your device, but you may then have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site/page. And some services and functionalities may not work properly at all (e.g. profile logging-in).