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Cookies are small files of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your terminal equipment (a device such as a computer or phone). Excluding Operating Cookies (as defined below), we only use Cookies if you agree to our use of such Cookies. Additional details explaining what Cookies are, how they are used, and how they are further controlled can be found by visiting www.aboutcookies.org.
For our services, we use:
- Operating Cookies: these are Cookies that are essential to provide our online services (e.g. our Site and our online surveys, or other online services the user has requested from us) (“Operating Cookies”) to visitors and to members of our panel.
- Google Analytics (Performance and analysis) Cookies. These Cookies allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors to our Site and see how visitors use our Site. These Cookies help us to improve the way our Site works. This information is also received by third parties as shown below for this purpose.
You can find more information about the individual Cookies we use and the specific purposes for which we use them in the tables below:
I. Ipsos iSay Visitors
Operating Cookies
| Name of the Cookie | What does the Cookie do? | Type | Expiration period | Can be reset? | Provider/Recipient (Site/Domain/Host) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cookie-agreed | Remembers cookies popup state | 1st party | 100 days | No | Ipsosisay.com |
| cookie-agreed-version | Captures the version of the cookies policy agreed by the visitors | 1st party | 100 days | No | Ipsosisay.com |
| cookie-agreed-categories | Captures the cookies categories agreed by the visitors | 1st party | 100 days | No | Ipsosisay.com |
| jsessionID | Used for session management | 1st party | deleted after you quit your browser | No | Ipsosisay.com Ipsosinteractiveservices.com |
| __cf_bm | Identify and mitigate automated traffic | 3rd party | 30 minutes | No | Cloudflare.com |
| cf_clearance | Stores the proof of challenge bot protection passed | 3rd party | 30 minutes | No | Cloudflare.com |
| AWSALBCORS | Ensures a smooth and efficient user experience | 1st party | 7 days | No | Ipsosisay.com |
| AWSALB | Encodes information about the selected target, encrypts the cookie, and includes the cookie in the response to the client | 1st party | 7 days | No | Ipsosisay.com |
Google Analytics (Performance and analysis) Cookies
| Name of the Cookie | What does the Cookie do? | Type | Expiration period | Can be reset? | Provider/Recipient (Site/Domain/Host) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the Site | 1st party | 13 months | Yes | Ipsosisay.com, Google |
| _ga_<container-id> | Used to persist session state | 1st party | 13 months | Yes | Ipsosisay.com, Google |
II. Ipsos iSay Members
Operating Cookies
| Name of the Cookie | What does the Cookie do? | Type | Expiration period | Can be reset? | Provider/Recipient (Site/Domain/Host) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drupal.visitor.talk_auth | Used to keep the user’s session open | 1st party | deleted after a few milliseconds | No | Ipsosisay.com |
| SSESS (followed by a number randomly allocated by the system, from one session to the other) | Used by the system to link a user to a session so that information about their visit can be stored on the server as they move from one page to the next. It also helps avoid session hijacking | 1st party | 23 days | No | Ipsosisay.com |
| OTXUserTracking | Cookie set for our applications projects for a basic deduplication and with the scope of tracking respondents for deduplication purposes | 1st party | 1 year | No | Ipsosinteractive.com |
| DG | Used as an essential quality control to store a unique device and respondent encrypted codes. As part of our device fingerprinting system, we use this and a device score to ensure we do not allow the same person to answer a survey more than one time and to add an extra system check to avoid system malfunction | 1st party | configurable on database, current setup: between 1 week and 3 months depending on content | No | Ipsosinteractive.com |
| Consent | States if the respondent accepted the survey access consent and its version, in order to speed up access to surveys | 1st party | 45 days, prefilled from Panel database. If Consent version is changed it is considered expired *For non-iSay members it is 1 day | No | Ipsosinteractive.com |
| BIGipServerPOOL-134.213.64.111-443 | Used to uniquely identify the session the first time a user accessed the site and then refer to that Cookie in subsequent requests to persist the connection to the appropriate server | 1st party | deleted after you quit your browser | No | Ipsosinteractive.com |
| SessionsStateID | Stores information that the user has provided and tracks the activity of the user within the Site. Because a session Cookie is temporary, it does not collect information from the user’s PC or the user’s identity. The information it stores is in the form of a session identification that will not, in any case, relate personally to the user | 1st party | deleted after you quit your browser | No | Ipsosinteractive.com |
| fp_token_{value} | Assists with device recognition and fraud prevention | 1st party | 1 year | No | surveys.ipsosisay.com |
Google Analytics (Performance and analysis) Cookies
| Name of the Cookie | What does the Cookie do? | Type | Expiration period | Can be reset? | Provider/Recipient (Site/Domain/Host) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the Site | 1st party | 13 months | Yes | Ipsosisay.com, Google |
| _ga_<container-id> | Used to persist session state. | 1st party | 13 months | Yes | Ipsosisay.com, Google |
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