Use of cookies
By visiting, joining our Panel and taking part in our online research, you agree to our use of cookies and similar technologies (“Cookies”) and the collection of information from your PC/Laptop or other computing device you may use whilst taking part in our online research activities as outlined below.
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.
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 KnowledgePanel Visitors
Operating Cookies
| Name of the Cookie | What does the Cookie do? | Type | Expiration period | Can be reset? | Provider/Recipient (Site/Domain/Host) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| __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 | pro.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 | pro.ipsosisay.com |
| jsessionID | Used for session management. | 1st party | deleted after you quit your browser | No | Ipsosinteractiveservices.com |
II. Ipsos KnowledgePanel Members
Operating Cookies
| Name of the Cookie | What does the Cookie do? | Type | Expiration period | Can be reset? | Provider/Recipient (Site/Domain/Host) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| __cf_bm | Identify and mitigate automated traffic. | 3rd Party | 30 minutes | No | Cloudflare.com |
| Cf_clearance | Identify and mitigate automated traffic. | 3rd party | 30 minutes | No | Cloudflare.com |
| OTXUserTracking | Cookie set for our applications projects for a basic deduplication and with the scope of tracking respondents for deduplication purposes | 1st party | not expired* | 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 inputted and tracks the activity of the user within the website. 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} | This cookie assists with device recognition and fraud prevention. | 1st party | 1 year | No | surveys.ipsosisay.com |
| io_token_{value} | Used by fraud prevention system to uniquely identify devices via fingerprinting, supporting real-time risk analysis. Helps detect suspicious or fraudulent activity. | 1st party | 1 year | No | surveys.ipsosisay.com, mpsnare.iesnare.com |
| GCLB | 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 | 3 hours | No | Ipsosinteractive.com |
| GAESA | Cookie set by Google load balancer that we are using to reverse proxy from ipsosknowledge to ipsosinteractive | 3rd party | 30 minutes of inactivity | Yes | Ipsosinteractiveservices.com |
| x-cookie-enabled | Non-persistent cookie, it is not saved on respondent’s device. The LP is writing this cookie to check in the sniffer if cookies could be written, else the respondent is sniffed out and he receives the 1008 DEM (“browser cookies are disabled”). | 1st party | No | No | Ipsosinteractiveservices.com |
| is_auth_session_active | Used to keep the user’s session open. | 1st party | deleted after you quit your browser | No | member-pro.ipsosisay.com |
| access_token | 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 | deleted after you quit your browser | No | member-pro.ipsosisay.com |
| JSESSIONID | Used for session management | 1st party | deleted after you quit your browser | No | Ipsosinteractiveservices.com |
| __RequestVerificationToken_L3N1cnZleXM1 | This is a Anti CSFR token. An anti-CSRF token, is a security measure used to prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery(CSRF) attacks. These tokens are unique, unpredictable values generated by the server and included in HTTP requests, ensuring they originate from the authenticated user and not an attacker. | 1st party | deleted after you quit your browser | No | Online.Ipsosinteractive.com |
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