What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Why do we use cookies?
We use cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons for the site to operate, and we refer to these as "essential" or "strictly necessary" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our website. Third parties serve cookies through the site for analytics and to help detect whether the user is a robot or not. This is described in more detail below.
- Cookie: NID
- Type: Strictly necessary
- Name: Google reCAPTCHA
- Purpose: Google reCAPTCHA stores a cookie to help detect whether you are a robot or human
- More information: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy (opens in new tab)
- Cookie: IRIS_SESSION
- Type: Strictly necessary
- Name: Forsta
- Purpose: Used to combat abuse and security (preventing the same user from re-entering the same survey in the time period) as well as allowing some users to continue where they left off
How can I control cookies?
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept, refuse and delete cookies. Usually if you choose to reject cookies you will not be able to continue with our surveys. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information. By clicking through to this survey the IRIS SESSION cookie has already been set and you should delete it via your browser if you do not wish to accept our cookies.