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BjörnAsked on October 17, 2017 at 5:35 AM
Hello,
Im using jotform on a website and have a question about a couple of cookies used.
Can you please tell me the functionality of the cookies listed below as well as if I can turn them off without any risk of the sites performance? I need to get the users concent before any "non essential" cookies goes live.
Cookie:"__cfduid" - Function:?
Cookie:"guest" - Function:?
Cookie: "PHPSESSID" - Function:?
Cookie: "theme" - Function:?
Cookie: "UserRefer" - Function:?
Thanks in advance!
//Björn
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amyReplied on October 17, 2017 at 8:45 AM
1- Cookie:"__cfduid" - Function:?
This is for Cloudflare services. You can turn it off. It doesn't affect the site performance.
2- Cookie:"guest" - Function:?
You do not have to be a member to create a form in Jotform. You are also able to create a form as a guest user. However, guest users have more restrictions than free users. You can turn off this cookie as well if you don't create any forms as a guest user. It doesn't affect the performance of the site.
3- Cookie: "PHPSESSID" - Function:?
It isn't recommended to turn it off. If you turn it off, you will log out from your Jotform account.
4- Cookie: "theme" - Function:?
You can disable it. It's for the themes of my forms section.
5- Cookie: "UserRefer" - Function:?
Via this function, we keep logs of user references. For example, how do our users discover Jotform? Via a search tool etc... You can disable it as well.
Please let us know if you need further assistance.
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BjörnReplied on October 19, 2017 at 4:04 AM
Hi Amy,
Thanks for giving info on the functionality of the cookies.
This leads to the next question; How do I disable them?
//Björn
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amyReplied on October 19, 2017 at 7:46 AM
There are some browser extensions for this purpose. However, unfortunately, I can not make a suggestion to you as I have not used any of them.
If you are using Google Chrome, please check out the Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/cookie%20manager