Cookies added by Certain
Introduction
This document is a brief guide to the cookies added to your registrants’ browsers by the forms and webpages you create using Certain.
This document also highlights the essential cookies required for admin-side access to the platform.
The essential cookies listed under Essential are added by default. The essential cookies listed under Essential are required for the application to function. The essential cookies listed under Essential must not be deleted.
The only non-essential cookies added are:
- Google Analytics, when enabled for an event’s forms or webpages.
- Cookies, if any, that you’ve inserted into the display shell for your own client-side scripts.
Add > Plan > Configure > Options > Display > Extended Display > ‘Custom HTML Shell’.
Side note: By default, Certain uses some Google Analytics (GA) in the platform itself.GA cookies are therefore added by default to Certain users’ browsers.
An administrator may disable this for an account by clearing the Certain Google Analytics check box on Account Settings > Implementation > Security > Cookie Settings.
Identifying Cookies
Here’s how to access the cookies and their values in most current browsers:
- Chrome
- Edge
- Firefox
- Internet Explorer
- Safari
Google Chrome
1. Open the ☰ or menu in Chrome’s top right corner.
2. Select Settings.
3. Click Privacy and Security
4. Click "Third-Party Cookies" (Previously called "cookies and site data")
5. Select See all site data and permission.
6. This should take you to the full list of cookies stored by different websites.
7. All domains with cookies are listed.
8. Each listed domain shows the number of cookies for each one.
9. To search for a domain (such as certain.com), type any part of its name in the box in the top right corner.
10. To list a site’s cookies, click the label saying how many it has, such as "4 cookies".
11. To see the details of a cookie, click it in the list.
12. To delete a cookie, click the trash icon at the end of its row in the list.
Mozilla Firefox
1. Open the ☰ menu in Firefox’s top right corner.
2. Select Options.
3. Click Privacy & Security in the list of options on the left.
4. Under History, click remove individual cookies.
5. A resizable Cookies pop window opens.
6. The Cookies pop window lists all the cookies on your computer.
7. To search for a domain (such as certain.com), type any part of its name in the box at the top.
8. The list of cookies narrows as you type.
9. To see the details of a cookie, click it in the list.
10. To delete cookies, select them in the list.
11. Click Remove Selected.
Microsoft Edge
1. In Edge, go to the site whose cookies you want to see.
2. Edge doesn’t store the cookies in one Settings folder.
3. You must visit the site.
4. Click the... ("More Settings") button in Edge’s top right corner.
5. Click F12 Developer Tools (or press the F12 key).
6. Click the Debugger tab at the top of the window that opens.
7. Double-click Cookies in the filters on the left.
8. Cookies are listed on the right.
9. To delete a cookie, select it and press Delete.
10. Right-click it and select Delete Cookie.
Internet Explorer
1. From the Tools menu, or the Tools icon (Alt-X), select Internet Options.
2. If the menu bar is hidden, press Alt to make it visible.
3. To view or remove individual cookies, select the General tab.
4. Under Browsing history, click Settings.
5. Select View files.
6. Windows Explorer opens with a list of files in the folder that includes your cookies.
Safari
1. In Safari’s Preferences window, click Privacy.
2. To view individual cookies, click Details.
3. Select the cookie.
4. To delete a cookie, select it.
5. Click Remove.
Essential Cookies
The cookies highlighted below are essential to the functionality of the Certain Platform.
For a user to authenticate into the application they must have the essential cookies listed below.
| Cookie Name | Expiration Time | Description | |---|---|---| | applicationName | 24 hours | Identifies the portal the user is accessing. | | MoodleSession | 24 hours | Enables single sign-on to Certain University and Support. | | Moodle_SESS_UUID | 24 hours | Enables single sign-on to Certain University and Support. | | Session_UUIDID | 24 hours | Uniquely identifies the user's authenticated session. | | XSRF-TOKEN | 24 hours | For cross-site request forgery security purposes. |
Non-Essential Cookies
The non-essential cookies are not required to access the application and are additive.
The following cookies are used for analytics purposes by the Certain Platform.
Anything outside this list could be the result of the portal’s customization in the event display shell when rendering the attendee experiences.
An administrator may disable this for an account by clearing the Certain Google Analytics check box on Account Settings > Implementation > Security > Cookie Settings. An administrator may disable this for an account by making sure no Google Analytics value is added to the Form's Setup Page.
| Cookie Name | Expiration Time | Description | |---|---|---| | _ga | 2 years | Used to distinguish users for analytics purposes | | _gat | 1 minute | Used to throttle request rate for analytics purposes | | _gid | 24 hours | Used to distinguish users for analytics purposes | | certainLogin | 365 Days | Remember username on login | | stickyLogin | 24 hours | Remember “sticky” username on login |
COOKIE DETAILS
Example: