{"id":2169,"date":"2025-11-14T16:23:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poll-hero.com\/docs\/use-of-cookies-localstorage\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:15:12","password":"","slug":"use-of-cookies-localstorage","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.poll-hero.com\/en\/docs\/use-of-cookies-localstorage\/","title":{"rendered":"Use of cookies &amp; localStorage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The cookies are used exclusively to ensure that surveys are delivered correctly from a technical perspective, to prevent multiple displays, and to link responses with sessions or purchases.<\/p>\n\n<p>You can find more information about cookies, localStorage, and retention periods <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poll-hero.com\/en\/docs\/cookies-localstorage\/\" data-type=\"docs\" data-id=\"761\">here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Type<\/th><th>Name<\/th><th>Storage period<\/th><th>Description<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Cookie<\/td><td>ph_user_id<\/td><td>persistent<\/td><td>Recognizing a user (anonymized UUID).<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Cookie<\/td><td>ph_last_answer<\/td><td>persistent<\/td><td>Stores the time of the last survey response.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Cookie<\/td><td>ph_survey_completed<\/td><td>persistent<\/td><td>Prevents multiple displays of surveys that have already been completed.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Cookie<\/td><td>ph_survey_viewed<\/td><td>persistent<\/td><td>Prevents multiple displays of surveys that have already been viewed.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Cookie<\/td><td>ph_order_ids<\/td><td>persistent<\/td><td>Links purchases with survey responses.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Cookie<\/td><td>ph_survey_prob<\/td><td>persistent<\/td><td>Controls whether a user is randomly included in a survey\u2019s target group (e.g., 20%).<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Cookie<\/td><td>ph_failed_survey_requests<\/td><td>persistent<\/td><td>Temporarily stores failed requests so they can be resent later.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cookies are used exclusively to ensure that surveys are delivered correctly from a technical perspective, to prevent multiple displays, and to link responses with sessions or purchases. You can find more information about cookies, localStorage, and retention periods here. Type Name Storage period Description Cookie ph_user_id persistent Recognizing a user (anonymized UUID). Cookie ph_last_answer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[86],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2169","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-data-protection"],"acf":[],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":119,"total_views":"15","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"Chris von PollHero","author_nicename":"chris_pollhero","author_url":"https:\/\/www.poll-hero.com\/en\/author\/chris_pollhero\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Data protection","term_url":"https:\/\/www.poll-hero.com\/en\/docs\/data-protection\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poll-hero.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poll-hero.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poll-hero.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poll-hero.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poll-hero.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poll-hero.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2170,"href":"https:\/\/www.poll-hero.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2169\/revisions\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poll-hero.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poll-hero.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poll-hero.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}