What Are Cookies

As a common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. The section below also describes how you can prevent these cookies from being stored. However, this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the site’s functionality.

Cookies are small text files that we place in the user computer’s browser to store user preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your email address or other personal information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering at our site. Once you choose to provide a webpage with personal information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. A cookie is like an identification card. It is unique to your computer and can only be read by the server that gave it to you.

For more general information on cookies, see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on our site. For example, we may use cookies to personalize user experience on our webpages (e.g. to recognize you by name when you return to our site). We also may use cookies to offer you products and services.

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not, in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Controlling or Disabling Cookies

If you want to control which cookies you accept, you can configure your browser to accept all cookies or to alert you every time a cookie is offered by a website’s server. Most browsers automatically accept cookies.

Please be aware that if you do not configure your browser you will accept cookies provided by this website.

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help on how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

m360 Research Panel Services undertakes to give access to the following to its Panelist according to its discretion and ability:

Account related cookies

If you create an account with us, then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out; however, in some cases, they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.

Login related cookies

We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.

Email newsletters related cookies

This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

Surveys related cookies

We offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide and extract valuable insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.

Forms related cookies

When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

Site preferences cookies

In order to provide you with a great experience on this site, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interaction on a page is affected by your preferences.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site, so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track details such as your time spent on the site, or pages you visit. This helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.

From time to time, we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site, helping us understand the optimizations our users appreciate the most.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work, social media sites will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

Digital Fingerprinting

It is essential to market research business to provide the highest data quality research to our clients. We use state-of-the-art digital fingerprinting technology that gathers a number of data points from your computer, such as operating system version, browser version, IP addresses, plug-in, etc., and use deterministic algorithms to create a unique digital fingerprint of each computer. The digital fingerprint is used to identify fraudulent behavior or duplicate participation in a survey. We do not collect any personal information using digital fingerprinting technologies.

More Information

We believe that this document clarifies the usage of cookies on our website. if there is something that you aren't sure of, or if you are still looking for more information on cookies, please contact us through

Email: support@m-panels.com