Options for PowerReviews Cookies

Review Display and Collection Cookies

The following describes the cookies used by PowerReviews:

• Social Measurement cookies (starts with “__pr.”)

  • Provenance: First-party cookie
  • Purpose: Statistics cookie
  • Description: Social measurement tracking beacons are part of PowerReviews’ analytics and tracking capabilities.  The social measurement cookie is set in a user’s browser so that when dozens of beacons across multiple pages on a customer’s site are sent to our reporting applications, they all contain a unique and persistent ID tying them all to a single user. 

• Iovation cookie (starts with “io_token_”)

  • Provenance: Third-party cookie
  • Purpose: Statistics cookie (Fraud Prevention, authenticity)
  • Description:  Any time you render PowerReviews collect or display components onto your page, we also load a third-party fraud prevention script from Iovation.  As part of its fraud prevention efforts, the Iovation script places a cookie on the user’s browser.

PowerReviews Solutions for Integration

Option 1: Allow users to opt-in

You can integrate the PowerReviews code into your Opt-in flow so cookie tracking will be turned on when a client opts in.

Example: If the user opts-in you can pass the following variable values:

sm_data: “ENABLED”,
enable_front_end_iovation_validation: true,

Example: If the user opts-out you can pass the following variable values:

sm_data: “DISABLED”,
enable_front_end_iovation_validation: false,

Option 2 – Disable for all customers

When implementing the PowerReviews Review Display and Write-a-review components, you can disable all cookies for all customers by adding the following config variables to the ‘POWERREVIEWS.display.render’ function:

 //Disable social measurement cookies
sm_data: DISABLED
//Disable iovation fraud detection cookies
enable_front_end_iovation_validation: false

Example:

Please make sure you add the two config variables to the Product Display Page and Write-a-Review Page.