About cookies
- A cookie is a file containing an
identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a
web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to
the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
- Cookies may be either
"persistent" cookies or "session" cookies = a persistent
cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set
expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session
cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the
web browser is closed.
- Cookies do not typically contain
any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information
that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained
from cookies.