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What are cookies?
Cookies are very small text files placed on your computer by a web server when you view websites that use cookies, one of which is this website. The browser stores a file with a unique ID tag (a string of letters and numbers) which can track and keep information on your movements within the site and any information you may have voluntarily given while visiting the website, such as your email address.
Cookies are not viruses. They are plain-text files that cannot be self-executed or self-replicated, so they cannot be harmful on their own.
A cookie includes only the name of the server the cookie was sent from, the lifetime of the cookie, and a random number value. The website uses this number to recognize a user when they return to a site or browse from page to page. The cookie alone cannot be used to identify the user.
Types of Cookies
Session Cookies
A session cookie for a website only exists whilst the user is reading or navigating the website. When the user closes their web browser, these cookies are removed.
Persistent Cookies
A persistent cookie will survive in the user’s browser’s memory for a certain period of time before deletion, depending on the expiration date set for them.
First Party Cookies
A first party cookie is set on the user’s browser’s memory by the website domain.
Third-party Cookie
A third-party cookie is one that is placed on a user's hard disk by a Web site from a domain other than the one a user is visiting.
Our Cookies
The cookies on our website are used for the following purposes:
- To enable basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website
- To track visitors across websites
- To throttle request rate
- To distribute traffic to the website on several servers in order to optimize response times
- To register and report anonymously the actions taken on the website
- To keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen
- To keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites
- To estimate the users' bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos