Cookie
Cookie
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A cookie is a small text file that is placed on the visitor’s computer when visiting a website. Cookies allow web servers to track visitor browsing activity. Cookies can also be useful for the visitor. With some cookies, the visitor does not always have to enter her username and password to log in to a website. Other cookies ensure that the website remembers the preferences of the visitor.
But there are also disadvantages to cookies. Cookies can damage the privacy of the website visitor because their activities on the internet are tracked unwanted. There are different types of cookies. For example, there are temporary cookies that are deleted after the browser is closed. Yet there are also permanent cookies that are not automatically deleted, but that the visitor must delete in his browser settings. How and for what purpose a website places cookies is included in the cookie statement of that website.