What are cookies used for?
Cookies serve several purposes, including:
- User Sessions: Cookies are often used to maintain user sessions, allowing websites to remember user data, preferences, and login status across multiple pages or visits.
- Tracking: They are used for tracking user behaviour on websites, collecting data on which pages are visited and how users interact with the site.
- Personalization: Cookies enable websites to offer personalized experiences by remembering user preferences, such as language settings, shopping carts, and customized content recommendations.
Understanding Cookies in Web Browsers
The Cookie is a small message from a web server passed to the user’s browser when you visit a website. In other words, Cookies are small text files of information created/updated when visiting a website and stored on the user’s web browser. Cookies are commonly used for information about user sections, user preferences and other data on the website. Cookies help websites remember users and track their activities to provide a personalised experience.