About Cookies

Cookies are small text files that websites save on a user's device during their visit. These cookies help websites remember information about your preferences, actions and settings to improve your experience on the site.

Cookies play an important role in the operation of modern websites and online services, providing a more personalized and convenient user experience. Let's understand how they work and how they affect your privacy.

Why do websites use cookies?

The main purposes of using cookies:

1. Remembering user settings and preferences. Cookies allow websites to store information about your language, location, favorite products, themes, and other personal settings. This helps you quickly restore your preferences on your next visit.

2. Analytics and visit statistics. Websites use cookies to track how users interact with their content and features. This data helps improve the quality and usability of the interface.

3. Targeted advertising. Information about your interests and behavior on websites may be used by advertising networks to provide more relevant advertising.

4. Authorization and authentication. Cookies help sites recognize registered users and maintain their login session.

5. Shopping cart and personalization. Cookies store information about the items in your shopping cart as well as your personal information to automatically fill out forms.

Thus, cookies improve the usability of sites, but at the same time they may raise privacy concerns.

What are the types of cookies?

There are several main types of cookies:

1. Session cookies - they are valid only during your current session on the site and are deleted as soon as you close the browser.

2. Persistent cookies - they are stored on your device for a long time (days, months or even years) and are used on subsequent visits to the site.

3. First-party cookies - these are cookies installed by the site you are on.

4. Third-party cookies - these are cookies installed by other sites (for example, advertising networks) whose resources (images, scripts) are loaded on the current site.

Cookies can also differ in the purpose of use: analytical, functional, advertising, etc.

The impact of cookies on privacy

Many users are concerned that cookies can violate their privacy, as they allow tracking their actions and preferences. Indeed, third-party cookies, especially advertising cookies, can collect and transmit data about you without your knowledge.

However, most modern browsers offer cookie control and management tools that allow users to limit or block their use. In addition, many sites offer the ability to choose which cookies to allow and which not. It is important to remember that cookies themselves do not contain personal information that can be used to identify you (name, address, phone number, etc.). They only store data about your actions and preferences on a particular site.

Cookies are therefore an essential tool for improving the usability of modern websites. However, you can always control their use and manage your data according to your privacy preferences.