What are cookies?
Cookies – are text information that is sent by the server and saved on the user’s side, most often on the user’s hard drive. Thanks to the default cookie settings, the information contained in a cookie can only be read by the server that created the cookie. Cookies are most often used in online stores, polls, website statistics, login modules, etc.
Usage
In cookies, various information can be stored about the user visiting a given website, the history of his communication with a specific website (server). Typically, cookies are used to allow a given server to generate a page intended for a specific user. The use of cookies allows, among others creating personalized websites, the ability to log in, make purchases in online stores. Cookies are also often used to collect website activity statistics.
For what purpose can we use cookies?
- We use
- cookies to read and analyze statistics, incl. Google Ads (formerly Google Adwords), Google Analitycs as well as services such as Google Maps, FaceBook tools or videos posted on YouTube.
- cookies can be used to ensure security, they can also be used to detect abuse within the website.
- thanks to cookies, the content of the website pages can be adapted to the user’s preferences. It also allows us to optimize the use of websites.
- after logging in, cookies can also maintain the website user’s session, thanks to which it is not necessary to enter the login and password on each page.
- using cookies, we can display the same survey multiple times to the same user.
- some of the cookies used on our website related to the so-called session. These files are used for technical matters, such as navigation or logging. This means that some cookies are only kept while browsing the website while the web browser is running. When the browser is closed, cookies are deleted.
You can disable saving cookies in your browser settings. You can find more information on this subject at the manufacturer of the browser you are using.
