A cookie is a text-only string that gets entered into the memory of your browser. This value of a variable that a website sets. If the lifetime of this value is set to be longer than the time you spend at that site, then this string is saved to file for future reference.

We place what is commonly called a "cookie" in your computer's memory. It is a piece of data (a plain text file, in fact) that lets us know who you are when you go from one page to the next. Without that cookie, you look just like anyone else in the world as far as our computers can tell. With a cookie we recognise you on each page after you login.Return to Top