CookiesA cookie is a little piece of information (a file) stored locally in your hard disk. The cookie itself is not harmful, but it can be abused. Cookies were originally developed to allow users customizing and personalizing their web experiences, and they will continue to serve this purpose. You may block using of cookies by changing preferences in your Web browser, but this would have negative affect of blocking all cookies, rather than just weeding out the tracking cookies.Personalization CookiesPersonalization cookies allow you to customize web pages, and remember your user name and passwords. Most of cookies in your computer are in this category.Tracking CookiesTracking cookies allow web sites to store and access records that may contain personal information (including surfing habits, user names and passwords, areas of interest, etc.), and subsequently use this information typically for marketing purpose. |