A ‘cookie’ is a text file saved on the user’s computer when the user accesses a website with the purpose of providing information each time the user returns to the same site. It is a kind of reminder of the internet page visited With the cookie, the web server sends information to the user’s browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, etc.) stored on the latter’s computer, and will be re-read and updated each time the user returns to the site In this way, the website can automatically adapt to the user. In the course of browsing, the user may also receive on his terminal equipment cookies from different sites (“third party” cookies), set directly by the managers of these websites and used for the purposes and in the manner defined by them.
Depending on their duration, they are divided into session cookies (i.e. those that are temporary and automatically deleted from the terminal at the end of the browsing session by closing the browser) and persistent cookies (i.e. those that remain stored on the terminal until they expire or are deleted by the user).
Depending on their function and purpose of use, cookies can be divided into technical cookies and profiling cookies.