Cookies, a basic explanation

What is a cookie?

• Cookies are little documents containing information about you and your preferences. For example, when you click which language you would like to read a website in, the website will save that piece of information, on a document (a cookie), to your computer. So the next time you view that website, the website will read the information it saved earlier, it’s as if it ‘remembered’ what you said.
• Cookies are limited to just remembering a language, they can also remember: the time you…