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Website cookies are text files containing small amounts of data that are created when you arrive on a web page and are stored in your Internet browser automatically. Cookies are used to tailor the experience of using a specific website to a certain user. As a necessary part of web browsing, cookies help web developers give you more personal, convenient website visits. Cookies let websites remember you, your website login, shopping carts and more.

Session (or 'transient') cookies are only stored for the duration of a web browsing session and are deleted once it's over. These are stored in your browser's temporary memory folder and do not collect personal data.

Session cookies are commonly used by websites to pass information from one page to another. For example, session cookies are the reason that the items you place into a shopping bag are retained until you hit checkout – and why they often disappear if you end the session and return later. If you only want to accept session cookies, this can be changed in your browser settings.

A stored or 'persistent' cookie is kept on your hard drive until it expires (this expiration date is set when the cookie is created). Stored cookies collect important information about your activity on a website that makes future visits easier.