What are cookies

A cookie is a short text file that a visited website sends to your browser. Allows the site to record information about your visit, such as your preferred language and other settings. This may make the next visit to the site easier and more productive. Cookies are important. Without them, browsing the web would be much more complicated.

Cookies serve a variety of purposes. For example, we use them to store your SafeSearch preferences, to select relevant ads, to monitor the number of visitors to a page, to facilitate the registration of new services, and to protect your data.

Types of cookies used

Settings

These cookies contain information about the current settings of the website. If the website supports personalization, such as text enlargement, color change and more, this information will be stored in these cookies.

Security

If the website supports user login, we use security cookies to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from access by unauthorized parties.

Processes

Process cookies allow sites to provide services that visitors expect, such as navigating a website or accessing secure areas of the site. Without these cookies, the site will not work properly.

Session state

It is the collection of data on the behavior of visitors. This could be, for example, information about which pages users visit most often or whether they see errors on some pages. These cookies help us to improve the services and user environment on the website.

Analytical cookies

Google Analytics is Google’s analytics tool that helps website and app owners to understand how visitors use the site and app. It may use a set of cookies to collect information and report on the use of the website without Google knowing any personally identifiable information about each visitor. The main cookie used by Google Analytics is the __ga file.

In addition to reporting site usage statistics, Google Analytics, along with advertising cookies, can be used to display more relevant ads on Google services (such as Google Search) and the web.

Extensions, social plugins, third party systems

The website may use extensions, so-called social plugins (eg Facebook “Like” button, Twitter tweet list, etc.) or third-party systems, such as the Google Analytics described above. The provider of this service (s) is solely responsible for the specific form, quantity and purpose of cookies stored in your browser from third party providers.