What are Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by Web sites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make web sites work more efficiently and provide a customised user experience as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. The use of cookies is now standard for most web sites and we utilize cookies on the site. If you are uncomfortable with the use of cookies most browsers now permit users to opt out of receiving them. You can manage them with your browser software removing cookies by deleting them from the browser history cache when you have left the site. However you will be unable to use certain registration processes and may find that other functionality in the site becomes impaired.

Types of cookie

Session cookies remain in your browser during your browser session only until you leave the Web site

Persistent cookies remain in your browser after the session unless deleted by you

Performance cookies collect information about your use of the web site such as web page visited and any error messages. They do not collect personally identifiable information and the information collected is aggregated such that it is anonymous.

Performance cookies are used to improve how a Web site works.

Functionality cookies allow the Web site to remember any choices you made about the website. So just changes to text size customized pages or enable services such as commenting on a blog.