A cookie<\/em> is a harmless<\/b> text file that is stored in your browser when you visit almost any website. The purpose of the cookie<\/em> is to allow the website to remember your visit when you browse that page again. Although many people are not aware of it, cookies<\/em> have been in use for 20 years, since the first browsers for the World Wide Web appeared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is not a virus, nor a Trojan, nor a worm, nor spam, nor spyware, and it does not open pop-up windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cookies<\/em> do not usually store sensitive information about you, such as credit cards or bank details, photographs, your ID number or personal information, etc. The data they save is of a technical nature, personal preferences, content personalisation, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The web server does not associate you as a person but rather your web browser. In fact, if you usually browse with Internet Explorer and you try browsing the same website with Firefox or Chrome, you will see that the website does not realise you are the same person, because it is actually associating the browser, not the person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first-party cookies<\/em> are those generated by the page you are visiting and the third-party<\/em> ones are those generated by external services or providers such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To help you understand the scope that disabling cookies<\/em> can have, here are some examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes. Not only delete them, but also block them, generally or specifically for a particular domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To delete the cookies<\/em> from a website you must go to your browser settings, where you can search for those associated with the domain in question and proceed to delete them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Below we show you how to access a specific cookie<\/em> in the Chrome<\/b> browser. Note: these steps may vary depending on the browser version:<\/p>\n\n\n\n To access the cookie<\/em> settings in the Internet Explorer<\/b> browser, follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):<\/p>\n\n\n\n To access the cookie<\/em> settings in the Firefox<\/b> browser, follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):<\/p>\n\n\n\n To access the cookie<\/em> settings in the Safari for OSX<\/b> browser, follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):<\/p>\n\n\n\n To access the cookie<\/em> settings in the Safari for iOS<\/b> browser, follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):<\/p>\n\n\n\n To access the cookie<\/em> settings in the browser for Android<\/b> devices, follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):<\/p>\n\n\n\n To access the cookie<\/em> settings in the browser for Windows Phone<\/b> devices, follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):<\/p>\n\n\n\n What is a cookie? A cookie is a harmless text file that is stored in your browser when you visit almost any website. The purpose of the cookie is to allow the website to remember<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45529","page","type-page","status-publish"],"yoast_head":"\nWhat is a cookie NOT?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Cookie<\/em> settings for the most popular browsers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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