What are Cookies? The purpose of a cookie is to help a website keep track of your visits and activities. Cookies are small data files that are sent to your computer or mobile phone from a website's computer (server) and stored on your device's hard drive.
Most websites you visit will use cookies in order to improve your overall user experience by enabling that website to ‘remember’ you. For example, we use a cookie for our shopping cart to help keep track of the items in your shopping cart as you browse around our site. Without the cookie, your shopping cart would reset to zero every time you clicked a new link on our site. There are different kinds of cookies. The example of the shopping cart was considered to be a session cookie. Another kind of cookie is called a persistent cookies where it is activated each time that you visit the website that created that particular cookie. Cookies, however, cannot be used to identify you personally.
Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve your overall user experience. Under normal circumstances, cookies cannot transfer viruses or malware to your computer. Since the data does not change when it travels back and forth, the cookie has no way to affect how your computer runs. Unfortunately, some viruses and malware have learned how to disguise themselves as cookies. In this case, this raises security and privacy concerns since it makes it easier for these third uninvited guest to watch where you are going and what you are doing online.
It is important to learn how to manage your cookies and get rid of the ones you do not like to protect your privacy online.
1) Open your web browser
2) Find where your cookies are stored. Different web browsers store this information in different places. Sometimes you can find your cookies under Settings, Tools, or Preferences. You may also need to go to Advanced settings and look for Privacy and Security.
3) Manage your cookies. Every browser gives you different options on how to manage your cookies. Please note that if you ban or disable all cookies, your online experience will diminish greatly as you will experience challenges navigating websites, making purchases, and slowing down overall performance. At 3C, we use cookies to improve your overall experience on our website and to allow you to purchase learning content.
See our Cookie Policy and Privacy Policy for more information about how 3C Digital Media Network uses Cookies to enhance your experience on our website.