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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
type="topic" style="task"
id="cookies">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#privacy"/>
<link type="guide" xref="data"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.10" date="2013-07-02" status="review"/>
<credit type="author copyright">
<name>Ekaterine Gerasimova</name>
<email its:translate="no">kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
<years>2013</years>
</credit>
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
</info>
<title>What are cookies?</title>
<comment>
<cite date="2013-07-02">Kat</cite>
<p>I am assuming that our average reader will not know what a cookie is, so
this is included in both data-cookies and pref-cookies.</p>
</comment>
<p>A browser <em>cookie</em> is a small piece of data sent from a website and
stored on your computer while you are browsing a website. When the you
return to the same website in the future, the data stored in the cookie can
be retrieved by the website to notify the website of your previous activity.
Cookies are a common method used by web servers to know whether you are
logged in to an account on a specific website or not.</p>
</page>
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