What are cookies?
A cookie is a small piece of text sent to your browser by a website you visit. It helps the website to remember information about your visit, like your preferred language and other settings. That can make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you. Cookies play an important role. Without them, using the web would be a much more frustrating experience.
Further information can be found on Wikipedia.
|session||Website||End of session||Allow use of this website|
|token||Website||End of session||Increase form security|
|cookie||Website||1 year||Hide cookie banner|
|_ga||Google Analytics||2 years||Distinguish users|
|_gat||Google Analytics||10 minutes||Throttle request rate|
Third party cookies
|Maps, YouTube, AdWords, Google+|
On the website Your Online Choices you can manage or block cookies of many providers.