33 lines
1.9 KiB
HTML
33 lines
1.9 KiB
HTML
<!-- Reading School 2018, HTML page by Matthew Grove, Year 10 -->
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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<html>
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<head>
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<meta charset="utf-8">
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<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no">
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<meta name="HandheldFriendly" content="True">
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<!-- import Roboto (font) -->
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<link href="/css/roboto.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
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<!-- import Bootstrap -->
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<link href="/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
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<!-- import local styling & scripts -->
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<link href="../css/presentation-imports.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
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</head>
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<body>
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<h2>Cookies</h2>
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<p>
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Cookies are not, unfortunately, the treats made of dough. They are, in fact, small text files, stored in binary, usually one-line long, which store relevant
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information about websites visited by a computer. This might include a selected language, or ad preferences. Some websites even use
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cookies to store passwords that are set to ‘remember’. Thus, cookies need strong security and the ID of each one must be unfathomably
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difficult to find without permission, to reduce the risk of hacking. Cookies are stored on the computer, as opposed to the website.
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Because both HTTP and HTTPS don't transmit user data, none of the websites you visit know who you are. Therefore, whenever you
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visit a webpage, it reads the cookies it stored on your computer last time you visited it, in order to find out information like your email address.
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Many people are against cookies, due to privacy concerns; under new GDPR regulations, all end users in Europe must now be notified of
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cookie use on each website they visit (if the website uses cookies). Many sites also give an option to refuse cookies.
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</p>
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</body>
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</html>
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