1. What Cookies Are
Cookies are small text files that a website stores in your browser. When you open any page of the Site, the browser may save cookies and send them back on later visits, so the Site can remember settings or count visits. Cookies are not programs and cannot read other files on your device.
Cookies set by the site you are on are called first-party cookies; those set by other services a page uses are third-party cookies. They also differ in how long they last, as section 4 explains. Cookies help a site run smoothly, but none of them is needed to read the Site.
