What are Cookies?

What are "cookies" and what do they do?

How someone ever decided to use the word "cookie" for internet lingo is beyond me. These cookies are not pertaining to food.

A cookie is simply a piece of text stored by your own browser, on your computer, at the request of another party's server. Cookies were actually invented for the purpose of "shopping cart" operation on websites.

There are several kinds of cookies. Agloco will use 2 types of cookies - session and persistent. We'll get to those in a minute.

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Misconceptions
To clear up a few misconceptions by internet users, let's first examine what Cookies are NOT.

• Cookies are not spyware.
• Cookies cannot read personal information stored on your computer.
• Cookies are not worms or viruses.
• Cookies cannot erase data on your computer.
• Cookies do no generate popups.
• Cookies are not used for spamming.
• Cookies are not program code - they are only data.

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Benefits of Cookies

Store Login Information - Cookies are used any time that you login to a website or account. It recognizes if you are entering the correct data and are authorized to access that page or perform operations that are restricted only to you (or someone who has your user name and password.)

Personalization & Preferences - Based on choices that YOU have made either on your computer or with a specific server, that server displays what you have previously requested. For example, you may have indicated to a search engine, like Google, how many search results you want to see per page. That's using a cookie. Choosing a "skin" is data that's stored in a cookie and then returns your preference when you enter that site.

Tracking - Cookies can track an internet user's whereabouts within one specific website or across various websites.

• On a single website, it provides useful anonymous statistics regarding pages visited, etc.
• Across various websites, it provides anonymous information to advertising companies, building a profile on your search habits, targeting those items you are interested in. A good example of this is when you search for an item in Google, notice how all of the ads on the page are targeted and related to the items you searched for.

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Agloco Uses 2 Types of Cookies

Session - At the time that you submit your registration, and whenever you access your account information, Agloco's servers place a "session cookie." This type of cookie only lasts for the duration of your visit. It allows Agloco's servers to correctly display pages based on YOUR specific account information.

Persistent - These cookies are stored for a longer period of time and are used for the following reasons:

• To enable certain personalized experiences stored in your user preferences.
• To assist ad-serving vendors in not showing you the same ads repeatedly.
• To deliver specific content related to your interests.
• To save your password & username (clicking the "remember me" box) so you don't have to enter everything each time you login.

Please Note: Agloco has contractural arrangements with partners and ad-serving companies that restrict these 3rd parties from using these cookies for anything other than fulfilling their service to Agloco. This keeps your information private!

To learn how to remove cookies from your computer, ScyberBiz.com offers beginner through advanced trainings on the subject of Cookies, Cache & Temporary Internet Folders.

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