WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Whenever you browse a website, certain data is stored on your system. This data is known as cookie. It can contain any data that the website places in it. They are actually designed to be readable by the website that stored the data. There are two types of cookies i.e. Session cookies and Persistent cookies.
Session cookies are cleared as soon as the browser is closed whereas Persistent cookies remain on your system until the specified expiration date. These pose threat as they stay for a long period. These cookies help the website to uniquely identify the visitor which some may consider as a privacy violation. Hence setting cookie options for websites is recommended.