Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit a website. They contain information about your browsing preferences and history. Cookies are commonly used to enhance user experience, analyze website performance, and provide personalized content. These strings, which do not contain any executable code, are used for various purposes, such as performing automatic authentications, tracking sessions, and storing information to enhance site navigation or the user’s browsing experience. Each domain visited through a browser can set one or more cookies. An Internet page may contain objects from multiple different domains, each of which can set cookies (in this case, they are called “third-party cookies”). Using cookies allows for an improved browsing experience on the website and can retain the settings chosen during your next visit.

The general provision of the Data Protection Authority (Official Gazette No. 126 of June 3, 2014) defines two types of cookies:

1. Technical Cookies: Used solely to enable communication transmission, fulfill a user-requested service, or perform statistical research

2. Profiling Cookies: Used to record user behavior and preferences to send advertising messages tailored to their profile.