Cookies
From SiteRay wiki
A Cookie is a mechanism for storing information on a user's computer when they visit webpages. By storing this information, it is possible for the website to appear to 'remember' the user between webpages. The most common uses for Cookies are:
- Login
- User tracking (e.g. for Analytics)
- E-commerce / shopping baskets
- Recognising a user when they return to a site
There are means of accomplishing many (but not all) of these things without Cookies, however generally they have proven the most popular and generally easiest means of implementing them.
Because they can be used to track users, Cookies are often considered a potential privacy risk, and it is considered good policy to explain their use (if any) in a privacy policy.
In SiteRay
SiteRay tests for the use of Cookies with the Cookies test.
