What are “cookies?
Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computers hard drive. Cookies do not contain any identifying information, but they do enable us to store items in your shopping cart between visits. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser preferences to prevent this. Even without a cookie, you can use all of the features in our store, including placing items in your shopping cart and purchasing them.
Cookies will save login and “shopping cart” information to make your next trip to BatteriesPlus.com more efficient. Cookies are not bad; they store information on a user’s computer by a Web Browser at the request of software on the web site. Web sites use cookies to recognize users who have previously visited them. The next time the user accesses that site, the information in the cookie is sent back to the user so the information displayed can vary depending on the user’s preferences.
Cookies are small bits of information a website sends to your browser to remember information that is specific to you. They are most often used to store information that is user specific. If you are a frequent visitor to a newspaper site, then a cookie may be used to store your personal preferences; e.g, you may wish to go directly to the stock quote page on the entry site. A website you visit can read the information on your cookie and act accordingly. In order to use Coast Online Banking, cookies must be enabled. It is simple to enable and disable cookies using the HELP function on your browser.
Short Answer: A Cookie (Short for Persistent Client State HTTP Cookie) is sent through the headers of server-client interactions. They contain whatever information is set by the server. From then on, this information is transferred by the client to the server whenever it accesses a directory in the path and domain it was set from until it expires. Long Answer: From Netscape’s Persistent Client State HTTP Cookies: “Cookies are a general mechanism which server side connections (such as CGI scripts) can use to both store and retrieve information on the client side of the connection. The addition of a simple, persistent, client-side state significantly extends the capabilities of Web-based client/server applications.” One thing that cookies cannot do is read from your hard drive, get your e-mail address or anything else that a normal CGI cannot do. Cookies can only contain as much information about you as you disclose on the site which sets the cookie.
