What are third-party cookies?
Computer cookies that are stored by a site other than the one you are visiting are called third-party cookies. Web sites sometimes use third-party cookies with transparent GIFs (“web beacons” or “web bugs”) – special images that help sites count users, learn more about how visitors use the site, or customize your browsing experience. If your browser allows to store site’s cookie, it will return the cookie only to that particular site. Your browser will not provide one site with computer cookies set by another. A web site can only receive its own cookies, it can learn about your activities while you are visiting this site but not other sites. But sometimes a web site displays content that is hosted on another web site. That content can be anything from an image to text or an advertisement. The other web site that hosts such elements also has the ability to store a cookie in your browser, even if you don’t visit the site directly. If you want, you can adjust your cookie preferences so yo
