What cookies are
Cookies are small text files that a website places on your device when you visit. There are also related techniques such as local storage and session storage, which let the browser store information locally. For convenience, this policy refers to all of these as "cookies".
Cookies can be set by us (first-party) or by an external service that is active on our pages (third-party). They may disappear as soon as you close your browser (session cookies) or remain stored for a set period (persistent cookies).