What is a Cookie?
Many websites you view would utilise cookies in order to refine your user encounter by authorizing that website to ‘recall’ you, either for the time of your visit (utilising a ‘session cookie’) or for continuous visits (utilising a ‘persistent cookie’). Cookies do a number of various jobs, such as allowing you to steer amid pages in an orderly fashion, keeping your favourites, and normally enhancing your encounter with a website. Cookies make the communication between you and the website quicker and simpler. If a website doesn’t utilise cookies, it would think you are a new visitor each time you go to a new page on the site.
Cookies might be placed by the website you are visiting (‘first-party cookies’) or they might be placed by other websites that run content on the page you are visiting (‘third-party cookies).
A cookie is an uncomplicated text file that is kept on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server and only that server would be able to recover or read the contents of that cookie. Every cookie is distinctive to your web browser.
How to Control Cookies?
All current types of famous browsers offer users a standard of control over cookies. Users could assign their browsers to receive or decline all, or specific, cookies. Users could also assign their browser to persuade them every time a cookie is provided. Find out more at www.allaboutcookies.org or http://www.youronlinechoices.com.
What is the purpose of cookies?
Cookies make the communication between users and websites quicker and simpler. Web sites utilise cookies mostly due to the reason that they save time and make the browsing encounter more orderly and entertaining. Web sites frequently utilise cookies for the aim of accumulating statistical details about their users. Cookies allow websites to observe their users’ web surfing routines and study them for marketing reasons (for instance, to discover which merchandise or services they are fascinated in).
Types of Cookies
Cookies come in various flavours:
The session, or transient cookies
Session cookies are never registered on the hard drive and they do not gather any details from the user’s computer. Session cookies finish at the end of the user’s browser session and could also become no longer available after the session has been idle for a stated length of time, normally 20 minutes.
Permanent, persistent, or stowed cookies
Cookies that are kept on the user’s computer and are not deleted when the browser is closed. Enduring cookies could keep user likings for a specific website, permitting those likings to be utilised in future browsing sessions.
Permanent cookies could be utilised to recognize separate users, so they might be used by websites to analyze users’ surfing habits inside the website. These cookies could also be utilised to offer details about the number of visitors, the normal time spent on a certain page and normally the performance of the website. They are normally constructed to keep a record of users for an extended period of time, in some cases many years into the future.
Are cookies dangerous?
No. Cookies are tiny sections of text. They are not computer programs, and they can’t be executed as code. Also, they cannot be utilized to dispersed viruses, and current types of both Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape browsers permit users to place their own restrictions on the number of cookies saved on their hard drives.
Cookies are kept on the computer’s hard drive. They cannot enter the hard drive – so a cookie can’t read other data saved on the hard drive, or get a user’s e-mail address etc. They only hold and convey to the server as much data as the users themselves have revealed to a particular website.
Why does www.reky-travel.de use cookies?
- We use cookies to: understand the total number of visitors to our sites on an ongoing basis and the types of internet browsers and operating systems used by our visitors (website analytics);
- monitor our site performance and improve our website;
Website analytics:
Website analytics, including Google Analytics, help us understand how visitors engage with our website. We can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with our website and mobile apps so that they can improve them.
Website analytics uses first-party cookies to track visitor interactions as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how visitors use our website and mobile apps. We then use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our site.
For example, Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors.
Please read also our Privacy policy and Terms & conditions pages.