What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that is placed and stored on your computer, smartphone - or any other device that provides Internet access - when you open a website.
Cookies allow websites to recognize you, to remember when you visit a specific website, to establish a secure connection with a website, and to increase the user experience and browsing comfort by adapting the Internet content to your preferences and interests.
The information stored by cookies is linked for a certain period to the websites you open using your mobile device, to the ads you clicked on, to the browser program you use, as well as to the information you share on a web page, as well as - in some cases - also to your IP address.