A
cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique
identifier that is sent to your computer or mobile phone (referred to
here as a "device") browser from a website's computer and is stored on
your device's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your
browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your
privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it
has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to
track online traffic flows.
Cookies record
information about your online preferences and allow us to tailor the
websites to your interests. Users have the opportunity to set their
devices to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued,
or not to receive cookies at any time.
During
the course of any visit to xfileservers.net, the pages you see, along
with a cookie, are downloaded to your device. Many websites do this,
because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find
out whether the device (and probably its user) has visited the website
before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding,
the cookie left there on the last visit.