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About Cookies

Petster uses cookies, read below our purpose for this.
In order to ensure that you see all our updates on the page, it is important that you regularly clear your web history on the data containing cookies.

A cookie is a small text-based data file that a web server can ask to have stored in the website visitor's computer. By generally sending the cookies back with each request to the site in question, it is possible for the server to keep track of the visitor's preferences or identity (as far as it is known).

The cookies may contain information in plain text (for example, preferences: language = en), but the content of the cookie is often encrypted so that the user cannot know what information it contains. Often, the cookie contains only one key to a database record on the server, with the user having no control over how much information is stored about him or her.

The cookies can indicate a time after which the cookies are no longer used. The cookies are then saved (depending on the browser settings) on the computer's hard drive, in order to be returned later. Otherwise, the cookies are only stored in the computer's working memory and are valid until the browser is turned off. The latter type of cookies are often called session cookies because they are used for a single session, not to store information about a customer between sessions.

Purpose

Our purpose of cookies

The cookies may contain information about individual preferences, for example in terms of language and text size. Often these preferences can be selected directly in the browser's settings without cookies, but many websites choose to require cookies instead of supporting the functionality built into the browser. However, more advanced choices, specific to a particular website, can be difficult to make without cookies.

Can also be used for other purposes

By the cookies an individual visitor can be followed either during a session or, with the help of cookies stored, for an extended period of time. This is often used for statistics and sometimes to improve the site's usability, but can also be used to create an image of individual visitors.

If the cookies are sent with content that is downloaded from another web server, such as advertising, the owner of the other server can follow the user in the same way. By naming the images differently on different websites, the owner of this other server can follow people as they visit different websites and, for example, post advertisements according to the type of user the person is classified as.

Risks

Common misconceptions about cookies are that it is a type of computer virus, that websites using cookies can find out personal information from a computer or that cookies are used to send spam. However, none of this is strictly true. Cookies are just data.
With the help of cookies associated with content from a website other than the one actually visited (often images, sometimes so small - 1 pixel - that they are not visible, or transparent) a user on a website can be linked to the same user at visit another site. This means that identity information can also be used when visiting websites where the user believes himself to be anonymous. Some browsers offer the ability to prevent uploading images from third-party servers to ensure anonymity in these situations. If you turn off the image viewer, you see placeholders for possible. hidden pictures. Marking everything can also reveal other things that are hidden in different ways.