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      type="topic" style="task"
      id="cookies">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="index#privacy"/>
    <link type="guide" xref="data"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.10" date="2013-07-02" status="candidate"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">
      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
      <email its:translate="no">kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
      <years>2013</years>
    </credit>

    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
  </info>

  <title>What are cookies?</title>

  <comment>
    <cite date="2013-07-02">Kat</cite>
    <p>I am assuming that our average reader will not know what a cookie is, so
    this is included in both data-cookies and pref-cookies.</p>
  </comment>

  <p>A browser <em>cookie</em> is a small piece of data sent from a website and
  stored on your computer while you are browsing that website. When you
  return to the same website in the future, the data stored in the cookie can
  be retrieved by the website to notify the website of your previous activity.
  Cookies are a common method used by web servers to know whether you are
  logged in to an account on a specific website or not.</p>

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