This site uses cookies to ensure a great user experience. If you continue to use without approving, we're going to assume you're ok with that. Cookies are small incremental pieces of data packaged in text format files, sent from a website and stored on the user's computer by the user's web browser, while the user is browsing. Cookies were designed to be a reliable mechanism for websites to remember browsing specific information (e.g… player positions, selections and history) or, to record the user's site activity (including item selections, logging in, or storing which pages were visited in the past). They can also be used to auto-fill form fields such as names, addresses, passwords, and credit-card numbers. Without cookie, sites would not perform most user interactive tasks on the internet.
Types of Cookies:
- Session cookie
- Persistent cookie
- Secure cookie
- Http-only cookie
- Same-site cookie
- Third-party cookie
- Supercookie
- Zombie cookie
R.A.S Cookie Uses
Session management
When the user visits a RAS's login page, a cookie containing a unique session identifier is sent to the user. When the user successfully logs in, the server remembers that that particular session identifier has been authenticated and grants the user access to its services.
Personalization
RAS uses cookies to remember the information about each user in order to show relevant content to that user over time.
EU cookie directive
In 2002, the European Union launched the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications, a policy requiring end users' consent for the placement of cookies, and similar technologies for storing and accessing information on users' equipment. In particular, Article 5 Paragraph 3 mandates that storing data in a user's computer can only be done if the user is provided information about how this data is used, and the user is given the possibility of denying this storing operation.
Directive 95/46/EC defines "the data subject's consent" as "any freely given specific and informed indication of his wishes by which the data subject signifies his agreement to personal data relating to him being processed”. Consent must involve some form of communication where individuals knowingly indicate their acceptance.
In 2009, the policy was amended by Directive 2009/136/EC, which included a change to Article 5, Paragraph 3. Instead of having an option for users to opt out of cookie storage, the revised Directive requires consent to be obtained for cookie storage.
In June 2012, European data protection authorities adopted an opinion which clarifies that some cookie users might be exempt from the requirement to gain consent:
- Some cookies can be exempted from informed consent under certain conditions if they are not used for additional purposes. These cookies include cookies used to keep track of a user's input when filling online forms or as a shopping cart.
- First-party analytics cookies are not likely to create a privacy risk if websites provide clear information about the cookies to users and privacy safeguards.
The P3P specification offers a possibility for a server to state a privacy policy using an HTTP header, which specifies which kind of information it collects and for which purpose. These policies include (but are not limited to) the use of information gathered using cookies. According to the P3P specification, a browser can accept or reject cookies by comparing the privacy policy with the stored user preferences or ask the user, presenting them the privacy policy as declared by the server.
Third-party cookies can be blocked by most browsers to increase privacy and reduce tracking by advertising and tracking companies without negatively affecting the user's web experience. Many advertising operators have an opt-out option to behavioural advertising, with a generic cookie in the browser stopping behavioural advertising.
Ref.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie
