What are cookies?
A cookie (the origin of the name is unknown) is a text variable created by a website and stored by the browser. Cookies allow you to store data directly from an HTML file on the user's computer and read it again when the same HTML file is called up again. This allows a website to respond dynamically to stored data.
It is only possible to read cookies that you have set yourself. Virus transmission via cookies is impossible. A variable with an assigned value is stored, for example, the date and time of the last visit to the website. No user computer data can be read.
Cookies make surfing more convenient, for example by saving personal settings or shopping carts, but they can also be misused, for example to create user profiles.
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Which cookies are used?
The following cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be disabled.
| Cookie | Duration | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| PHPSESSID | session | This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a user's unique session id in order to manage the user session on the website. The cookie is a session cookie and is deleted when all browser windows are closed. |
| XSRF-TOKEN | session | Laravel stores the current CSRF token in this encrypted XSRF-TOKEN cookie, which is included in every response generated by the framework. |
| cats_tools_session | session | As soon as a user starts a new session, Laravel generates a unique session id and stores it in this cookie. |
| cats_tools_cc | 1 Year | This cookie is created as soon as the information about the use of cookies has been confirmed. As long as this cookie is set, the information will not be displayed again. |