Cookies are small text files stored by us inside your browser. This allows us to give your browser a short- and long-term memory.

In general, all cookies we set are necessary to provide functionality on our sites. The cookies include:

Used for remembering helpful user preferences, like the size of the editor textarea.

• Importance: functional
• Typical content: name/value pairs in plain text
• Expires: in a year

The standard PHP session identifier. Used to hold temporary data and to avoid CSRF attacks.

• Importance: necessary
• Typical content: random ID
• Expires: at the end of the browser session

Some of the third party services we use (see below) may also set their own cookies. We explain those further down. Your browser has settings to control which cookies it accepts and for how long it stores them. How to enable cookies.