What Is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small piece of text sent to your browser by a website you visit. It helps the website to remember information about your visit, like your preferred language and other settings. That can make your next visit easier and the site more useful to you. Cookies play an important role. Without them, using the web would be a much more disappointing experience.

We use cookies for many purposes. We use them, for instance, to remember your location, to make the featured events you see more relevant to you, to improve the user experience using linked events, help you sign up for our services and to protect your data.

You can see a list of the types of cookie used by Evedo and also find out how Evedo uses cookies in event advertising.

Types of Cookies Used by Evedo

We use different types of cookie to run Evedo event services. Some or all of the cookies identified below may be stored in your browser. You can view and manage cookies in your browser; some browsers for mobile devices may not offer this visibility.

1. Preferences:
   These cookies allow Evedo to remember information that changes the way the site behaves or looks, such as your preferred language or the region you are in. For instance, by remembering your region, a website may be able to provide you with precise local event suggestions. These cookies can also assist you in other personalizations.
2. Security:
   Evedo uses security cookies to authenticate users, prevent fraudulent use of login credentials, and protect user data from unauthorized parties.
3. Processes:
   Process cookies help make the website work and deliver services that the website visitor expects, like navigating around web pages or accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, the website cannot function properly.

Managing Cookies in Your Browser

Some people prefer not to allow cookies, which is why most browsers give you the ability to manage cookies to suit you.

In some browsers you can set up rules to manage cookies on a site-by-site basis, giving you more fine-tuning control over your privacy. What this means is that you can dismiss cookies from all sites except those that you trust.

In the Google Chrome browser, the Tools menu contains an option to Clear Browsing Data. You can use this option to delete cookies and other site and plug-in data, including data stored on your device by the Adobe Flash Player (commonly known as Flash cookies). See our instructions for managing cookies in Chrome.

If you are concerned about cookies in Safari, you can set how you want Safari to handle them. Open Safari if it is not already open. Choose Safari > Preferences, and then click Privacy. In the “Block cookies” section, specify if and when Safari should accept cookies from websites. To see an explanation of the options, click the Help button (question mark). If you want to see which websites store cookies on your computer, click Details. If you set Safari to block cookies, you may need to temporarily accept cookies to open a page. Repeat the above steps, selecting Never. When you’re done with the page, block cookies again, and then remove the page’s cookies.

If you are concerned about cookies in Mozilla Firefox, you can set how you want Mozilla Firefox to handle them.

To check or change your settings:

1. On the menu bar, click on the Firefox menu and select Preferences.
2. Select the Privacy panel.
3. Set Firefox will: to Use custom settings for history.
4. Check mark Accept cookies from sites to enable Cookies, and uncheck it to disable them.
   • If you are troubleshooting problems with cookies, make sure Accept third party cookies is also not set to Never. For more information, see Disable third-party cookies in Firefox to stop some types of tracking by advertisers.
5. Choose how long cookies are allowed to be stored:
   • Keep until: they expire: Each cookie will be removed when it reaches its expiration date, which is set by the site that sent the cookie.
   • Keep until: I close Firefox: The cookies that are stored on your computer will be removed when Firefox is closed.
   • Keep until: ask me every time: Displays an alert every time a website tries to send a cookie, and asks you whether or not you want to store it.
6. Close the Preferences window.