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When studying privacy, it may be a good idea for the attorney to learn about cookies.  Some web sites use cookies.  A cookie is a unique text file that may be used for data analysis, and enables a web site to tailor information presented to a user based on a user’s browsing program. 

A web site may use cookies to personalize a user’s pages at the web site, to remember a user when the user registers for products or services, or to track visits to the web site.  If a user does not want the web site to deploy cookies in the user’s browser, the user may set the browser to reject cookies or to notify the user when a web site tries to place cookies in the browser program.  Rejecting cookies may affect a user’s ability to use some of the products, features, functions, or services on the web site.