Raymond T.L. Tse & Co., Solicitors

What are Cookies and Web Beacons?

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This Web-Page and Web-Site use cookies, web beacons and other web technologies such as CAPTCHA’s to improve performance and enhance browsing experience.

 

A cookie is a text file created in a computer when a browser visits a web site on the computer. It includes an anonymous unique identifier of the computer. A cookie can only be used to identify a computer machine but is not used to collect any personal data or information. It could not identify an individual user/browser of the web site.

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Cookies cannot be used to run programmes or deliver viruses to the computer. They can only be read by a web server in the domain that issue the cookie. The  cookies inform the web server that the computer’s browser returns to a specific web page/site.

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A web beacon is a small graphic image that allows the party setting the web beacon to monitor and collect certain information about the browser of the web page/site, web-based documents or email message, such as the type of browsers requesting the web beacon, the IP address of the computer that the web beacon is sent to and the time the web beacon is viewed.

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Use of Cookies & Web Beacons