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Cookie

nounid 2022·updated May 12, 2026
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Pieces of data generated or collected in web browsers or by a web server and stored in either a user's computer or web server and are ready for use by the web application when the user browses the application in the future. This data can then be used by an entity hosting the web server to identify and track the user's browsing history and searches or when the user returns to the website. Cookies are also designed to help personalize the web content presented to a user of the browser on which the cookies were stored based on prior interests, preferences, searches and the locations where the user logged in. Cookies can be used to offer targeted marketing materials and items of potential interest based on the user's previous internet sessions. Advertisers can use cookies and other tracking methods to analyze user behaviors. When different users use a computer that was previously used by another person, the website may inspect the cookies could execute the new user's session using the wrong user's preferences. For this reason, recent privacy legislation has focused on the collection of a browser's cookies and browsing history and the use of that data by a website's owner, processor, operator or controller.

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Classifications

Entity Type

Data0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1

Sensitivity

60%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Information Class

50%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

Variants

synonym
biscuitcooky
plural
Cookies
possessive
Cookie's
pluralpossessive
Cookies'

Framework definitions

SANS Glossary of Security Terms1 senseview framework →
§1
Data exchanged between an HTTP server and a browser (a client of the server) to store state information on the client side and retrieve it later for server use. An HTTP server, when sending data to a client, may send along a cookie, which the client retains after the HTTP connection closes. A server can use this mechanism to maintain persistent client-side state information for HTTP-based applications, retrieving the state information in later connections.
NISTIR 7298: Glossary of Key Information Security Terms, Revision 22 sensesview framework →
§1
A piece of state information supplied by a Web server to a browser, in a response for a requested resource, for the browser to store temporarily and return to the server on any subsequent visits or requests.
§2 · sense_2_pending_review
Data exchanged between an HTTP server and a browser (a client of the server) to store state information on the client side and retrieve it later for server use.
CNSSI-4009 (Glossary of Information Assurance Terms)1 senseview framework →
§1
Data exchanged between an HTTP server and a browser (a client of the server) to store state information on the client side and retrieve it later for server use.
NIST SP 800-281 senseview framework →
§1
A piece of state information supplied by a Web server to a browser, in a response for a requested resource, for the browser to store temporarily and return to the server on any subsequent visits or requests.
Wordset Dictionary3 sensesview framework →
§1
a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site
§2
any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)
§3
the cook on a ranch or at a camp
AICPA Privacy Management Framework1 senseview framework →
§1 · glossary
Pieces of data generated or collected in web browsers or by a web server and stored in either a user's computer or web server and are ready for use by the web application when the user browses the application in the future. This data can then be used by an entity hosting the web server to identify and track the user's browsing history and searches or when the user returns to the website. Cookies are also designed to help personalize the web content presented to a user of the browser on which the cookies were stored based on prior interests, preferences, searches and the locations where the user logged in. Cookies can be used to offer targeted marketing materials and items of potential interest based on the user's previous internet sessions. Advertisers can use cookies and other tracking methods to analyze user behaviors. When different users use a computer that was previously used by another person, the website may inspect the cookies could execute the new user's session using the wrong user's preferences. For this reason, recent privacy legislation has focused on the collection of a browser's cookies and browsing history and the use of that data by a website's owner, processor, operator or controller.
Attribution from the CKI glossary mapping stage (glossary)
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
A piece of state information supplied by a Web server to a browser, in a response for a requested resource, for the browser to store temporarily and return to the server on any subsequent visits or requests.
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