Are Cookies dangerous?

From Wiki

There are a lot of myths surrounding cookies, mostly making them out to be in some way dangerous for your computer or infringing of privacy rights.

Cookies are, in fact, nothing more than very small text files that are placed on your computer/browser when you visit certain websites. Companies can then track certain information about sites a computer has visited by reading these files.

Affiliate Window cookies do not contain any personal data and they are only read by our servers. Cookies allow affiliates to promote businesses via an ethical, performance-based model. They also allow user experiences to be more targeted and tailored.

Despite this, users are able to, and do, configure their browsers to prevent cookies from being accepted or stored. While this is of little advantage to the user, the challenge for affiliate networks is to adapt tracking methods to minimise untracked sale issues.

Affiliate Window have a range of techniques including first & third party cookies, IP checks, eTags and Flash cookies.

Despite their bad press cookies:

• Cannot contain viruses

• Cannot access or read your hard drive

• Cannot access you personal information (such as an email address)

• Cannot send emails or control any functions on your computer