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Remembering items in a shopping cart
Saving language or theme preferences
Personalization:
Tailoring content or ads based on your previous activity
Tracking & Analytics:
Monitoring browsing behavior for analytics or marketing purposes
Types of Cookies:
Session Cookies:
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Used for things like keeping you logged in during a single session
Persistent Cookies:
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Used for remembering login credentials, settings, etc.
First-Party Cookies:
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Third-Party Cookies:
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Commonly used for tracking across multiple sites
Authentication cookies are a special type of web cookie used to identify and verify a user after they log in to a website or web application.
What They Do:
Once you log in to a site, the server creates an authentication cookie and sends it to your browser. This cookie:
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Prevents you from having to log in again on every page you visit
Can persist across sessions if you select "Remember me"
What's Inside an Authentication Cookie?
Typically, it contains:
A unique session ID (not your actual password)
Optional metadata (e.g., expiration time, security flags)
Analytics cookies are cookies used to collect data about how visitors interact with a website. Their primary purpose is to help website owners understand and improve user experience by analyzing things like:
How users navigate the site
Which pages are most/least visited
How long users stay on each page
What device, browser, or location the user is from
What They Track:
Some examples of data analytics cookies may collect:
Page views and time spent on pages
Click paths (how users move from page to page)
Bounce rate (users who leave without interacting)
User demographics (location, language, device)
Referring websites (how users arrived at the site)
Here’s how you can disable cookies in common browsers:
1. Google Chrome
Open Chrome and click the three vertical dots in the top-right corner.
Go to Settings > Privacy and security > Cookies and other site data.
Choose your preferred option:
Block all cookies (not recommended, can break most websites).
Block third-party cookies (can block ads and tracking cookies).
2. Mozilla Firefox
Open Firefox and click the three horizontal lines in the top-right corner.
Go to Settings > Privacy & Security.
Under the Enhanced Tracking Protection section, choose Strict to block most cookies or Custom to manually choose which cookies to block.
3. Safari
Open Safari and click Safari in the top-left corner of the screen.
Go to Preferences > Privacy.
Check Block all cookies to stop all cookies, or select options to block third-party cookies.
4. Microsoft Edge
Open Edge and click the three horizontal dots in the top-right corner.
Go to Settings > Privacy, search, and services > Cookies and site permissions.
Select your cookie settings from there, including blocking all cookies or blocking third-party cookies.
5. On Mobile (iOS/Android)
For Safari on iOS: Go to Settings > Safari > Privacy & Security > Block All Cookies.
For Chrome on Android: Open the app, tap the three dots, go to Settings > Privacy and security > Cookies.
Be Aware:
Disabling cookies can make your online experience more difficult. Some websites may not load properly, or you may be logged out frequently. Also, certain features may not work as expected.
FOI #26-293 (04-23-26, 3:05 pm) - Subject - Coaching Contracts
Name - Student Student
Affiliation - Student
Under the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act § 1-200 et seq., I am requesting an opportunity to inspect or obtain copies of the most recent employment contracts for each of the following coaches:
Mike Cavanaugh – Men's Ice Hockey
Chris MacKenzie – Women's Ice Hockey
Jim Penders - Baseball
Laura Valentino – Softball
Dave Pezzino - Golf
If access to the records I am requesting will take longer than four days, please contact me with information about when I might expect copies or the ability to inspect the requested records. I am also open to receiving records as they become available.
Please provide these documents via email. If some documents cannot be shared over email, please share those that can and inform me of the cost of any potential copies before making them.
If any portion of this request is denied, please let me know the reasons in writing.
FOI #26-289 - Subject - Low Income Taxpayer Clinic
Name - Taylor Pinon
Affiliation - University of Missouri-Kansas City
Your organization's Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) Grant Expense Form (IRS Form 13424) for calendar years 2024 and 2025. Specifically, I request the final forms for 2024 and, if available, the interim and final forms for 2025.
Under the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act § 1-200 et seq., I am requesting an opportunity to inspect or obtain copies of public records related to the following case:
FOI #26-287 - Subject - Student Housing Cancellation Records
Name - Louise McKenna
Affiliation -
Pursuant to the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act (C.G.S. § 1-200 et seq.), I hereby request copies of the following public records and data maintained by the University of Connecticut's Department of Residential Life and the Office of the Bursar:
1. Records of any waitlisted students (names redacted) who were assigned to the Stamford campus housing capacity previously associated with my son’s application following its cancellation.
2. Systemic Policy & Data Records (Fall 2025 & Fall 2026 cycles):
- Aggregate data showing the total number of students whose housing applications were administratively cancelled by UConn after July 15, 2025, due to "non-selection" of a room.
- Data indicating how many of those students were subsequently billed 100% of the housing rate.
- Internal policies or guidelines defining the "student accountability" criteria used by the Associate Vice President for Student Life to uphold housing fees for non-service.
PDF copy of your 2025 NCAA membership report (FY 2024-25) which was likely filed in January of this year.
The purpose of the request is to compile data reported in the FY 2025 NCAA member reporting to establish a pre-revenue sharing era benchmark average of categorized annual expenditures for all NCAA Division I schools.
The data compilations will assist in providing accurate information to the media, federal legislative staff here in Washington, DC as well as the general public. This information is not being sought or used for commercial purposes.
Thank you, I appreciate your assistance on this request.
FOI #26-284 - Subject - Practice Football Athletic Field Renovation
Name - Mark Zurada
Affiliation -
Please send the final and compiled bid tabulation (bid tally), including all quantities and unit pricing for each bidder, for 'Practice Football Athletic Field Renovation' that was submitted on 04/06/2021. I believe the project number is 'LM030921', but I could be mistaken. If so, please use the project name and date to lookup the responsive documents. We specifically request the line-item bid tabulation showing each material, quantity, unit, and unit price for every bidder. If no such line-item tally was created, please provide the full bid submissions from each contractor. A grand total sheet alone is not sufficient to satisfy this request unless it was a lump sum bid.
Below is an example of the format we are looking for that the engineer usually creates at the completion of the bid: