• enabling our service to recognize your device so that you don't have to give the same information to us several times;

• recognizing that you may already have given a username and password so that you don't need to do it for every web page requested; and/or,

• measuring how many people are using services, to make the services easier to use and to ensure sufficient capacity for quick delivery to your web browser.



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