Purposes of storage and gaining access to cookies:

Website personalisation (for example: saving font size, sight challenged version of website or template version)
Saving data or user’s decisions (for example: no need to enter login and password on every website, remembering login during the next visit, keeping information on products added to cart)
Social websites integration (for example: displaying your friends, fans or post publishing on Facebook or Google+ directly from the website)
Adjusting adverts that are display on the website
Creating website’s statistics and flow statistics between different websites

Below one can find links to sources showing how to set the conditions of storage and gaining access to cookies already stored in user’s device for the most popular internet browsers.

Firefox
Chrome
Internet Explorer
Opera
Safari

Due to vast number of technological solutions it is not possible to publish clear guidelines how to set the conditions of storage and gaining access to cookies using settings of all available devices and software installed on them. However, in most cases, select “Tools” or “Settings” and there find the section that corresponds to the configuration settings for cookies or for the management of privacy. Detailed information is usually provided by the manufacturer of the device or browser in a manual or on their website.