Cookies are small text files that are placed on your machine. Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, storing your preferences, and generally improving your experience of a website. They make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts and provide anonymised data to third party applications like Google analytics.
Cookies will generally make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on the Whisper Website (and on other websites too). The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. Details of how to do this may be found in the Help section of your browser or by taking a look at www.aboutcookies.org or www.cookiesandyou.com which offer guidance for all modern browsers.