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Our Privacy Promise
Information About Cookies
Cookies facilitate certain features that can make the surfing experience
more convenient and valuable for Web users.
A "cookie" is a small piece of information which a web
server can store on your web browser. This is useful for having your
browser remember some specific information which the web server can
later retrieve. As you browse the web, some cookies are
"set" on your Web browser. When you quit your browser,
some cookies are stored in your computer's memory in a cookie file,
while some expire, or disappear. All cookies have expiration dates.
The cookie is set on a particular browser on a particular computer,
so when you use a different computer, the cookie will not exist.
Cookies are used, for example, when a browser stores your password
to a particular site so that you do not have to input it every time
you visit. Cookies are also used to store preferences you express
for information that is then aggregated and presented to you.
Instances where cookies are most commonly used include:
Ordering Online Online
ordering systems can use cookies that remember what a person wants
to buy. Cookies enable users to keep browsing and adding to their
"shopping cart". They can even end a browser session, come
back, and still have the same items in their cart from the last
session, if they choose to.
Registering Online If
you decide to register for an informational site, such as a
newspaper, periodical or an interest group site, or even a chat
group or on-line community, so that you can use it on a regular
basis, you will likely be asked to supply some information about
yourself. Often cookies are used so that you do not have to identify
yourself every time you re-enter the site.
Site Personalization Cookies
allow users to indicate what types of information they are
interested in receiving when they visit a particular site. Users can
then view only what they are interested in and not waste time with
news or information of no interest to them
Web Site Tracking Tracking
allows site owners to find out what pages visitors link to, and
interpret or infer what is interesting to them. This helps the
owners of sites to keep their content fresh and relevant.
Targeted Marketing Cookies
can be used to build a profile of where on a particular site you
visit. This information is then used to target advertising that
might be of interest to you. Some sites use cookies to
"remember" which advertisements were sent to you, so that
you do not see the same ones again.
Security Cookies
cannot be used to obtain data from your hard drive, get your e-mail
address or steal sensitive or personal information about you. The
only way that any private information could be part of your cookie
file would be if you personally gave that information
to a Web server. Also, each cookie can only be read by the server
that set it, so strange servers cannot view or steal the information
in a cookie that you have previously accepted.
Note also that computer viruses are not passed through the setting
or use of cookies.
If you, as a visitor, want to disallow cookies you can do so on your
Web browser.
Return to the Privacy policy page. If appropriate, you can make the titles below links to pages showing
samples of your work.
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