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Cookies were originally designed to help a website distinguish a user's browser as a previous visitor and thus save and remember any preferences
that may have been set while the user was browsing the site. A cookie is a small string of text that a website can send to your browser. A cookie cannot retrieve any other data from your hard drive,
pass on computer viruses, or capture your E-mail address. Currently, websites use cookies to enhance the user's visit; in general, cookies can securely store a user's ID and password, personalize home
pages, identify which parts of a site have been visited or keep track of selections in a "shopping cart."
If you are just browsing our website, a cookie identifies only your browser.
If you become a registered user on our website (with a designated user ID and password), we may use cookies so that we can provide personalized information that we believe will be of value to you based on preferences you have indicated while visiting the site. It is possible to set your browser to inform you when a cookie is being placed -- this way, you have the opportunity to decide whether to accept the cookie. If you are just browsing our site and are not a registered user, you do not have to accept a cookie and you may still continue utilizing the site. However, if you are visiting our site and you will be accessing your confidential account information), you must accept cookies as they are essential for site administration and security. Here is how to set your cookie preferences:
Netscape Navigator 3: Select Network Preferences from the Options
menu. From the Network Preferences menu, select the Protocols tab and modify your preference if you wish to be warned before accepting cookies.
Netscape Navigator 4: Select Preferences from the Edit
menu.
From the Preferences menu, select Advanced, and several options for cookies will be listed in the lower right of the menu. Additionally, you may select Help for more details. For further information about the Netscape browser and use of cookies, visit Netscape's website.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3: Select Options from the View menu.
Choose the Advanced menu to modify your preference if you wish to be warned before accepting cookies.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4: Select Options from the
View menu. Choose the Advanced menu and scroll to the section labeled "Cookies," where several options are listed.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5: Select Internet Options
from the Tools menu.
Choose the Security menu, click on the Internet icon then click on custom level. Scroll to the section labeled "Cookies," where several options are listed. For further information about the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser and use of cookies, visit Microsoft's website.
AOL: If you are using AOL v3.0 for Windows 95: Select Preferences
from the Members menu. Click on the WWW icon and select Advanced. Modify your preference if you wish to be warned before accepting cookies.
If you are using the following AOL browsers, you will not be able to set cookie preferences since these browsers automatically accept cookies:
- AOL v3.0 for Windows 3.0, using AOL's proprietary browser or
AOL's version of Microsoft Internet Explorer v3.0;
- AOL for the MAC, using AOL's version of Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.1.
All other
earlier versions of AOL browsers do not support cookies, and therefore cannot authenticate you as a registered user on our website pages that involve sending or receiving personal account information.
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