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COOKIES DEFINED & EXPLAINED The term "cookie" is the name given to a small file of information (normally less than 1k) that a website, accessed by you the visitor, places onto your hard disk drive so that the depositing site can remember something about you when you access that site, or in some cases other sites, at a later time. The term cookie derives from UNIX program objects called "magic cookies". These are digital tokens that are attached to a user or program and that change depending on the areas entered by the user or the program selected by that user. Typically, the cookie records your preferences when using a particular website. Using the internet's HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), each request that you make for a webpage is independent of every other request. For this reason, the webpage server (the computer system where the requested information is stored) has no memory of pages that it has previously sent to a user or anything about their previous visits, if any, without the utilization of cookie technology.
We may utilize both types of cookies. The cookie technology utilized by our websites deposits a cookie that normally expires within six months, so that there should be little concern about collecting and storing outdated and unnecessary information. We never collect personally identifiable information. You can view the cookies that have been stored on your hard disk drive, although the content stored in each cookie may not make much sense. The location of the cookies depends on your browser. Internet Explorer stores cookies as separate files in a Windows folder named "\Cookies." Netscape stores all cookies in a single "cookies.txt" file. Opera stores them in a single "cookies.dat" file. Cookies are most commonly used to alternate the advertising content that a website sends to your screen, so that it does not keep sending the same ads again and again as you receive a succession of requested webpages. Cookies can also be used to customize requested pages based on your browser type, video characteristics, or other information that you may have provided to that website. Web users must agree, in their browser setup, or manually depending on their system settings, to allow cookies be saved on their hard disk drive. As a general rule, cookies help website operators serve their users better and more quickly. On all of the webpages on this website there is no personally identifiable information conveyed in either direction, either sent or received and stored, in a cookie. There is nothing transmitted to which you have not consented, and there is never any information externally aggregated or exchanged. Cookies do not read your hard drive and send your life story to the CIA. A cookie, however, can be used to gather more information about a user than would be generally possible without their use, generally about use patterns. Keep in mind, you control the information and the acceptance of cookies.
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