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Cookies Statement
What is a cookie?
When you enter a site your computer will automatically be issued with a cookie. Cookies are text files that identify your computer to our server. Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual user, just the computer used. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their site in order to track traffic flows.

Cookies themselves only record those areas of the site that have been visited by the computer in question, and for how long. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these, of course, means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user.

How to find and control your cookies?
If you're using Netscape 6.0:
On your Task Bar
Click Edit, then
Preferences
Click on Advanced
Click on Cookies

If you're using Internet Explorer 6.0:
Choose Tools, then
Internet Options
Click the Privacy Tab
Click on Custom Level
Click on the 'Advanced' button
Check the 'override automatic cookie handing' box
Select Accept, Block or Prompt for action as appropriate.

If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.5:
Choose Tools, then
Internet Options
Click the Security tab
Click on Custom Level
Scroll down to the sixth option to see how cookies are handled by IE5
Change to Accept, Disable, or Prompt for action as appropriate.

If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:
Choose View, then
Internet Options
Click the Advanced tab
Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon under Security
Choose one of the three options to regulate your use of cookies.

If you're using Internet Explorer 3.0:
On your Task Bar
Click View
Options
Advanced, then
Click on the button that says 'Warn before Accepting Cookies'.

If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0:
On your Task Bar
Click Edit, then
Preferences
Click on Advanced
Set your options in the box that says Cookies.
How do you know which of the sites you've visited use cookies?
If you're using Netscape 6.0:
On your Task Bar
Click Edit, then
Preferences
Click on Advanced
Click on Cookies
Click the View Cookies button

If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 6.0:
Choose Tools, then
Internet Options
Click the General tab
Click Settings
View Files

If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:
On your Task Bar
Click View, then
Internet Options
Under the tab General (the default tab)
Click Settings
View Files

If you're using Internet Explorer 3.0:
On your Task Bar
Click View
Options
Advanced
View Files

If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0:
Netscape bundles all cookies into one file on your hard drive. You'll need to find the file, which it calls Cookie.txt on Windows machines.

How to see your cookie code?
Just click on a cookie to open it. You'll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.

Last revised 02/02/07