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TO ENABLE COOKIES
Cookies are tiny files saved to your computer to make it easier to use this site. They pose no danger to you or your computer. For a detailed explanation, read All About Cookies below.
 
Follow these instructions to ACTIVATE COOKIES --
 
Your current browser: Unknown: CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)
 
Instructions for:
 
AOL Version 5+
 
From the AOL Home page:
  1. click Settings, then select Preferences from the drop-down menu OR press CTRL+K (for Keywords) and type in Preferences
  2. Scroll down and Select Internet Settings. A menu will pop up.
  3. Click on the Privacy tab.
  4. Lower the lever on the left to LOW
  5. Click APPLY and then OK
  6. Close the Internet Properties window.
To view the instructions on the AOL website:
http://help.channels.aol.com/article.adp?catId=3&sCId=304&sSCId=3041&articleId=217267
 
INTERNET EXPLORER Version 5+
  1. Select option TOOLS (or SETTINGS) from headings at the TOP of your screen.
  2. From drop down menu, select INTERNET OPTIONS.
  3. A pop-up box will appear. From the tabs at the top of the box, select PRIVACY.
  4. In the middle of the box you will see a vertical slider. Using your mouse, CLICK on this lever and move it until it reads LOW to the right of the lever.
  5. Select APPLY. Then select OK. The pop-up box will disappear.
 
NETSCAPE Version 6+
  1. Select Edit->Preferences from the menu bar at the top of the screen
  2. From the list at the left, click on the arrow next to Privacy & Security
  3. Click on Cookies in the list that drops down
  4. Select Allow cookies for the originating web site only
  5. Click the OK button at the bottom
NETSCAPE Version 4.x
  1. Select Edit->Preferences from the menu bar at the top of the screen
  2. In the Cookies area select Accept all cookies or Accept only cookies that get sent back to the originating server
  3. Click the OK button at the bottom
If you continue to have difficulties, Call our toll free # 1-866-850-5999.
 
ALL ABOUT COOKIES
Okay, here's the scoop: Cookies are small (limited to 8K by convention) pieces of information that a website may place on your computer through a carefully controlled and so far un-hacked interface between the web server, your browser, and your operating system.
 
This information can include pretty much anything you've "told" the website in question, including:
  • your IP address (a randomly generated "address" assigned to you when you log onto the Internet),
  • the page you came from to get to this site (but only if you clicked a link on that page—they can't tell where you were if you selected a site from your Favorites list),
  • the brand and version of your browser and operating system,
  • the current time and date,
  • the pages you visit on this site
  • how much time you spend between clicks, and
  • any information you may have entered into a form on this site.
 
Basically, a cookie can only contain information you have explicitly or implicitly (by using the Internet) told a website.
 
It's important to note (and believe) that cookies cannot be used to obtain any information about you or the files on your computer that you don't want them to have! There isn't even any way a website (or the evil megacorp behind it) can determine anything about your life or surfing habits from spying on what you've been doing on the Internet. A website can only "see" a cookie written by that website.
 
Many websites (especially sites where there's some interaction with the users) such as online stores, "chat" systems, etc., use cookies to keep track of who they're talking to. Every time you "hit" a page on the Internet, you are seen as another annonymous entity requesting a web page. Without a cookie, or some other method of identifying you as someone who was just doing something on this website, there wouldn't be any way to:
  • collect items in a "shopping cart",
  • allow access to "members only" sections,
  • display your account information, or
  • do any of the other cool, interactive things we like to do on the Internet.
 
Most cookies, including the one we write on this site, actually just contain a unique number that the site can use to look you up in its database.
 
There has been much (arguably justified) paranoia lately about personal privacy—especially on the Internet. Unfortunately, cookies have been lumped in with everything from viruses and spyware to the Microsoft anti-trust suits, and have gotten an unjustifiably bad rep. As a result, many companies and offices have installed firewalls and other network security software that effectively blocks any attempt by any outside entity to read or write any data to/from their protected, internal network.
 
The browser companies have responded by making "Don't Allow Any Cookies" the default setting when you install or upgrade your browser software. And then everybody is scared to turn that "protection" off.
 
Rest assured, cookies CANNOT damage your computer, invade your privacy, compromise your personal security, or spread infectious disease!
 
Be not afraid! Cookies are your friends. They exist only to make your life easier. Cast aside your fears and accept them into your life! (That applies to chocolate-chip cookies too!).
 
Of course, if you are accessing this site from a firewall-protected network, the local Internet cafe, a library or your local KINKOs, or for any reason just don't want to allow us to write a cookie to the computer you are using, BE ASSURED: you can still use this website. You will just be prompted for your User ID and Password whenever it is required to verify who you are. ALSO, you can delete the cookie at any time by clicking the Log Off link at the bottom of any page.
 
 
 
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