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What Are Cookies, and How Do They Work?
A cookie is a small bit of information that a web site stores on your computer. When you revisit the web site, your browser sends the information back to the site. Usually a cookie is designed to remember and tell a web site some useful information about you. For example, an online bookstore might use a cookie to record the authors and titles of books you have ordered. When you return to the online bookstore, your browser lets the bookstore's site read the cookie. The site might then compile a list of books by the same authors, or books on related topics, and show you that list.
This activity is invisible to you. Unless you have set your preferences so that you will be alerted when a cookie is being stored on your computer, you won't know about it. When you return to a web site, you won't know that a cookie is being read. From your point of view, in the example above, you'd simply visit the online bookstore, and a list of books that might be of interest to you would magically appear.
Can Cookies Be Used to Give My Information to Unauthorized People?
Cookies are usually harmless. They can't be used to gather information about you (unless you provide it). But some services do use cookies to create a profile of your interests based on the sites you visit and the things you do there. Advertisers on participating sites can then tailor online advertising to your interests and buying habits. Contentor.net does not collect information for these purposes. The Contentor Content Management System (CMS) does not normally use cookies except to log you into the editing mode. The only other use of cookies in this system would be if the site admin sets up user-selected interchangable templates (often called 'themes' on other CMS). These are common, standard uses of cookies and in no way stores or reveals any personal information.
When in doubt, always check a web site's privacy policy.
Enabling Cookies
To Enable Cookies in Internet Explorer, click on the menu "Tools" and select "Internet Options".
Select the "Privacy" tab and set to level to "Medium" (Medium-High" may also work...)
If the above cookie test still does not pass, you may have some software on your computer that blocks cookies. Refer to the documentation for that software to enable cookies for to selected site.