HOW WE USE COOKIES
A cookie is a piece of text which asks permission
to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, your browser
adds that text in a small file. A cookie helps analyse web traffic or
lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications
to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its
operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering
information about your preferences. For example, when you visit an electronic
store, a cookie makes it easier to shop, by allowing you to place things
into a shopping basket; the basket itself is not the cookie, the cookie
is placed on your hard drive and keeps track of your basket versus others
in use at the same time.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This
helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our web site
in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information
for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the
system. Denial of a traffic log cookie should not prevent you from using
one of these sites.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better web site, by enabling
us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie
in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you,
other than the data you choose to share with us. This practice is strictly
in force. We know that people have concerns about cookies, but we believe
that the benefit we both gain from their proper use is worthwhile. You
may set your web browser (Microsoft Internet explorer or Netscape navigator)
to notify you of cookie placement requests or decline cookies completely.
You can delete the files that contain cookies - those files are stored
as part of your internet browser.