Cookies are something that people love to hate, and for many different reasons. The web is, by definition, "stateless" -- which means that when you hit one page on our site, and then move to another, we have no idea it's still you.
Most of the time that's okay. But sometimes, such as when you're registering for updates on our site, or purchasing products, it's important to maintain some information about you as you move from page to page. It's also handy at times to remember certain things about your last visit here so we can tailor the site to better suit your interests.
For this reason, cookies came about. A cookie is just a small piece of information that is sent to you. We send a cookie, and if you accept it, it is stored in memory or written to hard disk (depending upon design). On another visit, we can then ask you to send back any of the cookies we originally sent you.
Note that we are not given access to read your hard disk, only to retrieve the information that we originally sent you. And where does this information come from? Well, from you... from information you provided to us, either by entering it into a web page form and submitting it, or by selecting and traveling down certain paths on the web site.
If you are getting reminded of cookies over and over again, you have some options.
- You can turn off cookie acceptance completely within your browser. We will make every attempt for the web site to function for you with or without cookie acceptance.
- You can set your browser preferences to accept cookies from our site.
Please review the information
on this web site and elsewhere, and our
privacy policy, to assist you in your decision.
Also, check out this link:
How to manage cookies.
