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A cookie is a text file or a word of information placed on your hard drive by a Web site. Generally web sites use the information they retrieve with a cookie to improve your experience in their site. There are two general types of cookies.

The first, or "persistent" cookie, places a more or less permanent text file or word of information on your computer to identify that computer in future sessions at the website. For example, this type of cookie is valuable for allowing a site to keep track of which message board posts you have read, so you can be alerted to new posts that have been added since your last visit. This cookie will remain on your hard drive in a "cookies folder" until it (a) expires on a given date, or, (b) you delete it.

A second type of cookie is known as a "session" cookie. This type is not permanent and only resides on your computer for the time you are visiting the site and disappears when you log out, go to another site, or close your browser. Web sites can use these cookies to keep track of where you go and what you do in the site while you are there and are useful in passing information, such as shopping basket contents, from page to page. This is the type of cookie we use in our site and it is used to maintain the consistency of your shopping basket.

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Cookies can reference information about how you used a site that you've provided while visiting a Web site and that was stored in the website's databases. The cookie itself doesn't store this information; it simply provides a reference number by which the information can be retrieved. The information the cookie is used to retrieve isn't necessarily anything you've typed, such as a phone number or credit-card number; it may only be a record of the pages you've viewed or options you've clicked - and it isn't trackable back to you as an individual, only to the number associated with your visit. Common uses for cookies are for airline itineraries, lists of preferences (for example, what sort of information you want to read on a news site), or your shopping list on a commercial site. They're also useful to sites that simply want to track customer usage.

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A cookie can't collect any actual information. It also can't relay any information from the website's database that you don't enter or select while visiting that Web site. For example, the cookie can't obtain your e-mail address, and it can't be used to retrieve your email address from the databases unless you provide it. And what information a cookie can retrieve can only be obtained by the site that created the cookie.

A cookie can't collect programs or information that's stored on your hard disk. It can't pass along a computer virus or download anything else besides its own text to your computer. And it can't tell your fortune.

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Only the Web site that placed the information there originally can read the information a cookie retrieves from their databases. A site can keep track only of where you go within that particular site. A site's server (servers are the computers that Web sites use to "serve" you pages) cannot read information placed on your computer by another Web site. Cookies don't "read" your hard drive. In other words, they can't read other documents or files you have stored on your hard drive.

And while we must admit that some websites do not operate this way, when MyPleasure.com analyzes the data that we retrieve from our database using cookies, we don't track any of the information back to individuals. We're simply looking to see what features our readers did and didn't like as a whole so we can create more great content that will make people enjoy the site.

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After enabling or disabling cookies, be sure to close your browser for the new settings to take effect.

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Version 4.xx

1. In the menu click "View" then "Internet Options ..."
2. Click the "Advanced" tab
3. Under Security - Cookies select "Always Accept Cookies"
4. Click "OK"

Version 5.x

1. In the menu click "Tools" then "Internet Options ..."
2. Click the "Security" tab
3. Click the "Custom Level" button
4. Go down to the "Cookies" title
5. Enable "Allow cookies that are stored on your computer"
6. Enable "Allow per-session cookies (not stored)"
7. Click "OK" - "Yes" - "OK"

Version 6.x

1. In the menu click "Tools" then "Internet Options ..."
2. Click the "Privacy " tab
3. Click the "advanced" button
4. Check the "accept" radio buttons in both columns
5. check the "always allow session cookies" checkbox;
6. Click the "o.k." button

Mozilla Firefox version 1.0.4

1. In the menu click "Tools" then "Options ..."
2. Click the "Privacy " icon
3. Click the + next to "cookies"
4. check the "allow sites to set cookies" checkbox;
5. Click the "o.k." button

Netscape Navigator 4.xx

1. In the menu click "Edit" then "Preferences ..."
2. Click the "Advanced" category
3. Under Cookies select "Accept all cookies"
4. Click "OK"