We will share your information with these companies only if they agree to treat it confidentially. Usually, an integral part of that business is its customer database. The message contains information that is then stored on the customer's computer and sent back to the server when the customer's browser requests pages from the server. The server that has sent the cookie to the browser can only read cookies, and they cannot be used to retrieve any information from the customer computer that has not been given directly by the customer to the server. Computer viruses cannot be transmitted through cookies.
Customers can disallow cookies.
You may do this by making the appropriate selection from your browser options. Where this is the case, customers will be warned that they will need to allow cookies if they wish to receive the service. The choice will at all times be the customer's. The Internet Privacy FAQs below will answer some questions and explain some of the technology that helps keep information private on the Internet. If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0, Netscape Navigator 4.0 or a higher version of either of these browsers, look at the lower right hand corner of the browser's window.