By gathering and remembering information about your preferences, the web application can tailor its operation to your needs, likes and dislikes. Threerock uses traffic log cookies to identify what pages are being used and which ones aren't. In this case, Threerock uses this information only for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. That is the case of many of our support and information-sharing pages and forums. Denial of a traffic log cookie should not prevent you from using one of these sites.
Examples are the Shopping Village and a few product registration sites.
If you deny the cookie, you can still use the site anonymously. Overall, cookies help us give you a better web site to use, by letting us monitor what's working and what isn't through site traffic analysis. Threerock wants to be sure you understand that accepting a cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any personal information about you, other than the data you chose to share with us. This practice is strictly enforced. We know that a lot of people have concerns about cookies, but in talking with many of our customers, we believe that the benefit we both gain from their proper use is worthwhile.