Some web browsers are setup to give you a warning before you provide personal information, so that you might reconsider. Many websites actually store information on your own desktop computer, mostly for use if you visit the site again. These are small pieces of information called cookies . Cookies associate information about you with a specific website. For example, a business may use a cookie to store the date of your most recent visit to their web page.
Some organizations share cookies with other organizations.
Internet search engines may provide information about your searches to other companies. Cookies let organizations tailor web pages for you specifically. On both Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator you can control the action of cookies. Click OK twice to close the windows and return to the browser. In the Cookies section at right, choose the preferred cookie options.