What are cookies? (d049c) HTTP cookies are a small pieces of
data sent by a web server to your browser which then stores them
on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies allow information to
be preserved during your visit to a site or even between visits.
This makes it possible for web sites to "remember" the items in
your shopping cart or your configuration preferences for
example. How do cookies affect my privacy? (a4ac5) Cookies can
be used to associate your computer with any information you have
provided to the web site issuing the cookie. It is therefore
very important that you trust a web site before sending any
personal data to it via web forms. To earn your trust, we have
implemented the P3P privacy specification on our site. P3P also
includes provision for an XML data file policy that your browser
can read before you accept a cookie. The data in this file is
used by many of the more advanced browsers to warn you when the
web site's policy does not conform your security preferences.
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