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The
Evergreen Foundation - Cookie Information
For
online shopping we require that your cookies be
turned on. This allows for us to remember what you
have in your shopping cart. How do you safely turn
on cookies? Click here
for instructions.
What
are cookies? A brief overview.
Cookies
are small pieces of data that are stored on your
computer. For instance when you log onto a site that
asks for your username and password there is
sometimes the choice to "Remember your login
info". If you choose to remember the
information a cookie is stored on your machine that
can be read by that website. The next time you go to
that site that cookie will be read by the website
and you will be logged in automatically.
There
are two types of cookies: temporary and permanent.
Our store uses temporary cookies to remember your
cart. Temporary cookies, or session cookies, are
remembered only while you have your Internet browser
open and have accessed our site. Once you close your
browser the cookies are removed and cease to exist.
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What
are cookies? An in-depth description.
The
WWW is built on a very simple, but powerful premise.
All material on the Web is formatted in a general,
uniform format called HTML (Hypertext Markup
Language), and all information requests and
responses conform to a similarly standard protocol.
When someone accesses a server on the Web, such as
the Library of Congress, the user's Web browser will
send an information request to the Library of
Congress' computer. This computer is called a Web
server. The Web server will respond to the request
by transmitting the desired information to the
user's computer. There, the user's browser will
display the received information on the user's
screen.
Cookies
are pieces of information generated by a Web server
and stored in the user's computer, ready for future
access. Cookies are embedded in the HTML information
flowing back and forth between the user's computer
and the servers. Cookies were implemented to allow
user-side customization of Web information. For
example, cookies are used to personalize Web search
engines, to allow users to participate in WWW-wide
contests (but only once!), and to store shopping
lists of items a user has selected while browsing
through a virtual shopping mall.
Essentially,
cookies make use of user-specific information
transmitted by the Web server onto the user's
computer so that the information might be available
for later access by itself or other servers. In most
cases, not only does the storage of personal
information into a cookie go unnoticed, so does
access to it. Web servers automatically gain access
to relevant cookies whenever the user establishes a
connection to them, usually in the form of Web
requests.
Cookies
are based on a two-stage process. First the cookie
is stored in the user's computer without their
consent or knowledge. For example, with customizable
Web search engines like My Yahoo!, a user selects
categories of interest from the Web page. The Web
server then creates a specific cookie, which is
essentially a tagged string of text containing the
user's preferences, and it transmits this cookie to
the user's computer. The user's Web browser, if
cookie-savvy, receives the cookie and stores it in a
special file called a cookie list. This happens
without any notification or user consent. As a
result, personal information (in this case the
user's category preferences) is formatted by the Web
server, transmitted, and saved by the user's
computer.
During
the second stage, the cookie is automatically
transferred from the user's machine to a Web server.
Whenever a user directs her Web browser to display a
certain Web page from the server, the browser will,
without the user's knowledge, transmit the cookie
containing personal information to the Web server.
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How
do I turn on cookies?
Microsoft
Internet Explorer 6.x
Microsoft
Internet Explorer 5.x
Netscape
Communicator 4.7
Listed
above are links to how to allow cookies for the most
popular browsers. If your browser is not listed
please contact your browser's manufacturer for steps
on how to allow cookies.
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Microsoft
Internet Explorer 6.x
1) On
the Tools menu in Internet Explorer, click Internet
Options
2) Click the Privacy tab
3) Click on the Advanced button
4) Check off Override automatic cookie handling
5) Block the First-party Cookies
6) Block the Third-pary Cookies
7) Check off "Always allow session
cookies"
8) Click on the OK button
9) Click on the OK button to save the changes
Microsoft
Internet Explorer 5.x
1) On
the Tools menu in Internet Explorer, click Internet
Options
2) Click the Security tab
3) Click on the Custom Level button
4) Scroll down until you find the Cookies section
5) Enable the "Allow per session cookies (not
stored)"
6) Click on the Ok button to close the window
7) Click on the Ok button to save the changes
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Netscape
Communicator 4.7
1) On
the Edit menu in Netscape Communicator, click
Preferences
2) In the bottom left hand side, click on Advanced
3) Choose the "Accept only cookies that get
sent back to the originating server"
4) Click on the Ok button to save the changes
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