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Cookies: those helpful internet pastries

Browser Cookies: Why are these harmless little critters so often misunderstood? We hope that these explanations will shed a little light on these helpful internet pastries.

What does Digitalprint.net use cookies for?

Digitalprint.net simply stores the information that you supply us when we create your EzORDRz account. This way, when you visit our website, it immediately recognizes you and logs you in. Other websites can never read this information because only the site that created the cookie can read that cookie. You can delete your cookies at any time, but if you do, you will simply have to log in to your EzORDRz account again to reset them.

Are Cookies Dangerous to My Computer?

No. A cookie is a simple piece of text. It is not a program, or a plug-in. It cannot be used as a virus, and it cannot access your hard drive. Your browser (not a programmer) can save cookie values to your hard disk if it needs to, but that is the limit of the effect on your system.


Will cookies fill up my hard drive?

Both Netscape and Microsoft have measures in place that limit the number of cookies that will be saved on your hard drive at one time.

Even if there were no limits set on the amount of cookies stored, remember that the average size of a cookie ranges from 50-150 bytes. You would need about 20 million cookies to fill up a 2GB drive. This is incredibly unlikely.

Are Cookies a Threat to My Privacy?

As with everything else about the Internet, you are only as anonymous as you want to be. The only information that can ever be stored in a cookie is information you supply by filling out a form.

To reiterate, a cookie cannot read your hardrive, or find out where you live or how much you earn. The only way that information could end up in a cookie is if YOU voluntarily provide it to a site and that site saves it to a cookie.

We hope this has been helpful, feel free to contact Digitalprint.net if you have any further questions.