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Why Cookies?
Frequently
Asked Cookies Questions:
What
is a cookie? Why are these harmless little critters so 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 ALONE CANNOT READ YOUR HARD DRIVE TO FIND OUT WHO YOU
ARE, WHAT YOUR INCOME IS, OR WHERE YOU LIVE. The only way that
information could end up in a cookie is if YOU provide it to a
site and that site saves it to a cookie.
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