What is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small text file saved onto your hard drive by your browser as directed by the web site being viewed. The purpose of cookies is to save a user's preferences so he or she doesn't have to keep entering them each time that web site is visited. Usually the information in this text file contains the choices the user made of what content to display, the colors preferred, etc.

However, a few companies are using cookies to track the surfing habits of users. Cookies are even being used to identify specific users and their web page preferences. The data is apparently being used to target advertising to specific audiences to increase the effectiveness of those ads.

If you do not want this type of information about you distributed to these advertisers, you should disable cookies in your web browser.