When it's necessary to remove cookies
- Cookies are the bits of software code that web page stores on your
computer.
- Web pages put cookies on your PC and let their advertisers do
it. So websites
can know what you like to browse or they use
cookies to track the viewing habits of web surfers.
- Every browser places access to cookies differently.
- Cookies can contain information like who you
are, your user ID,
where you have been on the internet, what things you like, your email
address,
your name or what items you've added to your Shopping Cartand so
on.
- Cookies are also used to store passwords and userids on your
machine.
- Every webpage and picture you view is also stored in your
cache, along with your web history and browser urls. These can show anyone who
shares your pc with you exactly what you have been viewing.
- Cookies may have been accumulating ever since you first began browsing
the web.
- Some web sites follow appropriate privacy standards and
policies, their
cookies do not contain any personally identifying
information, but they do enable you to provide a
Shopping Cart and to store your shipping and billing information between
visits.
- Regrettably not all web sites placed safe or useful cookies. Online advertising
companies, which serve billions of graphic banner advertisements per
day, are able
to exchange cookie information with a consumer’s computer as they deliver banner ads
to a page a consumer is viewing, even if the consumer does not click on the banner
ads.
- Protect your privacy by denying sites this ability. Don't let them track your web
activities.
Website may need to store a cookie on your pc:
- If you want the website to gather information about you to suggest items you
should buy.
- If you log into a website using a username and password. The website may need
to store a cookie containing this information.
- The website wants to change the page based on the number of times you have
been there.
- If you are selecting things for a shopping cart, or setting
preferences, etc.
The website may store your selections in a cookie for processing
later.
Antispy
Pro cookie cleaning feature safely removes unwanted cookies and
allows you to specify what cookies to keep. You may save
valuable files in exclude lists to maintain your preferred
Internet settings and log-ins.
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