Privacy Statement - continued
What are Cookies?
"Cookies" are pieces of electronic information (specifically, a string of text) that your browser and your operating system store on your hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies can store a user's ID and password, personalize home pages, identify which parts of a site have been visited or keep track of previous selections or purchases. Cookies can enhance the user's visit. The use of cookies is an industry standard-you'll find they are used by most major commercial websites.
How We Issue and Use Cookies
We issue and use cookies to enhance your visit and the services that we offer on our web sites. The web sites consist of many pages of content that we want you to be able to find the information and offers that interest you, as quickly and easily as possible. The use of cookie technology helps us to achieve that objective.
We issue and use cookies to keep track of the areas of the sites which interest our visitors most. Many improvements and updates to the sites are based on such data as the total number of visitors and pages viewed. This information is most easily tracked with cookies.
Visitors to these sites who accept cookies may be presented with targeted messages, offers and ads on the site and via email that we believe would be of value, based on observed preferences. If you have submitted your email address, you may receive targeted messages we believe you will find of value. Remember, you may request to be removed from our email lists.
Your Choice to Accept or Deny Cookies
You can choose whether to accept or deny cookies; your browser on your computer is often initially set to accept cookies. However, you can choose to deny cookies and continue browsing the sites. Keep in mind that your choice to accept or deny a cookie is different from your choice to accept/deny email messages.
If you enter or choose to leave our website via links to other sites (including those of content providers, vendors, affiliates and partners), your visits to those sites are not covered by this Internet Privacy Policy.
