What is a cookie? A cookie is a simple line of text that a Web
server (like FanFair.com) asks your browser to remember for future
use. A typical cookie may store your user name and password for
a specific site on the Web.
There a two kinds of cookies. A session cookie is a line of
text that is stored temporarily in your computer's RAM. Because
a session cookie is never written to a drive, it is destroyed
as soon as you close your browser. A persistent cookie is a more
permanent line of text that gets saved by your browser to a file
on your hard drive.
Web sites cannot make direct changes to your local cookies file,
only your browser can do that. Your browser—whether it's
Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer—has security features
built in which prevent servers from randomly writing information
to your hard drive. You can turn off the cookie feature in your
browser, please check your browser's help files on how to do this.
When the cookie feature is on, server information can only be
written to your local cookie file.
In other words, if your browser currently accepts cookies, it
will remember whatever CMA internet sites asks it to. However,
it would never intentionally release CMA Internet sites cookies
to any other internet site.
