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EU directive 5.3 came into force on 11/12/2003, which regulates the use of cookies. What is a Cookie?A cookie is a small file that is placed on the users computer.They do not take up much room. They have a maximum size of 4K. Typically supercentre.co.uk 's cookie is less than 200 bytes in size. What are Cookie's used for?Supercentre.co.uk place a cookie on your computer that is completely unique.The cookie is just the time and date that you first came to supercentre.co.uk This allows us to know if a visitor has been here before, or if this is their first visit. The cookie contains NO personal information at all. Controlling Cookie's.A user may control whether a cookie can be placed on their machine or not.This can be set from within the web browser. Each browser has its own way of controlling cookies. Internet explorer 6 allows you to set different levels of security, ranging from no restrictions on cookies, through to allowing no one to place cookies on their machine. http://www.aboutcookies.org contains a more complete explanation of cookies, and how to set different web browsers security levels. Deleting Cookie's.The cookie that supercentre.co.uk places on your machine is called www.supercentre.co.uk.http://www.aboutcookies.org contains an explanation of how to delete cookies. |