Cookies and Swiftill
Cookies are snippets of information stored on your computer by a Web
server. Although they can in principle be used to store any information,
they are most commonly used to store a unique code identifying you to the
server as you move between pages on the site. This is how Swiftill uses
cookies.
Obviously there are different uses to which this information could
be put. It could, for example, be used to track your progress through
a Web site; many people regard this as an invasion of privacy and turn
cookies off on their browser as a result. On the Swiftill site, however,
cookies are used simply ######CONTENT HERE######.
Rejecting cookies in Swiftill
The upshot of this is that if you reject cookies on the Swiftill site,
you will ######CONTENT HERE######- hopefully this strikes you as a reasonable
course of action.
On most browsers, you can set the browser to warn you before accepting
cookies. This is fine - there's no need to change this setting - but when
you first arrive at the site you'll probably see a dialog box like the one
below, asking if you want to accept the cookie:
You should click on 'OK' or the equivalent to accept the cookie. You'll
only need to do this a maximum of twice (the Swiftill site sets a second
cookie later which is only ever sent over secure connections).
On Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 it is possible to turn
cookies off completely (there may be other browsers on which this is
possible, but I don't know of any). Obviously, this means that you'll get
nowhere on the Swiftill site so, at least while you browse the site,
you'll have to turn them back on again. You do this by choosing
'Options...' from the 'View' menu and switching to the 'Advanced' tab as
shown in the screen shot below:
The screen shot shows cookies disabled. While browsing the Swiftill
site, you should at least change this to 'Prompt before accepting
cookies'.
If your browser does not support cookies at all then you can't access
Swiftill. However, any browser that doesn't support cookies is also
unlikely to support secure transactions, and secure transaction support is
obviously vital for connecting to Swiftill.
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