A "cookie" is a small piece of text or information that a web server can store on your computer
by a web browser. Cookies allow a website to store information and
later retrieve it when needed.
What are they used for?
We use cookies to enable us to give our members a better surfing experience
by granting access to certain areas of the site where User participation is
required (such as the discussion rooms/polls and chat).
They are also used to store preferences of a user. Both Microsoft and
Netscape use cookies to enable you to create personal start pages.
Common uses for cookies are listed below:
Personalise the site.
This is one of the best uses for cookies, if someone comes to our
site often, but doesn't want to see any of the news that we have available,
they can personalise the cookie so that the news is never seen by them.
In time we will enable our cookies to allow personalisation like this.
Website Tracking.
Site tracking can show up "Dead End Paths", places in the website that people
go to and then leave quickly because they don't have any more interesting links
to hit. Which enables us to re-vamp the poorer areas of the site, this combined
with the user feedback emails, will mean that the site is designed more to
the website user's needs and wishes.
