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Cookie usageWe only use "cookies" to provide enhanced and useful services to registered participants. You are welcome to browse and view the entire course without registering if you wish. Just use the menu on the left.Our cookie implementation is designed to be non-distractive in that we don't keep peppering you with cookies that you don't want. We only attempt to feed your browser a cookie when you register, and the lifetime of a cookie that you accept is about one college semester. Did you get this page unexpectedly?That may happen when you attempted to register for the course. Your browser may not understand cookies at all, or it may be configured to ignore them, or you may have seen a pop-up dialog box that asked you if you wanted to accept the cookie, and you declined.What can you do about this?If your browser is quite old (Lynx, early versions of Mosaic, Netscape or Internet Explorer, and many others), and you want to use the advanced features of this site, then you probably have to upgrade to a newer browser, such as Firefox which is available for free. Get Firefox here.If you declined our cookie, then you should have seen a second cookie request on your screen before (or while) this page was being displayed. Please accept this complementary cookie and then use your browser's Back button to get back to your registration form and re-submit it. If you are a real grouch and you have already declined our second offer of a cookie but now you think you'd like a cookie after all, you'll need to click on the Register item in the menu above, accept (and enjoy!) your cookie, and then fill out and re-submit the registration form. If you have a recent browser that does support cookies then perhaps they are disabled. For Firefox select "Preferences..." from the "Edit" menu button at the top of the window. A dialog box should appear. Click on "Privacy" in the category box then check "Allow sites to set Cookies." I can't provide detailed information for other browsers that I don't have or use. If you can help me out here, send me E-mail.
Hey, I have heard that cookies are dangerous!A common usage of cookies is to allow a web server (such as an advertiser) to keep track of who has visited what sites or seen what advertisements and even what ads you might have clicked on. But keep in mind that the advertiser doesn't know your name or your e-mail address or anything else about you - unless you have willingly given it to them. Some people believe that it is too easy to trick visitors into providing this information that may then be forever linked to the cookie that has been set on your computer by the advertiser.So the risk is one of privacy as you surf the web. This bothers a lot of people, so they disable cookies, or examine them before accepting them. But cookies can be very useful, and there is little danger that they can damage your computer. Our cookies are used to keep track of your visits so that you can memorize references that you might want to follow up on later, and so that you can resume your work on this course at the place you left off last without having to go searching for it. ie: the server maintains a bookmark for you that advances automatically as you progress through the course. We don't pass our cookies on to any third parties or other sites. They are purely a mechanism to enhance the value of this site for its visitors. Where can I learn more about cookies?We have prepared a page of additional information on cookies including links to a few other pages on the web that explain them in all their gory detail. click here. |
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