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    Cookies are text files that store user preferences and activity on websites. They are used to personalize a user's experience and monitor site usage. While cookies do not read computer files or deliver viruses, they can be used to create anonymous user profiles for marketing. Web beacons are images on websites that track page visits and site usage statistics in combination with cookies. Both cookies and web beacons can impact a user's online privacy, but cookies can be declined in the browser settings.

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    Cookies are text files that store user preferences and activity on websites. They are used to personalize a user's experience and monitor site usage. While cookies do not read computer files or deliver viruses, they can be used to create anonymous user profiles for marketing. Web beacons are images on websites that track page visits and site usage statistics in combination with cookies. Both cookies and web beacons can impact a user's online privacy, but cookies can be declined in the browser settings.

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    Cookies are text files that store user preferences and activity on websites. They are used to personalize a user's experience and monitor site usage. While cookies do not read computer files or deliver viruses, they can be used to create anonymous user profiles for marketing. Web beacons are images on websites that track page visits and site usage statistics in combination with cookies. Both cookies and web beacons can impact a user's online privacy, but cookies can be declined in the browser settings.

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    Web sites use cookies and Web beacons to track user activity on their sites.

    Read on to learn
    more about how these two common techniques work and how they impact your online privacy.

    Cookies

    A cookie is a text file that’s either stored in your computer’s memory temporarily and
    automatically deleted when you close your browser (a “session” cookie) or placed on your hard
    drive (a “persistent” cookie) by a Web page server. A persistent cookie is not deleted when the
    browser is closed.

    A cookie makes your interaction with the Web site faster and more personal. Cookies let the site
    remember your preferences or recognize you when you return. They also allow the Web site to
    monitor how you use the site. This information can be used to create a profile for future
    marketing purposes, improve the site, or detect and prevent site misuse. For example, Monster
    uses cookies to identify someone who has been banned from our forums for violating our terms
    of use.

    Since cookies are text files, they cannot read information stored on your hard drive and are not
    used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you
    and your computer and can be read only by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to
    you.
    So what do cookies have to do with privacy? Some Web sites, including Monster, use third-party
    cookies to track traffic coming to their site from advertising they run on other sites. While the
    information these cookies collect is anonymous, you may end up with a cookie on your hard
    drive from a site you’ve never visited as a result.

    Like other Web sites that run third-party advertisements, Monster has no control over -- and is
    not responsible for -- the advertisers’ practices, including their own use of cookies on the
    Monster site. Monster encourages you to review the advertisers’ policies.

    If you are still uncomfortable with cookies, you can accept or decline cookies at any time by
    modifying your browser settings. Most browsers are set to accept cookies automatically. You can
    set your browser to decline all cookies automatically or to prompt you for a response each time a
    cookie is offered. Note that declining cookies may hinder a site’s performance and may not allow
    you to access all of a site’s features and services.

    Web Beacons

    Web beacons, which are also known as clear GIFs, Web bugs or pixel tags, are often used in
    combination with cookies. They are images (often transparent) that are part of Web pages. At
    Monster, Web beacons allow us to count users who have visited certain pages and to generate
    statistics about how our site is used. They are not used to access personally identifiable
    information.

    Unlike cookies, you cannot decline Web beacons. However, setting your browser to decline
    cookies or to prompt you for a response will keep Web beacons from tracking your activity.

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