We are sorry, the One Planet United Shopping Area requires that cookies be enabled.  Please enable cookies and visit the Shopping Area again.   The One Planet United website uses cookies only to make your visit here more enjoyable.  We in no way collect any sensitive, personal information about you or your computer.

Have some questions about cookies?  Here's some help.


What are cookies?

A "cookie" is a small piece of information sent by a web server to store on a web browser so it can later be read back from that browser.  This is useful for having the browser remember some specific information such as who you are when visiting different web pages.


What are cookies used for?

An example is when a browser stores your passwords and user ID's, or to store the contents of a shopping cart. They are also used to store preferences of start pages. Both Microsoft and Netscape use cookies to create personal start pages.


How do cookies Work?

A command line in the HTML (the programming language web pages are created with) of a document tells the browser to set a cookie of a certain name or value that you have previously entered in the same website or that is automatically generated. 
Cookies are usually used to indentify web visitors when they browse from page to page.


Security?

A cookie cannot be used to get data from your hard drive, get your email address or steal sensitive information about your person.  Early implementations of Java and JavaScript could allow people to do this but these security leaks have been plugged.  A cookie can be used to track where you travel over a particular site.  This site tracking can be done without using cookies, however, using cookies just makes the tracking of data a little more consistent and secure.


How do I turn cookies back on?

How to enable cookies in Internet Explorer
How to enable cookies in Netscape Navigator
How to enable cookies in AOL


Need more cookie information?

Unofficial cookie FAQ