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There are currently a lot of rumors floating around about how
Web servers can use cookies to monitor your personal information
and keep track of where you've surfed. Since Growthtrac uses
cookies for a variety of different functions, some users have
expressed concerns about their privacy.
Yes, Growthtrac does use cookies—but not in any way that would
compromise your privacy. Growthtrac does not gather cookie information
for marketing purposes; we do not trace your browsing habits;
and we do not (and could not) use cookies to collect any personal
information about you.
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a simple line of text that a Web server (like Growthtrac)
asks your browser to remember for future use. A typical cookie
may store your user name and password for a specific site on
the Web.
There a two kinds of cookies. A session cookie is a line
of text that is stored temporarily in your computer's RAM. Because
a session cookie is never written to a drive, it is destroyed
as soon as you close your browser. A persistent cookie
is a more permanent line of text that gets saved by your browser
to a file on your hard drive. If you do not register then none
of these persistent cookies will be stored on your machine.
Web sites cannot make direct changes to your local cookies file,
only your browser can do that. Your browser—whether it's Netscape
Navigator or Internet Explorer—has security features built in
which prevent servers from randomly writing information to your
hard drive. If you turn off the cookie feature in your browser,
your hard disk is 100% safe. However, even when the cookie feature
is on, server information can only be written to your local
cookie file, and that information can only be retrieved by the
server that wrote it.
In other words, if your browser currently accepts cookies, it
will remember whatever Growthtrac asks it to. However, it would
never release Growthtrac cookies to any other internet site.
What do we use cookies for? Cookies are used for many purposes
on Growthtrac including:
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Tracking
to make sure pop up ads are not displayed more often than
they should be |
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Polling:
Whenever you vote in a poll, we have your browser keep
track of that information so you can't vote more than
once. |
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Growthtrac
Community: In our message boards, we use cookies to remember
your password and username so you don't have to. |
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We
use cookies to track traffic on Growthtrac. This information
is only used internally and does not identify you personally. |
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Miscellaneous
cookies: Once in a while, we'll use cookies in things
like games, quizzes, or other features. But again, we
only use them to make the feature work better —never
to gather information on you. |
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