What are cookies, and why does Pricecharts.com use them?
A cookie is a very small text file placed on your hard drive with your permission by a web server. Acting like your identification card, your unique cookie cannot be executed as code or deliver viruses, and it can be read only by the server that presented it to you. Like many web sites today, Pricecharts.com uses cookies to identify users and track their movements through the site. Specifically, cookies perform the following functions: • Identification. A number of areas within Pricecharts.com require that content be displayed according to your subscription level. In such cases, Pricecharts.com needs to know who you are. If this site didn’t use cookies, you would have to sign in (with your user I.D. and password) each time you accessed a new page. • Tracking. Because each web page is unique, a service must use cookies to track your status as you move from page to page. Cookies provide information about what’s important to Pricecharts.com subscribers. This in turn makes it possible for
