There's a lot of misinformation about cookies out there. Some of the more ridiculous claims are that cookies allow people to view things that are on your hard drive, or to get personal information from you against your will. Neither could be further from the truth. In reality, cookies are tools that help us to help you.
Let's now go on to explain how we use cookies at our site. If you click the "Save As Cookie?" box on the login screen, your username and password will be saved in a small file (called a Cookie) to your PC. A typical Cookie is 1KB in size, this is small enough that over a thousand files this size could fit on a floppy disc. It will not hog your disc space.
All we keep in the Cookie is the username and password, we cannot access anything on your PC using this cookie, we can't see any other Cookies and no other web sites can see ours. We put nothing in our Cookie that you haven't already told us, i.e. your username and password.
If you are using a shared PC, in a library or Internet Cafe for example, anyone else who enters this site using the PC you used will automatically be logged on as you. Even on a website where the only reason you need to register is to submit DVD details, this is not good. We will not be held responsible for any abuse of your information that this may lead to. Saying that, the chances of this happening are very minor.
We hope this information helps you understand cookies, and we hope that you will turn cookies on in your browser so that our Web site can be a better experience for you. You can always turn on cookie prompts so that you can see exactly what is being written and when. Cookies get a whole lot of bad press (often by companies that want to sell you some kind of anti-cookie software), but in fact are quite benign.
We hope you enjoy our site, and we hope that you'll agree that the benefits of cookies outweigh the inconveniences. Please know that we will never willfully disclose individually identifiable information about our customers to any third party without first receiving that customer's permission.
That's it. Hope our explanation makes at least some sense to you. For more on cookies, here's a helpful Q&A put together by Netscape: What Are Cookies.
If you have further concerns about this or any other privacy issues, please send an email to support@bytesandbobs.com