PROTECT YOUR INTERNET PRIVACY

Please note: This is not intended to be a "catch-all" to eliminate all of your internet tracks. It is, however, a good way to keep the typical user from knowing exactly what websites you have been viewing. However, technologically savvy individuals may be able to track your internet usage regardless of the steps you take. Use these tips at your own discretion.

Benefits of clearing your history and 'cookies:'

• Improves browser speeds (loading and closing times)
• Reasonably keeps others from being able to view sites you have been to

Things to keep in mind when you clear your cookies:

• When you delete cookies, any passwords or user names that log you in automatically will be deleted and you will have to manually put them back in (to avoid this, see tip 3)
• This is meant to be a tool, not a solution to erasing your internet tracks
• There are two methods to delete cookies. One is going into your harddrive (VERY easy) and will allow you to select which cookies you want to delete. Perhaps you want to ensure all the other sites remain on your computer for easy selection from your history list and just want to delete advocates-oz.org from your list, there is a method to do that also. Another is to delete all of your cookies, history, and temporary internet files from your computer through your browser (even easier).

(If your browser is not on here, or you have more questions, please try searching online for "Clear cookies on [YOUR BROWSER HERE]")

Manual Selection (Harddrive)

If you would like to only select the cookies on your computer and delete them manually (one by one), use these tips: Please be careful not to delete more than what you wish to.

Netscape Users:

1. Close all your internet windows (browsers).

2. Select your Start menu, then Search, then type in: cookies.txt

2. Your cookie files that Netscape has downloaded will be located in cookies.txt.

3. Select the cookies file.

4. Press the Delete key to delete the cookies you do not want to save.

Internet Explorer:

1. Close all your internet windows (browsers).

2. Select your Start menu, then Search, then type in: cookies.txt

3. Once the Cookie folder is found, open it.

4. The list of text files with names of the form user@sitename, . These are the cookie files.

5. Select the cookies you want to delete. Be sure not to delete the cookies from sites you visit frequently.

6. Delete the unwanted cookies.

Tip:

To delete more than one item at once, press shift+Ctrl while highlighting the file names.

Deletion of All Internet Cookies, History, and Temporary Internet Files (a more comprehensive delete) DONE IN YOUR BROWSER (Internet Window)

Microsoft Internet Explorer users

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x and 6.x users can delete cookies by clicking the "View" menu, "Internet Options" and clicking the button "Delete Cookies".

Mozilla Firefox users

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 users can delete the cookies on their hard disk drive by clicking the "Tools" menu, "Options", clicking the "Piracy" button, and under "Cookies" click the Clear button.

Netscape users

Netscape 7.x users can manage and delete cookies by clicking the "Tools" menu and then "Cookie Manager".

Opera users

Opera users can manage, disable, and enable their cookies by clicking the "File" menu, "Preferences", and selecting "Privacy".