The following statement explains our policy regarding the personal information we collect about you.

1. Introduction
2. Visitor Information
3. What is a cookie?
4. How to find and control your cookies
5. How do you know which sites use cookies?
6. How to see your cookie code
7. Should I be bothered?

1. Introduction                Return to top

This policy covers Letterpart's use of personal information that this site collects when you use Web Services. The policy also gives you information about cookies and how you may reject such cookies.

2. Visitor Information               Return to top

During the course of any visit to Web Services, the pages you see, along with a short text file called a 'cookie', are downloaded to your computer. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.

Information supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better online user experience and assist us to analyse the profile of our visitors. For example: if on a previous visit you went to our publish pages, we might find this out from your cookie and highlight relevant information on your second and subsequent visits.

3. What is a cookie?               Return to top

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website's computer and stored on your computer's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.

Cookies record information about your online preferences. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these, of course, means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of the Web Services features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.

For further information on cookies please visit www.aboutcookies.org.

4. How to find and control your cookies               Return to top

If you're using Mozilla Firefox:

On your Task Bar, click:

1. Tools.
2. Options.
3. Privacy.
4. Click on Cookies.

If you're using Netscape 6.0:

On your Task Bar, click:

1. Edit, then.
2. Preferences.
3. Click on Advanced.
4. Click on Cookies.

If you're using Internet Explorer 6.0:

1. Choose Tools.
2. Internet Options.
3. Click the Privacy Tab.
4. Click on Custom Level.
5. Click on the 'Advanced' button.
6. Check the 'override automatic cookie handing' box and select Accept, Block or Prompt for action as appropriate.

If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.5:

1. Choose Tools.
2. Internet Options.
3. Click the Security tab.
4. Click on Custom Level
5. Scroll down to the sixth option to see how cookies are handled by IE5 and change to Accept, Disable, or Prompt for action as appropriate.

If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:

1. Choose View.
2. Internet Options.
3. Click the Advanced tab.
4. Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon under Security and choose one of the three options to regulate your use of cookies.

If you're using Internet Explorer 3.0:

You can View, Options, Advanced, then click on the button that says Warn before Accepting Cookies.

If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0:
On your Task Bar, click:

1. Edit.
2. Preferences.
3. Click on Advanced.
4. Set your options in the box that says Cookies.

5. How do you know which sites use cookies?               Return to top

If you're using Mozilla Firefox:

1. Tools.
2. Options.
3. Privacy.
4. Click on Cookies.
5. Click the View Cookies button.

If you're using Netscape 6.0:

On your Task Bar, click:

1. Edit.
2. Preferences.
3. Click on Advanced.
4. Click on Cookies.
5. Click the View Cookies button.

If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 6.0:

1. Choose Tools.
2. Internet Options.
3. Click the General tab.
4. Click Settings.
5. View Files.

If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:
On your Task Bar, click:

1. View.
2. Internet Options.
3. Click the General tab
4. click Settings.
5. View Files.

If you're using Internet Explorer 3.0:
On your Task Bar, click:

1. View.
2. Options.
3. Advanced.
4. View Files.

If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0:

Netscape bundles all cookies into one file on your hard drive. You'll need to find the file, which it calls Cookie.txt on Windows machines.

6. How to see your cookie code               Return to top

Just click on a cookie to open it. You'll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.

7. Should I be bothered?               Return to top

In a word: No.

If you're the type of person who worries about cookies, you're also the type of person who is too scared to leave the house, or use a debit card, or walk the streets in case of CCTV. Cookies are small text files saved on your computer which store information about your preferences in order to enhance your subsequent visits.

For example, here is one from the BBC:

BBC-UID
74538905d6dabf2a2e2642db11267ab2812c0ed550d89090e2705cb4dca75ded0Mozilla
%2f4%2e0%20%28compatible%3b%20MSIE%206%2e0%3b%20Windows%20NT%205
%2e1%3b%20SV1%3b%20%2eNET%20CLR%201%2e1%2e4322%29
bbc.co.uk/
1536
2486008064
30045591
2981997856
29751889
*

As you can see, the majority of the information pertains to the type of browser being used (Mozilla, I use Firefox) on a Windows NT based system.