A cookie is a small amount of data that a web site stores on your hard drive. This data, or cookie, stores a preference that you specify when visiting a web site -- such as customizing a page or selecting a specific page to display when you visit that site again. The cookie may also allow you to return to the web site later to pick up where you left off, such as for web-based message boards. Some sites also use cookies to store information as you navigate through pages on a site.
Information stored in a cookie is used to communicate only between your computer and the specific domain that established (or set) the cookie and cannot be retrieved from your hard drive by any other site or domain. If you establish a cookie on one machine, and later use a different machine to access the same site, you will have to establish or accept another cookie.
The Bayou web sites require the use of cookies. When you first visit the Bayou web site, a cookie is set specifying that you are a subscriber.
As you navigate through our web site, cookies are used to store the point of departure and entry from certain pages, such as when you leave our site to view content in a partner content frame. This stored information allows you to navigate back to the point where you actually left our web site.
In the course of serving ads, a third-party cookie may be placed or recognized on your browser. Information about your visit to any of the sites on the service, such as the number of times that you have viewed an ad (but not your name, address, or other personal information), is used to serve ads to you on these sites.
To enable or disable cookie alerts:
Select the Internet Options option from the View menu.
Click on the Advanced tab and scroll down to the Security option, and select Cookies.
Click on the appropriate radio button to enable or disable cookies. You can also select to be prompted each time a cookie is delivered to your computer.
Select the Internet Options option from the Tools menu.
Click on the Security tab and then on Custom Level...
Scroll down to the Cookies option, and select one of the choices presented.
Click the OK button to finish.
Select the Internet Options option from the Tools menu.
Click on the Privacy tab and then click the Advanced button.
In the Advanced Privacy Settings window, check the box marked Override automatic cookie handling, and then select one of the choices presented.
Click the OK button to close the window, and then click the OK button again to finish.
Select the Preferences option from the Edit menu.
Choose the Advanced option.
Select your cookies setting under the Cookies heading.
Select the Preferences option from the Edit menu.
Choose the Privacy and Security option.
Select the Cookies section, and select one of the choices presented.
Click the OK button to finish.
Internet Explorer stores each cookie as a separate file in the Cookies folder within the Windows folder. Right-click on a cookie file and select Quick View or Delete as desired. Do not edit the file. The format varies by site. Do not delete the mm*.dat files; these are indices used by Internet Explorer.
Internet Explorer stores cookies on the Macintosh in System Folder in the MSPreference panels.
Netscape may use a single cookies.txt file in Windows, which is usually found in the Netscape folder. On a Macintosh, a MagicCookie is stored in the Netscape folder in Preferences. You can view this file with Notepad or Simpletext. You may delete this file but you should never edit the