Controlling Cookies < back to help center

Your ability to control the cookies you accept depends on the type of browser you are currently using. For the best on-line experience, we recommend you use Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher. You can order your browser to accept all cookies or to alert you each time a cookie is offered. This way you can decide whether to accept one or not. What is a cookie?

Internet Explorer 7.0 or 8.0:

1. Choose Tools, then
2. Click Internet Options
3. Click then Privacy tab, and then, under Settings, move the slider to the top to block all cookies or to the bottom to allow all cookies, and then click OK.

Internet Explorer 9.0:

1. Choose Tools, then
2. Click Internet Options
3. Click Privacy Tab and click on the Advanced Button
4. Now, you can Allow or Block First-Party Cookies and Third-Party Cookies and then click OK

Firefox 3.6:

1. Choose Tools, then
2. Options
3. Click the Privacy tab,
4. Use Custom settings for history
5. Check mark Accept cookies from sites to enable Cookies, and uncheck it to disable them
6. Choose how long cookies are allowed to be stored:
   • Keep until: they expire
   • Keep until: I close Firefox
   • Keep until: ask me every time

7. Click OK

Google Chrome:

1. Click the spanner icon on the browser toolbar
2. Select Options (Preferences on Mac and Linux; Settings on a Chromebook)
3. Click the Under the Bonnet tab
4. Click Content settings in the Privacy section
5. Click the Cookies tab in the Content Setting dialogue that appears

Safari:

1. From the Safari menu, click Preferences
2. From the Security dialogue box, from Accept Cookies, click to select Always
3. Click Close