Essentially, cookies are pieces of information left on your computer, usually for a short period of time
On concentrace, we use a cookie to store the contents of your shopping basket whilst you are shopping here. Without them, the site has no way of remembering what you added to your basket right up until the checkout page.
No personal information or information that could be used to identify you is stored - just a list of the product codes in your basket. This information is wiped when you have completed an order, or close the browser window
But how to enable cookies? The instructions for the major browsers are listed below:
Internet Explorer 6 & 7
- Click on "Tools" then on "Internet Options" (at the bottom)
- Click on the "Privacy" tab at the top
- Make sure the big slider at the top is set to "Medium High" or lower - anything above this and cookies are blocked
- Click OK to exit, click refresh to reload the page
Firefox 1.x
- Click on "Tools" then "Internet Options"
- Click across to "Privacy"
- Expand the "Cookies" section
- Check the "Enable cookies" and "Accept cookies normally" checkboxes
- Click OK to exit, click refresh to reload the page
Firefox 2.x
- Click on "Tools" then "Internet Options"
- Click across to "Privacy"
- In the cookies section, check "Accept cookies from sites"
- Click OK to exit, click refresh to reload the page
Opera 9
- Click on "Tools" then "Preferences"
- Click down to the "Privacy" section on the left
- Check the "Enable cookies" box
- Make sure the Normal Cookies setting is set to "Accept all cookies"
- Click OK to exit, click refresh to reload the page
Netscape 6 & 7
- Select "Preferences" from the edit menu
- Click on the arrow next to "Privacy & Security" in the left side menu to expand the list
- Under "Privacy & Security", select "Cookies"
- Select "Allow Cookies for the originating web site only", "Allow cookies based on privacy settings" or "Allow all cookies"
- Click OK to exit, click refresh to reload the page
Safari
- Click on "Preferences" from the Safari menu
- Click on the "Security" icon near the top of the window
- Under "Accept cookies", make sure either the "Always" or "Only from sites you navigate to" option is selected
- Click OK to exit, click refresh to reload the page
Konqueror
- Select "Configure Konqueror" from the settings menu
- Find and select "Cookies" from the left side menu (you may need to scroll down a bit)
- Select "Automatically accept session cookies"
- Click OK to exit, click refresh to reload the page
If you're not using one of the above browsers (unless I've missed one out), then I'm slightly surprised that the site is displaying as it should. Why don't you try downloading one of my favourite browsers from below?
- For windows:
- Mozilla Firefox 2.0
- Opera
- Internet Explorer (the web designer's nightmare - there are so many things wrong with this browsers, thought IE 7 was a big improvement)
- For Mac
- For Linux