Why Cookies?

July 25, 2006

Question: I received a security alert that the church website was storing cookies on my computer. Why?

Answer: Our newer photo galleries (example) offer the option of automatically advancing through photos as a slide show. Our site needs to keep two cookies on your PC to support the slide show. One stores whether you are currently in "slide show" mode, and the other keeps your preferred time for each slide. Our web server does not actually read either of these cookies. They are only written and read by your own PC while watching the slide shows.

You may turn off cookies if you like. You would not be able to view our photos as a slide show, but you would still be able to manually navigate through all the images.


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