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help content updates per bugzilla 122806, r=oeschger; privacy-related updates.

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<a NAME="privacy:protectingIDX"></a>
<hr><h1>Using Privacy Features</h1>
<p>The Internet is a public network of millions of computers, all sharing information. On the Internet, information moves back and forth across public lines and through numerous connections. As with all public lines, eavesdropping is possible.</p>
<p>On the Internet, information moves back and forth across public lines and through numerous connections. Without adequate protection, the privacy of personal information stored on your computer or transmitted over the Internet can be compromised in a variety of ways.</p>
<p>Fortunately, your browser contains features that safeguard your privacy. In addition to the information in this document, you can always find the latest news about security at Netscape's <a href="http://home.netscape.com/security/index.html" target="_blank">Security Center</a>. For more information about privacy and security, including information about viruses, secure email, safe online shopping and banking, and safe surfing for children, see
<a href="http://home.netscape.com/security/basics/index.html?cp=sciln" target="_blank">Understanding Security</a>, a document located at the Security Center.
<p>For background information about privacy on the Internet, click the first topic below. For instructions on using specific browser features that help protect your privacy, click the topic for the feature you want to use.</p>
<p>Fortunately, your browser includes features you can use to safeguard the privacy and security of your personal information at all times. The sections that follow describe how Netscape helps you control cookies, passwords, forms, and images while you are surfing the Internet.
<p>For information about related Netscape security features, see <a href="mail_sec_help.html">Signing &amp; Encrypting Messages</a> and <a href="using_certs_help.html">Using Certificates</a>.
<p>For general information about prifvacy and security, including descriptions of viruses, safe online shopping and banking, and safe surfing for children, see the online document
<a href="http://home.netscape.com/security/basics/index.html?cp=sciln" target="_blank">Understanding Security</a>.
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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<p>This section summarizes some background information about privacy on the Internet. It also describes several things you can do to safeguard your own privacy.</p>
<p>For a more detailed discussion of privacy issues, see the <a href="chrome://communicator/locale/wallet/privacy.html">Privacy Tutorial</a>.
<p>For a more detailed discussion of privacy issues, see <a href="chrome://communicator/locale/wallet/privacy.html">Understaning Privacy</a>.
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<table cellpadding=4 cellspacing=2 bgcolor="#cccccc" Width=324>
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<p><a href="#privacy_visit">What Information Does My Browser Give to a Web Site?</a></p>
<p><a href="#privacy_cookies">What Are Cookies, and How Do They Work?</a></p>
<p><a href="#privacy_unauth">How Do I Make Sure Unauthorized People Don't Use Information About Me?</a></p>
<p><a href="#privacy_anon">Browsing Anonymously</a></p></td>
<p><a href="#privacy_anon">How Can I Browse Anonymously?</a></p></td>
</tr>
</table>
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<p>There are two ways that a site can obtain information about you:
<ul>
<li>When you request to view a page from a site, a certain amount of information is disclosed in the page request that your browser makes on your behalf.
<li>When you view a web page, the web site receives some information about your computer in the page request that your browser makes on your behalf.
<p>
<li>If you fill out and submit an online form, the information you filled in is sent to the site.
</ul>
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<p>There are two ways for sites to store information about you:
<ul>
<li>While your browser is getting a page from a web site, the site could ask your browser to store a small amount of information about you on your own hard disk. This stored information is called a &quot;cookie.&quot; A site that stores (or &quot;sets&quot;) a cookie will ask your browser to let it read the cookie the next time you visit.
<li>While your browser is getting a page from a web site, the site can ask to store a small amount of information about you on your own hard disk. This stored information is called a &quot;cookie.&quot; A site that stores (or &quot;sets&quot;) a cookie will ask your browser to let it read the cookie the next time you visit.
<p>
<li>Any information you give a web site (by filling out an online form) could be stored on the web site's computers.
<li>Any information you give a web site (by filling out an online form) can be stored on the web site's computers.
</ul>
<p>A web page <b>can't</b> find out your email address, name, or any
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<a NAME="privacy_visit"></a>
<h2>What Information Does My Browser Give to a Web Site?</h2>
<p>When you ask to view a web page from a site&mdash;which you do each time you click a link or type a URL&mdash;a small amount of information is given to the site. This information includes your operating environment, your Internet address (<i>not</i> your email address), and the page you're coming from.
<p>When your browser displays a web page&mdash;for example, each time you click a link or type a URL&mdash;a small amount of information is given to the site. This information includes your operating environment, your Internet address (<i>not</i> your email address), and the page you're coming from.
<p><b>Operating Environment</b>
<p>The site is told something about your operating environment, such as
your browser type and operating system. This helps the site present the page
in the best way for your screen. For example, the site might learn that you
use the French version of a mozilla-based browser on a Windows 2000 computer.
use the French version of Netscape 2.2.1 on a Windows 2000 computer.
<a name="ip"></a>
<p><b>Internet Address</b>
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<p>If you have DSL, a cable modem, or a fiber-optic connection, you may have a fixed IP address that you use every time you connect.
<p>Whether your IP address is temporary or fixed, you might not want that information
to be given to a site you intend to visit. To block your IP address from being given out, see <a href="#privacy_anon">Browsing Anonymously</a>.
to be given to a site you intend to visit. To block your IP address from being given out, see <a href="#privacy_anon">How Can I Browse Anonymously?</a>.
<p><b>Referring Page</b>
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<a name="privacy_foreign"></a>
<a NAME="cookies:foreignIDX"></a>
<h3>Encountering Foreign Cookies</h3>
<h3>What Are Foreign Cookies</h3>
<p>If your browser stores a site's cookie, it will return the cookie only to that particular site. Your browser will not provide one site with cookies set by another. Since a web site can only receive its own cookies, it can keep track of your activities while you are at that site but not your activities in general while surfing the Web.
<p>But suppose that while you visit site ABC.com, a cookie gets
stored not by ABC.com but by a different site called XYZ.com.
ABC.com can cause that to happen very simply by displaying an image from
XYZ.com. So when you visit ABC.com your browser makes a side-trip to
XYZ.com to get the image, and XYZ.com stores the cookie at that time.
<p>But suppose that while you visit site example.com, a cookie gets
stored not by example.com but by a different site called example.net.
example.com can cause that to happen very simply by displaying an image from
example.net. So when you visit example.com your browser makes a side-trip to
example.net to get the image, and example.net stores the cookie at that time.
<p>If XYZ.com enlists many sites to display its cookie-storing image,
<p>If example.net enlists many sites to display its cookie-storing image,
it can build up a cookie that contains information about your behavior at
all those sites. The more sites that display XYZ.com's image,
all those sites. The more sites that display example.net's image,
the more encompassing a profile it can build on you.
<p>Such cookies that are stored by the site other than the one that you
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you could give permission for sites to store ordinary cookies only but
not foreign ones.
<p>You use Cookie Manager to specify what types of cookies
<p>You use the Cookie Manager to specify what types of cookies
you want your browser to accept.
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<a NAME="privacy_unauth"></a>
<h2>How Do I Make Sure Unauthorized People Don't Use Information About Me?</h2>
<h2>How Can I Make Sure Unauthorized People Don't Use Information About Me?</h2>
<p>The best way to keep your information private is to be cautious about providing it to others. The Internet is a public network, and you should assume that when someone asks you for your name, phone number, address, and other information, they might share that information with others.</p>
<p>The best way to keep your information private is to be cautious about providing it to others. The Internet is a public network. When you send your name, phone number, address, and other personal information over the network (via a web page, email, or any other method), that information may become available to others unless both you and the receipient take precautions and agree how it will be used.</p>
<p>Providing your name, address, and phone number on the web is like having a listing in the telephone book. In fact, if you are listed in the white pages of the telephone book, your name, address, and phone number are probably listed in online directories and other databases on the World Wide Web. (Try looking yourself up in a directory such as People Finder or Yellow Pages.)</p>
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<a NAME="browsing_anonymouslyIDX"></a>
<a NAME="privacy:IP_addressIDX"></a>
<h2>Browsing Anonymously</h2>
<h2>How Can I Browse Anonymously?</h2>
<p>When you request to see a page from a site, your browser must tell the site your <a href="#ip">Internet address</a> (IP address) so the site knows where to send the page. Your IP address can be either temporary or fixed (static).
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return address. Then, when it gets the page, it forwards it on to
you. The site that supplied the page never sees your IP address.
<p>There are several sites that provide such services. Use your favorite
search engine to find them---try search words such as &quot;anonymous&quot; and
&quot;surfing&quot;.
<p>Several sites exist that provide such services. Use your favorite
search engine to find them---try search words such as &quot;anonymous browsing&quot;.
<p>
[&nbsp;<A HREF="#using_maintain">Return to beginning of section</A>&nbsp;]
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<hr>
<p><i>30 January 2002</i></p>
<p><i>10 March 2002</i></p>
<hr>
<p>Copyright &copy; 1998-2002 The Mozilla Organization.</p>
<p>Copyright &copy; 1998-2002 Netscape Communications Corporation.</p>
</body>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Enabling &amp; Disabling Cookies</h2>
<p>You can specify how cookies should be handled by setting your cookie preferences and by using the Cookie Manager.</p>
<p>You can specify how cookies should be handled by setting your cookie preferences.</p>
<p>To change your cookie preferences:
<ol>
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<p>If you select &quot;Remember this decision,&quot; you will not be warned the next time that site tries to set or modify a cookie, and your &quot;yes&quot; or &quot;no&quot; response will still be in effect.</p>
<p>If you wish to change a remembered response later, use Cookie Manager to edit your list of automatically stored cookies.</p>
<p>If you want to change a remembered response later, use Cookie Manager to edit your list of automatically stored cookies.</p>
<p>To stop automatically accepting cookies from a site:
<ol>
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<p>If you enable cookies, you can also select the following preferences:
<ul>
<li><b>Warn me before storing a cookie:</b> Select this if you want Cookie Manager to warn you each time a web site asks to store a cookie on your computer.
<li><b>Ask me before storing a cookie:</b> Select this if you want Cookie Manager to warn you each time a web site asks to store a cookie on your computer.
<li><b>Limit maximum lifetime of cookies to:</b> Select this if you want to limit the length of time any cookie can remain on your computer. Then choose one of these options:
<ul>
<li><b>current session:</b> Choose this to delete the cookie the next time you exit your browser.
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<p>Click these buttons to get more information about your stored cookies and the ways they are used by your browser:
<ul>
<li><b>View Stored Cookies:</b> Click this to view information about the cookies currently stored on your computer.
<li><b>More Information:</b> Click this for a detailed explanation of cookies and related privacy issues.
<li><b>Manage Stored Cookies:</b> Click this to view information about the cookies currently stored on your computer.
<li><b>Understanding Privacy:</b> Click this for a detailed explanation of cookies and related privacy issues.
</ul>
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<ol>
<li>Open the Edit menu and choose Preferences.
<li>Under the Privacy &amp; Security category, click Cookies. (If no subcategories are visible, double-click the category to expand the list.)
<li>Click View Stored Cookies.
<li>Click Manage Stored Cookies.
</ol>
<p>The Stored Cookies tab lists all the cookies stored on your computer and the sites they belong to. When you select a cookie in this list, information about that cookie appears:
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<li><b>Remove All Cookies:</b> Removes all cookies from the list.
</ul>
<p>Select this checkbox to prevent the cookies you remove from being added back into the list later:
<ul>
<li><b>Don't allow removed cookies to be reaccepted later</b></ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2><a name="cookie_sites"></a><hr>Cookie Sites</h2>
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<li>Click the Cookie Sites tab.
</ol>
<p>When the &quot;Warn me before storing a cookie&quot; option is selected in the <a href="#cookie_prefs">Privacy &amp; Security Preferences - Cookies</a>, you will be warned (while browsing) each time a web site requests permission to set a cookie. The warning allows you to accept or deny the cookie. The warning also allows you to select an option for your browser to &quot;Remember this decision.&quot;
<p>When the &quot;Warn me before storing a cookie&quot; option is selected in <a href="#cookie_prefs">Privacy &amp; Security Preferences - Cookies</a>, you will be warned (while browsing) each time a web site requests permission to set a cookie. The warning allows you to accept or deny the cookie. The warning also allows you to select an option for your browser to &quot;Remember this decision.&quot;
<p>The Cookie Sites tab of the Cookie Manager lists the sites for which your decisions have been remembered, and what your decisions were. It also allows you to remove sites from the list, so that the Cookie Manager no longer remembers your decisions about them:
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<li><b>Remove All Cookies:</b> Removes all sites from the list.
</ul>
<p>Once you've removed a site from this list, Cookie Manager remembers nothing about it. When the &quot;Warn me before storing a cookie&quot; option is selected in the Cookies preferences panel, you will be again be warned when the web site you removed from this list requests permission to set a cookie.
<p>Once you've removed a site from this list, Cookie Manager remembers nothing about it. When the &quot;Warn me before storing a cookie&quot; option is selected in the Cookies preferences panel, you will be again be warned when the web site you removed from this list requests permission to set a cookie.
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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<li><b>Bypass this screen when prefilling this form in the future:</b> Select this checkbox to avoid seeing this window the next time you visit this web site. This can be conveninent, for example, if you frequently need to enter the same data at the same web site and don't need to check it every time before Form Manager fills it in for you.
<p>If you change your mind about this decision, you can restore the Prefill Form Data window for this web site. For details, see <a href="#forms_sites">Form Manager - Sites</a>.
<li><b>View Stored Form Data:</b> Click this button to examine or edit all personal data that Form Manager has saved. For details, see <a href="#forms_data">Form Manager - Data</a>.
</ul>
</ul>
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<hr>
<p><i>31 January 2002</i></p>
<p><i>10 March 2002</i></p>
<hr>
<p>Copyright &copy; 1994-2002 Netscape Communications Corporation.</p>