What are cookies?

First, you may wish to know what cookies are, and what they are not. Introduced with Netscape Navigator 1.0 and offered by Internet Explorer 3.0 or later, a cookie is a small string of letters and numbers that a web page requests your web browser to store. This string (we'll call it the cookie from now on) is sent back to the web page by your browser when you visit again, with the idea that the web page can now remember who you were, and make the page richer for you on your return.

Brave New Worlds, Inc. and many other eCommerce providers use a small cookie to remember your shopping cart: the cookie is simply a reminder to the web page of what your shopping cart number is, so that it can store the things you put in the cart until such time as you want to "check out" and send the order to the web page's owner. This string poses no security or privacy risk to you, it is simply a reminder so that we can fetch the products you have on your order sheet when you click on the shopping cart/purchase icon. Otherwise, we would not remember what you had ordered before!

Some browsers come with cookies turned off by default. This page is designed to help you enable cookies so that you may use the shopping cart feature of the site where you found this link.

Before we go any further, we recommend that if you are using a version of the AOL browser prior to 4.0, or a version of Internet Explorer or Netscape prior to 4.0, that you upgrade your browser. Thse browsers are free, and you can have more than one on your system at a time if you wish.

Enabling Cookies in Netscape 4.0+

To enable cookies in Netscape 4.0 or later, you must follow this procedure:

Click on Edit in the upper left corner the browser (next to File), and click on Preferences... at the bottom of the pull-down menu that appears.

A new window will appear on your screen, entitled Preferences. There should be several options with small triangles next to them listed down the left side of this window, including Appearance, Mail & Newsgroups, and near the bottom, Advanced.

Click on the word Advanced. New content should appear to the right, including a section entitled: Cookies. Click on the checkbox to the left of the words Accept all cookies. Then click the OK button at the bottom left of the window, and you are ready to shop!

Enabling Cookies in Internet Explorer 5.0+

To enable cookies in Internet Explorer 5.0 or greater, you must do the following:

Click on Tools at the top of the browser (to the left of Help at the very top). Select Internet Options... from the pull-down menu that appears.

A new window will appear on your screen, entitled Internet Options. Along the top of this window there are several buttons, including General, Security, and Advanced.

Click on the Security button. A row if icons appears in the box below, including one labeled Internet, and depicted as a globe. Click on the Internet button, and then click on Custom Level. Another window will appear, entitled Security Settings. You will have to scroll down a bit to find the subsection entitled Cookies. Click on the circle to the left of the workd Enable under Cookies (there should be a smaller circle within that circle after you click, to signify that the option is checked) and then click on the OK button at the bottom of the Security Options window, and OK again at the bottom of the Internet Options window, and you are ready to shop!

Enabling Cookies in Internet Explorer 4.0+

To enable cookies in Internet Explorer 4.0 or greater, you must do the following:

Click on View at the top of the browser (to the right of File and Edit at the very top). Select Internet Options... from the pull-down menu that appears.

A new window will appear on your screen, entitled Internet Options. Along the top of this window there are several buttons, including General, Security, and Advanced.

Click on the Advanced button. You will probably have to scroll down a bit in the box that appears, until you see the words Always Accept Cookies. Click on the circle to the left of those words (there should be a smaller circle within that circle after you click, to signify that the option is checked) and then click on the OK button at the bottom of the window, and you are ready to shop!