Cookie-Disclosure Statement

We are often asked about our use of cookie technology, which we employ 
at The Granville Press to allow you to move quickly through 
our site. Below you'll find information describing our most common uses 
of cookies, which are an inherent part of our production process and 
have enabled us to better serve you.

What's a cookie?
A cookie is a small file that is sent to your computer by a site's 
server. A cookie can be a record of your visit to a site, including 
information such as your User Name, registration information, time of 
last visit, pages viewed, etc. A cookie created by one site's servers 
can be retrieved only by that site's servers. Thus, information in The 
Granville Press cookies is not accessible to other sites.

Why do we use cookies?
We use cookies to allow you to move quickly through our site and provide 
information customized to your computer. We accomplish this in many ways, using 
several different cookies. When you first enter the Online Journal, for 
example, we use a test cookie to confirm your browser's ability to 
retain cookies. Next, we check our database to verify your subscription 
so you can gain access. A cookie is then temporarily "set" within your 
browser to allow you to proceed without having to confirm your identity 
with each subsequent page you request to view.

Without cookie technology, we would not be able to offer you convenient 
features such as the ability to store your User Name and Password and 
save personalized news or portfolio settings.

Other cookies that you may receive during your sessions here are from 
third-party service providers or third-party network advertisers. These 
network advertisers may use their own cookies in order to serve ads on 
our Web sites, ensuring you won't see the same ads over and over again.

When you view an ad for The Granville Press, our third-party 
advertising company may place or recognize a unique cookie on your 
browser. The Granville Press and its' advertising company also 
may use Web beacons (invisible images often referred to as pixel tags or 
clear GIFs) to note which Online Journal pages you visit after viewing 
our ads. The information that is collected through the use of these 
images is not personally identifiable and is used only to track response 
to our advertising efforts.

So what's in it for me?

Here's a quick rundown of what we see as the biggest advantages of cookies:

Faster, more convenient access.

We won't have to ask you to identify yourself with each new page 
requested. We can also deliver to you customized information and store 
your settings more efficiently.

Better information.

We want to give you features and services in which you're interested. 
Through the use of cookies, we can determine which features are most 
popular with subscribers on an aggregate basis and thus better serve 
your needs by developing new features and services in response to our 
analysis of subscribers' usage.

More efficient ad processing.

Cookies enable us to streamline our ad presentations.

Will the cookies you send me go away?

Some of our cookies are long term. If they weren't, we'd need to ask you 
for certain information with each new session, such as your User Name. 
Some cookies do expire after a short period of time.
 
Remember, cookies are small files and won't pose any significant 
disk-space concerns on your computer.

There are also a number of software and shareware programs available 
that are designed to periodically purge cookie files from your hard 
disk. We do not recommend these applications and, as such, cannot 
address any resulting support issues that may be related to the use of 
these programs.