About Cookies

What Are Cookies?

A cookie is a very small text file sent to your hard drive by a web page server to store on your web browser so that it can later be read back by that browser. It is essentially your "identification card" and cannot be executed as code or deliver viruses. Cookies from one site cannot be read by another site; it is your unique ID and can only be read by the server that gave it to you.

What Are They Used For?

A cookie tells the web server that you have returned to a web page. If you have personalized pages or register for products and/or services, a cookie helps Stanley Supply & Services remember who you are. It allows us to be more efficient. We can learn what is more important to our customers and provide you with the information you need. Cookies enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features such as storage of items in your Shopping Basket between visits.

Security

Cookies provided by our website do not contain any credit card or personal information. It can be used to track where you travel on our site. It cannot be used to get information from your hard drive, get your email or capture personal information about you.

Cookie Acceptance

You can have your browser accept all cookies or alert you whenever a cookie is offered. If you decide to accept cookies you can later delete them. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of Stanley Supply & Services personalization features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.

If you are using Internet Explorer 5.0

Internet Explorer allows you to set options for each of the security zones: Internet; Local Intranet, Trusted Sites and Untrusted Sites. For each of these zones you can choose to accept, reject or be prompted for all persistent cookies and all session cookies. To get to the options screen:

1. Choose Tools, then,
2. Internet Options.
3. Click the Security Tab,
4. Click Internet, then for each of the zones, choose Custom Level.
5. Scroll down in the options screen to Cookies and choose one of the options.

If you are using Internet Explorer 4.0

1. From the View menu, select Internet Options.
2. Select the Advanced tab.
3. Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon under Security labeled "Cookies".
4. Select one of the three options to regulate your use of cookies.

If you are using Netscape 6

1. Open the Edit Menu.
2. Choose Preferences.
3. Under the Advanced Category select Cookies.
4. Choose one of the available options.

If you are using Netscape 4

1. From the Edit Menu, select Preferences.
2. Select Advanced.
3. Select your options in the box labeled "Cookies".