2.)
How long the Cookie is valid for: For ordering movies, etc., the Cookies are valid only for the duration of your visit to the Excalibur website; Your 'ID#' Cookie is valid for the one week if it is the Temporary Number, or for one year in the case of your Permanent Number.
3.)
It also stores a keyword that identifies the Cookie plus the actual bits of data needed to perform its function (the actual movie order information or your ID#).
It is important to understand that all of the data in a Cookie comes from your activity on the Excalibur website. None of this information comes from your personal computer!
Excalibur Cookies cannot be used to discover anything about your computer or the files on it. They are merely a tool that lets the Excalibur server store a bit of information on your computer for later use so that you can easily traverse our website.
How long do Cookies last?
As noted in 2. above, a
website may set an expiration date for a cookie it delivers. If no expiration date is specified, the cookie is deleted when you exit the browser program.
Why are Cookies needed?
Cookies help websites resolve a major problem with the way the Internet actually functions. The problem is twofold in that when you visit a website, you don't connect to that website continuously; instead, each time you need a new page, or a new graphic, your browser connects, gets the information from the server, and then disconnects. Constantly ON and OFF. Usually, all the server knows is that a computer at a particular address on the Internet wanted a particular piece of information. And, secondly, this information can't be used to identify individual visitors to the website because in most cases, a single internet address can be shared by numerous visitors.
Why does Virginia need to know who I am?
Being able to identify individual customers to our website allows Movie Film Fest to provide a number of advanced services to you, including our most popular features:
1.) Automated Order Forms
2.) Personal ID Numbers to access adult areas
Most of the complaints about Cookies are rooted in the fact that people don't like being "watched" by Big Brother -- especially when it comes to adult material. We, above all, fully realize your concern and need for privacy. This is the reason Movie Film Fest continually creates new 'fake' General Release boxes so that no one, neither your spouse nor your mailman, has any idea what you are purchasing!
We will never create
a cookie without your permission. Ever! Our Cookies simply contain your
name, password and the movies you may wish to order, so you don't have
to go through the labor of typing each and every one of them in by hand.
We will not use log
file and tracking information to extract information about individual
customers. While we, of course, want to know what parts of the Excalibur
website are the most popular -- so that we will know to expand that section
even more -- we won't look to see who went where and did what.
