
Cookies on the BARS web site
Most sites you visit will probably use cookies to remember your preferences for the web site, to help administrators of the web site to determine number of visitors, which pages are the most popular and other various tasks. Cookies are small text files that the server can retrieve and identify your browser and remember your settings. Some cookies are very important, without cookies you would not be able to login to a web site or do other things like add items to your shopping list if you are on a web site that sells goods online.
You do not have to accept cookies but by refusing cookies from the BARS web site you will not be able to login to the web site - the server will not be able to remember that you have logged in.
Information and Privacy
All the cookies used on the BARS web site use anonymous information and are deleted when you close your browser with one exception: the cookie that remembers you are happy to accept cookies. This latter cookie prevents you having to click the accept cookies link which will remove the top right panel explaining about cookies.