Cookie Policy

"A cookie, also known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie, is usually a small piece of data sent from a website and stored in a user's web browser while a user is browsing a website. When the user browses the same website in the future, the data stored in the cookie can be retrieved by the website to notify the website of the user's previous activity. Cookies were designed to be a reliable mechanism for websites to remember the state of the website or activity the user had taken in the past. This can include clicking particular buttons, logging in, or a record of which pages were visited by the user even months or years ago." - Wikipedia.org - HTTP_cookie

Briefly: cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to improve website performance and enhance your user experience.

Cookies used by our sites:

Service	Cookie	Purpose
Smart Thumbs	stvisitor, stclick, stfirst	Used to organize and sort content by categories, popularity and relevancy.
Crystal Trader	cr_tr, protect	Used to organize and manage friendly sites by visits and popularity.

Please note that most of these cookies are necessary for proper functioning of our websites and others are required to collect anonymous statistics which help us to improve these websites.

How to remove these cookies

Google Chrome

• Click on the "wrench" icon on the browser (usually found top-right corner) to open the tools menu
• From the tools menu select "Options"
• Click the "Under the Hood" tab from the menu on the left.
• In the "Privacy" section, select the "Content settings" button
• To disable cookies select "Block all cookies" option
• Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Chrome. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Chrome, refer to the following page from Google: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647

Microsoft Internet Explorer

• Click on "Tools" at the top of your browser window and select "Internet Options"
• In the options window navigate to the "Privacy" tab
• To disable cookies move the slider to the top to block all cookies
• Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Internet Explorer. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Internet Explorer, refer to the following page from Microsoft: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies

Mozilla Firefox

• Click on "Tools" at the browser menu and select "Options"
• Select the Privacy panel
• To disable cookies uncheck at "Accept cookies for sites"
• Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Mozilla Firefox. For more information, refer to the following page from Mozilla: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Enabling%20and%20disabling%20cookies

Safari on OSX

• Click on "Safari" at the menu bar and select the "Preferences" option
• Click on "Security"
• To disable cookies select "Never" in the "Accept cookies" section
• Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Safari. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Safari, refer to the following page from Apple: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Safari/3.0/en/9277.html

Most web browsers allow control of cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.

Also, some browsers have Privacy (Incognito) modes that allows you to browse the web anonymously. In this mode browsers do not keep any data like history of views or cookies on your device.

Opt out third party cookies

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.