Help with Internet Explorer 6
Like many web sites, most of our electronic services need to place a "cookie" on your computer to work properly. This is only used for these services and no personally identifiable information is retained or passed on. If you are having problems, Internet Explorer 6 default settings may be stopping these cookies being placed; this page tells you how to alter those settings.
Internet Explorer Version 6 has a range of privacy options that you can set, either on a web site basis or universally. These specifically refer to how Internet Explorer deals with cookies. The following is from the Internet Explorer help pages and it explains how to change the privacy settings for specific web sites - you may need to do this for our online resources so they work properly.
To customize your privacy settings for an individual web site
- In Internet Explorer, under the 'Tools' menu, select 'Internet Options...'.
- Under the 'Privacy' tab, select the 'Sites' button.
- In 'Address of Web site', type the complete address of the Web site for which you want to specify custom settings. For example, http://www.microsoft.com
- To specify that you want Internet Explorer to always allow cookies from the specified Web site to be saved on your computer, select 'Allow'. To specify that you want Internet Explorer to never allow cookies from the specified Web site to be saved on your computer, choose 'Block'.
Notes
You can view a list of Web sites for which you have specified custom settings in the Managed Web sites list. To remove a Web site from this list, and delete its custom privacy settings, select Remove. When you remove a Web site from the Managed Web sites list, your privacy settings for all Web sites without custom settings will apply to that Web site.
Some Web sites require cookies; therefore, if you select a setting that does not allow cookies to be saved on your computer, you might not be able to view certain Web sites.
When you change your privacy settings, the changes might not affect cookies that are already on your computer. If you want to ensure that all of the cookies on your computer meet your privacy settings, you should delete all of the existing cookies on your computer. When you return to Web sites that previously had saved cookies on your computer, the Web sites that meet your privacy settings will save cookies on your computer again. The Web sites that do not meet your privacy settings will not be allowed to save cookies on your computer, and might not function properly.