"Cookies" are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing customized services, that is sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive. We also offer certain features that are only available through the use of a "cookie". We also use cookies to allow you to enter your password less frequently during a session. Cookies can also help us provide information which is targeted to your interests.

Most cookies are "session cookies," meaning that they are automatically deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although in that case you may not be able to use certain features on our site and you may be required to reenter your password more frequently during a session. If you choose to buy or sell on our site, we collect information about your buying and selling behavior. We also collect other users' comments about you in our feedback area.

If you establish a credit account with us to pay the fees we charge, we collect some additional information, including a billing address, a credit card number and a credit card expiration date and tracking information from checks or money orders.

If you choose to post messages in our chat rooms or other message areas or leave feedback for other users, we will collect that information you provide to us.

If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the Site, we may collect such information into a file specific to you.

If you register for Aaaoe on another web site or use a web site providing a service for Aaaoe or a web site that helps facilitate your activity on Aaaoe, that web site may provide personal information about you and your transactions back to Aaaoe.

Each web site can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

Choices about Cookies

• You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. (Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.)
  
  
• If you reject all cookies, you will not be able to use Aaaoe products or services that require you to "sign in," and you may not be able to take full advantage of all offerings. However, many Aaaoe products and services do not require that you accept cookies.
  
  

Aaaoe's Practices Regarding Cookies

Aaaoe uses its own cookies for a number of purposes, including to:

• Access your information when you "sign in," so that we can provide you with customized content, such as My Account.
  
  
• Keep track of preferences you specify while you are using Aaaoe's services
  
  
• Display the most appropriate advertising banners, based on your interests and activity on Aaaoe.
  
  
• Assist merchants in Aaaoe Stores and Aaaoe Shopping to process the items in your shopping cart.
  
  
• Estimate and report our total audience size and traffic.
  
  
• Conduct research to improve Aaaoe 's content and services.
  
  
• Require you to re-enter your Aaaoe password after a certain period of time has elapsed to protect you against others accidentally accessing your account contents.
  
  

Other Companies' Cookies on Aaaoe

• Please note that Aaaoe allows Other Companies that are presenting advertisements or researching users' response to advertisements on some of our pages to set and access their cookies on your computer.
  
  
• Advertisers' and researchers' use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not the Aaaoe Privacy Policy .