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HelloKutie is supported by advertisements from dozens of stores and merchants. They offer products at considerable savings to our readers because we can drive a high volume of traffic and generate more sales for them. Visitors like you know that they can get these products at a much lower price when they come to HelloKutie.com. It works very similar to a print magazine: Stores and merchants are the advertisers. HelloKutie is the publisher. Visitors to the HelloKutie web site are the readers.

By using cookies, each merchant will know that you were referred by HelloKutie. Also, when a cookie is set and read by each merchant, discounts and coupons may be activated automatically to give you a lower price than if you went to that merchant's web site directly. Cookies (also known as "tracking cookies") are just plain text files used by advertisers that tell them you've been to HelloKutie.com and at what time/date. Cookies are just text files and are not programs. Text files are just words like what you are reading right now. Text files cannot cause any damage or problems to your computer. Just think of a text file like a Notepad document, and it is harmless.

These are some common uses for cookies:

  • Sites like eBay, MSN, Paypal, Yahoo, Google remember your login name by the use of cookies. Passwords, credit card numbers, addresses and phone numbers are usually never saved in a cookie. Your web browser might save this information on its own if you have auto-complete or form filler functions enabled in your web browser.
  • Nearly all online shopping sites use cookies to keep the items you've selected in your shopping cart so that when you add another item, the first item doesn't disappear.
  • Some news sites have cookies to show you news articles that you haven't seen yet and keep the articles you've already read in a separate section.
  • Web email sites make use of cookies in order remember your preferences (e.g. how many email messages to show on one page, the width of your editor window, etc.)
  • HelloKutie uses cookies to remember the last date of your visit and to show you how many new offers were added since your last visit.

    There are some Anti Spyware programs that will block cookies or block complete web sites that conduct the accounting for our advertisers. While we use Anti Spyware and Anti Virus programs on all of our computers, we think that a few Anti Spyware programs are much too aggressive in the way that they block everything under the sky. Anti Spyware programs are supposed to eliminate problems with your computer and make your online time stress-free. However, if they block everything, including some of our advertisers' web sites, they are creating more headaches for you.

    If you click on an offer link and it comes up blank or your browser states it is unable to connect to a server, your Anti Spyware program might be blocking a cookie or the entire site and not allowing our advertiser's web site to come up. Please try the following steps to correct this.

    Anti Spyware Settings
    Configure your Anti Spyware software to the medium/middle setting. Cookies do not need to be blocked. The middle setting for most Anti Spyware software should be sufficient. If you performed an "immunity" on your system, you will probably need to undo it. An "immunity" is similar to the most aggressive blocking.

    Web Browser Settings
    Check your web browser settings.
    For Internet Explorer:
  • Click Tools > Internet Options
  • Click the Security tab
  • Select the Internet Zone and set it to the Medium-high setting
  • Click the Privacy tab
  • Choose the Medium Setting

    For Firefox:
  • Click Tools > Options
  • Click the Privacy icon
  • Put a Checkmark on "Accept cookies from sites" and "Accept third-party cookies" and select Keep until: they expire

    Clean Your Hosts File
    Some programs may have added extra unnecessary entries to your hosts file which blocks or redirects certain web sites. These should be removed.

    Open "My Computer" or "Windows Explorer" and then navigate to the following folder:

    For Windows 95/98/ME: C:\Windows\
    For Windows XP or Vista: C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\
    For Windows NT/2000: C:\WinNT\System32\drivers\etc\

    Highlight or click the file hosts or lmhosts, press F2 and change the file name from hosts to hosts.bak or lmhosts to lmhosts.bak. Then restart the computer. If you get an error while accessing this file, see this page: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923947.

    For Linux: /etc/hosts
    For Mac OS: System Folder: Preferences: Hosts

    If you start to have a problem with links on our site again, you may need to change the hosts file one more time. You can delete the hosts.bak file if you no longer need it.

    Side Note
    Have you seen a documented report of a cookie causing problems for a computer? If so, please let us know name of the article or report and where you saw it. We don't believe there is such a thing as a "bad or malicious cookie" since we've never seen one that can cause harm or damage.

    • HelloKutie deems information reliable but not guaranteed. Offers are subject to change at any time without notice.
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