How NationalJournal.com Uses Cookies

To provide access during the Democratic National Conventions, this site places a "cookie" onto the Web browser of each user that completes the registration form. This "cookie" contains no user-specific information, and will expire on Monday, Aug. 2.

Some browsers are set to refuse all "cookies," or to restrict the conditions under which they are set. With Internet Explorer in particular, a security setting of "High" will prevent NationalJournal.com's access cookie from being saved. If this happens, a user will be repeatedly sent back to the registration page as if he/she had never completed the form.

In Internet Explorer, there are two solutions:

Solution 1:
Under "Tools," go to "Internet Options..." and then select the "Privacy" tab. Under "Settings," use the slidebar to select a privacy setting of "Medium High" or lower. (See screenshot below.) Then click the "OK" button.

Solution 2:
Users who want to maintain a "High" privacy setting can override the restrictions for NationalJournal.com.

Again, go to the "Privacy" tab under Tools / Internet Options.... Under "Web sites," click the edit button. In the "Address of Web site" window, type nationaljournal.com and then click the "Allow" button. (See screenshot below.) Then click the "OK" button.

What Does This Do?
In both cases, this will allow NationalJournal.com to place "cookies" on your Web browser. In addition to the convention-access "cookie," this site sets a random-number "cookie" the first time a user visits. That cookie is used solely to track the number of different individual users visiting NationalJournal.com. No personal data is stored, and that cookie is not linked to a user's account information in any way.