Log in to Oakham Baptist Church web site

This is designed to explain how the system will remember your login if you check this box, and to explain how Oakham Baptist Church web site uses cookies.

Cookies are data stored by one web page and read by another. Oakham Baptist Church web site uses them to store login information, so that, for example, the download page knows that you actually have logged in. There are two sorts of cookies. The first are session cookies, which never get written to disk, but are just held in memory. This means that they only last until you close your browser, and are then destroyed without trace. The second sort are permanent cookies, which are held on disk and can therefore be used whenever you next visit the site.

The security problems come with the fact that permanent cookies can potentially be read by malicious web pages, or by other users on your computer. Systems foolish enough to store password information in permanent cookies therefore potentially allow your passwords to be read by other people. In Oakham Baptist Church web site, your password is never stored as a permanent cookie, merely as a session cookie.

However, some people may find it useful to store their Oakham Baptist Church web site nickname between visits to remind themselves of it next time. By ticking the "Remember my login" box, the Oakham Baptist Church web site nickname is stored as a permanent cookie and you wil be recognised next time you visit the site. If would prefer not to do this, then clear the box and your user ID will merely be stored as a session cookie and forgotten as soon as you close your browser window.

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