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Setting up

Tracking Protection

in Internet Explorer 9

Click “Tools” in the top right corner

Select “Safety” and then “Tracking Protection”

Select “Get a Tracking Protection List online”

You can add any one of these 12 pre-made lists…

… or you can enable “Your personalized list” to let IE generate a

list for you based on the sites you visit

For additional protection, go back to “Tools” and select “Internet

options”

Select the “Privacy” tab

Adjust the slider based on how much cookie protection you would

like

Or select “Advanced”

Select “Override automatic cookie handling” and decide what

cookies you would like to accept

Cookie blocking can affect the way some websites function. It you aren’t happy

with the changes you’ve made, you can always select “Default” to return to the

original settings.

There are additional tools you can use to protect your

privacy online.

• Adblock Plus (special IE version) blocks the display of ads and stops social

networking sites from transmitting data about you after you leave those

sites, even if the page you visit has a social plugin on it.

• Do Not Track Plus is the Do Not Track app that sends a request to websites

not to track you, with a “plus” of also stopping third-party data exchanges.

So, when you visit a site with Facebook, Twitter and Google+ buttons on it,

no information will be exchanged with those third parties unless you choose

to click on those buttons.

• Ghostery blocks the invisible tracking cookies and plug-ins on many web

sites, shows it all to you, and then gives you the choice whether you want to

block them one-by-one, or all together.

Finally, if you aren’t sure whether to accept cookies from a

website, read their privacy policy and find out what they do

with the information they gather from users!