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How To Clear Your Private Data In Flock 2.x for Windows

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Clear Private Data Dialog - Part 3
How To Clear Your Private Data In Flock 2.x for Windows

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  • Cookies: A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard drive when you visit certain websites. Each cookie is used to tell a Web server when you return to its Web page. Cookies can be helpful in remembering certain settings that you have on a website.

  • Offline Website Data: HTML 5 defines a mechanism which allows Web pages to store information and pre-cached data within your browser. Depending on what information winds up being stored, this data itself can cause privacy concerns.

  • Saved Passwords: When entering a password on a Web page for something such as your email login, Flock will usually ask if you would like for the password to be remembered. If you choose for the password to be remembered, it will be stored by the browser and then pre-populated the next time you visit that Web page.

  • All Configured Accounts: Flock stores passwords for any social networking, blogging, or other accounts that you have configured within the browser. This includes Digg, Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter among many others.

  • Authenticated Sessions: You may have logged into a site and noticed that when you returned later you were still logged in. This is because Flock saved your authenticated session.

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