We understand how important privacy is to you. We want you to feel fully comfortable browsing our site without worry. Here are a few tips to maintain your privacy while online, both while on your computer and your phone or tablet.
If you are browsing the internet using Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Internet Explorer you can choose to browse privately, so your search history and browsing history are not stored.
- On Google Chrome, select File from the menu, and then click New Incognito Window.
- On Firefox or Safari, select File from the menu, and then click New Private Window.
- On Microsoft Edge, select the More icon, and then click New InPrivate Window.
- On Internet Explorer, select the Safety button from the menu, and then click InPrivate Browsing.
Your browsing history will show a history of all the sites you’ve visited. Cookies are small files which are stored on a user’s computer. They are designed to hold a small amount of data specific to a particular client and website, in order to customize a page to a user. Neither browsing history nor cookies will be saved if you are browsing privately.
On every browser, you are also able to clear your browsing history and cookies.
For your privacy, it may be more prudent to clear only the data from the last hour, rather than all time, to make it less obvious that data has been deleted.
On Google Chrome:
- Select Chrome from the menu bar, and then click Clear Browsing Data.
- Choose the time range you would like to clear from the dropdown (spans from Last Hour to All Time).
- Ensure the button for Cookies and Other Data is checked.
- Click Clear Data.
On Firefox:
- Select History from the menu bar, and then click Clear Recent History
- Choose the time range you would like to clear from the dropdown.
- Click the details button.
- Ensure Browsing & Download History as well as Cookies is checked.
- You can also clear the Form & Search History if you are worried about your recent searches being discovered.
- Click Clear Now.
On Safari:
- Select Safari from the menu bar, and then click Clear History.
- Choose the time range you would like to clear from the dropdown.
- Click Clear History.
On Microsoft Edge:
- Select the Hub icon in the upper right corner.
- Click the History icon.
- Click Clear All History.
- Ensure Browsing History, Cookies and Saved Website Data, and Forms are clicked.
- Click Clear.
On Internet Explorer:
- Select the Gear icon in the upper right corner.
- Choose Safety, and then click Delete Browsing History.
- Ensure Cookies, History, Form Data, and Temporary Internet Files are checked.
- Click Delete.
On iPhone/iPad:
- Launch Safari from your Home Screen.
- Click the Pages icon on the bottom right of the screen.
- Click Private to enter Private Browsing Mode.
- Click the + icon to launch a Private Browsing page.
On Samsung phones/tablets:
- Launch Internet from your Home Screen.
- Click Tabs on the bottom right of the screen.
- Choose Turn on Secret Mode.
- A new private window will launch.
On Android using Google Chrome:
- On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Chrome application.
- To the right of the address bar, tap the More icon
- Click New Incognito tab. A new window will appear. In the top left, check for the Incognito icon.
On iPhone/iPad:
- Launch Settings from your Home Screen.
- Scroll down and tap “Safari”.
- Scroll down in the Safari menu and choose “Clear History and Website Data”.
- Confirm that you want to Clear History and Data.
- This will delete your Browsing History, Cache, Autofill, and Cookies will be deleted
On Samsung phones/tablets:
- Launch Internet from your Home Screen.
- To the right of the address bar, tap the More icon
- Scroll down to Settings, and tap it.
- Tap Privacy.
- Tap Delete Personal Data.
- Ensure Browsing History, Cache, and Cookies and Site Data are checked.
- Tap Delete.
On Android using Google Chrome:
- Launch Settings menu.
- Scroll down to Apps and select it.
- Swipe to All, scroll down until you see Chrome, and tap it.
- Tap Clear Data option, and then Clear Cache button to delete all the history items.
