How to maintain your visits to this site private

Hide this site button

If you are using a computer in a public place (library, internet cafe, school) at work or at home, you might want to keep your visits to our site private when somebody passes by your desk.

To do so, click on the "Hide Site" button, located on each VAW pages just under the search box, and you'll instantly be transferred to a search engine page (www.google.ca). To return to the page you were visiting, hit the "BACK" button of your browser's tool bar.

Delete your visits history

When you browse the internet, your browser stores information about sites visited so that you can return to a place visited before or view a page offline. At the same time, some websites pass data (cookies) to your computer to provide you with personalized service, monitor your returns and pages visited throughout the website, and produce statistics reports. Please note that we do not store cookies on your computer, however, below we'll show you how to delete cookies in case you need to do so in other situations.

If someone wants to track your site visits, the easiest is to check your visits history. In Internet Explorer this is possible through the "HISTORY" button located in the top tool bar. When the button is clicked, the History bar section opens on the left side of the screen, and shows the links for all Web sites and pages visited grouped by days and weeks. In Netscape, the list of sites visited appears when clicking the arrow at the right side of the address bar.

To stop the average internet user from determining your site visits, you need to:

How to clear the History, Temporary Internet Files and Cookies in Internet Explorer 6 for PC users:

A. Clear Site Visits History:

To delete only certain webpages from History:

  1. Click the History button in the Explorer toolbar
  2. Right click on the page address that you want to delete (by using the right button of your mouse)
  3. Select "Delete" in the menu that comes up.
  4. Right click on the next page address that you want to delete from history
  5. Repeat steps 2-3 until you delete the page addresses that you do not want in your History.

To clear the whole History:

  1. Open Internet Explorer
  2. Select Tools in the main menu (top of the screen)
  3. Under Tools, select Internet Options
  4. In Internet Options, under the General Tab in the History section, select Clear History
  5. Click on Apply and then click OK

B. Delete Internet Temporary Files:

  1. Open Internet Explorer (IE)
  2. Select Tools in the main menu (top of the screen)
  3. Under Tools, select Internet Options
  4. In Internet Options, under the General Tab go to Temporary Internet Files section, select Delete Files
  5. Select "Delete all Offline Content" box and click OK
  6. Back in the Temporary Internet Files section, select Settings
  7. In Settings, in the "Check for newer versions of stored pages" section, select "Every visit to the page" button and click OK
  8. Back in the Temporary Internet Files section, click on Apply and then click OK

C. Delete Cookies:

  1. Open Internet Explorer (IE)
  2. Select Tools in the main menu (top of the screen)
  3. Under Tools, select Internet Options
  4. Under the General Tab in the Temporary Internet Files section, select Delete Cookies then click OK in the menu box that comes up
  5. Back in the Temporary Internet Files section, click on Apply and then click OK

How to clear the History, Cache and Cookies in Netscape 7:

A. Clear History and Location Bar:

  1. Open Netscape
  2. Select Edit in the main menu (top of the screen)
  3. Under Edit, select Preferences
  4. Within Preferences menu, Click + sign or Arrow next to Navigator (left side of the menu box)
  5. Then click on History
  6. Under History, click on Clear History and then Clear Location Bar
  7. Click OK

B. Delete Cookies:

  1. Open Netscape
  2. Select Edit in the main menu (top of the screen)
  3. Under Edit, select Preferences
  4. Within Preferences menu, Click + sign or Arrow next to Privacy & Security ( (left side of the menu box)
  5. Select Cookies
  6. Under Cookies, select Manage Stored Cookies
  7. Under Manage Stored Cookies, select Clear All Cookies and then click OK

C. Clear the Cache:

  1. Open Netscape
  2. In the top browser menu, select Edit
  3. Under Edit, select Preferences
  4. Within Preferences, Click + sign or Arrow next to Advanced
  5. Then click on Cache
  6. Under Cache, click on Clear Memory Cache
  7. Click on Clear Disk Cache
  8. Select "Document in cache is compared to document on network: every time"
  9. Click OK

 

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