There are circumstances when you do not want your bookmarks or records to be seen.

• You may want your current boss not to come across your job search activities
• You may want your family members not to know some of the entertainment sites you visit

Nobody knows that your Favormark page is really yours. Even if you provide your e-mail address in order to receive replies to e-mails you send, no one can see it without entering the password.

You only need to refrain from bookmarking your "secret" Favormark page with the browser or you need to protect the sensitive parts of the page with the password.

If you are dead serious about the anonymity of your records, keep in mind the following:

• Your employer can find out which sites you are visiting without ever examining your office computer.
• Your browser keeps the list of pages you've visited (called History), the actual pages and images you've seen (called Cache or Temporary Internet Files). You can make the Internet Explorer erase both History and Cache by going to Tools | Internet Options and pressing the Clear History and Delete Files buttons. With Netscape Navigator, go to Edit | Preferences, press the Clear History button, and then go further to Advanced | Cache and press Clear Disk Cache button.
• Nearly all Web sites leave small markers on your computer, called cookies. Cookies do not collect any information from your computer. They exist to inform a Web site, whether that particular computer, network account, and browser have already been used to access that very site. Therefore, you may want to delete cookies before another person uses that computer. To make the Internet Explorer delete cookies, go to Tools | Internet Options, click the Settings button in the Temporary Internet Files section, and then click the View Files button. The list of all Web objects stored on your computer should appear. Select all objects by choosing Edit | Select All in the menu, and hit the Delete button on the keyboard. To delete Netscape Navigator's cookies, close Netscape, find the folder where it stores your personal settings (it's likely to be C:/Program Files/Netscape/Your user name on Windows and ~Your user name/.Netscape on Unix) and delete the cookie file stored in it (cookies.txt on Windows and cookies on Unix).
• Having erased History, Cache, and cookies as described above, clear your computer's Recycle Bin. To do this on Windows, right-click on the trash bin icon on Windows desktop and select Empty Recycle Bin.