If you are worried that someone will come into the room while you are visiting this web site or other web pages, you can quickly hide the site by closing the window. To avoid being left looking at a blank screen – you could open another browser window to another website.

People who share your computer can find out which web pages you have visited by looking in the 'History' menu of the web browser. The browser also stores this information elsewhere on your computer. Anyone who knows where to look, may be able to see which sites you have visited. You can usually delete this information by following the steps below. However, please note that you cannot be completely sure that this will always be successful. Also, you may sometimes not have the opportunity to complete the deletion or you may forget to delete it. Therefore, if you seriously fear someone will try to work out what web sites you have visited, the safest thing to do may be to access confidential websites from a safe place, such as a library, Internet cafe, or a friend's house.

The steps described below for the deletion of information on which web pages were visited, are for Microsoft Internet Explorer. Other browser programs should allow you to delete this information in a similar way.

Windows
1. At the top of the web page you will find an option called 'Tools'
2. Go to the 'Tools' menu, and choose 'Internet Options...' (this opens the Preferences window)
3. Click on the 'General' tab at the top of the Internet options window.
4. Click Delete Cookies...' and click 'OK' when asked.
5. Click the 'Delete Files...' to remove the 'Temporary Internet Files', then tick the 'Delete all offline content' followed by clicking 'OK' when asked.
6. Click the 'Clear History...' button, then click 'Yes' when asked.
7. Close the Preferences window.
8. Exit the program.

Apple Macintosh
1. Go to the 'Edit' menu, and choose 'Preferences...'
2. In the list on the left of the Preferences, you will see 'Web Browser' with a triangle next to it. Make sure the triangle is pointing down so that the items in the 'Web Browser' category are visible.
3. Click on 'Advanced', underneath 'Web Browser'.
4. On the right hand side of the Preferences window, click the 'Clear History' button, then click 'OK' when asked.
5. Click the 'Empty Now' button to remove the 'Cache'.
6. Close the Preferences window.
7. Quit the program.