Internet Cookies

Internet Cookies
Internet cookies are files used by a web browser to store information about you onto your hard drive. Websites that ask you to fill out forms, subscribe to e-mail updates or input any other information into the site will retrieve and store this information for the website's server computers. There are two different types of Internet cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies. If Internet cookies don't get deleted, they will usually remain on your hard drive until they become expired by a predetermined algorithm. The removal process for cookies is simple and easy. There are set setting sections, in either the web browser of computer in use, that a user can click through to ask for cookies to be deleted. The removal of this information will ensure a user anonymous the next time they log on to one of the above-mentioned type of websites.



Session Cookies
Session cookies are cookies that live during a finite period of time spent on a website. Once you close your browser or shut off the computer, the cookie used for that website will be deleted, making you again anonymous.

Persistent Cookies
Unlike session cookies, persistent cookies won't delete itself unless it hits its expiration date or until you delete it manually. Persistent cookies are cookies that store more specific information about you to make the website experience and browsing experience more accurate and accommodated to that user.