What is a Cookie?

A cookie is a small text file on the user's browser and hard drive that uniquely identifies the user's browser. There are two types of cookies: persistent cookies and session cookies. Session cookies are temporary and are erased when the browser exits. Persistent cookies remain on the user's hard drive until the user erases them or until they expire.

Employment & Education Centre only uses SESSION cookies to identify clients. When you login to Employment & Education Centre a session cookie is placed on your browser with an identification string. This cookie is sent back to our server with each page you request. In turn, we use this identification string to retrieve your personal information from our secure database, and send back the requested page.

Each time you login to Employment & Education Centre a new session cookie with a new identification string is set on your browser. Cookies are a widely used, secure method of maintaining a session with a member of our site.

If you do not have cookies enabled on your browser then Employment & Education Centre still provides a method to maintain a session called URL rewriting. Each time you login to our site we append the identification string to the end of the URL you request. This is the same string that would have been placed in a session cookie if your browser was enabled to accept them.

A typical session cookie identification string would look like this:

jsessionid=E9625E9814A855BFB2DFC871E1E0B06D

As an added security measure, Employment & Education Centre has set the session cookie to expire after 30 minutes of inactivity. If you are logged in to our site and do not request a page within 30 minutes the session cookie is expired and you will be asked to login again. Each time you request a page, the session resets for another 30 minutes.

If you require further information, please contact our Web Administrator at Web Administrator