Cookies
Cookies are small files of information that a web server generates and sends to a web browser. Web browsers store the cookies they receive for a predetermined amount of time, or for the length of a user's session on a website. They attach the relevant cookies to any future request the web user makes to the web server.
Session cookies: help associate website activities with specific user's, it contains a unique string of information that matches a user's session with relevant data and content to that user. Session cookies are deleted after a user's session ends, once they have logged out of their account on a website or exited the website. Session cookies have no expiration date which allows the browser to know that cookies should be deleted once the session is over.
Persistent cookies: Unlike session cookies, persistent cookies remain in a user's browser for a predetermined length of time, which could be a day, a week, several months, or even years. Persistent cookies always contain an expiration date.
You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Though please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our website may no longer work.
Most browser's automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser's controls, which are often found in your browsers tools or preferences menu.
To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.