What are cookies and how are they used on websites?
Response: Cookies are nuggets of information transferred to an individual’s hard drive by a website; this is done for record-keeping purposes. An actual cookie is a short sequence of letters and numbers. The information collected is kept confidential by nces.ed.gov. The use of cookies is an industry standard; they can be found at most major websites. Cookies are useful because they serve as a gauge of popularityshowing us how often, and where, guests use the site. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you’d prefer, however, you may reset your browser so that it either refuses cookies or alerts you when cookies are being sent. On those pages where NCES uses “cookies” to facilitate your use of our site, we do not collect personal information about you and the cookie will be destroyed as soon as you exit your browser. There is no information stored on your computer and no unauthorized files are written onto your disk drives. The kind of cookies we use are called “session c
