A cookie is a piece of information that is sent to your browser, along with a Web page, when you access a Website. There are two kinds of cookies. Because a session cookie is never written to a drive, it is destroyed as soon as you close your browser. A persistent cookie is a more permanent line of text that gets saved by your browser to a file on your hard drive. If you have your browser set to notify you before accepting cookies the notice will tell you if the cookie expires some time in the future or not.
Persistent cookies have an expiration date in the future.
Session cookies have no date associated with them. The Corporation for National Service website does not use persistent cookies. If your browser accepts cookies we may use cookies to secure the connection during a session visit. Only when entering a specific session or page, will a cookie be enabled to ensure your visit is secure. The cookie will be deleted when the visitor ends the session.