Cookies used by the ISAS Web Site

What are Cookies?

Websites sometimes store small amounts of data on your computer called 'cookies' to remember if you've been to the website before. Cookies also help make online services more easy to use.

Cookies are small text files that websites save to your computer. The cookies used by this web site do not contain any of your personal information, and the cookies cannot be used to find out who you are. Cookies often include a randomly generated number which is stored on your computer. Many cookies are automatically deleted after you finish using the website.

Cookies used by the ISAS Web Site

Session Management Cookies

This type of cookie identifies your specific browser session with the web site so that any 'state information' - information specific to your specific browser session - is maintained as you traverse the web site.

Name of Cookie: CAT_Isas_SAT
Lifetime of Cookie: About 11 - 12 Hours
Purpose of Cookie/Data Stored: Provide PHP Session Security and control auto login/logout

This cookie will only appear in the browser on access to the login screen to use the web-based assessment tool, which is a restricted area of the web site. This cookie is used to control security within that restricted part of the site.

Restricting Cookies

All browsers have will usually have a means of restricting cookies as well as providing the functionality to delete cookies that have already been accumulated. The 'Help' function should tell you how. The web site http://www.aboutcookies.org provides comprehensive information about this.

Disabling cookies will impair your ability to make full use of the majority of web sites on the internet, although you do not need to allow cookies to make use of our web sites.