Cookies do not read your hard drive, a cookie is a way for web sites to recognize whether or not you have visited the site before. It is a piece of data given to a browser by a web server, so that the browser will hand it back to the server on subsequent visits.

ODJFS uses cookies ONLY in places where you need to interact with an online database. In all cases the server only hands the cookie back to itself, to keep track of your database session.

If you set your browser to prompt before accepting cookies, you will see a message nearly identical to this:

The server jfs.ohio.gov
wishes to set a cookie
that will be sent only back to itself.
The name and the value of the cookie are:
ASPSESSIONID=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 
Do you wish the cookie to be set?

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is the unique identifier of your session with the server.

The Ohio Server specifies no expiration date, so the cookie will only last through the current browser session.

Although there has been some debate over the privacy implications of cookies, they do not read your hard drive nor can they be used to reveal anything about you that you have not already explicitly revealed.

Questions regarding our privacy statement can be sent to:
ODJFS Feedback.