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"Cookie" usage in PageOut®
The "Session Cookie" that is used for PageOut®
is purely for authentication/security, and does not contain nor
collect any specific or personal information about the user whatsoever.
What it represents, in a way only intelligible to the PageOut®
server, is the user's PageOut® id,
and that the user is either an instructor or a student.
The cookie does nothing other than represent a specific person and
gives them permission to proceed.
When the browser is closed, the cookie gets destroyed!
The cookie does not stay on your hard drive.
PageOut® does not collect ANY
information, "Personally-Identifiable" or otherwise through the use
of cookies. PageOut® uses a
session cookie to maintain an authenticated (live) session between
the user and their account.
The user does NOT need to have cookies enabled. If the cookies
feature in the browser is disabled, the user has to login for every
protected area or professor tool page.
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