Cookies disappearing in safari on ios

For one of our webapplications we use two cookies (SSO token and DProPCookie) to give people access to payed content and to keep them logged in. This works fine in Firefox, Chrome and Safari on laptop or desktop but Safari on iPad seems to clear both cookies after a certain time.

Thanks for your response.
I had already tried this, but cookies were still removed after some time. I don't think I have apps installed automatically deleting cookies.
That being said, I did some further research and the problem might be related to the use of AJAX in our login screen. Therefore we tried a fix described in the following post on Stackoverflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12571144/ios-6-mobile-safari-session-variable s-not-retained-when-set-via-ajax
This seems to work since the cookies on my ipad haven't been deleted since we made this change.

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