Cookies are small data files that are received on the terminal from the website visited and are used to record certain browsing interactions on a website by storing data that can be updated and retrieved. These files are stored on the user’s computer and contain anonymous data that is not harmful to their equipment. They are used to remember the user’s preferences, such as the selected language, access data or page customization.
Cookies can also be used to record anonymous information about how a visitor uses a site. For example, from which website they have accessed it, or if they have used an advertising banner to reach the website.
What do we use the different types of cookies for?
According to their purpose:
- Technical cookies: Technical cookies are those that facilitate user navigation and the use of the different options or services offered by the website, such as identifying the session, allowing access to certain areas, facilitating orders, purchases, filling out forms, registrations, security, facilitating functionalities (videos, social networks, etc.).
- Personalization cookies: Personalization cookies allow the user to access the services according to their preferences (language, browser, configuration, etc.).
- Analytical cookies: Analysis cookies are used to carry out anonymous analysis of the behavior of website users and allow the measurement of user activity and the creation of browsing profiles with the objective of improving websites.
- Advertising cookies: Advertising cookies allow the management of advertising spaces on the website. In addition, these cookies may be for personalized advertising and thus allow the management of advertising spaces on the website based on the behavior and browsing habits of the user, from which their profile is obtained and allow the customization of the advertising shown in the user’s browser or other profiles and social networks of the user.
According to their term:
- Session cookies: Session cookies are those that last as long as the user is browsing the website and are deleted when the browser is closed.
- Persistent cookies: These cookies are stored on the user’s terminal until they are manually deleted or the duration period established for said cookie has concluded.
According to their ownership:
- Own cookies: Those that are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the publisher itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
- Third-party cookies: Those that are sent to the user’s terminal equipment from a computer or domain that is not managed by the publisher, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through the cookies.
- Read more about: Google Cookies
The following table contains the classification and description of the cookies used on this website so that you can identify them in your browser:
