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What are cookies?

A cookie is a small piece of text that websites you visit send to your browser and that allows the website to remember information about your visit, such as your preferred language and other settings, which can make your next visit easier and make the site more useful to you. Cookies play a very important role, as without them using the web would be a much more frustrating experience.

Types of cookies

According to owner

Depending on who manages the equipment or domain from which the cookies are sent and processes the data obtained, we can distinguish:

Own cookies: they are sent to the user’s computer from a computer or domain managed by the publisher itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.

Third-party cookies: they 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 cookies.

According to its duration

Session cookies: They are a type of cookies designed to request and store data while the user accesses a web page and are deleted when they leave the web page.

Persistent cookies: They are a type of cookie in which the data remains stored on the user’s terminal and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the person responsible for the cookie, which can range from a few minutes to several years.

According to its purpose

Depending on the purpose for which the data obtained through cookies is processed, we can distinguish between:

Technical cookies: These are those that allow the user to navigate through a web page, platform or application and use the different options or services that exist in it, such as, for example, controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted access parts, remembering the elements that make up an order, carrying out the purchase process of an order, making the request for registration or participation in an event, using security elements during navigation, storing content for the dissemination of videos or sound or sharing content through social networks.

Personalization cookies: These are those that allow the user to access the service with some predefined general characteristics based on a series of criteria on the user’s terminal, such as the language, the type of browser through which the service is accessed, the regional configuration from which the service is accessed, etc.

Analysis cookies: These are those that allow the person responsible for them to monitor and analyze the behavior of users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected through this type of cookie is used to measure the activity of the websites, applications or platforms and to create browsing profiles of the users of these sites, applications and platforms, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of the usage data made by users of the service.

Advertising cookies: These are those that allow the management, in the most efficient way possible, of the advertising spaces that, where applicable, the publisher has included on a web page, application or platform from which the requested service is provided, based on criteria such as the content edited or the frequency with which the advertisements are displayed.

Behavioral advertising cookies: These are those that allow the management, in the most effective way possible, of the advertising spaces that, where applicable, the publisher has included in a web page, application or platform from which the requested service is provided. These cookies store information on user behavior obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows a specific profile to be developed to show advertising based on it.

What cookies does this website use?

We use our own and third-party cookies for technical and analytical purposes.