a) Definition
A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your computer/smartphone/tablet when accessing certain websites. Cookies allow a website, among other things, to store and retrieve information about a user’s browsing habits or their device and, depending on the information they contain and how the device is used, can be used to recognize the user.
One of the classifications that can be made of cookies is based on their purpose, so we have several types:
– Technical Cookies technical: These are those that allow the user to navigate through a website, platform or application and use the different options or services that exist on it, such as 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 a registration or participation request 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 general predefined characteristics based on a series of criteria in the user’s terminal, such as the language, the type of browser through which they access the service, the regional configuration from where they access the service, 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 cookies is used to measure the activity of the websites, application or platform 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 appropriate, the editor has included on a website, application or platform from which it provides the requested service based on criteria such as the edited content or the frequency with which ads are displayed.
– Behavioral Advertising Cookies: These are those that allow the management, in the most efficient way possible, of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the editor has included on a website, application or platform from which it provides the requested service. These cookies store information on users’ behavior obtained through continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows the development of a specific profile to display advertising based on it.
b) Types of cookies on this website
You can reconfigure the cookies herec) How can I deactivate or delete these cookies in browsers?
By clicking on any link on this website, cookies may be installed. Once you leave this page, review the cookie policy of those sites.
The user can – at any time – choose which cookies they want to function on this website through the browser settings; for example:
- Chrome, from http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=es&answer=95647
- Explorer, from http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9
- Firefox, from http://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y-deshabilitar-cookies-que-los-sitios-we
- Safari, from http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042
d) What happens if Cookies are disabled
Some functionalities of the services will be disabled.