What are cookies?
A cookie is a small piece of text that websites you visit send to your browser that allows the website to remember information about your visit, such as your preferred language and other options, which can make your next visit easier and make the site you find it more useful. Cookies play a very important role, since without them the use of the web would be a much more frustrating experience.
Types of cookies according to their manager:
Depending on who is the entity that manages the equipment or domain from which 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 editor 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 editor, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through cookies.
Types of cookies according to the duration:
Session cookies: These are a type of cookies designed to request and store data while the user accesses a web page and are deleted when leaving the web page.
Persistent cookies: They are a type of cookie in which the data is still stored in the user’s terminal and can be accessed and processed during a period defined by the person responsible for the cookie, which can range from a few minutes to several years.
Types of cookies according to their purpose:
Depending on the purpose for which the data obtained through cookies are processed, we can distinguish between:
Technical cookies: These are those that allow the user to navigate through a web page, platform or application and the use of the different options or services that exist in it, such as controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, access parts of restricted access, remember the elements that make up an order, carry out the purchase process of an order, apply for registration or participation in an event, use security elements while browsing, store content for dissemination videos or sound or share 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 in the user’s terminal such as language, the type of browser through which the service is accessed, the regional configuration from where you access the service, etc.
Analysis cookies: These are those that allow the person responsible for them to monitor and analyze the behavior of the 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 for the users of these sites, applications and platforms, 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 in a web page, application or platform from which the requested service is provided based on criteria such as the content edited or the frequency in which the ads are shown.
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 in a web page, application or platform from which the requested service is provided. These cookies store information on the behavior of users obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows the development of a specific profile to display advertising based on it.
What cookies does this website use?
We use our own cookies and third-party cookies for technical and analytical purposes.
TYPE | NAME | HOLDER | PORPOSE | EXPIRATION |
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Analytics | _ga | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users and generate statistical data | 24 hours | |
Analytics | _gid | Used by Google Analytics to distinguish users and generate statistical data | 24 hours | |
Analytics | _gat | Used by Google Analytics to limit the percentage of requests | 1 minute |
Cookies management
You can block or eliminate cookies installed on your computer by configuring your browser options.
For more information about the options in the different browsers:
Chrome: http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=es&answer=95647
Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9
Firefox: http://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y-deshabilitar-cookies-que-los-sitios-we
Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042
Opera : http://help.opera.com/Windows/11.50/es-ES/cookies.htm