What are cookies?
A cookie is a small piece of text that the websites you visit send to your browser that allows the website to remember information about your visit, such as your preferred language and other choices, which may make your next visit easier and 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.
Type of cookies:
Depending on your manager:
Depending on the entity that manages the equipment or domain from which the cookies are sent and processes the data obtained, a distinction can be made:
Own cookies: these 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: these 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 the cookies.
Depending on their duration:
Session cookies: these are a type of cookie designed to request and store data while the user accesses a website and are deleted when the user leaves the website.
Persistent cookies: these are a type of cookie whereby the data remains stored in the user’s terminal and can be accessed and processed for a period of time defined by the party responsible for the biscuits, which can range from a few minutes to several years.
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 website, platform or application and the use of the different options or services it has how, for example, control traffic and data communication, identify the session, access parts of restricted access, remember the elements that make up an order, make the buying process of an order, make the application for registration or participation in an event, use security features while browsing, store content for broadcast video or sound or share content via social networks.
Personalisation cookies: These are cookies that allow the user to access the service with some predefined general characteristics depending on a series of criteria in the user’s terminal, such as the language, the type of browser through which the service is accessed, the regional configuration from where the service is accessed, etc.
Analysis cookies: These cookies allow the party responsible for them to monitor and analyse the behaviour of the 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 website, application or platform and for the elaboration of browsing profiles of the users of these sites, applications and platforms, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of the data on the use made by the users of the service.
Advertising Cookies: These are those that allow the management, in the most effective way possible, of the advertising spaces that, if applicable, the editor has included on a web page, application or platform from which the requested service is provided, based on criteria such as the edited content or the frequency at which the advertisements are shown.
Behavioural advertising cookies: These are those that allow the management, in the most effective way possible, of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the editor has included on a website, application or platform from which the requested service is provided.. These biscuits store information on the behaviour of users obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows us to develop a specific profile to display advertising based on the same.
What cookies does this website use?
We use own and third party cookies for technical and analytical purposes.
TYPE | NAME | OWNER | PURPOSE | EXPIRY |
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 applications. | 1 minute |
Cookies management
You can block or delete the cookies installed on your computer by configuring your browser options.
For more information on the options for 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