What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small piece of text that websites send to the browser and that are stored in the user's terminal, which can be a personal computer, mobile phone, tablet, etc. These files allow the website to remember information about your visit, such as preferred language and options, which can make your next visit easier and make the site more useful by personalizing its content. Cookies play a very important role, by improving the user experience of the web.
What are cookies used for?
- With the aim of offering the user content and information more appropriate to their interests and facilitating navigation.
- To record user preferences and provide faster access.
- To personalize the services we offer, facilitating and offering each user information that is of interest to them or that may be of interest to them, based on the use and browsing of the web.
- To know all the services requested by users, so that they can provide or offer information appropriate to the tastes and preferences of each user and customize the ads that are inserted based on the preferences and interests of the user.
In addition, users who register, or who log in and browse authenticated will be able to benefit from more personalized services and oriented to their profile. These users expressly authorize the use of registration information for this purpose, without prejudice to their right to reject or disable the use of cookies. All information will be treated in accordance with what is indicated in the Privacy Policy or Clause that the user has accepted when registering, and in accordance with what is indicated in this Cookies Policy.
Type of cookies used
Depending on the entity that manages them, cookies can be:
- Own cookies: These are those that are sent to the terminal equipment of the interested party 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 those that 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.
This digital property uses both its own and third-party cookies.
According to the period of time they remain activated:
- Session cookies: These are a type of cookies designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a web page. They are usually used to store information that is only of interest to keep for the provision of the service requested by the user on a single occasion.
- Persistent cookies: They are a type of cookie in which the data is still stored in the terminal and can be accessed and processed during a period defined by the person responsible for the cookie, and which can go from a few minutes to several years.
This digital property uses both persistent cookies and session cookies.
Depending on the purpose for which the data obtained through cookies are processed, the website may use:
- Technical cookies - These are those that allow the user to navigate through the web page or application and the use of the different options or services that exist in it. For example, control traffic and data communication, identify the session, access restricted access web parts, remember the elements that make up an order, apply for registration or participation in an event, use security elements during the navigation and store contents for the diffusion of videos or sound.
- Personalization cookies- These are those that allow the user to access the service with some general characteristics predefined in their terminal or that the user himself defines. For example, the language, the type of browser through which you access the service, the selected content design, geolocation of the terminal and the regional configuration from which the service is accessed.
- Advertising cookies- These are those that allow the efficient management of the advertising spaces that have been included in the web page or application from which the service is provided. They allow the content of the advertising to be adapted so that it is relevant to the user and to avoid showing ads that the user has already seen.
- Statistical analysis cookies - These are those that allow monitoring and analysis of user behavior on websites. The information collected through this type of cookies is used to measure the activity of the websites, applications or platforms and to create browsing profiles for the users of these sites, in order to introduce improvements in the service based on of the usage data made by users.
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They are those that serve for correct navigation or those that allow services requested by the user or cookies that serve to guarantee that the content of the website is loaded efficiently.
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They are used by social networks, or by external content plugins.
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How to manage cookies in the browser?
The user has the option of allowing, blocking or eliminating the cookies installed on their equipment by configuring the options of the browser installed on their terminal:
- Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/es-es/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer
- Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/es-es/help/4468242/microsoft-edge-browsing-data-and-privacy-microsoft-privacy
- Safari: http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042 < ; /li>
If you block the use of cookies in your browser, some services or functionalities of the website may not be available.
In some browsers, specific rules can be set to manage cookies on a per-website basis, giving you finer control over privacy. This means that you can disable cookies from all sites except those you trust.
Exercise of rights You can find out and exercise your rights in terms of data protection by accessing our Privacy Policy.
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