FURTHER INFORMATION ON COOKIES

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a harmless text file that is stored in your browser when you visit almost any web page. The usefulness of the cookie is that the web is able to remember your visit when you return to browse this page. Although many people don’t know it, cookies have been used for 20 years, when the first browsers for the World Wide Web appeared.

What isn’t a cookie?

It isn’t a virus, trojan, worm, spam, spyware nor opens pop-up windows.

What information does a cookie store?

Cookies don’t store personal data, such as credit cards or bank data, images, ID or other personal information. Stored data are of a technical nature, on personal preferences, content personalization, etc.

The web server doesn’t relate you as an individual, but your web browser. In fact, if you usually browse with Internet Explorer and try browsing the same website with Firefox or Chrome you will see that the website does not realize that you are the same person because it is actually associating the browser, not the person.

What types of cookies are there?

Technical cookies: They are the most elementary and allow, among other things, to know when a human or an automated application is browsing, when an anonymous user and a registered user are browsing, basic tasks for the operation of any dynamic web.

Analysis cookies: they collect information about the type of browsing you are doing, the sections you use the most, products consulted, time slot of use, language, etc.

Advertising Cookies: They show advertising based on your browsing, your country of origin, language, etc.

What are first-party and third-party cookies?

Own cookies are those generated by the page you are visiting and third-party cookies are those generated by external services or providers such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.

What happens if I disable cookies?

For you to understand the scope that you can have disabling cookies we show you some examples:

You will not be able to share content from this website on Facebook, Twitter or any other social network.

The website will not be able to adapt the content to your personal preferences, as usually happens in online stores.

You will not be able to access the personal area of this website, such as my account, my profile or my orders.

Online stores: You won’t be able to make purchases online, you will have to make them by phone or by visiting the physical store if available.

You won’t be able to customize your geographical preferences such as time zone, currency or language.

The website will not be able to perform web analytics on visitors and web traffic, which will make it difficult for the website to be competitive.

You will not be able to write in the blog, upload photos, post comments, or rate content. The web will not be able to know if you are a human or an automated application that publishes spam.

We won’t be able to display targeted advertising, which will reduce the website’s advertising revenue.

All social networks use cookies, if you disable them you will not be able to use any social network.

Can I delete cookies?

Yes. Not only delete, but also block, in general or in particular for a specific domain.

To delete cookies from a website you have to go to the settings of your browser and there you can search for those associated with the domain in question and delete them.

Cookies configuration for the most popular browsers

Here’s how to access a specific cookie in the Chrome browser. Note: these steps may vary depending on the browser version:

Go to Settings or Preferences via the File menu or by clicking the customization icon at the top right.

You will see different sections, click on the option Show advanced options.

Go to Privacy, Content settings.

Select All cookies and location data.

A list will appear with all cookies sorted by domain. To make it easier to find the cookies of a certain domain, enter part or all of the address in the Search cookies field.

After performing this filter, one or more lines with the cookies of the requested website will appear on the screen. Now you only have to select it and press the X to proceed to its elimination.

To access the cookie settings of the Internet Explorer browser follow these steps (may vary depending on the browser version):

Go to Tools, Internet Options

Click on Privacy

Move the slider to adjust the privacy level you want.

To access the Firefox browser’s cookie settings follow these steps (may vary depending on browser version):

Go to Options or Preferences depending on your operating system.

Click on Privacy