What are cookies?
This website uses cookies and/or similar technologies that store and retrieve information when you browse. In general, these technologies can serve various purposes, such as recognizing you as a user, obtaining information about your browsing habits, or personalizing the way content is displayed. The specific uses we make of these technologies are described below.
What types of cookies exist?
Types of cookies according to the managing entity:
- First-party cookies: These are sent to the user’s device from equipment or a domain managed by the publisher itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
- Third-party cookies: These are sent to the user’s device from equipment or a domain that is not managed by the publisher, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through the cookies.
Types of cookies according to their purpose:
- Technical cookies: These allow the user to navigate through a webpage, platform, or application and use the different options or services available on it. This includes cookies used by the publisher to manage and operate the website and enable its functions and services, such as controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted areas, remembering the elements of an order, processing the purchase of an order, managing payment, controlling fraud related to service security, requesting registration or participation in an event, counting visits for billing purposes of the software licenses with which the service operates (website, platform, or application), using security elements during navigation, storing content for video or sound broadcasting, enabling dynamic content (e.g., loading animation for text or images), or sharing content through social networks. Also, due to their technical nature, cookies that allow the most efficient management of advertising spaces that the publisher has included on a website, application, or platform based on criteria such as edited content, without collecting information from users for other purposes like personalizing that advertising content or other content.
- Preference or personalization cookies: These allow remembering information so that the user accesses the service with certain features that can differentiate their experience from that of other users, such as language, the number of results to display when the user performs a search, the appearance or content of the service depending on the type of browser through which the user accesses the service or the region from which the service is accessed, etc.
- Analysis or measurement cookies: These allow the responsible party to track and analyze the behavior of users of the websites to which they are linked, including quantifying the impacts of advertisements. The information collected through this type of cookie is used to measure the activity of websites, applications, or platforms, to make improvements based on the analysis of usage data made by users of the service.
- Behavioral advertising cookies: These store information on user behavior obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows the development of a specific profile to show advertising based on it.
Types of cookies according to the duration of their activation:
- Session cookies: These are designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a webpage. They are typically used to store information that only needs to be kept for the provision of the service requested by the user on a single occasion (e.g., a list of purchased products) and disappear at the end of the session.
- Persistent cookies: In these cookies, the data remains stored in the terminal and can be accessed and processed for a period defined by the responsible party of the cookie, which can range from a few minutes to several years.