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What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small text file stored on your computer, tablet, mobile phone, or, ultimately, on the device you use to browse the Internet, and which may store information related to the frequency with which you visit web pages, your browsing preferences, the information that most interests you, usernames, product registration, etc. Depending on the information they contain and how you use your device, they may be used to recognise the user.
Types of cookies
According to their nature, cookies may be classified into:
- Session Cookies or Persistent Cookies: the former are deleted upon closing the browser, while the latter remain on the device.
- First-party Cookies or Third-party Cookies: depending on whether they belong to the website owner or a third party.
According to their purpose, they may be classified as:
- Technical Cookies: These are cookies that enable the user to navigate through a website, platform, or application and to utilise the various options or services available therein, such as, for example, controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted access parts, remembering the elements of an order, carrying out the purchase process of an order, making a registration request, broadcasting videos or sound, or sharing content through social networks.
- Personalisation Cookies: These are cookies that allow the user to access the service with some predefined general characteristics based on a series of criteria on the user's terminal, such as the language, the type of browser through which they access the service, the regional configuration from which they access the service, etc.
- Analytics Cookies: These are cookies that enable their controller to monitor and analyse the behaviour of users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected through this type of cookies is used in the measurement of the activity of websites, applications, or platforms and for the creation of browsing profiles of the users of these sites, applications, and platforms, to introduce improvements based on the analysis of the usage data provided by the users of the service.
- Advertising Cookies: These are cookies that allow the management, in the most effective way possible, of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the publisher has included on a website, application, or platform from which the requested service is provided, based on criteria such as the edited content or the frequency with which advertisements are shown.
- Behavioural Advertising Cookies: These are cookies that allow the management, in the most effective way possible, of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the publisher has included on a website, application, or platform from which the requested service is provided. These cookies store information on user behaviour obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows for the development of a specific profile to display advertising based on it.
Google has developed a Google Analytics opt-out add-on for the most common browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Opera, which facilitates the exclusion of the installation of these cookies. You can obtain more information by visiting this external link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=ca
How to reject cookies or revoke the consent given?
You can configure your browser to accept or reject the installation of all, or some types of cookies, or to request notification when a cookie is placed.
Each browser has specific configuration instructions.