a) Definition
A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your computer/smartphone/tablet when you access certain web pages. Cookies allow a website, among other things, to store and retrieve information about the browsing habits of a user or its equipment and, depending on the information they contain and the way you use your computer, can be used to recognize the user.
One of the classifications that can be made of cookies is on the purpose for which they are intended, so we have several types:
– Technical Cookies: are those that allow the user to navigate through a web page, platform or application and the use of the different options or services that exist in it as, 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 broadcasting videos or sound or share content through social networks.
– Customization Cookies: These are those that allow the user to access the service with some general features predefined according to a number of criteria in the user’s terminal such as would be the language, the type of browser through which you access the service, the locale from which you access the service, etc..
– Analysis Cookies: These are those that allow the person responsible for them, monitoring and analyzing the behavior of 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 websites, application or platform and for the elaboration of browsing profiles of the users of such sites, applications and platforms, in order to introduce improvements based on the analysis of the usage data of 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, where appropriate, the editor has included on a website, application or platform from which it provides the requested service based on criteria such as the edited content or the frequency at which the ads are displayed.
– Behavioral advertising cookies: These cookies 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 cookies store information on user behavior obtained through the continuous observation of their browsing habits, which allows the development of a specific profile to display advertising based on the same.
b) Types of cookies on this website
You can reset your cookies here
c) ¿Cómo puedo desactivar o eliminar estas cookies en los navegadores?
Al clicar en algún enlace de esta web se pueden instalar cookies. Una vez abandone esta página, revise la política de cookies de esos sitios.
El usuario podrá -en cualquier momento- elegir qué cookies quiere que funcionen en este sitio web mediante la configuración del navegador; por ejemplo:
- Chrome, desde http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=es&answer=95647
- Explorer, desde http://windows.microsoft.com/es-es/windows7/how-to-manage-cookies-in-internet-explorer-9
- Firefox, desde http://support.mozilla.org/es/kb/habilitar-y-deshabilitar-cookies-que-los-sitios-we
- Safari, desde http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5042
d) Qué ocurre si se deshabilitan las Cookies
Algunas funcionalidades de los servicios quedarán deshabilitadas.
