1. What are cookies?
Cookies are small data files received by the terminal from the visited website and are used to record certain browsing interactions on a website, storing data that can be updated and retrieved. These files are stored on the user’s computer and contain anonymous data that is not harmful to your computer. They are used to remember user preferences, such as the selected language, access data, or page personalization.
Cookies can also be used to record anonymous information about how a visitor uses a site. For example, from which web page you have accessed, or if you have used an advertising “banner” to arrive.
2. Why use cookies?
Our sites may also have links from social networks (such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, …). We do not control the cookies used by these external websites. We advise you to review your own cookie policies for more information about cookies from social networks or other third-party websites.
3. How do we use the different types of cookies?
According to its purpose:
- Technical cookies: Technical cookies are those essential and strictly necessary for the proper functioning of a Web portal and the use of the different options and services it offers. For example, those who maintain the session, manage the response time, performance, or validation of options, use security elements, share content with social networks, etc.
- Personalization cookies: These cookies allow the user to specify or customize some characteristics of the general options of the Web page, for example, define the language, regional configuration, or type of browser.
- Analytical cookies: Analytical cookies are those used by our Web portals to develop navigation profiles and to be able to know the preferences of its users to improve the offer of products and services. For example, an analytical cookie would control the geographical areas of greatest interest, which is the most widely accepted product, etc.
- Advertising/advertising cookies: Advertising cookies allow the management of advertising spaces based on specific criteria. For example, the frequency of access, the content edited, etc. Through the management of advertising, advertising cookies allow storing behavioral information through the observation of habits, studying the accesses, and forming a profile of user preferences to offer to advertise related to the interests of your profile.
According to the term:
- Session cookies: Session cookies last as long as the user is browsing the Web page and are deleted at the end.
- Persistent cookies: These cookies are stored in the user’s terminal for a longer time, thus facilitating the control of the chosen preferences without repeating certain parameters each time the website is visited.