What are cookies and what are they used for?
A cookie is a small text file that is stored in your browser when you visit a website.
Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognize a user’s device and, for instance, remember your preferences and settings, help you efficiently navigate between pages, and generally improve your browsing experience. They can also be used to tailor advertising to your interests through tracking your browsing across websites.
Cookies are harmless, containing no malicious code such as viruses or worms that could harm your computer. However, they do have an impact on your right to data protection, as they collect certain information concerning you, such as your browsing habits, identity, and preferences.
What information does a cookie store?
Cookies generally do not store sensitive personal information. Instead, they hold technical data, personal preferences, content personalization, etc.
What types of cookies are there?
Generally, there are five types of cookies:
Technical Cookies: These are the most basic cookies. They enable users to navigate through a website and use its features. For example, they can control data traffic and communication, identify sessions, access restricted areas, remember items in a shopping cart, process purchases, submit registration requests or participation in an event, use security elements during browsing, store content for video or sound playback, or share content via social media. User consent is not required for their use; only their existence needs to be disclosed.
Personalization Cookies: These cookies allow users to access services with certain predefined general characteristics based on criteria in their device. For example, language, the type of browser through which they access the service, regional configuration from which they access the service, etc. User consent is not required for their use; only their existence needs to be disclosed.
Analytics Cookies: These cookies allow the entity responsible for them to monitor and analyze user behavior on the websites to which they are linked. The information collected by this type of cookie is used to measure the activity of websites, applications, or platforms and to create browsing profiles for users of these sites, applications, and platforms, with the aim of making improvements based on the analysis of usage data.
Advertising Cookies: These cookies manage advertising spaces on a website as effectively as possible. They ensure that advertisements shown on a website, application, or platform are properly managed based on criteria such as edited content or the frequency with which ads are displayed.
Behavioral Advertising Cookies: These cookies manage advertising spaces on a website as effectively as possible. They store information about users’ browsing behavior, obtained through continuous observation of their browsing habits, allowing the creation of specific profiles to display advertising based on those profiles.
What are first-party and third-party cookies?
First-party cookies: These cookies are generated and managed by the owner of the website providing the service requested by the user.
Third-party cookies: These cookies are generated by entities other than the website owner (external services or suppliers, such as Google).
What type of cookies does our website use?
Below, we list the types of cookies our website uses and their purposes:
Type of Cookie Purpose When and how it is stored Analytics Cookies Tracking and analysis of user behavior on the website Accepted when the acceptance banner is clicked
What can I do with cookies?
Cookies can be deleted, accepted, or blocked, according to your preferences, by configuring your web browser accordingly.
At any time, you can prevent cookies from being installed (blocked) on your device by configuring the appropriate option in your browser. However, if you do so, we cannot guarantee that all functions of our website will operate correctly.
How can I delete cookies?
Depending on the browser you use, you can follow these instructions to delete cookies:
Chrome: Click the Tools icon Click Settings. Click Show Advanced Options. In the “Privacy” section, click Content Settings. Delete cookies: Click All Cookies and Site Data… Do not allow cookies to be stored. Click Clear Browsing Data. Close and restart the browser.
For more information about Chrome, click here: http://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en
Internet Explorer, Version 11: Click Tools | Internet Options. Click the General tab. In the “Browsing history” section, click Delete browsing history on exit. Select Delete files. Select Delete cookies. Click Delete. Click OK. Close and restart the browser.
For more information about Internet Explorer, click here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278835/how-to-delete-cookie-files-in-internet-explorer
Version 65.0.1: Click Firefox | History | Clear Recent History. Next to “Details,” click the down arrow. Select the following check boxes: Cookies, Cache, Active Logins Using the “Time range to clear” drop-down menu, select Everything. Click Clear Now. Close and restart the browser.
You can accept or reject cookies individually in the Preferences of Firefox, in the History section available at Tools > Options > Privacy.
For more information about Mozilla Firefox, click here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/websites/#cookies
Safari, Version 5.1: Select the Safari icon / Edit | Restore Safari. Select the following check boxes: Clear history, Remove all website data Click Reset. Close and restart the browser.
For more information about Safari, click here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
Opera: Options – Advanced – Cookies.
Cookie options control how Opera handles them and therefore your acceptance or rejection.
For more information about Opera, click here: https://help.opera.com/en/latest