A cookie is a file downloaded to your computer when you access certain websites. Cookies allow a website to, among other things, store and retrieve information about the browsing habits of the user or their computer and, depending on the information they contain and how they use their equipment, cookies may be used to recognize the user.
- Technical cookies: : They allow the user to browse through the website, platform or application and use their different options or services, such as controlling data traffic and communication, identifying the session, accessing restricted areas, remembering order items, carrying out the purchase process, registering the request to sign up for or participate in an event, using security elements while browsing, storing content to broadcast video or sound or sharing content on social media.
- Personalization cookies: They allow the user to access the service with some general, predefined characteristics depending on a series of criteria in the user terminal, such as, for example, the language, type of browser used to access the service, regional configuration from where the user is visiting, etc.
- Analysis cookies: They allow the website owner to follow and analyze user behavior on the websites they are linked to. The information gathered by this type of cookie is used to measure website, application or platform activity and to create browsing profiles of the users of said websites, applications and platforms in order to implement improvements based on analysis of use data performed by the users of the service.
- Advertising cookies: They make it possible to manage, as efficiently as possible, the advertising spaces that, as the case may be, the editor included in a website, application or platform from which the service is requested and based on criteria such as edited content or the frequency of the advertisements displayed.
- Behavioral advertising cookies: These cookies store information on the user’s behavior obtained through continued observation of his/her browsing habits, which allows the website to develop a specific profile to show profile-oriented advertisements to the user.
How to block or delete cookies installed on your device
If you prefer to disable cookies, you can block or delete them from your browser:
- how to manage cookies on
Google Chrome
- how to manage cookies on
Mozilla Firefox
- how to manage cookies on
Internet Explorer
- how to manage cookies on
Safari
- how to manage cookies on
Chrome Android