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More information about cookies

Below, you will find the most frequently asked questions about Cookies, their nature, purpose and function. You can find out how Cookies work on our website and your rights to them by accessing our Cookie Policy.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a harmless text file that is stored in your browser when you visit almost any website. The usefulness of cookie is that the website is able to remember your visit when you return to navigate this site. Although many people do not know, but cookies have been in use for 20 years, with the first browsers for the World Wide Web.

What is a cookie NOT?

It is not a virus, a Trojan, a worm, spam or spyware, nor does it open pop-up windows.

What information does a cookie store?

Cookies do not usually store sensitive information about you, such as credit card or bank account information, photographs, your ID or personal information, etc. The data stored is technical, personal preferences, content customisation, etc.

The web server does not associate you as a person to your web browser. In fact, if you regularly browse with Internet Explorer and try to browse the same web page with Firefox or Chrome, you will see that the web page does not realize that you are the same person because it is actually associating with the browser, not the person.

What are the different types of cookies?

Technical cookies: these are the most basic and make it possible, among other things, to find out when a human or an automated application is browsing, to find out when an anonymous user and a registered user are browsing and to conduct basic tasks for running any dynamic website.

Analytics cookies: these collect information about the type of browsing being performed, the sections that are most used, products consulted, time zone, language, etc..

Advertising cookies: these display advertising based on your browsing, your country of origin, language, etc.

What are first-party and third-party cookies?

First-party cookies are those generated by the current page and third-party cookies are generated by internal or external providers such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.

To understand the scope from disabling cookies, here are some examples:

You cannot share content from this web page on Facebook, Twitter or any other social network.
The website will not adapt the content to your personal preferences, as often happens in online stores.
You can not access the personal area of the web, such as My account, or My profile or My orders.
Online stores: It will be impossible to make online purchases, you will have to call or physically visit the store if you can.
It will not be possible to customize your geographic preferences such as time zone, currency or language.
The website will not be able to perform web analytics about visitors and web traffic, making it difficult for the website to be competitive.
You will not be able to write on the blog, you cannot upload photos, post comments, evaluate or rate content. The website may not know whether you are a human or an automated application that publishes spam.
No targeted advertising can be shown, which will reduce the advertising revenues of the website.
TAll social networks use cookies, if disabled you can not use any social network.

Can cookies be deleted?

Yes. Not only can you delete them, you can also block them, in general or particular to a specific domain.

To delete cookies from a website, go to your browser’s settings, find those associated with the domain in question, and delete them.

Cookie settings for the most popular browsers

Below we show you how to manage a particular cookie in Google Chrome. (Note: These steps may vary depending on the version of the browser)

Go to Settings or Preferences using the File menu or by clicking on the customization icon that appears in the upper right corner.
You will see different sections, click on Show Advanced Settings.
Go to Privacy, Content settings.
Select All cookies and site data.
A list of all cookies will appear, sorted by domain. To find cookies easily in a specific domain, enter the address partially or completely in the field, Search cookies.
After this filter, one or more lines with the cookies of the requested website will appear on the screen. Now simply select it and press X to remove it.

To access the cookie settings in Internet Explorer follow these steps (they may vary depending on the version of the browser):

Go to Tools, Internet Options
Click on Privacy.
Move the slider to adjust the level of privacy you want.

To manage cookie settings in Firefox follow these steps (they may vary depending on the version of the browser):

Go to Options or Preferences, depending on your operating system.
Click on Privacy.
In History choose Use custom settings for history.
Now you will see the Accept Cookies option, you can activate or deactivate it as desired.
To manage cookie settings in Safari for OS X, follow these steps (they may vary depending on the version of the browser):
Go to Settings, then Privacy.
Here you will see the Block cookies option to adjust the type of blocking you prefer.

To manage cookie settings in Safari for iOS follow these steps (they may vary depending on the version of the browser):

Go to Settings, then Safari.
Go to Privacy and Security, you will see the Block cookies option to adjust the type of blocking you prefer.

To manage cookie settings in Android devices follow these steps (they may vary depending on the version of the browser):

Open the browser and press Menu, then the Settings button.
Go to Security and Privacy, you will see the option Accept cookies to activate or deactivate the box.

To manage cookie settings in Windows Phone devices follow these steps (they may vary depending on the version of the browser):

Open Internet Explorer, then More, then Settings
Now you can activate or deactivate the Allow cookies box.