WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Cookies and other similar technologies such as local shared objects, flash cookies or pixels, are tools used by web servers to store and retrieve information about their visitors, as well as to offer a correct functioning of the site.

The use of these devices allows the web server to remember certain data concerning the user, such as their preferences for viewing the pages of that server, name and password, products that interest them most, etc.

COOKIES AFFECTED BY THE REGULATION AND EXEMPTED COOKIES 

According to the EU directive, the cookies that require the user’s informed consent are analytical cookies and advertising and affiliation cookies, with the exception of technical cookies and those necessary for the operation of the website or the provision of services expressly requested by the user.

TYPES OF COOKIES

ACCORDING TO THEIR PURPOSE 

• Technical and functional cookies: these cookies allow the user to browse through a website, platform or application and to use the different options or services that exist therein. 
• Analytical cookies: these cookies allow the party responsible for them to monitor and analyse the behaviour of the 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 these 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 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 based on criteria such as the edited content or the frequency at which the advertisements are shown. 
• Behavioural advertising cookies: these cookies collect information on the user’s preferences and personal choices (retargeting) to enable the management, in the most effective way possible, of the advertising spaces that, where appropriate, the publisher has included on a website, application or platform from which it provides the requested service. 
• Social cookies: these cookies are set by social media platforms on services to allow you to share content with your friends and networks. Social media platforms can track your online activity outside of the Services. This may affect the content and messages you see on other services you visit. 
• Affiliate cookies: these cookies allow tracking of visits from other websites, with which the website enters into an affiliation agreement (affiliate companies). 
• Security cookies: these cookies store encrypted information to prevent the data stored in them from being vulnerable to malicious attacks by third parties.