More information about cookies

What is a cookie?

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

What IS NOT a cookie?

It is not a virus, or a trojan, or a worm, or spam, or spyware, or open pop-up windows.

What information does a cookie store?

Cookies do not usually store sensitive information about you, such as credit cards or bank details, photographs, your ID or personal information, etc. The data they store are of a technical nature, personal preferences, content customization, etc.

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

What kind of cookies are there?

• Technical Cookies : These are the most basic and allow, among other things, to know when a human or an automated application is browsing, when an anonymous and registered user navigates, basic tasks for the operation of any dynamic web.
• Analytical Cookies : They collect information about the type of navigation you are doing, the sections you use the most, products consulted, time slot of use, language, etc.
• Advertising Cookies : Show advertising based on your browsing, your country of origin, language, etc.

What are own and third party cookies?

Own cookies are those generated by the page you are visiting and those of third parties are those generated by external services or providers such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.

What happens if I disable cookies?

To understand the scope that may have disable cookies we show some examples:

• You may not share content on this site on Facebook, Twitter or any other social network.
• The website will not be able to adapt the content to your personal preferences, as often happens in online stores.
• You can not access the personal area of this web, for example my account, or my profile or my orders.
• Online Stores: It will be impossible to make purchases online, they will have to be telephone or visiting the physical store if you have it.
• It will not be possible to customize your geographic preferences as time slot, currency or language.
• The website will not be able to perform web analytics about visitors and web traffic, which will make it difficult for the website to be competitive.
• You can not write on the blog, you can not upload photos, post comments, rate or rate content. The web will not be able to know if you are a human or an automated application that publishes spam.
• No advertising may show sectioned, which will reduce advertising revenues of the web.
• All social networks use cookies, if you disable them you can not use any social network.

Can I delete cookies?

Yes. Not only do they remove, also block, in a general or particular way for a specific domain.

To remove cookies from a website you must go to the configuration of your browser and there you can search the associated to the domain in question and proceed to its elimination.

Cookie settings for the most popular browsers

Here’s how to access a specific cookie from the Chrome browser. Note: These steps may vary depending on the browser version:

1. Go to settings or preferences through the File menu or by clicking the icon customization that appears at the top right.
2. You will see different sections, click the option Show advanced options.
3. Go to privacy, content settings.
4. Select All cookies and site data.
5. A list will appear with all cookies sorted by domain. To make it easier to find the cookies of a specific domain, enter the address partially or completely in the Search Cookies field.
6. After making this filter one or more lines appear on the screen with the cookies of the website requested. Now just select it and press the X to proceed to its elimination.

To access the cookie settings of the Internet Explorer Browser Follow these steps (may vary depending on the version of the browser):

1. Go to Tools, Internet options
2. Click Privacy.
3. Move the slider to adjust the level of privacy you want.

To access the cookie settings of the Firefox browser Follow these steps (may vary depending on the version of the browser):

1. Go to options or preferences according to your operating system.
2. Click Privacy.
3. In history choose use custom settings for history.
4. Now you will see the option accept cookies, you can activate or deactivate it according to your preferences.

To access the cookie settings of the Safari browser FOR OSX Follow these steps (may vary depending on the version of the browser):

1. Go to preferences, then privacy.
2. In this site you will see the option block cookies to adjust the type of block you want to perform.

To access the cookie settings of the Safari browser For IOS Follow these steps (may vary depending on the version of the browser):

1. Go to Settings, then Safari.
2. Go to privacy and security, you will see the option block cookies to adjust the type of block you want to perform.

To access the browser cookie settings for Android devices Follow these steps (they may vary depending on the browser version):

1. Run the browser and press the menu key, then settings.
2. Go to security and privacy, you will see the option accept cookies to activate or deactivate the box.

To access the browser cookie settings for Windows Phone devices Follow these steps (may vary depending on the browser version):

1. Open Internet Explorer, then more, then settings
2. Now you can enable or disable the box allow cookies.